Essays on Contemporary History

One of the most practical beneficial outcomes from the nuclear age is the specific application of radioisotopes in medicine. To begin with, radioisotopes or radiation emitting elements is popularly used in nuclear medicine. Nuclear medicine is typically defined as the use of molecules bonded to...

Many may argue that different kinds of raids, plunder, genocide and capture have occurred in many parts of the world during various periods of conquest. Perhaps, however, Orlando Patterson’s study is crucial in making a distinction between the regime of violence which subtends slaveries throughout...

The Orlando theory of slavery as a social death is among the first and major type of full scale comparative study that is attached to different slavery aspects. In his work which is capable of drawing on one of the most fundamental tribal, ancient together...

After the conquest of Greece in 336 B.C.E the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C.E. marked the start of the Hellenic Era. The Hellenic Era was a time in which Greece flourished. Before the Greeks were conquered Greece was divided into city states,...

Author Chrisp Peter wrote the book Cuban MIssile Crisis This book explains the cuban missile crisis and it explains one of the most important days in history. The cuban missile crisis spaned to 12 days. October of 1962 from Oct 16 too the 28th could...

It’s not hard to imagine of a world that at any moment you and everyone you know could be wiped out without a warning at a push of a button. Well that was the reality for millions of people during the 45year period after world...

The book I chose to write my report on was called Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis, which was authored by Robert F. Kennedy himself. The book was released in 1969, which was around a year following his assassination. The story is...

Before going into the crux of the question of why soviets lost the war despite having superior war machines topic we will discuss the background of the topic of the Soviet-Afghan war which started in December 1979 in Afghanistan. Basically there were many reasons which...

In the United States slavery was practiced since the beginning of the colonial era, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A large part of the slaves was owned by the plantation owners. The work of slaves was an important factor in the accumulation of wealth...

The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a one-month, four-day standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union that erupted into an international crisis when American missile deployments in Italy and...