The movement of people coming from the Old World to the New World gave significant changes in history. I want to take a close look at the phrase, “Rather than telling the story of colonization as the imposition of European ways of life through ‘discovery’ a...
Thirteen colonies in the North America roughly can be divided into three regions: the New England, Middle, and South region. Each had different characteristics, and people had different styles of living. If I were one of colonials in northern America, I would ...
How could people who lived one hundred years ago imagine the great improvement in technology today? One of the technological improvements people can directly feel is cellular phones since they seem to have become an integral part of people’s lives. Cell phone...
The two-party political system had established after the revolution. One was Federalist Party, led by Secretary of Treasury Hamilton. The other one was Democratic-Republican Party, led by Secretary of State Jefferson. There were many differences in how they ma...
When people live in a society, they always need some rules or restrictions to follow, and the right of each person to live happily needs to be protected. When I was born, the existence of constitutions in many societies was normal, so I took this fact for gran...
When people first settled in the new land America, they started from the wilderness. Because of people’s efforts, they made the new land to have unique characteristics, and more people would want to come to America to seek for their opportunities and freedom....
Ever since the Europeans settled in the new land of America, colonials had created the unique characteristics in each area. They started to question how the Colonial America should be. For Britain, colonies only existed to serve for the mother country. Colonie...
Claudius is a king of Denmark when the play “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark” starts, He is an uncle of Hamlet, and Hamlet thinks of Claudius as an evil king who has murdered King Hamlet. I think Claudius is entirely evil and is a bad king because h...
During World War II, numbers of people have lost their lives not only in the actual fighting taken place all over the world, but also in the unfair way (of course, killing each other is nothing but unfair in any case), which is genocide. Nazis did genocide bec...
Jean Baudrillard is a French theorist of the 20th century. He initially learned German language, but he also learned various fields of study. Since he studied various kinds of fields, it seems his ways of thinking are based on sociological, economic, and anthr...
Americans had lived pretty much free of most British constraints and enjoyed their support and protection. They were not taxed for it, and livings of average colonists were usually better than that of average British. However, the situation had started to chan...
The play “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark,” written by William Shakespeare, contains various kinds of themes. The theme of duty and honor is one of them, and this theme can be seen frequently throughout the play. The interesting thing is that this t...