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               1. On 15th march, 44 BC, Julius Caesar was assassinated by roman senators because they perceived him to be a dictator and they wanted to restore their republican liberties. An alternative explanation presented in the book, ‘The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A Peoples History of Ancient Rome’ claims that Caesar was assassinated by the…

In every country, there are always many political parties with different ideologies and varying degrees of power in national matters. Political parties can be involved at different levels in institutions, organizations, and the general running of the government. In order to survive in local or national level politics, political parties must navigate through the challenges…

The Donner party             The donor party was an 1840s incident or a situation whereby Californian bound emigrants found themselves in a middle of snow in Sierra Nevada during the winter that lasted from 1846 to1847. The proposed journey was destined to start at Springfield in Illinois something that indeed happened. The journey involved George…

Henry VIII and Louis XIVHenry VIII and Louis XIV were both men whose accomplishments on anational level for their respective countries of England and France were great,but whose very different personal problems gave them a negative impression inhistory. The two leaders had very different ruling styles, but with a few similarthemes throughout. Perhaps the best…

In 1956, Miller was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee to admit to signing petitions. This reminded him of the Salem witchcraft trials from two centuries ago, where people were forced to publicly confess and name names. These trials served as the inspiration for his play, The Crucible. The McCarthyism can be seen as…

Following the American Revolution, the colonists achieved independence from Great Britain and escaped King George III’s oppressive rule. They were apprehensive about tyranny and opposed a government structure that centralized authority in one leader. Consequently, in an effort to address this concern, the Framers drafted the Articles of Confederation as their first constitution. Regrettably, these…

Assess the role of each of the following in the rise to power of Hitler: ideological appeal; underestimation by opponents; propaganda. The historical debate surrounding the causal factors of the rise of the Nazi state in Germany by 1933 is fierce. Marxist historians, emphasising the idea that Nazism was no more than capitalism’s most extreme…

Troy is a interesting character full of emotions which make him who he is. he can be a bitter character and sometimes quite unbearable. he is confident and sometimes overly confident and boasts a lot, showing impressions that he is trying hard, to hard, to impress people and this might make people think he is…

Throughout history there have always been people who look, think, or act differently than the majority of others. When people feel threatened by the group of people who are different than them they become hateful and associate them as being “others” who do not deserve to be held up to the same standard as everyone…

The myth comes from the Blackfoot tribe and is titled The Orphan Boy and The Elk Dog. It tells the story of Long Arrow, a deaf orphan boy, and his sister. Despite being shunned by the villagers, Long Arrow is cherished by only his sister, who eventually gets adopted by a family from another village,…