Lyrical Essays

The summary of World War 2

World War 2 was the biggest and most momentous war up to that time, where there was more death, destruction, border changes, and military technological advancement than any other event of history that came before it.

World War 2 didn’t start suddenly there were slowly rising military escalations at first with quietly conquering some small territories or stealthily building bigger armies until one day when a spark lits it.

In Europe, the military escalations started to rise when Germany quietly militarized the demilitarized Rhineland and also pressured the neighboring small countries like Austria and Czechoslovakia to give up some of their lands, and eventually totally integrate them into the German nation, the uneasy peace was held, until one day a spark ignited when Germany invaded Poland by brute force conquering Poland, making England and France declare War.

In Asia, military tensions started to rise when Japan invaded China, but China had no powerful allies, so it was seen as a local war until Japan suddenly attack America in the Hawaii islands, especially in Pearl harbor, causing America to declare war, so Japan invaded almost all the European and American colonies and independent countries in Eastern Asia, creating the Pacific theater of the war.

The war dragged on for a couple of years the Axis powers composing Germany, Japan, and Italy slowly conquered every nation on their way until Germany and Italy conquered the whole of Europe except Great Britain, Switzerland, Russia, and even North Africa also, and Japan almost conquered the whole of Eastern Asia, only parts of China and Russia and some Pacific Islands.

The pinnacle of the German Reich in World War 2 was when Hitler launched the Battle of Britain where Germany tried to Bomb England to submission and operation Barbarossa, which is an operation to invade the Soviet Union.

The pinnacle of the Japanese Empire in World War 2 was when the Japanese Empire was conquering the islands near Australia preparing for the invasion of Australia and when Japan started to conquer North India.

The tide turned for the Allies when the German, Italian, and Japanese war machines became overextended and vulnerable and the Allies became more powerful, causing a comeback. The tide turns for the Allies in Europe when the Soviet Union successfully stopped the Barbarossa campaign to a halt by the battles of Stalingrad in August 1942 and others and in the Pacific war tide turns when Americans successfully halt the Japanese in the islands near Papua in the battle of Guadalcanal in August 1942 and others.

The allies started to strike back, in Europe the partners launched the Normandy invasion started liberating France, and the allies started taking back North Africa and the Soviets started slowly liberating the Soviet Union and eventually Eastern Europe, in Asia the Americans started Island hopping slowly inching closer to Japan.

At last, the Germans retreated back to Germany surrounded in the west by the allied forces and in the east by the Soviets and other allies, when the last battle was fought in Berlin itself in April 1945, which the Germans lost, while in Asia America island-hopped until the islands around Japan where the last battle was fought in Okinawa in April 1945.

Germany was invaded and divided between the major allies, and Japan surrendered after being atomic bombed into submission and was occupied by America. World War 2 started in September 1939 and ended in September 1945.

There were several important figures in the war, and these listed are some of them.

Winston Churchill was the Prime Minister of Great Britain and the leader that inspired Britain.

Franklin D Roosevelt was the American President during World War 2.

Joseph Stalin is the dictator of the Soviet Union during World War 2.

Adolf Hitler is the dictator or fuhrer of the German nation.

Benito Mussolini is the dictator of the Italian nation.

Emperor Hirohito was the emperor of Japan during World War 2.

World War 2 brought destruction and death to many people around the world, and it stored many nations and empires and brought many new nations to light changing the world as they knew it.

Did Thompson provide persuasive evidence that South’s slave system was morally evil? I would say yes.

In the autobiography, Thompson has lots of stories, proof, and evidence that the slave masters were harsh and abusive to the slaves. One of the first examples we get was when a slave child dropped and broke a plate by accident, and they were punished by getting whipped, which resulted in a pool of blood at the child’s feet.

Now that’s a big overreaction, assuming that the plate wasn’t anything special. Even if it was well-prized, it really didn’t need to result in a puddle of blood. That was definitely harsh, abusive, and wrong. This kind of whipping for such little reason was so harsh to slaves, that some literally mentioned that they would rather die than get whipped one more time.

some more proof is that the slave masters would whip their slaves every week for no reason at all, other than the fact that they would appear to become more powerful. Whipping for little reason is harsh enough, but whipping for the reason to have your slaves fear you? That’s all the more worse.

The Great Depression was a severe economic depression that affected the whole world, but especially America in the 1930s.

