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- 1591: To Be A Slave: Analysis
- To Be A Slave: Analysis To Be a Slave is an assortment of passages and journals from the slaves that served their masters during the Civil War era. At the beginning, typical life and daily hardships that occur on the plantation are depicted. The conditions that are described are horrible, even for animals to live in. The slaves are forced to sleep ... in newspapers and magazines over the years. When he got bored of writing, he released two albums of original songs and had a live radio show and TV show in New York. Photos of the Civil Rights Movement were taken by him and have worked their way into Howard University’ s photo collection. Now, he is a professor of the Judaic and Near Eastern Studies Department in the University of ...
- 1592: Allegory Of American Pie By Do
- ... 60s. The social voice that came through in the folk-rock sound of Dylan, is now full of messages, many of them open, many of them hidden. The plain messages include the dangers of nuclear war, the Vietnam war, the evil capitalistic system. Associated with these social protest songs are the ‘summer swelters’: riots in LA , Detroit, and at the Democratic convention in Chicago; the Charles Manson murders (which Manson claimed were connected with the song Helter Skelter); the marches for civil rights and against the Vietnam War (Jordan). The underlying message that McLean was trying to convey was that drugs were ruining the music. The Byrds sang a song called Eight Miles High, but they ...
- 1593: Life of Julius Caesar
- ... as dictator of Rome? What events led up to the assassination of Caesar? What happened after he was killed? Caesar was a major part of the Roman Empire because of his strength and his strong war strategies. Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman whose dictatorship was pivotal in Rome’s transition from republic to empire. When he was young Caesar lived through one of the most horrifying decades in ... Rome and remained in Gaul until his invasion of Italy. He continued north of the Alps each summer and he would leave his armythere in garrison each winter while he came south to conduct the civil administration of Cisalpine Gaul and Illyricum and to keep in contact with Rome. Caesar became determined to conquer and make a province of the whole of Gaul. After his defeat of the Belgic tribes in ... when Caesar’s daughter Julia to whom Pompey had been happily married since 59 BC died in 54 BC Crassus was killed by the Parthians at Carrhae in Mesopotamia. In planning Caesar’s return to civil life in Rome he could assume that as soon as he lost the immunity from prosecution which his military command conferred, his political enemies would endeavor to secure his exile by prosecuting him in ...
- 1594: Frederick Douglass' Life and His Work
- ... from slavery, but unfortunately he failed. Two years later he succeeded, and fled to New Bedford, Mass. Poor treatment as a slave led to a life filled with hatred for slavery. Before and during the civil war he urged other African Americans to escape slavery as he had. He began working as an abolitionist in 1841. He was at an antislavery convention in Nantucket, Massachusetts. As a recent graduate from the institution ... and would prove disastrous. Douglass withdrew from further participation. He campaigned for Abraham Lincoln during the presidential election of 1860, and helped raise two regiments of black soldier, the Massachusetts 54th and 55th. After the Civil War, Douglass, as a recognized leader of and spokesman for the black slaves, fought for enactment of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution of the U.S. He became U.S. ...
- 1595: Yuan Shih-k’ai’s Transformation of the Chinese Military
- ... of being in a very influential military family. All of this would help him later in his military career. In 1886, Shih-k’ai would be taken to begin preparing for his career in the civil service. China had been using exams for many generations to decide who its leaders would be, and these test would be based on the Confucius theories. Its desire to hold on to the old ways would cause the country to become a target for foreign countries to try and control. The foreign invasion would begin after Japan had defeated China in the first Sino-Japanese War. In the Shimonoseki Treaty, Japan would insert a “most-favored-nation clause,” which would alow Japan and other countries to exploit China’s resources. These countries would built factories in the harbors and use China’s man power to benefit their businesses. The defeat in the war would send shock waves of fear through the country. Since the 1860’s China had been attempting a self-strengthening processes to keep foreign countries out, but now that was all changing. The self- ...
- 1596: Mark Antony
- ... crowd, “Look you here, here is himself/Marred as you see with traitors” (III ii 197-198). The people in the crowd were so moved by his speech that they were willing to go to war against the conspirators. By starting this civil war, Antony again risks his own life to get revenge on the assassins of Caesar. Antony realizes that loyalty is an advantageous quality for a person to possess. He emphasizes this speculation when he does ...
- 1597: Huck Finn Grows Up
- Many changes violently shook America shortly after the Civil War. The nation was seeing things that it had never seen before, its entire economic philosophy was turned upside down. Huge multi-million dollar trusts were emerging, coming to dominate business. Companies like Rockefeller s Standard ... front, mob bosses controlled the cities, like Tammany Hall in New York. Graft and corruption were at an all time high while black rights sunk to a new low. Even after experiencing freedom during the Civil War, their hopes of immediate equality died with the death of Lincoln. Groups like the KKK drove blacks down to a new economic low. What time would be better than this to write a ...
- 1598: Julius Caesar
- ... as dictator of Rome? What events led up to the assassination of Caesar? What happened after he was killed? Caesar was a major part of the Roman Empire because of his strength and his strong war strategies. Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman whose dictatorship was pivotal in Rome's transition from republic to empire. When he was young Caesar lived through one of the most horrifying decades in ... and remained in Gaul until his invasion of Italy. He continued north of the Alps each summer and he would leave his army there in garrison each winter while he came south to conduct the civil administration of Cisalpine Gaul and Illyricum and to keep in contact with Rome. Caesar became determined to conquer and make a province of the whole of Gaul. After his defeat of the Belgic tribes in ... when Caesar's daughter Julia to whom Pompey had been happily married since 59 BC died in 54 BC Crassus was killed by the Parthians at Carrhae in Mesopotamia. In planning Caesar's return to civil life in Rome he could assume that as soon as he lost the immunity from prosecution which his military command conferred, his political enemies would endeavor to secure his exile by prosecuting him in ...
- 1599: Frederick Douglass
- ... Douglass. He was internationally recognized as an uncompromising abolitionist, indefatigable worker for justice and equal opportunity, and an unyielding defender of women's rights. Douglass served as an adviser to President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and fought for the adoption of constitutional amendments that guaranteed voting rights and other civil liberties for blacks. Douglass provided a powerful voice for human rights during this period of American history. During the Civil War he helped recruit black soldiers for the Union army, afterwards supporting Reconstruction and ...
- 1600: W.E.B Du Bois
- ... to be a Negro in the beginning of the twentieth century in his book The Souls of Black Folk. W.E.B. Du Bois, was a black editor, historian, sociologist, and a leader of the civil rights movement in the United States. He helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and was its spokesman in the first decades of its existence. William Edward Bughardt Du Bois was born three years following the Civil War, on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. His paternal side was French, settling in America in 1674 and, the Burghardts', his maternal side, were descendants of slaves who fought in the Civil War. ...
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