Category: History

The United States not only won WWII but also never faced direct military invasion or any devastation at home (after Pearl Harbor), unlike the rest of the industrialized world. Many unique horrors befell allied and enemy states alike, including the wholesale bombing of major cities, mass loss of civilian life, nuclear bomb attack, Holocaust, or…

Primary Sources: Bishop Bossuet, Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture Domat, Social Order and Absolute Monarchy Hobbes, Leviathan Locke, The Second Treatise of Government English Bill of Rights Sayings of Confucius (at end of Chapter 1) Instructions: You are to write a two-page (300-500 words) essay discussing how societies wrestled with the…

Part 1: Who Are Americans? An Increasingly Diverse Nation For Part 1 of this assignment, complete the Who are Americans? interactive infographic in Chapter 1 of the textbook. Then respond to the following: The most recent census estimates show that the population of the South and the West continued to grow more rapidly than the…

You are going to take a journey in a Time Machine. Inscribed on the side are the letters MDLS, which stand for McClellan, Dorn, Lloyd, and Silva. When you climb inside you see that there are only eight settings: Greece, Alexandria, China, Islam, “The Enduring East,” “The Middle Kingdom,” “The New World,” and “Indus, Ganges,…

your response to the discussion prompt below. Reply to at least two classmates responses by the date indicated in the Course Calendar. What are the similarities and differences between the frustrations of the colonists and contemporary American citizens in reference to political authority? To what extent are the debates between Federalists and Anti-Federalists still active?…

Following is the topic for paper 1: ” Some critics of Islamic finance have indicated that Islamic finance is a prohibition-driven form of finance. Do you see contemporary Islamic finance as prohibition-driven? Explain why or why not. “ Requirements: 10

This is a book review of Medieval Warfare: A History by Maurice Keen. Thesis: How these works contribute to the development of heavy calvary warfare in the Middle Ages and the social, technological, economic changes that enabled that form of warfare. Guidelines: A Speculum-style book review is a concise, scholarly critique published in Speculum: A…

Pretty standard essay about a chapter from the U.S. History text book.

Your midterm assignment in this course will be a paper of five (5) pages in length, double-spaced, and written in 12-point Times New Roman font. The sources from which you must draw in writing your paper are 1) the excerpt from Wouter Hanegraafs Western Esotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed. one of the primary texts…

this assignment does require a bit of reading but I have provided it along with the questions