During early 1920 the government put in place certain economic policies. The rich period of America created the roaring 20s where Americans lived luxuriously and constant spending and buying. The economic policies created easy ways for people to loans from banks causing banks to lend more than they have, but the banks were always paid back because of the great amounts of spending causing wealth to circulate easily, until one fateful day. That day was in the year 1929 when the investors became nervous and started to hesitate in the stock market causing the stock market to crash causing an economic chain reaction. The loss of money caused more people to lose their jobs, eventually causing the whole nation to be poorer. There are other factors including chain reactions that contributed to the Great depression.

The great depression affected the whole world in different proportions, America and Germany were affected more severely.

The great depression officially ended around 1933, but really ended at the beginning of WW2 because of the new jobs that were created by the war.

The Great Depression’s effects on America

The greatest and most profound impact of the great depression was poverty. 25% of the American population was jobless constantly trying to find a job; or trying to stay in a job without being fired. Because of the loss of jobs, many Americans became homeless, not able to pay for mortgages and rent.

One of the effects of the great depression was that crime went up. Because of the desperate poverty-stricken times, people took desperate measures causing more violence/crime.

Because of the upsurge of criminal activity, the police reacted by becoming more powerful and organized, even creating a new police agency called the FBI.

The government made a movement to end the great depression called the New Deal in which the government started many work projects to create jobs, also creating more government agencies for protecting people financially like the social security program essentially making America into a welfare state.

Those are some of the effects and changes the great depression made on America.

Russia had been ruled by Tsars for a long time. The Tsars at first were acceptable rulers, but over time became more inconsiderate of their people. Finally, on March 1917 the military and people rebelled and overthrew Tsar Nicholas the second. Which lead to the creation of a provisional government with an executive branch and congress, in Russia.

Among the vast group of revolutionaries, there was a group of socialist communists called the Bolsheviks. The Bolsheviks were unsatisfied with the new government wanting to make Russia a socialist state. They began a campaign, gaining support for the extreme left from the urban population. The Bolsheviks gained so much trust and support from the urban population that on November 1917 they successfully launched a coup called the Bolshevik revolution. They captured all government buildings in the cities. Vladimir Lenin the main leader of the bolsheviks became the dictator.

The aftermath for Russia was one hundred years of suffering under the unjust rule of the communist dictators living in fear and poverty. Millions of innocent people were killed or sent to gulags to work in state projects or mines. Russia had switched from uncaring oppressive Tsars to murderous communist dictators.

Thompson had an interesting theory on the reason why slaves did not respond well to over-the-top punishments; he believed that slaves’ productivity would decrease due to their energy going towards resisting. The people who were forced into slavery understood that by responding to being whipped or beaten by working harder, their over-seers would assume it was alright to do so because the slave’s work quality would improve. He saw how many over-seers would give unjust or extreme punishments for things like not bringing enough firewood, even if it was as much as they could lift, or beating a slave for being only a couple minutes past curfew.

Families were separated, slaves were beaten almost incessantly, and no one could do anything about it. Even the slave children weren’t free from this. If any child wanted to beat slaves, the slave children were the ones who got the job. Many mothers would come home and find their children’s backs mangled, and they couldn’t do anything to protect their children.

However, just like the carrot and the stick, which is a metaphor for using a combination of reward and punishment to induce a desired behavior; some slave owners (but not very many) learned that beating their slaves resulted in the opposite effect they wanted. Instead of slaves working harder to avoid harsh punishment, the slaves would become rebellious and maybe even run away. The slave masters who learned this lesson would rather provide them some freedom and not deliver any unexplained beatings. (And then this would make the slaves more complaint and hard-working) By treating them with a bit of humanity, a benevolent master would make a slave feel less like livestock and more like part of the team.

While Thomson never told himself how slaves should be treated, it was incredibly obvious that he thought no one should be physically abused or enslaved at all. Thompson wasn’t against whites in general. He was just against the improper use of sanctions when being applied to slaves.

World War 1 was a deadly long war that engulfed all continents into it. World War 1 started in 1914 because of an assassination that triggered the war and the ending in 1918 because of the surrender of the German Empire and the subsequent peace conference in Versailles.

Like any war, World War 1 was a deadly and bloody war that costs countless lives from all sides of the war. One of the worst aftereffects of the war is that many parts of the world were depopulated during the war because of hunger, plague, or killing.

