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- 5921: American Reconstruction
- ... Unlike Lincoln who knew how to Compromise, Johnson was a stubborn man. His policies were based on what he thought was Lincoln's goals. They included charity toward the former Confederates and the creation of new government states. These governments, Johnson said, must forbid slavery. They must also accept the supreme power of the federal government. With Johnson's strong thoughts and views, Reconstruction started immediately. Congress was not in session ... Confederates or taken from them. It divided this land into 40-acre plots. These were to be rented to freedmen until the land could be sold. However, all freedmen had to eventually give up their new farms. With Johnson's help, pardoned Confederate landowners were able to regain their land. Freedmen, with their land gone, lost their best chance at economic freedom. When Congress met in December 1865, representatives from the ... Sumner who were both active men. The Radicals hoped that the federal government would remake southern politics and society. Urged on by the Radicals, Congress did pass two bills in 1866. The first bill gave new powers to the Freedmen's Bureau. Congress also passed a bill dealing with Civil rights. This bill declared that everyone born in the United states were citizens. It clearly said that all citizens were ...
- 5922: Racism: Burdens of A Multi-Cultural World
- Racism: Burdens of A Multi-Cultural World The sizzling streams of sunlight were just beautifully glimmering down on the crisp green school yard. Such a wonderful day that was. Nothing could have ruined it. Little Jimmy, since it was such a wonderful ... getting them to all play together. There thoughts are not totally corrupted as others. Probably the demon has no time to bother with smaller children. As children start to grow up, their knowledge of the world increases in astronomical figures. They start to mature and realize the barbarous aspects of life. When this knowledge reaches to a certain point, the demon like racism comes after them. The child begins to understand ...
- 5923: Zoo Story - Existentialism
- ... wonder that a man like Jerry felt lonely. He was without a friend, a mother and father, and the typical wife, two children, and a dog, that many others had. Jerry was thrown in a world that he felt did not want him, and his human flaw of wanting to escape loneliness led to his tragic death. In Edward Albee s play, The Zoo Story, all Jerry wanted was to be ... him who held the weapon that ended the life of Jerry. Peter had to face the rest of his life being aware of how others lived, and how one can feel so indifferent to the world yet live in the very same part of the city. Both Peter and Jerry had to accept that the world they lived in was a hostile universe. Peter led his life playing by the rules while Jerry decided to accept the cruelties of life the way they were. Peter found that to live in ...
- 5924: Reconstruction in the South
- ... careful student of war strengths suggests “perhaps 750,000 individuals would be reasonably a close” as an estimate of Southern enrollments in the armies and navy. In the South Reconstruction meant rebuilding the economy, establishing new state and local governments and establishing a new social structure between whites and blacks. During the war Lincoln had expanded his presidency. With his power he hoped to set up loyal governments in the Southern states that were under Union control. Lincoln appointed new temporary governors and instructed each to call a convention to create a new state government as soon as a group of the state's citizen totaling 10 percent of the voters in the 1860 ...
- 5925: New York Times Co. V. United S
- The New York Times printed allegedly classified documents that leaked from the Pentagon about the war in Vietnam. A 47 volume classified history of the American involvement in Vietnam was distributed to the Times and, later, the ... restraint is unconstitutional. Also, can the government seek an injunction on a press to halt publication of such documents, even in cases of national security. The Supreme Court Ruled 6-3 in favor of the New York Times, saying that the First Amendment did not permit an injunction against the press. The Court found that the Government did not relieve their "Heavy Burden" of proof to justify the injunction based on ...
- 5926: A Rhetoric Of Outcasts In The
- ... for A Streetcar Named Desire in 1947 and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1955), and was the first playwright to receive, in 1947, the Pulitzer Prize for drama, the Donaldson Award, and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award in the same year. Although Williams's first professionally produced play, Battle of Angels, closed in 1940 because of poor reviews1 and a censorship controversy (Roudane xvii), his early amateur productions of Candles to the Sun and Fugitive Kind were well received by audiences in St. Louis. By 1945 he had completed and opened on Broadway The Glass Menagerie, which won that year's New York Critics Circle, Donaldson, and Sidney Howard Memorial awards. Before his death in 1983, Williams accumulated four New York Drama Critics Awards; three Donaldson Awards; a Tony Award for his 1951 screenplay, The Rose Tattoo; a New York Film Critics Award for the 1953 film screenplay, A Streetcar Named Desire; the Brandeis ...
- 5927: Candide- A Contrast To Optimis
- ... William von Leibniz’s philosophy by criticizing worldly superiority, the theory of optimism, and the brutality of war. Leibniz theorized that God, having the ability to pick from an infinite number of worlds, chose this world, “the best of all possible worlds”(18). To dispute that contention, Voltaire created Martin. Martin was the quintessential pessimist, and Candide’s trusted friend and advisor. Martin continuously tried to prove to Candide that there is little virtue, morality and happiness in the world. When a cheerful couple was seen walking and singing, Candide told Martin, “At least you must admit that these people are happy”(94). Martin quickly replied, “I wager they are not”(94). The only basis ... his judgment was the sight of two outwardly content people, yet somehow he was compelled to characterize them as unhappy. Martin’s pessimistic outlook on life is the antithesis of Leibniz’s theory that this world is the best. The evil that Martin perceived blinded him from the good that existed in the world. The land of Eldorado was the realization of Leibniz’s theory that this world is the ...
- 5928: Fahrenheit 451: Similarities To Today's World
- Fahrenheit 451: Similarities To Today's World In Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury describes how the world would be like in the twieny-fourth century. The things that he wrote about in the novel are similar to the things which extict today. The technology level in the novel is more advanced. The ...
- 5929: Attempt At Reconstruction
- ... veto of all Reconstruction legislation that was unfavorable to the South caused Moderate and Radical Republicans to change their goals from just ending slavery to seeking political equality and voting rights for Blacks.8 The new goals, were based on humanitarian and political considerations. Northerners had grown increasingly sympathetic to the plight of the Blacks in the South following numerous well publicized incidents in which innocent Blacks were harassed, beaten, and ... and separatism. If we fail to bridge this divide the question of the Twenty-First century like the Twentieth will be that of the color line. -- Endnotes 1 Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution (New York: Harper and Row, 1988) p.228. 2 Ibid. pp.124-125. 3 Eli Ginzberg and Alfred S. Eichner, Troublesome Presence: Democracy and Black Americans (London: Transaction Publishers, 1993) p. 148. 4 Ibid. p. 152. 5 Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution (New York: Harper and Row, 1988) pp.229-231. 6 Daniel J. Mcinerney, The Fortunate Heirs of Freedom: Abolition and the Republican Party (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994) p.151. 7 Eric Foner, Reconstruction: ...
- 5930: Billy Budd: One Needs to Have Morality and Virtue
- ... experienced and knowledgeable? Through this book, Melville is telling that one need to strike some kind of balance between these two ideas; a person needs to have morality and virtue; needs to be in the world, but not of the world. To illustrate his theme, Melville uses a few characters who are all very different, the most important of which is Billy Budd. Billy is the focal point of the book and the single person whom ... who are truly ready and without regret, as Billy was. The question, then, is presented. Innocence or wisdom? Which philosophy, which way of life is more correct? Claggart, who represents the natural evil in the world, serves as the opposition and corruption which we face everyday. He is the obstacle that Billy must deal with, and the way in which he confronts that obstacle determines which of these answers is ...
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