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The exam will include two sections: identification and essay. In the identification section, you must select five (5) out of ten (10) options. In the essay section, you will be presented with two choices. Each choice will require you to define, contextualize, and explain the importance of a specific term. The definition should be concise…

The years 1961-62 saw Albany become a key battlefield in the ongoing fight for African American Civil Rights in the USA. Following the arrest of the SNCC’s freedom riders there in December 1961, a local boycott of the bus station began. The boycott was backed by rallies and protest meetings and, following an address by…

In merely a few words, a complete portrayal of a character can be formed. As in all Shakespearian play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is consummate in its technique of word picture and fluency. In Marc Antony’s celebrated address to the plebeians after Caesar’s decease, he repeatedly states that Brutus is an honest adult male…

I believe that being a beloved leader has a huge effect on being a better ruler. In 44 B. C. Julius Caesar was assassinated by his senate chamber. Soon his nephew and adopted son, Gaius Octavian, would join forces with Mark Anthony and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus into a three-way dictatorship. This transformed Rome from being…

American was synonymous to the word ‘segregation’ before the 1960s. The blacks (mainly the African Americans) were oppressed to the core. The condition would have been the same, had there not been historic personalities like Martin Luther; discrimination would have blackened the entire nation.   Discrimination prevailed in schools, job places, government offices and in…

The purpose of this movie was to “tell the story of the Civil Rights movement through a prototypical American family and how they experienced those turbulent times (The Butler True Story vs. Movie)”. In other words, it’s goal was to show how life changed for African-Americans from the beginning of the Civil Rights movement up…

Jealousy provided fuel towards accusing witches by venting ones emotions onto another. The accusers of the Salem Witch Trials were young girls and one woman, since the afflicted were so young, their own emotions clouded their judgment. For instance, if one of the girls developed feelings for a married man, the girl would become jealous…

Question One The conditions that allowed or favored Napoleon to follow his policies both domestic and foreign was because of the peace negotiations of the Russia and the British empires. On my opinion Napoleon could have pursued other policies to enable him to conquer Italy and Rome. One of his policies would have the building…

INTRODUCTION The Story of Blima: A Holocaust Survivor is a true story. It tells of the experience of Blima Weisstuch, a Jewish girl in Poland, between the years 1936 and 1947. To a reader today, those words—Jews, 1940s, Poland—may not suggest anything particular. But to someone who lived through those years, the words evoke shudders…

The Benefits of the Holocaust for the Jews The Holocaust and the murder of approximately 6 million Jews by the Nazi Germany during World War II was and is till now one of the few genocide attempts, which were precisely organized and planned for total annihilation of the Jews. Many other plans such as this…