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- 2901: Huckleberry Finn 6
- ... tell a story, not preach hate. He does a very good job of demonstrating the culture of the late eighteen hundreds. In no way is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn aimed at belittling the African American Race, it merely illustrates how the poorly the slave owners and traders treated blacks. Throughout the book, the word nigger is very prominently used. As you can imagine, African American people take offense to that word, even most people take offense to that word. Just because we might take offense to that word doesn t mean that we should just turn our heads and pretend ... job when writing this book, in terms of the dialect he used. During the period of time when this book was written, the n-word was part of their culture, where as the words African American and black are used today in our culture. If Mark Twain avoided the many racial slurs used during the late eighteen hundreds, the book would have lost some of the intellectual value which it ...
- 2902: Essay On Jefferson
- ... start and they destroyed political tradition as seen during Jeffersons' administration. Jeffersonians show an immense amount of hypocritism in their policies. For example, Federalists had supported high tarriffs, in order to protect national manufacturers and american industry. The tarriffs were a vital determinent, which kept the economy of the United States viable. The Jeffersonians, not the Federalists began the American system of protecting American industry which initially was a major constituent of the federalist platform.
- 2903: Black Ellk Spears
- Black Ellk Spears Black Elk Speaks is a play about the history of the relations between American Indians and Europeans from the first contacts to the present. My first thoughts of being assigned to attend the show were not very positive. I expected to endure an evening of hell with my sanity ... the audience. She used a little girl as one of the Indians. This made the killings more dramatic. She also made the Indians seem very helpless in the massacres. There were only three or four American soldiers fighting all the Indians and the Americans would still prevail. I was not as moved as some of the audience members I spoke with after the production. I felt that the play was intended ... He incorporated a circular dirt floor and used the upper corners of the arena space to attain his goal. The dirt floor emitted a feeling of degradation at some times and a feeling of Native American Indian heritage at other times. He decorated the upper corners with various Indian motifs, such as a teepee, rocks, wooden fences, and ladders. The production made use of the entire arena, including the stairs ...
- 2904: Huckleberry Finn 8
- ... Huckleberry Finn was published in 1885 and immediately banned by the Concord, Massachusetts, Public Library. In some ways, not much has changed since 1885. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Mark Twain are included in the American Library Association's lists of the ten most frequently challenged books and authors of 1996. Tracing the history a little further back, Attacks on the Freedom to Learn, '96, a report by People for the American Way, lists them among the ten most frequently challenged books and authors of 1982 to 1996. Twain's novels continue to be challenged and banned, but new reasons for opposing them have emerged through the years. Looking back over the debates about Twain's books during the past 112 years provides an interesting perspective on how American culture has changed, how Twain helped to change it, and why his books continue to raise difficult questions today. When Huckleberry Finn was banned in 1885, officials at the Concord Public Library thought it ...
- 2905: The Boston Massacre
- ... Preston, after six days the judges and jury concluded that he was not guilty. Secondly, a trial was held for the other British officers. The Boston Massacre is said to be a start of the American Revolution. It announced that the colonists would no longer stand for the abuses of the British. The actions taken show the limit the townspeople had under the exploitation from England. This indirectly led to later rebellions ...