The war also caused many advancements in technology for the better and for the worst. Positive technologies that were advanced because of the war is in the fields of medicine, sanitation, aviation, communication, and more. Still, there were countless more negative technological weapons advancements such as flame throwers, tanks, poison gas, and more, which made people more efficient and easier to kill and destroy other people.

A major aftereffect of World War 1 is how the borders of Europe and also the world were redrawn between the victors and also new ethnic nations that were once under gigantic Empires. Some major changes in the borders of nations and empires because of WW1 were the disintegration of the Austria-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire into smaller nations following ethnic boundaries and the formation of Poland as a sovereign nation after hundreds of years of subjugation and many more changes.

Another aftereffect that will have significant implications from World War 1 is the decline of the European Empires, which in turn catapulted the rise of the American nation. America because of surviving the war almost unscathed causing it to be the only great nation left economically and militarily, which launched America among the great world powers of the time.

After the War, the world became traumatic from the carnage and destruction, but it also brought great celebrations and hope that it will be what the famous expression says “The war to end all wars”, but hidden in the ashes of the war another war even bloodier will awake.

This essay will be about what I would do in my autobiography that is different from what Darwin did. This essay will be based on The Autobiography of Charles Darwin by Charles Darwin. There were many things that could have been improved with his autobiography. His style of writing an autobiography is fascinating and would be much different from my style.

He mentioned many details in his autobiography but he didn’t get into any of them in vivid detail. That was a problem that I would like to not have on my own. Everyone has accomplishments in their lives and that should be something that you would want to show to others. He did not explain any accomplishments he had. Darwin explained some interesting things about his life and traveling throughout it, but that doesn’t make up for the rest of everything that he didn’t explain. The book overall doesn’t really wow me as the reader, and he could have definitely included more things that would have watched the reader’s eye.

As I said before, the lack of detail in his autobiography speaks volumes to me. It is a huge problem for me as a reader. He didn’t convey certain details that could have been helpful to make his autobiography more interesting. The lack of detail made his autobiography bland and boring. When you read a book, you should be able to form a mental picture and you should be able to imagine what is happening in your head. In this autobiography, it is much harder to do. This all stems from the problem of details. In my autobiography, I will include almost anything I can think of and describe it in as much detail as I can. It will make it way more interesting and not boring, like his autobiography.

Another big problem I have with his autobiography is his view on what he “figured out”, “evolution”. I hate the view of evolution, and that “people evolved from monkeys”. That is very false and just hearing evolution makes me feel angry and uncomfortable. Reading his autobiography does not change how I feel about evolution or about him in general. Ever since I figured out that evolution wasn’t real, I have had hatred against it. And a lot of movies and tv shows have the aspect of evolution in them. In my autobiography, I will only include things that are very important to not take away from my life and the interest of my book.

In his autobiography, he talked about the other side of himself that wasn’t very good at getting along with the public. That was a detail that I wouldn’t have explained in my autobiography. Because of his ideas of how the world worked and how people evolved, he tried to explain his ideas to the public. While many scientists defended Darwin, religious leaders, and others immediately rejected his theory, not only because it directly contradicted the creation story in the biblical book of Genesis, but also because – on a broader level – it implied that life had developed due to natural processes rather than as the creation of a loving God. I would mention mostly the good things about myself and the good things I had done, not the bad things.

In conclusion, I would do many things differently than what Charles Darwin did in his autobiography.

World War 1 was supposed to be “The war to end all wars”. While it didn’t live up to that promise it was one of the most interesting wars of all time as countries from across the world fought in it (when you think about it it’s really not that cool). World War 1 started because Arch-Duke Franz Ferdinand assassinated Gavrilo Princip who was a member of a Serbian nationalist group. The war lasted from 1914-1918 after this event. The Allies who won the war included the U.S., Britain, France, Serbia, and Russia against the central powers which included Germany, Austria-Hungary, and The Ottoman Empire. 

