Essays on History

Some of the challenges that settlers had while moving west was they ran out of food a lot easier since they had more people. Wagons broke down and didn’t have anything to fix it. Also, they didn’t know exactly where they were. They would follow…

The manifest of destiny was a term that was coined in the mid-18th century by a journalist called John L. O’Sullivan, where he urged his fellow Americans to uphold their Divine Providence and undertake the mission to conquer the entire country. Furthermore, the American frontier…

While most people believe that the idea of Manifest Destiny was primarily beneficial for American citizens, it ultimately did more harm than good, as many conflicts with the land, people, and animals arose with Native Americans. White settlers moving west found that the Native Americans…

“All men are created equal.” This sentence has been one of the best known words in the Declaration of Independence, especially when it comes to equality or human rights. The equality, which we human beings have been keen to call for, seems always too difficult…

The ‘The Man Who Would Be King’ is a novella written by Rudyard Kipling in 1888. Kipling is best known for publishing on this topic of British exploitation. This novel is narrated by the narrator, who lives in India. The story opens up with the…

It’s not a common thing for a man to be a secretary of treasury, be in the military for many years, and die after a duel from a bullet. Yet, this is how the life of Alexander Hamilton went. Hamilton was a very interesting and…

“How does an orphan son of a whore and a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean by providence, impoverished, in squalor, grow up to be a hero and a scholar? The 10 dollar. Founding father without a father. Got…

Katrina hit on August 29, with this hurricane there was 130-miles-per-hour winds, 10 to 12 inches of rainfall, and a storm surge approaching 30 feet. Katrina is the third worst hurricane in histiry. For my paper I decided to write about how Katrina affected New…

Sugar in Pakistan is made from cane and beet, even though cane is the principal – and overwhelming – uncooked material used. There’s approximately 1 million hectares of land beneath cane and beet in four provinces: Punjab, Sindh, North West Frontier Province (NWFP), and Baluchistan….

Introduction The United States was not ready for the destruction imposed by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. There was not a guide or training manual to reference, everything was unique. Hurricane Katrina moved swiftly and was “under the radar” from its inception. Starting as a…