History Essays

Social work and Social Welfare has been with us from as far back as the 1600’s and it has always been, and has continued to be a response to human needs. In order to understand its historical development, it is necessary to examine the significant factors, which has influenced its …

The History of Mission San Francisco de Asis On June 27th, 1776 Father Palon and Pedro Cambon, ten Christian Indians driving pack mules, and almost 300 head of cattle arrived at the Arroyode los Dolores which Anza and Father Font had selected for a mission site. They put up a …

Michael Faraday was the discoverer of the relationship between electricity and magnetism, and that one could not exist without the other. Through his studies he came to believe that there was no such thing as the ether, and he did not believe that matter was a physical substance. Rather, he …

The Haitian Revolution and The American Revolution were similar and different in many ways. First, both the revolutions had a prominent leader, Toussaint L’Overture and George Washington. Second, Haiti stressed freedom while Americans focused more on the needs of middle class. Also, both of these countries would have been unsuccessful …

The French and Russian Revolutions were both very dramatic and have influenced the political standings of both nations and nations surrounding them to this day. The Russian Revolution, although performed over 100 years later, is a great comparison to the French Revolution, due to their relative similarities and differences. Both …

When I was younger, I used to love going to amusement parks because roller coasters fascinated me. These beastly machines are usually made of steel or wood, can go as fast as 120 miles per hour, and reach the height of 420 feet. It amazes me why average people like …

This poem is Wordsworth’s magnum opus. It has been taken from the Prelude, Book 1 that has been taken from a larger work of his known as The Recluse. The poem was written around 1789-’99. This was the same time that ‘Romanticism” or the ‘Romantic Revival’ came into being. The …

Though Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson were contemporaries, their views, backgrounds and modes of influence were very different. Benjamin Franklin was born of a large and poor family and rose to become a model of the emerging bourgeois classes in the American Colonies. Throughout his long and life, Franklin succeeded …

Benjamin Franklin and James Madison, both are famous men in America’s history, both are considered founding father’s having played key parts in this country’s development, and both of these two men are brilliant thinkers, each conjuring different ideals about issues at hand. Even with all these and more similarities, Benjamin …

Many people wonder what makes a person become president? A truly complicated question like that is hard to follow with bare facts. There are so many different personality traits and social events that can alter how people look at other people, therefore outcome for a presidency election can go either …