The Unification of Germany The end of the Second World War led to an unusually long period of European peace. The nation states of Europe were closer to each other than ever before. The twenty-seven states that made up Europe at that time changed to thirty-seven within fifty years of the end o...

In One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Solzhenitsyn attempts to indirectly attack/insult Stalin as well as the Union of Soviet Writers by using a comparative setting. He does this by making the setting as realistic as possible while injecting Shukhov, who plays as the "average" man bei...

From the year 1968 to the present there were many events which either traumatized the world or provided a stepping stone for the different areas of success. Technology vastly affected and promoted the competition of the two most diverse systems in the world. Better known as the cold war, the c...

John Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts on May 29, 1917, a descendent of Irish Catholics who had immigrated to America in the previous century. His father Joseph Kennedy was a businessman who became a multimillionaire. John Kennedy grew up with role models and in a political environment, ...

Balancing the Scales: World Peace vs. The Loss of Innocence On August 6, 1945, the city of Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb used in warfare. However, to this day, a debate as to why this city was bombed is occuring. On one side of the argument, the United States dropped the bomb ...