The fur trade and piracy, Indian raids, and bad management kept the city down. ... The slaves had the freedom to farm land, keep their profits, and buy their freedom, or the freedom of a wife. ... A dozen slaves petitioned for their freedom and received land when they were freed by the Company. ... The settlers got to keep their land and property, however, the English were not accepted with open arms. ... When the war was over, it was signed back over to the English because the Dutch did not want the land. ...

• Word Count: 4369
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

The Mask of Anarchy: a Reflection of Shelley's Revolutionary Introduction Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was the only son of an aristocratic family: his father was an M.P. and his grandfather was a wealthy landowner. He educated at Eton College and entered the University of Oxford. There, he...

• Word Count: 2715
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Claude McKay illustrates the struggle of black people in a very racist environment in his poem "Enslaved," "Oh when I think of my long-suffering race, for weary centuries despised, oppressed, enslaved and lynched, denied a human place in the great life line of the Christian West; and in the Black Land disinherited, robbed in the ancient country of its birth, my heart grows sick with hate, becomes as lead, for this my race that has no home on earth. ... McKay shows that black people were forcefully taken from their home land of Africa and were turned into slaves for white people....

• Word Count: 2640
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Great Starvation of Ireland I. The starvation in Ireland: 1845-1852 Over the years, the people of Ireland have suffered many hardships, but none compare to the devastation brought by the Irish potato famine of 1845-1857. A poorly managed nation together with ideally wicked weather condit...

• Word Count: 2804
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

D-Day, June 6 1944. Air-Power: Significant or not? A private who was aboard one of the first few gliders to reach Normandy expresses his feeling: I experienced an interesting psychological change in the few minutes before and immediately after take off. As I had climbed aboard and strapped myself in...

• Word Count: 3362
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

Our research set out to improve our understanding of the immigration from 1960s up to 1980s and by exploring the rhythms and realities of everyday life both of immigrants and natives people. This research is based on the immigration policy in Britain, which structured the lives of immigrants. We aim...

• Word Count: 4568
• Approx Pages: 18
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate