Essays on Europe

The Magna Carta was one of the first documents that kept power in check between a single authoritarian figure and the soon to be called bureaucrats of the land in the early medieval age period. The king was crossing lines in what he can do...

The war, which reached out in North-America until the finish of 1750 and mid-1760, was a bit of the best fight between England and France; the power of world trade and maritime power. England triumph in this fight, referred to in Europe as the Seven...

The London Borough of Hackney is an exemplary showcase of the gentrification that has affected various areas of London. The term gentrification originated in Great Britain, as early as 1963. Gentrification has frequently been referred to as “the rehabilitation of working-class and derelict housing and...

Italy has had a very interesting relationship with social democracy. After World War II it seemed that social democracy was really going to persist in all of Europe and solve all the problems that European nations had. However, Italy was a State that had figured...

The Easter Rising was a foundational event in Ireland’s history. It inspired the change in social and political system that had a direct correlation to the moderation of the nation. Occurring over the dates 24 April 1916 to 29 April 1916, the Easter Rising took...

The Holodomor was an atrocious event also known as ‘Hunger Plague’, which began in the year of 1932 and ended in the year of 1933 causing more than seven million deaths. The Holodomor was designed to destroy the nation of Ukraine and especially the farmers....

Income inequality can be described simply as the income gap between the richest and the rest. It has increased in the UK over the past 30 years and has been concerned as an economic problem, which brings economic instability instead of growth and social problems....

The Armenian Genocide is still a topic that brings deep emotional feelings as well as hotly debated subjects, one of the more provocative subjects that have continued to be debated is in what role if any, Germany, who was the Ottomans ally at the time,...

“Peace was merely an interval between wars,” Erich Ludendorff, a Germany general who was mainly responsible for Germany’s military policy and strategy in the latter years of WWI and later became part of Nazi, once argued. As he once said, not so long after storming...

World War One (WW1) happened from the years 1914 to 1918 and shaped what we know as the modern world. It had ever lasting impacts which can still be seen on daily basis but it mostly affected social and political spheres. It was between Germany,...

The city of Paris has been synonymous with fashion and style but also as the intellectual, artistic and political capital of France. It is the undisputed epicenter of French culture, and possibly the most romantic city in the world. This city of light hosts many...

The Key Cultural event of 2017 that I have chosen to write about is the Galway International Arts Festival. I have Chosen this Cultural event because it is something that I have heard about in passing yet don’t really know what it involves, so I...

The world we live in is very unique and been very diverse. Every human on earth is different from each other, very original and unique in its own way which is important trait for our characteristic. The same is with culture around the world. With...

The stories of Winnie the Pooh helped the nation recover from war, explains war in an easy way to understand, and teaches how it’s important to treat people right. Winnie the Pooh, also known as Pooh bear or Pooh, is a fictional teddy bear created...

The consumption of alcohol in Ireland is a concern to public health and a leading cause of national suffering. Of explicit concern are the social effects and health issues correlated with its use. Ireland has a unique relationship with alcohol, with consumption per capita being...

The topic that I chose to explore is ‘Alcohol Abuse in Ireland’. This is a topic that interests me as alcohol plays such a major role in Irish culture and society. It is often drank to celebrate all sorts of occasions, be it marriage, the...

The story of birth and the early development of English Drama are complicated. It has passed various stages and transitions. There was no drama in English before the Norman Conquest. The bulk of old English writings were overshadowed by the influence of Latin Christianity. The...

Edward I was known to be a controversial king in the eyes of historians, some believed him to the best English king in the Middle Ages while others believed him to be unsympathetic one. Edward I was most notably renowned for creating a ‘model parliament’...

Many topics came to mind when I needed to choose a topic for Music History. One topic I found interesting was Fanny Hensel. As I was doing my research, I found myself digging deeper into her Fanny’s life because I wanting to know more about...