- 2906: Disability in The Workplace
- Disability in The Workplace "The Americans With Disabilities Act is one of the most significant laws in American History. The preamble to the law states that it covers 43,000,000 Americans."(Frierson, p.3) Before the Americans With Disabilities Act(A.D.A.) was passed, employers were able to deny employment to ... With Disabilities Act Title I, 1994 2. Frierson, James G. EMPLOYERS GUIDE TO THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, SECOND EDITION, The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., 1995 3. Tracey, William R. Training Employees with Diabilities, American Management Association, 1995 WORKS REFERENCED 1. The Americans With Disabilities Act Title I, 1994 2. Frierson, James G. EMPLOYERS GUIDE TO THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, SECOND EDITION, The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., 1995 3. Tracey, William R. Training Employees with Diabilities, American Management Association, 1995 4. Conley, Robert W. The Economics of Vocational Rehabilitation, The Johns Hopkins Press, 1965 5. Urbain, Cathleen Supported Employement: A Step by Step Guide, PACER center 1992
- 2907: The Simpsons
- ... royalties from papers that printed the strip. Groening presented Brooks with overweight, balding father, a mother with a blue beehive hairdo, and three obnoxious spiky haired children. He intended for them to represent the typical American family "who love each other and drive each other crazy" (Groening, 4). Groening named the characters after his own family. His parents were named Homer and Marge, his younger sisters, Lisa and Maggie. Bart was an anagram for "brat". Groening used the last name Simpson to sound like the typical American family (Varhola, 51). Brooks decided to put the 30 or 60 second animations on between skits on the Tracy Ulman Show on the Fox network. Cast members Dan Castellaneta and Julie Kanvner did the voices ... Simpsons." The Christian Century. 27 June 1991. Varhola, Aaron. "The Simpsons." Readers' Digest. 29 Jan. 1993: 50-2, 77-81. Works Consulted Flanigan, Andrew, S. "Tips for Parents: Reduce Your Families Exposure to Media Violence." American Medical Association Review. 32 (1997): 171-9. Robertson, James. "Media Bias." Infant Parenting. May 1995. 31-4, 62.
- 2908: Ku Klux Klan 4
- ... the last of the KKK. On the night of Thanksgiving in 1915, sixteen men from Atlanta, Georgia climbed to the top of Stone Mountain and built an altar of stones on which they placed an American flag. They then stood up a sixteen foot long cross and burned it. One week later, this group applied for a state charter making it "The Knights of the KKK, Inc." This was put in effect during the Reconstruction. The new Klan at first received little attention. Only in time, it became the biggest and most powerful Klan in history. Klan membership was limited to native-born, white, Protestant American Men. The Klan message was clearly to appeal to people who were troubled by abrupt changes in American Society. (Ingalls, 16-17) Many believe that the biggest growth of the KKK began when Colonel Simmons, considerably the founder of the new KKK, linked up with Edward Young Clarke and Elizabeth Tyler. In ...
- 2909: JFK: His Life and Legacy
- ... Exchange Commission and later the prestigious position of United States ambassador to Great Britain(Anderson 98). His mother, Rose, was a loving housewife and took young John on frequent trips around historic Boston learning about American revolutionary history. Both parents impressed on their children that their country had been good to the Kennedys. Whatever benefits the family received from the country they were told, must be returned by performing some service ... written on the back of a coconut shell to allied forces. The coconut fell into the hands of allied scouts and a patrol was sent. The coconut would appear again on the desk of an American President(Anderson 35). The crew of the PT 109 were given a hero's welcome when they returned to base, but Kennedy would have none of it. He refused home leave and was given another ... set up what quickly became known as the Warren Commission headed by Chief Justice Warren to find the motive behind the assassination, The Commission finds the lone, depressed, mentally unstable, anti-social nut kills an American president("Theories" 1). Other theories have evolved over time such as the Grassy Knoll theory. Witnesses say that a man in black was present and fired simultaneously with Oswald and doubled the actual shots ...
- 2910: The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte
- ... for his family. Napoleon spent the next seven years reading the works of the philosophers, and educating himself in military matters by studying the campaigns of the great military leaders of the past. The French Revolution and the European war that followed broadened his sights and presented him with new opportunities. Napoleon was a supporter of the French Revolution . He went back and forth between Paris and Ajaccio, working for the Republic. Napoleon rose quickly through the ranks and became a captain in 1792. In 1793, Corsica revolted against the Republic, and Napoleon's ... but Napoleon remained perfectly calm. Then his reinforcements came, and he lead a final charge to win the Battle of Marengo. Napoleon them reorganized almost everything- roads, factories, harbors- that had been destroyed by the Revolution. He now controlled every part of the French life. He invited the Nobles back who had fled abroad. He wrote laws that are still in use today. He reorganized the treasury department, forming the ...
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