Essays on History

Human Trafficking: A Modern-Day Form of Slavery Human trafficking is a form of slavery in the present day where the traffickers use fraud, coercion or force to commercial sexual exploitation or for labor. The victims are usually traumatized to the extent that they are unable to ask for help It is...

A Family's Impact on Individuals and Community A family is the building block of any society, and its success or failure has a significant effect on individual members and community as a whole. Dr. King and Wiesel demonstrate the relationship dynamics by examining different family experiences. This paper will also give...

"I’ve been to the Mountain top": Rhetorical Analysis of Martin Luther King Jr’s last speech "I’ve been to the Mountaintop" is a captivating speech given by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 3, 1968 at Mason Temple in Memphis Tennessee. The speech is mainly in relation to the Memphis Sanitation...

In his book “Confederates”, Tony Horwitz gives his personal experiences of his fascination with Confederacy during the Civil War. Tony’s fascination began when he was at a very tender age in the New Haven Connecticut. He narrates to his reader his personal account as a child, how he read, wrote...

This speech was delivered at the National Negro Convention in 1843 This speech was delivered at the National Negro Convention which was held in the state of Buffalo in 1843. The day was taken by the speech “An address to the slaves of the United States” which was delivered by a...

Wallenberg was most certainly one of the few men who deserve to be remembered for their bravery and extensive humanitarian actions towards the Jews during the last day of the third regime (Boland 2). He used various means (both dubious and legal) to save the lives of many Jews who...

Sherman Alexie s work and Racial Oppression Sherman Alexie s work is a reflection of the racial oppression in the early centuries, especially the Indian Americans who were the target of the then regime to wipe them out in all ways they could. This cruelty occurred in the forms of religious...

I Abraham Lincoln, hereby proclaim that the war will be prosecuted to restore the constitutional relation between the United States and the citizens. From 1st January 1863 henceforth, all slaves in the ten states that are still in rebellion will be free and will be safeguarded by the executive government of...

New Orleans: A Major Port City New Orleans is a major port in the United States with a large coverage of the metropolitan area in Louisiana State thus being the capital. The city has a population of 343,829 which is according to the census conducted in 2010 while the entire metropolitan...

Throughout its existence, the United States of America has been referred to by most of its leaders using chest-thumping words to describe its uniqueness from other nations. These leaders have used phrases like empire of liberty, shining city on a hill, earth s last best...

Moulin Rouge is a French play which tells the story of a young author who falls in love with a movie star featured in the Moulin Rouge. The young poets defy his father's order and join the colorfully diverse clique inhabiting the dark, fantasy world in France. In the dingy...

Since its independence in 1776, United States of America has had a bad history of racism where habitually towards its black community. Socially and legally approved rights and privileges were given mostly to white American but not to the African-Americans, Asian-Americans and Native Americans.  There were separate schools for the...