Essays on Government & Politics

George Washington Plunkitt of Tammany Hall is book that covers the topic of down to earth legislative issues by the Democratic congressperson of New York (District of Tammany), George Washington Plunkitt, at the starting of the 20th century. This book reveals the psychological tasks of…

Michel De Montaigne’s book The Essays: A Selection is captivating and bold, especially considering the time that is was written in when hardly anyone would write about oneself due to sounding conceived with oneself, boring, biased, or uneducated. However, Montaigne’s book is neither of those…

Montaigne describes the barbarous people in his essay, `Des cannibales` as noble savages, who live in harmony with nature, share everything, lead a simple but honourable life and practice an uncorrupted religion without being tainted by Western societies. They hold two characteristic in high esteem,…

The life of Thomas Nast and his battle with the corruption of Tammany hall and boss tweed reads more like a narrative fit for Hollywood than history. One man, taking on the corruption in his city using nothing but political cartoons, doesn’t exactly sound like…

As America turned out to be increasingly industrialized after the Civil War, Irish workers discovered new, and better-paid works. Many worked constructing railways and in production lines and mines. They sorted out worker’s organizations and drove strikes for shorter hours and better pay. What’s more,…

Greta Thunberg is a 16 years old Swedish girl that has opened the eyes and engaged her generation to join her to demand action against the very real climate change that can result in a catastrophe affecting greatly the new generations. Greta gained popularity by…

When discussing artists in this class, one artist stood out above the rest, with the amount of influence and impact, he had on the world through his art. Thomas Nast influenced the world through his work by making issues that people were aware of accessible….

Imagine you are a baby seal. You are on a piece of ice connected to Antarctica continent. Day by day, you see the bonds that are connecting the piece of ice on the continent melting, but you think it is no big deal. But one…

Global warming is a major political issue that people discuss. It is the idea that when more greenhouse gases traps heat which causes major change in the temperature, which could eventually kill humans, plants, and animals. A 16-year-old, Greta Thunberg, talks about global warming in…

In Greta Thunberg’s UN speech “We’ll not let you get away with this” the speaker tells the international government that they are claiming to fix the global warming problem but they are really not fixing it even though they have the money to fix the…

Greta Thunberg has established herself as the first world political leader born this century in her fight against climate change. Our current socioeconomic structure is driving environmental breakdowns which are imposing a detrimental inheritance on future generations. The younger generations are faced with the increasingly…

Rene Descartes’s, Discourse on Method, helps with the understanding of both Michel de Montaigne’s Essay, Catalina de Erauso’s autobiography, as well as Peter Paul Rubens painting, Descent from the Cross. Their ideas added to the ways in which Europe helped conceptualized the New World. Each…

Living in Camp Life in camp was altogether different for officials and enrolled men. Officials were normally permitted more solaces and opportunities. Privates and non-charged officials drove an increasingly Austere life. Officials in the field lived superior to enrolled men. They dozed a couple of…

The government system of separation of powers and checks and balances refers to a unified government with three separate branches where none are more important than the other. However, this same system of all checks and no balances refers to a (flawed system in it…

Hernando Cortés: Hernando Cortés was a Spanish government official in the early 1500s in Cuba. He failed; but, he had heard stories about treasures on Aztec land. Him and about 600 other men attacked the Aztec capital Tenochtitlán, which failed. However, him and his men…