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- 2061: The Regulators Of North Caroli
- ... numerous swamps, and bad road conditions. Due to these conditions, communities throughout North Carolina became widely seperated. The colony was initially set up by the Lords Proprietors, an English founding company that helped finance early American exploration. When North Carolina was freed from British proprietorship, the Granville family, descendants from the original Lords Proprietors, con-tinued to hold their land rights. This area, which became known as the "Granville District," was ... s trail into Kentucky. In fact, by 1772, just one year later, about 1,500 of the former Regulators left North Carolina (12). The importance of the Battle of Alamance and its proper place in American history have been topics of discussion not only in North Carolina, but across the country. I gathered this fact from the area from which my sources came. I noticed that the efforts of the Regulators ... s role in the Revolutionary War. Because of the research I have done I am encouraged to find out more about the history of North Carolina. The Battle of Alamance should be covered in every American history course simply because it illustrates the desire for independence many colonists had during this time period. Endnotes 1. Nelson, Paul David. William Tryon and the Course of an Empire: A Life in British ...
- 2062: Kaffir Boy
- ... the protagonist has to overcome. The first of his problems was to get through school in his poor South African ghetto. The second was to achieve his goal and receive a tennis scholarship to an American college. Mark s father is one of the major antagonist, he was opposed anything to do with Mark getting an education in a school. He was a very traditional man and he didn t like ... end up successfully making it through school and ending up being one of the top in his class. The second major conflict in the book was that Mark wanted to get a scholarship to an American college. Mark first started playing tennis in the ghetto and became the best player in Alexandria. He practiced at a ranch that he found where he made friends with the owner of the tennis ranch ... in this tournament even though he was considered a traitor to his people and was banned from playing in the native African tournaments for life. This decision changed his life because he met a famous American tennis star which helped his apply to many American colleges. Through Mark s own inner strength and self determination he achieves his goal and he received a full college scholarship to an American college.
- 2063: World War 2
- ... even asked for a peace discussion with the secretary of state. The meeting did not go threw with the 2 nations. Japan then attacked Atu (an island off of Alaska) in hopes to draw the American forces up North. Japan was wrong , but soon after this they planned out a sneak attack on Pearl Harbour (a military base for the Americans in Hawaii). The Americans had a small idea that the ... were detected, but the people in Pearl Harbour were told that they were US fighter planes coming in from California. Soon after that a Japanese submarine was discovered in the waters South of Hawaii. An American destroyer was sent out to destroy the submarine, which it did. Soon after that the planes that were detected earlier were Japanese forces. They launched their bombes on Pearl Harbour and destroyed 3/4 of ... bombs would still go off. The battle of Okinawa was the last step in the island-hopping strategy before the invasion on Japan. In this battle Japanese forces continued to do suicidal things, but the American forces were too strong as they won their largest battle yet. How Did The Americans Win The War The war between the nations had been going on for 4 years. President Truman wanted to ...
- 2064: America and the Camel
- America and the Camel English 102 K. Egonis As time changes the American culture changes with it. We can see the changing culture as we look around and also look at our past. Our past is the only thing we have that tells us how our culture has ... company by the name of Camel. The first ad is from 1934, the second from 1944, and the third is from 1980. These advertisements portray their time periods with great detail, and also how the American culture has changed over this time period. The first advertisement is from 1934 and is a baseball ad featuring Lou Gherig and his love for Camel cigarettes. This ad is a perfect example of how ... In fact this particular woman is producing supplies to aid the war effort. The second advertisement, from 1944, depicts this time period very descriptively. The third advertisement is from 1980 and depicts clearly how the American culture has changed. For example, in the previous advertisements there was no surgeon generals warning, telling people that smoking was bad. Only later in history does the American culture realize that smoking is hazardous ...
- 2065: A Couple of Frosted Poems
- ... of a bout with tuberculosis and the birth of his second child. Three years later his eldest child died, which he later addressed in his poetry ("Robert Frost"). In 1912, having been unable to interest American publishers, Frost moved to a farm in Buckinghamshire, England wrote prolifically, attempting to perfect his poetic voice. During this time, he met such literary figures as Ezra Pound, an American expatriate poet and champion of innovative literary approaches, and Edward Thomas, a young English poet associated with the Georgian poetry movement then popular in Great Britain. Frost soon published his first book of poetry, A ... England, and directed publication of a second collection, North of Boston (1914). Shortly after North of Boston was published in Great Britain, the family returned to the United States, settling in Franconia, New Hampshire. The American editions of his his first two volumes won critical acclaim upon publication in the United States, and in 1917 Frost began his affiliations with several American universities as a professor of literature and poetic- ...
