Essays on Frenchmen

World War I, also known as the Great War, spanned from 1914-1918. It was also the first major contest of arms fought by large, centrally organized nation-states, which was centered in Europe, since the dawn of Industrial Revolution. It all started on one faithful day of June 28, 1914 when the Austrian archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, were shot by a Serbian assassin in Saravejo. The armies present in the field are 12 million Russians, 11 million Germans, nearly 8 million Austro-Hungarians, more than 8 million Frenchmen and a same number of Britons, 5 million Italians, almost 3 million ...

It is undeniable that the world is rapidly changing, morphing all into one, not only in terms of political and economic terms, but also in terms of cultural construction as well. Nevertheless, past and current trends in these global changes are believed to be well observed and named such that new terminologies become “buzz words” to government, academia and media. And one such term is globalization. And to where I stand, globalization should be opposed. Furthermore, I believe that if globalization is inevitable, there is a need for it to be properly regulated. Globalization is considered a vague term, not ...

The revolutionary war of colonial America represented, for many, a period of romantic idealism facing the totalitarian regime of the world’s largest empire. The British Empire largely considered American liberty to be a minor colonial dispute until the war opened up on the world stage with the participation of France and Spain. The French aristocrat and military officer Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier De La Fayette, usually referred to simply as Lafayette, remains one of the decisive figures in the struggle for American independence because of his efforts to broaden the scope of the revolution’s goals, ...