Essays on Europe

Introduction Political violence is described as violence initiated with the help of a politically motivated agenda by the help of state and non-state actors. Political violence is also defined as the use of force by a group of people having political motivation or political purpose....

Back in November 2004, a regime-controlled media had claimed the victory for Viktor Yanukovych who had been handpicked by a corrupt president at the time. Even though exit polls indicated Viktor Yushchenko as the winner of the election, it was clear to the public that...

The British Empire was one of the widest spread and most successful empires in history. There are many reasons why the British were so successful. Firstly, they had access to resources throughout the world. Their territory spread across six of the seven continents. The empire...

Described by one national newspaper in 1915 as the best-known nationalist figure in Ireland, Arthur Griffith and his ideology had clearly gained, at the very least, widespread recognition across Ireland. To explain his ideology we can situate his ideas into a framework of longer-term patterns...

Introduction Vikings have long had a reputation as fearsome warriors and savages. Evidence found at archaeological sites in York, England challenges the stereotypes that have been associated with them for years. The general assumption made about the Vikings has stayed the same for most of...

 In Stirling, Scotland, there is a narrow bridge over marshland and river. The English knights tried to cross the River Forth through this bridge right in front of the Scottish army. Inspired by and led by William Wallace and Andrew Moray, they embraced their higher...

On October 14th, 2019, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom delivered a speech in the British Parliament and was rated as a “farce” by Diane Abbott, the spokesperson for the British Labor Party’s internal affairs. This is also a microcosm of the Queen’s recent...

Robert Harris’ Pompeii follows the story of an engineer named Marcus Attilius Primus rebuilding the aqueduct that stretches across the bay of Naples after sulfur is discovered in the water, taking place in the two days leading up to the eruption of Vesuvius. Because this...

Introduction Natural catastrophes are some of the worse ways people die and has been around for ages. Whether or not you believe that dinosaurs extinctic from volcanos or a meteor, it’s been around, and it happens. From the moment it all happens, humans from the...

The story of Pompeii is sad with over 1,200 people dying when Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. However, Pompeii has provided one of the only glimpses into the past where you can literally walk through town and can imagine what life was like. In...

Pompeii and Herculaneum are located in the South of Naples on the Western Coast of Italy. They are two of the most astonishing historical sites in the world attracting approximately 2.6 million tourists per year. However with all this attention many destructive issues occurred including...

Pompeii has many similarities with the modern world including Australia even though the small Italian town was destroyed thousands of years ago. Around 79AD before the volcanic explosion, Pompeii was a bustling municipality and leading trade centre for goods that arrived by sea to be...

Pompeii also known as the city ‘frozen in time’ is a Roman city covering sixty-six hectares, located in the region of Campania, Italy. On the summer morning of 24 August AD 79 the eruption of one of the most catastrophic volcanoes, Mt Vesuvius buried the...

Abstract This paper examines the devastating economic, social and political situation in Weimar Republic and the concept of hyperinflation as part of the daily life of the Germans during those times. A movie ‘M’ and a TV series ‘Babylon Berlin’ will be described as examples...

The Weimar Republic was a government in Germany between 1919-1933. During the Weimar Republic period, it shows the aftermath of political failure but also cultural growth that remains present to this day. Germany experienced difficulties after World War I where families suffered high mortality rates,...

Along with its chaotic economic state, The Weimar Republic had many political problems; that is, problems within the government structure, or within the political landscape of the people, which directly removed opposition, or led to the German people’s resentment of the government, which all contributed...

Between 1919 when the Treaty of Versailles condemned Germany to scandalous debt to 1934 when Adolf Hitler became Führer, major changes that greatly impacted citizens’ lives occurred in Germany. Public issues began inserting their way into the private lives of Germans. In his novel Little...

Introduction While The Great Depression played a minor factor in bringing the Nazis to power, a variety of other factors had a greater impact. Political divide within the military and German social division compromised governmental stability. Mistakes made by Weimar leadership deteriorated government power and...

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...