- 2066: The Power of Images in Langston Hughes' Poems
- ... poem Harlem is what makes his work so effective and real. In Langston's poem Harlem he asks the reader, what happens to a dream deferred? That question would suggest that in his opinion the "American way" is merely a dream. To defer something means to postpone or put off until a later date. This is Langston's feeling toward the black man's dream of receiving the same fairness, as do the white people in America. Even though, he does not say that he is talking about the American dream; one can relate to the under tone of what is being said though. The time frame in which this poem was written is another indication of his mind state. The second verse asks does ... equate to the struggle the blacks in-lets say the sixties went through during all those marches across the country. The pain and suffering they endured trying to become a part of the so-called "American dream". In many ways those efforts were null and void because we still are not equal, racial discrimination still exists. Black people still have one hand tied behind our back when we attempt to ...
- 2067: Analysis of Stephen Crane's "War Is Kind"
- ... had experienced the ferocity of war in all of its intensity. Published in the year of 1899 at the same time when America was rejoicing with the conclusion of its victorious foreign involvement, The Spanish-American War. This war, depicted by the newspapers as a glorious adventure, was countermanded by Crane's poetry. In 1895 his publication of the book "The Red Badge of Courage", an impressionistic story of a young soldier trying to find out what was real and not real, during a fierce battle of the American Civil War, brought him international acclaim. The book's hero survives his own fear of conflict and cowardice to discover courage, humility and wisdom in this most confused situation of total confrontation. Many veterans of the American Civil War praised Stephen Crane for his uncanny image, to envision and replicate the essence of actual combat. Stephen who had not witnessed any warfare brilliantly accomplishes this in his book. Crane thereafter, got ...
- 2068: Kazin's "Summer: The Way to Highland Park"
- ... lives life, he digests it into his soul. There is a larger than life aura which the city of New York emanates and Kazin sees this aura. Included in this aura are the roots of American history. Kazin with his flawless descriptions of his environment and emotions made it seem like you were inside his a head and thinking his thoughts. According to Mr. Kazin, New York is the Mecca of American history and Kazin is humbled as well as awed by the vastness of New York City. More importantly, Kazin brings to life how books can fill a void in the mind and entice curiosity. Alfred ... sees small town America during this part of his journey. The streets are lined with great trees, similar to quintessential small town America, and the brownstones stood proud, as if their posture was the grand American history behind them. Kazin greatly admires the architecture and history of the brownstones. Alfred made a discovery during this walk. This discovery was that walking in this part of town could take him into ...
- 2069: Littleton
- ... swallow it up. But I suppose it makes good news. Who is the sicker person in this case? The nazi boy who goes into a school, kills about ten people or so, or the average American who buys the newspaper with the headline of "NEO NAZI MASSACRES INNOCENT TEENS IN SCHOOL"? The boys who did this knew very well that if they were to pull off something like this, they would ... that's been occuring for the past ten years in the former Yugoslav provinces? And those are just things that happened in the past ten years. Ten years. Turn back the clock further, just in American history, lets forget about the rest of the world for the moment. Pretty much from 1492 - the present day there has been a holocaust against the Native Americans. When the Spanish landed in Mexico and ... ago which is still on today. The war reached its peak in the late 1800's, when the US army was sent west to pretty much wipe out all native civilization to make way for American railroads. The surviors were then placed on reservations, where little of their culture remains, many tribes that didn't survive had their culture completely destroyed. And this is just one instance of American tragedies ...
- 2070: Hostile Takeover of the New World
- ... to deal with them. The current confusion and violence in Indian Country are a result of the failure to do so by generations of elected officials in this country. To continue to perpetuate myths about American Indians which have no basis in fact or in law is merely avoiding the larger issues confronting the nations of the world," said author Vine Deloria, Jr. (Deloria, Prologue) The United States government failed miserably ... to separate the whites and the Indians, but also intended to restrict them to specified areas known as reservations. Nineteenth century removal and reservation policies reduced Indian lands to mere islands in the stream of American settlement. Reservations themselves were largely unwanted or remote environments of little value. (Lewis, 1) The policy makers did not only want to control the Indians, but civilize them as well. The chiefs are thought to ... is presumed that humanity dictated the original policy of the removal and concentration of the Indians in the West to save them from threatened extinction.. But today, by reason of the immense augmentation of the American population, and the extension of their settlements throughout the entire West, covering both slopes of the Rocky Mountains, the Indian races are more seriously threatened with a speedy extermination than ever before in the ...
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