Battle Essay Examples

Centuries have been marked by strained relations among races. Despite efforts to move past the past, signs of racial dissension persist at nearly every juncture. While many Caucasians do not see the problem as severe as it is represented, African-Americans angrily reply that the lighter-skinned race has not had to endure such prejudice and therefore…

The Battle for Net Neutrality Last January 14, 2014, a Washington D.C. court ruled out the Federal Communications Commission’s regulation on Open Internet or more popularly known as net neutrality. The decision on the case sparked debate between those fighting for net neutrality and the companies who want to take advantage of the internet’s popularity….

History 82/4/01The battle of Verdun and the battle of the Somme are two very important battles. They both took place in France, and were fought in the same year, 1916. The first battle was the battle of Verdun. It was fought near an ancient Roman fortress that was sacred to the French. The Germans chose…

By 1863, the Confederate hold on the Mississippi River was limited to Vicksburg and Port Hudson- both strong bastions- difficult to overcome. In a daring move, U. S. Grant, commanding the Union forces, sent his troops past Vicksburg and landed to the south of the city. Grant’s troops then defeated Confederate forces in five separate…

The Ardennes offensive was a last ditch effort by the Germans to achieve an advantage in the war, but it turned out to be an acceleration of Germanys ultimate demise. Previous to the offensive the Allies had managed to achieve a beach head and advance toward Germany from almost every direction. On the eastern front…

The battle of the Somme began in the summer of 1916. The British saw their opportunity to look good and be the saviour of the moment. However, this did not occur. A four hundred and fifty mile trench network, stretching from the Swiss border up and into Belgium, was opened up and the battle had…

John Stienbeck’s, In Dubious Battle is a relentlessly faced-paced, novel of social unrest and the story of a young man’s struggle for identity, In Dubious Battle is set in the California apple country, where a strike by migrant workers against rapacious landowners spirals out of control. Caught up in this upheaval is Jim Nolan, a…

The most controversial topic in history has been, Who is more superiorman, or woman? Be it from the men ruling cro-magnum age to the dominating womanof the nineties, the only acceptable answer is a yes to both sides. Men havethere strong points as do women but they are in different areas. Men tend tobelong in…

Ralph Ellisons short story, “Battle Royal”, is symbolic in many different ways. In one way it is symbolic of the African Americans struggle for equality throughout our nations history. The various hardships that the narrator must endure, in his quest to deliver his speech, are representative of the many hardships that the blacks went through…

We are lucky to have many talented writers who have successfully taught US history through their outstanding pieces of literature. One writer of this kind is John Steinbeck in the novel In Dubious Battle. It takes place in the 1930’s when Franklin Deleanor Roosevelt was President. The story is set in a small, rural, part…