History Essays

Compare and Contrast Education is something so sacred to some people but there are many people that take it for granted as well. “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me” by Sherman Alexie and “Learning to Read and Write” by Fredrick Douglass, is similar in many ways. Both of these men were so […]

Before the Civil War, America was plagued with a complicated social quandary that incorporated individual, societal, political, economic, and religious principles. Its authorship includes Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe who dually challenges the legitimacy of slavery in their literature. While both Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” and Frederick Douglas’s “Narrative of the Life […]

Aristotle came up with three appeals: ethos, pathos, and logos, all of which are found in all forms of writing, speeches, movies, television shows, and life within itself. Frederick Douglass used all three of these rhetoric devices in writing his narrative to tell about both his life as an American slave and his cause over […]

David Walker and Frederick Douglas’ contrasting approach to the oppressive epoch of the antebellum South compare favorably to that of Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Both men were passionate oppressive on the issue however both had different takes on how the issue should have been addressed and ultimately resolved. David Walker’s approach […]

“Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” is an engaging written story detailing the traumatizing experiences of Frederick Douglass as a slave and his journey to freedom. In “Douglass and Sentimental Rhetoric,” a thought-provoking critique, Jefferey Steele contends that even though Douglass’ account maintains objectivity, it is infused with pathos, which could theoretically distort a […]

The Irony of Education in “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” The power of education in “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” is one of the most important themes in the entire work, but it is not a theme with a consistent meaning. Although Frederick Douglass understands that the only path to freedom, […]

Education has always been a part of our way of life since the beginning of time. Not every person is the same; hence the reason everyone learns differently. It all begins at childhood of course; from that parent, parent-like figure or school teacher. However, at a point in one’s life that sense of independence takes […]

The book “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave” is an autobiography that talks about human civil rights. The narrative is a real life story of the writer, and it was published in 1845 after the writer had managed to escape from slavery. Frederick Douglass was born in Maryland, where the story […]

FBLA SPEECH The great Eleanor Roosevelt once said “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. ” Confidence is something many teens […]

September 7, 2013 AP Paper “We were all ranked together at the evaluation. Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine. “-Frederick Douglass (Pig. 27 in The Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass). In his memoir The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Douglass distinguished […]

Colonel Lloyd’s home plantation has three to four hundred slaves and he owns many more in the twenty or so farms nearby. When young Douglass is first brought to Colonel Lloyd’s plantation, the overseer Mr. Severe rightly named because he is a cruel, bitter man who constantly swears. He dies shortly after Douglass arrives and […]

Slavery is a historical issue in America and many of the Europeans states, many of the political and social decisions that are made in these states today are all based on the effects that slavery had on the society. Racism which is a major issue in many societies today and mostly in America was brought […]

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an intriguing 19th century memoir and essay about abolition of slavery. It entails an autobiography of a renowned African American, Frederick Douglass. The book consists of eleven chapters, which revolves around the life of Douglass as a slave moreover his critical aspiration to become a free African […]

During the 1920’s the League of Nations primary desire was to end war across all fronts and to promote international co-operation. Therefore the best criteria that can be used to classify a success, was whether war was avoided and a peaceful settlement formulated after a crisis between two or more nations. Although this aim was […]

‘The behaviour of any human system, whether it be a single person or a complex society, results in part from cumulative weight of past experience and in part by current stimuli.'(Rosenau, 1972, p145) When foreign policies are formulated three central determinants are integral: the international, domestic and governmental context. These represent the fact that foreign […]

The demands for post-war actions included: no foreign troops in Belgium and restoration of their independence, Germany relinquishing all French territory including Laces-Lorraine, Italy’s expansion to areas where Italian was spoken and territories promised in the London-Treaty, self-determination for ethnic groups in the Status-Hungarian area, foreign troop removal from the Balkan region, Serbia’s expansion to […]

The application of Appeasement to British Foreign policy post World War One remains a highly debated topic amongst historians, mainly regarding the use and reasons for the policy and its ineffectiveness. Appeasement generally refers to ‘The policy of settling disputes by peaceful means and compromise rather than by resort to war’1. It is mostly associated […]

In 1919, when the League of Nations was first created, it specified one of its main objectives as being ‘to ensure a just and lasting peace’. Despite having several successes in the 1920s, it failed to uphold this statement on numerous accounts in the 1930s, eventually leading to its loss of credibility, followed by its […]

After the long and deadly First World War, of which the U.S. had been embroiled in for over a year, people were finally ready for their soldiers to come home. Some were even ready for peace. However, many Europeans had lost everything in the war and were not ready for peace. They were ready for […]

The League Of Nations Was A Great Force For Peace In The 1920’s In this essay, I am going to look at the successes and failures of the League of Nations (LofN) in its struggle for peace throughout the 1920’s. The LofN was the ‘brain child’ of American president Woodrow Wilson. The four other main […]

1991 DBQ In the aftermath of World War I, during the years 1917-1921, President Wilson advocated the Treaty of Versailles, which called for the principle of self-determination, the formation of a League of Nations, and general amnesty towards Germany, as the solution for peace. However, his unwillingness to compromise led to widespread disagreement. The opposition […]

The League of Nations was an organisation designed to maintain peace throughout the World. It was created during the Paris Peace Conference. The League of Nations was the idea of Woodrow Wilson, the president of the USA. The League’s main aims were to bring together all nations in a parliament to discuss and settle disputes, […]