Essays Tagged: "independent nation"
Italy
The country I picked to do my report on was Italy. Italy, officially theItalian Republic, is an independent nation in southern Europe. The word'Italy' comes from the ancient Oscan language and mea ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
Should Quebec Have its Freedom?
ingup. Quebecker's took a vote on the 30th on whether or not their provinceshould declare itself an independent nation. Most people and the mediabelieve that the separatists would loose. The people dr ... uch as Quebec's mother country,Canada. Since cultural differences is what moved people to want to beindependent in the first place, there would probably be even moredistinguishing differences between ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
'Gallipoli was a turning point in Australia's history' Assess the impact of the ANZAC experience on Australia and Australians since 1915.
e we an extension of Britain; we had won for ourselves the right to be acknowledged as a unique and independent nation, baptised by 'fire'. The ANZAC experience is part of what and who we are as Austr ... of what Australians were meant to be. They did not know whether they were Australian-Britons or an independent nation with a culture and identity of its own. Before World War I, Australia was just a ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History
The Culture of Haiti: Location; Language; Religions (Protestantism,Catholicism,Voodoo); Carnival; and Music.
0 years. Haiti is also the oldest black republic in the world. In addition, it is the second oldest independent nation in the Western Hemisphere. A slave revolt led to independence in 1804, making Hai ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
This essay is about the colonization of West Africa and the effects it had on the people.
zation of West Africa can be divided into five major parts; British, French, German, Portuguese and Independent Nation colonization.Africa was colonized principally for its rich natural resource. Acco ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > African Studies - History
Palestinian Refugee Conflict.
nist movement was created. This was established as a belief in which there should be a homeland and independent nation for the Jewish people called Israel. European Jews settled in the Ottoman ruled d ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community
This article argues that modernity is the second form of colonization.
owever, It did not take long to see that the decline of colonial empires does not always produce an independent nation. The former powers are still in charge. Existing in the more sophisticated form r ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
The Czech Republic. Transitional Success: from USSR to EU
IntroductionIn 1989, after nearly 40 years of Soviet control, Czechoslovakia once again became an independent nation, the Czech and Slovak Federalist Republic. This transition from Soviet socialism ... icials, under Soviet power, moved incrementally to begin the long road towards decentralization and independent Czechoslovakian rule. Their increasingly effective efforts became known as the Prague Sp ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science
Architecture of Transition and Production of Meaning
Yugoslavia. A Pandora's box of political nightmares was opened. Yugoslavia disintegrated into 5 new independent nation-states: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia- Herzegovinia, Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegr ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
The Creation of a Jewish Homeland: A Two Thousand Year Struggle
While the independent nation of Israel was officially created in 1948, the foundation for the creation of a Je ... than ever of the necessity for a Jewish homeland in which they could be religiously and politically independent. By the late eighteen hundreds, there was growing awareness within the Jewish com ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Middle Eastern History
Is Australia turning into an American State?
vor to remain autonomous to aggressive Western states.Already we have started to turn from a proud, independent nation into a subjugated state of external powers. The one time firm and resolute stance ... help America, America does not repay the favors.Australia used to have its own culture, and its own independent government, until it became attached to America. The typical "man in the bush", beer-gut ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
The Monroe Doctrine causes and effects
list powers from encroaching upon the boundaries of the United States and established America as an independent nation that did not want neither to involve itself in European internal affairs nor for ... ted States might be their next target. Great Britain refused to let the Spanish take back their new independent colonies. As free countries the new independent nations could trade more goods with Grea ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II
Quebec Nationalism The question of whether Quebec will secede from Canada to become an independent nation has been a hot topic in the country for several years now.
The question of whether Quebec will secede from Canada to become an independent nation has been a hot topic in the country for several years now. It dates back to the a ... ssurance. Their goal is to make citizens feel stable if in fact they were to secede from Canada. An independent Quebec would still be able to continue to use the Canadien dollar, Canadien passports, a ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > Canadian History
Singapore
The Republic of Singapore is an independent nation in Southeast Asia, located off the tip of the Malay Peninsula and connected to Ma ... by causeway. Formerly a British crown colony and then part of the Federation of Malaysia, it became independent in 1965. The name Singa Pur (Sanskrit for "city of the lion") was given by Sumatran sett ... in the Federation of Malaysia. On Aug. 9, 1965, Singapore was separated from Malaysia and became an independent republic. Since then it has become an industrial and financial power with one of the hig ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History
The Causes of the Civil War (8 pages double spaced, includes 10 sources)
nd South there were deep economic, social, and political differences. The South wanted to become an independent nation. The main reason had to do with the North's view on slavery. All of this was basi ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars
Reflecting on the Civil War
nd South there were deep economic, social, and political differences. The South wanted to become an independent nation. There were many reasons why the South wanted to succeed but the main reason had ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars
To what extent did economic, political, and social change effect the lives of colonists after the American Revolution?
onaries was to overturn the existing system, but rather to set up the North American colonies as an independent nation.There were extensive economic problems and modifications after the American Revol ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars
Research Paper on France
France is an independent nation in Western Europe and the center of a large overseas administration. It is the th ... the President of the Senate. Former Presidents of the Republic also are members of the Council.The independent judiciary is based on a civil law system which evolved from the Napoleonic code. It is d ... and the administrative branch dealing with appeals against executive decisions, each with their own independent supreme court, the courts of cassation. The French government includes various bodies th ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
Jamaica, A failed State
Jamaica dismantled the shackles of motherhood and bade goodbye to England by proclaiming itself an independent nation. At that time the island was one of the most economically viable in the Caribbean ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
The Justified Haitian Slave Revolt
"On January 1, 1804, Haiti declared independence, becoming the second independent nation in the West and the first free black republic in the world" ("History, par 11). T ... sform the social, political, and economic life of the colony. Socially, the slaves became "free and independent citizens" (Knight, par 4). They also declared equality between all men regardless of rac ... ecades to come. Politically, the former slaves created a second American state which was the "first independent non-European state to be carved out of the European universal empires" (Knight, par 4). ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History