Dickens, in A Tale of Two Cities, portrayed the French Revolution unfairly, and not entirely completely. I don\'t think that Dickens goal in writing A Tale of Two Cities was to portray the stability of England as a nation, but that was the main message I derived from the film. Also, some of the caus...

Political ChangeIn the French and Russian Revolutions, could political change have occurred without bloodshed and the use of force? In the French and Russian Revolutions, there was a lot of force and bloodshed used. Can political change occur without the use of bloodshed and force? I think it can...

The Reign of Terror " War is necessary to men, and is more natural to them than peace." In this quote by Anatole France, we realize why we as people want war. It is necessary and is more common then peace. How many countries in the present world have not used war, terror, or means other ...

Throughout the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century Humanity was facing times of great new ideas that will significantly influence history. The social conflict between the "haves" and the "have nots" escalated into a sharp collision in the 18th century and resulted in the ...

The origins of the Vietnam War lie in the post World War II period when the European empires were being dismantled. The region which is now Vietnam was then part of Indo-China, part of the French empire. Revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh had led a national liberation struggle against wartime Japanese...

The main reason behind America's involvement in Vietnam was its fear of communism spreading. It believed that something called the Domino Theory would take place in Vietnam spreading communism into Eastern Europe. They believed this because they had seen it happen. The Soviet Union had become ...

Throughout the history of the Western world various ideologies have proven so influential as to give rise to assorted "isms" that change society. Namely, the rise and support of socialism has been a major component to the make up of Western history in the 19th and 20th centuries. An inve...

Two Different Ends Life is full of opposites. For every black there is a white, for every day there is a night. The poetry of Blake is no exception. His poem "The Lamb" is the opposite of "The Tyger". That is, the tyger is the predator, and the lamb the prey of the tyger. "...

The purpose of a revolution, as history has shown, is to fight some sort of political or social injustice suffered by a group of the general public. Typically a minority of the population, in search of a better lifestyle fights back against the oppression they have been forced to endure. His...

Life changed dramatically for 17th and 18th century Europeans, as a result of major social, political, and philosophical transformations. Following the Reformation, the authority and dominance of the Catholic Church were already being questioned and severely criticized. This in turn contributed ...

Herring writes a broad and sweeping history of the Vietnam War,fitting it within its historical context. He recounts how two sisters,riding elephants, led a rebellion against China's dominance in the firstcentury A.D. just as they resisted French imperialism in the 20th century. He demons...

VietnamFor 11 years, the most powerful nation in the world made every effort to defeat a nationalist revolutionary movement in a tiny poor country, and failed. The French had been trying to conquer take over long before, but they too had to withdraw at some point after fighting for long with no vict...

"Can Vietnam Succeed?" When questioning the chances of success for Vietnam, we need to understand that Vietnam's 'success' can only be assessed by the extent to which Vietnam's economy, political system, and administrative institutions are successfully meeting the n...

After the French Revolution, the second half of the nineteenth century was dominated by science and industrialization. New ideas began to form in the progressively secular culture. "Realism, positivism, Darwinism, Marxism, and liberalism all reacted against romantic, religious, and metaphysi...

Before the 1940s most countries in the world were capitalist or had a mixed economy including the USA and most countries in Europe, but it ended in the 1940s when the war was over. People see capitalism as giving people the freedom to do well and make money. Some people disagree with this because th...

Power comes in many shapes and sizes, and many different forms of life strive for it. Animal Farm is defined as a fundamental change in political organization, or the overthrow of one government or ruler and the substitution of another. This is especially true in describing George Orwell's b...

The Deep End of the Ocean The views reflected in the works of Victorian writer Matthew Arnold arose from what he called "the bewildering confusion of the time." The Victorian era saw great change when it came to beliefs about the very origin of man and his Creator. The poem, Dover Beac...

The history of Communism started with one man Vladimir Ilich Lenin. Communism is a system of government in which resources and production facilities are the property of the entire society rather than individuals. In a communist society, Labor is shared equally and the benefits of labor are distribut...

The Communist World and the Free World were two kinds of economic and political camps existing in 1985. At the center of these camps were two nations, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics who followed the principals of communism, and the United States of America with the belief in Capitalism and...

Man's Fate: Truth or Imagination Andre Malraux creatively combines his personal beliefs and experiences, history, and imaginative characters to inscribe Man's Fate. He adds his own elements to enhance the historical setting of this novel with a personal touch to give the reader an abili...

Phuong might be seen as a metaphor for Vietnam. Show why you agree/disagree with this statement. In 1946 when the Vietnam War began, the French fought the Vietcong to control Vietnam. They wanted to control its body-its economy, foreign policy, and especially its political system (as Vietnam fo...

Manifesto Introduction Response The manifesto introduction is a historical summery of the time during the socialist rebellion. It also explains how Karl Marx collected his ideas from Germany philosophy, the British political system, and French socialism. After long periods of studying and discuss...

The Communist Manifesto Marx describes the problem in great detail in the first chapter. He feels there is a problem between the bourgeoisie and the proletarians. The bourgeoisie were the oppressed class before the French Revolution and he argues that they are now the oppressors. The proletaria...

5.) Discuss the main tenets of Marxism. In what ways was this ideology an extension of the thought of the Enlightenment? In what ways did it deviate from those ideals? Socialism granted a powerful language for the working-class to express their interests. Many workers, who were enfranchised in ...

For some reason it seems so true. The truth in the statement "you never know what you have until you do not have it anymore" is so over-powering. It almost turns around to just slap you in the face. When you have what you never knew meant so much you always wonder why it is there...