History

Having completed my review on Damascus, I have decided to post this part of it separately for a couple of reasons: Firstly, as it is extremely long, though I have tried to shrink a lot of information into very few pages. I know that many people are not particularly interested in reading at length about the history of a city or country, but I, for one, find it quite fascinating. The history of Damascus in particular is remarkable and that is the main reason for which I opted for posting this information, as opposed to omitting it altogether. The second reason is that its history is extremely complicated and quite confusing at times, ...

I tend to quote a lot of Robert Burns when I write opinions! For long years I have loved and cherished the works of Burns and appreciated the superb prose and the complex issues he discussed with great passion. He is known as the poet of the people and he manages to encompass every emotion in his songs, but there is more to Burns than that. In 1793 the poem "Bruce?s Address at Bannockburn" more commonly known as "Scots Wha Hae" he refers to the recollection of that glorious struggle for freedom, associated with the ideas of some other struggles of the same nature. This ode was inspired by the success of the French in beating back the ...

History, well what is it? It says here (Chambers Family Dictionary) "the knowledge of past events." Well, of course it is the knowledge of past events but it's so much more. I think history is the most fascinating subject I have ever studied. In fact it is my favourite subject. I'm currently studying hard (:p) for my A level history. I got an A* at GCSE and an A at AS level. At GCSE we studied superpower relations and the racial problems of America after WW2 up to about 1970. In the superpower relations course we studied things such as the problems, which remained after WW2 such as the relative strength of Germany despite ...