History Essay Examples Page 13

John Katz and Abby Goodnough explain in their article The Opioid Crisis is getting worse, particularly for Black Americans written in 2017; how Fentanyl, a fast-racing narcotic analgesic and sedative, which is sometimes abused for its heroin-like effect; is the leading cause of death in African Americans between the ages of 45-64 since the year…

Fredrick Douglass speaks on his life growing up as a slave. Fredrick Douglass’s educational journey began when his kind mistress begins to teach him his ABC’s. This only lasts until she is forbidding by her husband to do so. His reasoning’s are such as a slave “should know nothing but to obey his master-to do…

It is a known fact that African Americans were prohibited from learning to read or write during the slave period. Despite this critical rule, there were a plethora of slave activist and former slaves that went against this strict demand, and risked their life to educate themselves on how to read and write. Fredrick Douglass…

Music is a very powerful art that has the ability to connect to people and their feelings, relief the intensity, and shifting the mindset. Seldom, the songs we listen to hold deep meaning interpreted differently by every individual. During the olden days when slaves sang their songs to praise their owners, there was a deeper…

During the early twentieth century, Nazis took over Europe and captured Jews as well as other victims killing around six million people. In 1933, Germany appointed a new leader named Adolf Hitler, Hitler chose Jewish people for different government positions. Months later they created a dictatorship in which they managed to build a mass movement…

History is not always completely understood or shown due to the loss or nonexistence of important evidence. Because of this, any existing documentations, testimonies, and information are considered to be valuable artifacts that can be taken into account to better comprehend the history and context behind them. The Holocaust during Nazi Germany in the 1930s…

Studying epigenetics allows scientists to determine the mechanisms by which gene expression is modified, facilitated or suppressed, although genes themselves, along with the underlying DNA sequences, remain unchanged. Epigenetic mechanisms are conducted via chemical modifications of chromatin, and are induced by environmental factors. In an article entitled “Cultural trauma and epigenetic inheritance,” Amy Lehrner and…

During the Holocaust, Canada could have done more to prevent the atrocities it caused. Canada could have accepted more Jewish refugees, treated the refugees they did let in better, and done something about the high amount of anti-semitism across Canada. During the Holocaust, many countries let in Jewish refugees but when they came to Canada…

“The word eugenics, coined by the British statistician Francis Galton in 1883, denoted selective breeding both for promoting favored characteristics and for eradicating features deemed harmful” (“Racial” 2013). Darwinism, criminal anthropology, biology, race science, and medicine were all fundamental ideas behind this form of pseudoscience, which saw a rise in popularity in the early twentieth…

Nationalism, according to Merriam-Webster, is defined as “loyalty and devotion to a nation.” In the year leading up to the Revolutionary War, nationalism became very common in the colonies. However, it affected different sides of the revolution, leading to a sense of unity among some and conflict between others. During the revolutionary war, a pervasive…