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- 3551: Immigration
- December 11, 2000 Immigration In the decades following the Civil War, the United States emerged as an industrial giant. Old industries expanded and many new ones, including petroleum refining, steel manufacturing, and electrical power, emerged. Railroads expanded significantly, bringing even remote parts of the country into ...
- 3552: Transformation Power of Love
- ... had worn fifty and more years ago. Bits and pieces of Grandpa Jarrells Paisley shirts. And one teeny faded blue piece
tat was from Great Grandpa Ezras uniform that he wore in the Civil War. So these quilts, which have become an heirloom, not only represent the family, but are an integral part of it. Dee on the other hand coverts the quilts for their financial and aesthetic value. But ...
- 3553: Mark Twain: Early American Subversive?
- ... where books and libraries were banned, confiscated and destroyed. History was to be rewritten glorifying the conquest of foreign lands. Twain's views were shaped by expansion of the American empire during the Philippine-American War, and the suppression of dissent by the US Goverment. For more than ten years he opposed the war and American imperialism. As the president of the Anti-Imperialist League, he was an outspoken critic. From 1900 until shortly before his death, he expressed this opposition in numerous essays, stories, letters and speeches. Twain ... s writings provide a good reference for understanding the contours of the public debate over imperialism. Today, as works of original debate, they still retain political significance. Suppressed during WW1 and debated during the Cold War, they provide a rare glimpse of how the history of imperialism was suppressed And more importantly how Americans became mis-educated about their government's historical role in the world. Mark Twain's anti- ...
- 3554: The House on Bluestone Road
- ... nothing but playing, eating, and shopping. Until one day, there is abosolutely nothing to eat, and Denver and Sethe are straving to death although Beloved seems more than healthy. In the troubled years following the Civil War, the spirit of a murdered child haunts the Ohio home of a former slave. This angry, destructive ghost breaks mirrors, leaves its fingerprints in cake icing, and generally makes life difficult for Sethe and her ...
- 3555: Hera
- ... and forced him to disgorge his other brothers and sisters. Hera was entrusted to Ocaenus and Tethys, by Rhea, to be raised while Zeus struggled with the Titans. Hera later returned after Zeus won the war. Zeus and Hera got married on the summit of Mount. Ida in Phrygia. Together they were the parents of; Ares the god of war, Hephaetus the god of fire and metal work, Hebe the goddess of youth, and Elithyia the goddess of child birth. Ares was unpopular with both gods and humans. Although he was fierce and war like, Ares was not invincible even against mortals. Hephaetus was lame and awkward looking. Hera was so repelled by his looks, shortly after his birth he was cast out of Olympus. Later in life ...
- 3556: Romulus and Remus
- ... as a vestal virgin, serving in the temple of Venus, goddess of the hearth. Nevertheless, Rhea subsequently gave birth to twin boys, Romulus and Remus. Their father was not a man, but Mars, god of war. When Amulius found out what had happened, he slew Rhea Silvia and had the two boys thrown into the Tiber River. The river bore the twins safely ashore, where they were found by a she ... still no women. So Romulus organized some games and invited his neighbours, the Sabines. While the Sabine men were enjoying themselves, he and his men carried off many of the Sabine women to Rome. Bloody war followed, but eventually the women themselves stopped the fighting, begging their new husbands and their fathers not to slaughter themselves needlessly. Romulus, the founder of Rome, was not to be its earthly ruler for very ... oversaw the rise, and fall, of the great nation he had founded. According to legend, the city of Rome was founded in 753 BC by Romulus, who was the son of Mars, the god of war, and Rhea Silvia, a human. The city, set on seven hills, was probably occupied during the Bronze Age, but appears in history in the 8th century BC. The Romulus legend seems to have originated ...
- 3557: Joan of Arc Was A Saint
- ... Joan the Maid, daughter of God (Beevers 23). Who was this young girl, who at seventeen led the French army to a victorious battle at Orlιans, ultimately causing the French to win the Hundred Years War? Why was she canonized and pronounced a saint after her death? Her life and death have been the subject of controversy and debate ever since they occurred (Matterer 1). There are those who believe that ... wavered. She overcame the handicaps of her youth, her sex, her lowly station, her ignorance, and advanced without fear or hesitation toward her goal. She left home and parents, entered the rough, harsh world of war and politics, imposed her will on a vacillating, uncertain king, won victories in the field, suffered capture, rigorous imprisonment, trial and death all in cheerful, willing obedience to the words of God. (189) Joan of ... her otherwise. Her divine inspiration and guidance led her to become the force that she truly was. She, with the help of her voices, became the major fulcrum in the effects of the Hundred Years War. In doing so, she also brought many people, both English and French, closer to God. That was her calling, that was her life; it was the life of Joan La Pucelle a saint. Works ...
- 3558: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- ... Black America down. The government kicked them off the high horse to the ground, and as a Black Nation we jumped back on the saddle and rode on to victory. Dr. King started with the Civil Rights Movement, and from there he kept on going. This movement started with a phone call about Rosa Parks being arrested for not surrendering her seat to a white bus rider. King and other leaders ... won national sympathy and support for the Black community. This was the strategy that the leaders used in order to show the vicious attacks on televisions. This was also the last mass demonstration of the Civil Rights Movement. The non-violent direct action approach is responsible for many of the charges affecting the status of Southern Negroes. Looking at this march, Kings nonviolent approach worked. It got him the media s ... the march from Selma to Montgomery. I once again question: Is it really worth it? I ask myself. King has had a reputation as a savior and a great leader in the cause for the Civil Rights. Out of all the Black leaders of his time he was probably the only one that white people claim to love as much as blacks. King was one of the greatest leaders in ...
- 3559: Simone Debeauvoir The Second S
- ... class women who gives herself to a chauffeur or a gardener loses caste. The savagely racist American men of the south have always been permitted by the mores to sleep with black women, before the Civil War as today, and they make use of this right with a lordly arrogance; but a white woman who had commerce with a black in slavery days would have been put to death, and today she ...
- 3560: The JFK Assassination: Conspiracy or Single-Gunman?
- The JFK Assassination: Conspiracy or Single-Gunman? Adolf Hitler, the Nazi dictator of Germany during World War II, once said, "The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it." Although this may sound ludicrous, we can see many example of this in the world's history. One example would have to ... one on the Zapruder film.) Lastly, one has to consider what the biggest motives would be to kill the President. One motive has to deal with President Kennedy trying to get out of Vietnam. This war was the biggest business in America at the time. It brought in over eighty billion dollars a year. Thus, since the President was trying to get out of the war, he would have been costing business men a lot of money. Also, vice-president Johnson would have profited a lot because he was the next to become president. Thus, people, including the vice-president, ...
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