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- 1911: Mark Twain
- ... career as an author. Mark Twain, a native of Missouri who lived most his childhood in poverty, began his career, surprisingly, as a steamboat pilot. This career path was soon to be interrupted by the Civil War, in which he served for the Confederate Army for two weeks before withdrawing. Already at this point in his life, Twain was showing his humorist side when he commented on this incident saying, “…it was my retirement from it that brought the crash. It left the Confederate side too weak.” (Ayers, 42) After the Civil War, Twain began his career as a journalist. He bounced from one city to another, including a stay at Virginia City, Nevada and San Francisco. While in San Francisco, Twain wrote The Celebrated Jumping ...
- 1912: Animal Farm: Political Issues
- ... express his views on stalinism in the novel Animal Farm. Throughout Orwell's early novels, democratic socialism kept the author from total despair of all humans(Greenblatt 104). After his better experience in the Spanish Civil War and the shock of the Nazi-Soviet pact, Orwell developed Animal Farm. The socialism Orwell believed in was not a hardheaded "realistic" approach to society and polotics but a rather sentimental, utopian vision of the ... by the addition of "without a cause." Each event that occurs in Animal Farm has a historical parallel(Meyers 106). The Rebellion is the October 1917 Revolution, the Battle of the Cowshed is the subsequent Civil War, Mr. Jones and the farmers represent the loyalist Russians, the hen's revolt stands for the brutally suppressed 1921 mutiny of the sailors, Napolean's deal with Whymper represents Russia's 1922 Treaty ...
- 1913: Ku Klux Klan 3
- ... has gone through many eras and changes since its beginning. Although many people know the Ku Klux Klan exists, they do not understand its purpose or how it has changed throughout its life. After the Civil War ended, the Southern states went through a time known as Reconstruction. Ex-Confederate soldiers had returned home now, and they were still upset about the outcome of the war. It is at this point in time that the Ku Klux Klan became a part of everyday life for many Southerners. In the beginning the Ku Klux Klan was started to be a way ...
- 1914: The History of the Ku Klux Klan
- ... has gone through many eras and changes since its beginning. Although many people know the Ku Klux Klan exists, they do not understand its purpose or how it has changed throughout its life. After the Civil War ended, the Southern states went through a time known as Reconstruction. Ex-Confederate soldiers had returned home now, and they were still upset about the outcome of the war. It is at this point in time that the Ku Klux Klan became a part of everyday life for many Southerners. In the beginning the Ku Klux Klan was started to be a way ...
- 1915: Everyday Use
- ... oppression implied by the taking on of American names by black slaves. To her mother, the name "Dee" is symbolic of family unity; after all, she can trace it back to the time of the Civil War. To the mother, these names are significant because they belong to particular beloved individuals (Joy in a Common Setting 1). Dee's confusion about the meaning of her heritage also emerges in her attitude toward ... story's theme; in a sense, they represent the past of the women in the family. Worked on by two generations, they contain bits of fabric from even earlier eras, including a scrap of a Civil War uniform worn by Great Grandpa Ezra. The debate over how the quilts should be treated--used or hung on the wall--summarizes the black woman's dilemma about how to face the future ...
- 1916: The Emancipation Proclamation
- The Emancipation Proclamation The emancipation proclamation was issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War, declaring all "slaves within any State, or designated part of a State... then... in rebellion,... shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free." The states affected were enumerated in the proclamation; specifically exempted were slaves in parts of the South then held by Union armies. Lincoln's issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation marked a radical change in his policy. After out break of the Civil War, the slavery issue was made acute by the flight to Union lines of large numbers of slaves who volunteered to fight for there freedom and that of there fellow slaves. In these circumstances, ...
- 1917: The Slave Trade
- ... owner’s children were growing up in a hostile environment being taught from day one to hate blacks and only to see them as valuable property and not as people. It was not until the Civil War that the blacks had a chance at complete freedom. With the North winning, the United States of America finally abolished slavery once and for all. For many years after the war plantation owners would not submit. The hate towards blacks did not stop, however. All the way up to the late 1950’s blacks were not allowed the same rights as whites. Still today hatred ...
- 1918: Huck Finn
- ... 1800s. The adventures Huck Finn muddles into while floating down the Mississippi River depict many serious issues that occur on the "dry land of civilization" better known as society. As these somber events following the Civil War are told through the young eyes of Huckleberry Finn, he unknowingly develops morally from both the conforming and non-comforming influences surrounding him on his journey to freedom. Huck's moral evolution begins before he ... net of the Mississippi River. Though there were times when Huck made the wrong decision, the reader must realize that growing up is a trial-and-error. Society has come a long way since the Civil War, and it is important to realize that people like the characters, Jim and Huckleberry Finn, have made freedom accessible to all that need a harbor from the dry limits of society soil.
- 1919: The Constitution: Discord And Tension In 1850
- ... of the union, and no longer was an instrument of national unity. Although the compromises helped to solve the problem of the time, however they were delaying the inevitable and these helped lead to the Civil War The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 kept tempers hot in the North. It provided that state and city authorities and even plain citizens should assist in the capture and return of runaway slaves. It was ... failure of the union, and no longer was an instrument of national unity. Although the compromises helped solve the problems of the time, however, they were delaying the inevitable and these helped lead to the Civil War. Therefore, there were many leading key factors that helped to the “national and sectional” discord in our Constitution. These compromises had both its ups and downs but still managed to contribute to the ...
- 1920: Bill Of Rights
- ... no law...” Madison’s original draft had contained a proposal that would have also prohibited state governments from violating the Bill of Rights, but the Senate deleted it. (1) It was not until after the Civil War that the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments were enacted and began protecting individuals against the states. The Fourteenth Amendment has been the principal means by which this protection has been accomplished. It reads, in part ... and City Council of Baltimore, the Court ruled that the Bill of Rights could only be applied to strike down illegal actions taken by national government. (3) This interpretation was first seriously challenged after the Civil War, when the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted. Congressman John A. Bingham, the chief author of this Amendment, said that due process and equal protection clauses were intended to guard the rights of all citizens ...
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