Serbia was sent an ultimatum from Austria-Hungary with impossible demands. When Serbia didn’t agree to the terms there was war. Germany told Austria-Hungary to go ahead and fight to know that Serbia’s ally Russia would join the war. Russia already mobilizing its troops for a fight was only the beginning though. Germany wanted more power in Europe, But having reached its theoretical peak in power it needed a war to get more territory and power. Germany however couldn’t just declare war on all of Europe as that would end the country due to the inevitable outcome of Germany being singled out of an alliance to destroy Germany. Meanwhile, Britain, noticing Germany’s rising power on the seas where borders didn’t matter, began to worry. Britain had always had an advantage on the water compared to almost all countries. With this new challenger to their Naval power, Britain decided to strike. Austria-Hungary had the same motivation as Germany, they needed more land, and what better place to get it than their southern neighbor Serbia. When Franz Ferdinand was killed it was Austria-Hungary’s perfect opportunity to go against Serbia in a war. Serbia on the other hand killed Austria-Hungary’s Archduke, what was their motivation? Serbia, having just come out of the Balkan Wars, wanted to free all the Slavs that were stuck in their new Austrian home.

World War I probably could have been avoided if so many countries hadn’t been so willing to participate, and desperate for power. After all, should a world war start because of the death of one man? Irrationality and selfishness can lead to violence and chaos…

Should I include reconstructed speeches in my autobiography?

For my personal autobiography, I’m not sure how many reconstructed speeches I could really put in it, seeing as I haven’t heard many in my lifetime.

Words from my parents, in my mind, are important not only because they are directed towards me and sometimes me alone, but also because readers of my autobiography can have samples of how I was brought up. This would hopefully help them get a better feel for my character, provided I write things in an easy-to-understand way.

School lectures that I find interesting might be something I could put in my book as well.

Putting speeches in my story would also have to be consistent with the theme of my autobiography, which I believe my book should have.

To conclude, autobiographies are for people who’ve done things that are worthy of people’s attention. Something that can change the world. I don’t think that’s something for me.

As far as adding reconstructed speeches to my book goes, it may or may not be a good idea, depending on how my overall story goes. They can either be helpful to readers or an unnecessary, boring detail about my life that won’t have a huge effect.

Spanish-American War was a significant event in American history that resulted in America overthrowing the Spanish rule of several countries in the Caribbean. Due to the victory of the United States, Spain had to relinquish its claims in Cuba and ceded their sovereignty over Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines to the U.S.

    The Cuban War for Independence from Spain began in 1895. This was the third and final war between Cuba and Spain, but then the United States of America interfered. They decided to take Cuba’s side in the war under President William McKinley who claimed they were doing so for “humanitarian reasons”. While Spain treated the Cubans horribly, even torturing them, this was an obvious smear campaign from American journalists attacking the Spanish. Plenty of American civilians went to Cuba around that time, so the government sent the USS Maine to protect them instead of forcing them to return to America. The USS Maine arrived in the harbor of Havana, Cuba on January 25^th, 1898, but about three weeks later the ship was mysteriously sunken. The US government immediately pointed fingers at the Spanish government and used this as an opportunity to declare war against Spain.

    While the US was hungry for war, the Spanish had been in a precarious political situation for a few months and did not want to engage in another war. Unfortunately for them, most of their colonies in the Caribbean and Central America had either already gained their independence or requested reforms, so they could not afford to lose another territory and had to go to war. The US Navy was much more powerful than the Spanish Navy, and the US fleet was able to destroy a Spanish fleet quickly and easily in the Pacific Ocean during their first battle.

    The US Navy then went to Manila Bay, Philippines, and defeated the Spanish in that area. However, rather than giving the Philippines their independence, the US held its revolutionaries at bay and gained control of the islands which led to the Philippine-American War a few years later. Then they captured Guam without a single shot fired. The Spanish garrison in Guam was captured and they left no Americans on the island. All this had happened while Cuba just wanted their independence, and not to be colonized by America. Unfortunately, they were under the control of the US until yellow fever broke out, forcing the American troops back to their country, and finally freeing Cuba.

    Over the course of the Spanish-American War, Spain lost several colonies, as well as their entire navy. They had no interest in continuing the fight, so the Treaty of Paris was offered in 1898 as a compromise. Just ten weeks later, the treaty was accepted, and the Spanish-American War had officially ended. Cuba went on to organize their independence in 1902, and the US-controlled none of their territory other than Guantanamo Bay.

    The Spanish-American War lasted only around three months, but lots of changes occurred in this small window. Several of Spain’s colonies had been repossessed by the United States or even set free. In conclusion, the Spanish-American War was a very important historical event because of all the changes in the colonies in the Caribbean and the political changes in Spain and the US.