"A significant historical event that occurred between 1945 and 2008 that has had positive and or negative consequences" Essays and Research Papers

Sort By:
Satisfactory Essays
Good Essays
Better Essays
Powerful Essays
Best Essays
Page 48 of 50 - About 500 Essays
  • Good Essays

    4705350-6858000 A Positive Correlation in life lessons My selection for Response‚ out of all the reading that could be chosen‚ I chose the short story Ironing by Esmeralda Santiago. Inside this story Santiago talks about herself being the main character. She states in the beginning her mother being over loaded with Raymond’s doctor visits and medication refills‚ while unloading on their personal funds. Leading to her mother having to locate other sources of employment. These ranging from Cooking

    Premium Short story Father Family

    • 1171 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    What Impact has Conflict had on Afghanistan’s Development? By: Danielle Dominic In 2001‚ a war broke out in Afghanistan. Since 1996‚ the Taliban had controlled most of the country. During this period‚ the Taliban allowed a group called al-Qaeda‚ a terrorist group‚ to have training camps in Afghanistan. In the 9/11 attacks in USA‚ nearly 3‚000 people were killed. The leader of al-Qaeda was a man called Osama Bin Laden. The USA believed he was the man behind these attacks. The Taliban refused to

    Premium United States Taliban Al-Qaeda

    • 584 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Labours Victory 1945

    • 815 Words
    • 4 Pages

    How far was Labour’s election victory in 1945 due to changes in social attitudes during the second world war? (24 marks) After the war had finished Labour enjoyed a political victory in 1945‚ they were now in charge of making the policies and choices that would best suite Britain at this rough time of economic depression. Their success was down to many different factors both during and after the war. factors such as the public wanting rid of the total war memories that are held within the conservative

    Premium Conservative Party Labour Party Chancellor of the Exchequer

    • 815 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    leaders‚ great thinkers‚ philanthropists‚ artists and scientists. A historical figure who has impacted my life and gives me reason to never give up is the Late Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. Dr. Kwame Nkrumah is remembered and celebrated as an individual who played a pivotal role in Ghanaian independence. He was a teacher‚ a theologist and held a Master of Art in Philosophy. His embrace for variety and wide spectrum of knowledge has inspired me not to limit myself to one field of study but to be open

    Premium Ghana Pan-Africanism United Kingdom

    • 472 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Watching television has been recognised as an effective learning method‚ because audio-visual information can attract people’s attention and foster their cultural awareness. Although some people believe that it has some advantageous effects‚ I think that television has some negative impact on cultural development. Many people believe that television damages culture. It promotes the stronger cultures of countries such as North America and Britain and weakens the cultures of less wealthy countries

    Free Culture Multiculturalism Cultural assimilation

    • 262 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Historical Explanations

    • 666 Words
    • 3 Pages

    1. What are historical explanations? Historical explanations are another term for ultimate explanations which are concerned with the entire existence of a group of organisms as opposed to just the explanations of a specific individual. 2. How are Freudian concepts historical explanations? What mistake do such explanations make to manufacture an immediate cause of behavior? Freudian concepts are historical explanations because of the use of childhood experiences as explanations for adulthood behavior

    Premium Psychology Scientific method Research

    • 666 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Essay Title:  Something that has had a great impact on your life “Two years ago I went to summer camp for Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot children. When I told my best friend about it she laughed at me‚ so I didn’t want to go. But my daddy said I had to go and see for myself what it was like. I went there expecting to see monsters and instead I saw children just like me. We played games and told jokes. We had the same hobbies and our grandmothers cooked the same kind of food. I was amazed.

    Premium Cyprus

    • 353 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    “What effects has the computer had on our lives?” The twenty-first century is already turning out to be the century of the computer. The computer revolution that started after the Second World War is now developing exponentially and computers are beginning to influence and take over nearly every aspect of our lives. How are computers changing and affecting society? There are two areas in which computers have brought about a profound change in our lives: one is in the economic field‚ the other

    Premium Economics Computer World War II

    • 342 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The industrial revolution brought many positive and negative effects to the factory workers‚ but a majority of negative effects‚ along with health problems and children working however‚ a positive effect jobs for women. To begin‚ during the Industrial Revolution‚ factories lead to health problems to the men workers‚ in addition to pollution. In document seven there is a photograph where there is an enormous amount of black smoke in the sky causing pollution. All the black smoke in the air

    Premium Industrial Revolution Factory Cotton mill

    • 265 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Many events happened over the course of the twentieth century that made a significant difference in shaping Canada’s identity. Canada’s contribution to the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan helped form international unity between Canada and the Allied countries. The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation presented ideas that were later developed into very beneficial services Canadian citizens have today‚ allowing Canada to be self-dependent. The battle of Vimy Ridge in World War I resulted in international

    Premium Canada World War I British Empire

    • 1094 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
Page 1 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50