World's Strongest Man

During the late 1700’s to mid 1800’s, the French Revolution became the spotlight of European politics. After multiple political leaders, including the King himself, had been disposed of the French people had grouped themselves into various political parties. France was in turmoil. Without a solid leader to demand control of the country, the people led many revolts leading to a national depression. Growing up during this time of instability, the popular general Napoleon Buonaparte, knew what his country

A Historic Context After World War Two, Winston Churchill said that “America…stands at the summit of the world.” During the 1950s, the United States of America was the world’s strongest nation. Its economy was strong, growing, and booming more than ever before. During this time of great economic prosperity, many Americans were eager to have children. A baby boom began in 1946 and ended in 1964, with almost 77 million “baby boomers.” Many of these new families went and lived in perfect houses in

Canada consists of ten provinces and three territories, and covers 9.98 million square kilometers. Canada is the world's second largest country, but is ranked 37 in population with the population of 35,702,707. Canada contains 60% of all the lakes in the world. In World War I, Britain controlled Canada's foreign affairs under the Confederation Act, when Britain declared war, Canada immediately came into the war. More than 625,000 Canadians served in World War I, some 60,000 were killed, and another

In the time period between the Civil War, and WWI, the United States went through a massive cultural and industrial revolution. This revolution transformed them from a small, new player in the world of global politics, to a major world superpower that could compete with such industrial powerhouses as Britain and Spain. This revolution was driven by one key force, engineering innovation. Engineering allowed industry to become more efficient, but more importantly allowed the U.S. be extend its military

Greece. A place where history was born and beauty that would mesmerize any man or woman. Athens, the capital that continuously glistens with ancient Greek pillars telling our tales of the foremost gods. Taking the noble throne was a king loved by his people- an affectionate man who people felt up most respect to at any given moment. The kingdom was the homeland to some of the world's most esteemed farmers and scientists, under the reign by King Hephaestus. War was thought to be of a disgrace to their

I want to preface this by saying I believe, wholeheartedly, that a person should write what they want. No one should tell an author or a hobbyist what their story should say, and I would never presume to do so. The following is simply a statement of opinion and emotion, and should be received as such. You do you, boo! While searching for new black authors to read, I noticed that a few have written stories with white protagonists. Though I would not call this trend prevalent, in fact I think the

The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan tells the story of Christian, a deeply religious man whose self-imposed pilgrimage takes him through a variety of locations in his quest to reach Celestial City. However, to better understand Bunyan's perspective on Christianity as given in his novel, we must examine the life experiences of the author. Born in 1628, Bunyan lived in a time period that was undoubtedly heavily influenced by the Reformation movement incited by Martin Luther only a century earlier

“Tell them I’ve had a wonderful life.” This was the last words of Ludwig Wittgenstein, who had been one of the most influential philosophers of human history. In Ray Monk’s biography Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius, it is shown how wonderful Wittgenstein’s life was. Not that it was especially happy. It was full of personal suffering, which were mostly self-imposed. There was the fact of his Jewish ancestry, which weighed on him, and there was his strained relationship to his own sexuality

such as, North Korea, Japan, China, etc. countries that have a dictator. Even though China has a people democracy, it also has a dictatorship style backing the democracy up. We put the power in the hands of the people, not in the hands of a single man. The people of China have the freedom to think for themselves as long as their decisions fall within certain guidelines.

On August 17th, 1917, General Jan Christian Smuts, of the Royal Flying Corps, captured the significance that aeroplanes would play not just as an auxiliary force, but a new form of warfare: There is absolutely no limit to the scale of its future independent war use. And the day may not be far off when aerial operations with their devastation of enemy lands and destruction of industries and populous centres on a vast scale may become one of the principal operations of war, to which the older forms