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- 461: To Kill A Mockingbird
- ... novel are the following: (1) National events: This novel focuses on the role of the Negro in Southern life, a life with which Miss Lee has been intimately associated. Although it does not deal with civil rights as such - for example, the right to vote - it is greatly concerned with the problem of human dignity - dignity based on individual merit, not racial origin. The bigotry of the characters in this novel ... formed a landed aristocracy. The Negroes, though slaves, gained a measure of economic security. On the perimeter of this were the poorer white farmers who either owned small pieces of land or worked as sharecroppers. Civil War With the invention of machines like the cotton gin, that could do the work of many men, the need for slaves began to decrease. The profitability of slavery also decreased, and plantation owners often ...
- 462: Republicans! Unfavorable Acts Caused The Rise of The KKK
- Republicans! Unfavorable Acts Caused The Rise of The KKK The years after the civil war were frustrating times for the Americans. New laws and rules were posted for which to abide by and due to the outcome of the civil war, the people from the south had now to accept the new slavery laws issued by the political parties and congress. This created turmoil amongst both northerners, who mostly were against slavery, and southerners. ...
- 463: The Fall of South Vietnam Controversy
- ... involvement of Southerners in the conflict (Lens 97). The United States should have followed a strategy of surprise and massed strength at decisive points against North Vietnam to help the South Vietnamese government win the war. The government, in its pronouncements, spoke of success and light at the end of the tunnel, but continued to dispatch additional troops while casualties mounted steadily (Dougan and Fulghum 127). The Johnson administration had never expected to become engaged in a protracted ground war on such a scale, and even when the involvement deepened it attempted to keep the war limited, a war without full mobilization of the home front and without a hated enemy (Veninga and Wilmer 18). President Johnson is said to have rejected the view of some of his advisers that ...
- 464: Art
- ... love for nature and beauty. Before, their painting would contain feelings of angst and bitterness. As time progressed, the good times were limited by many wars and hostile grounds. In 1250 BC, during the Trojan war, the minoins developed a new form of monumental art to mark the graves of the numerous dead The size and function of these vases brought them closer to sculpture than most pottery. These monumental vases ... in free standing sculptures. Life size statues were created for the first time, most of these, including the famous Kouros and Kritos boy, stand with one foot forward, as if they were heading off to war. Artists put into their pictures our common hopes, ideals, dreams and passions and show us their meaning and value concerning issues surrounding the times. Creators in all the arts make fascinating discoveries about the wonders ... were signaled. These periods of expression were merely buildups to the advanced movements and rapid changes of the art in the twentieth century. Even before the triggering point of the times- being the first world war, many post war artists became engrossed in highly personalized interpretations- antibiotics, computerization, electronic transistors and the prospects of an atomic world. A brief feminist movement became a passionate cause for some, combining feelings with ...
- 465: World War I
- World War I World War I was the first major war that included a country from almost every part of the world. It was the second bloodiest war second only to W.W.II. The greatest destruction that humankind had ever previously experienced began on ...
- 466: The Effect of Militancy In the British Suffragette Movement
- ... campaign for women's rights and, especially, women's voting rights. Although these extreme measures in the short term delayed the implementation of women's suffrage, combined with the increased respect women received during World War I, the passionate protests actually helped ensure the granting of suffrage to women in Great Britain in January of 1918. The struggle for women's equality in Great Britain started long before the turn of ... movement both severely increased its militancy (they issued a statement declaring that "as the Prime Minister will not give us the assurance that women shall be enfranchised next year, we revert to a state of war"22) and began to lose public support. The actions the WSPU now undertook were specifically done to ensure publicity. Both public and private property were destroyed, intending a call on the the insurance companies of ... was to grant women the vote, and the more firmly Parliament stood on the issue of suffrage, the more violent and desperate the suffragettes became. However, the stalemate did not last long; in 1914, World War I interrupted the women's suffrage movement. As in most countries, the women of Great Britain took the jobs the soldiers left behind. Pankhurst and the WSPU patriotically suspended all militancy during the war, ...
- 467: Slave Ownership In The Southern United States
- ... the white heads of families were slave owners, and even in the cotton states the proportion was less than one-third;" "in 1850, only one in three owned any Negroes; on the eve of the Civil War, the ration was one in four;" and slave owners "probably made up less than a third of southern whites." From the US History textbooks in an elementary school to the Civil War journals of a major university, these lines are reprinted and repeated in an attempt to shape the perception of the public and to ease the insecurities of a nation embarrassed by slavery, an ...
- 468: Ernest Hemmingway
- ... world. Some of these short stories had just as powerful an impact as his novels. As a young man, Hemingway left from his hometown to Europe, where he worked for the Red Cross during World War I. His time spent there inspired him to write some of his most famous novels. Most of which spoke of the horrors of the war (Benson xi). Hemingway's short stories, "Soldier's Home" and "Another Country" are used to show the damaging psychological and physical effects of World War I. Hemingway knew first hand the horrors of war. In May of 1918, Hemingway became an honorary second lieutenant in the Red Cross, but could not join the army because he had a defective ...
- 469: The Things They Carried By Tim
- Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried is not a novel about the Vietnam War. It is a story about the soldiers and their experiences and emotions that are brought about from the war. O'Brien makes several statements about war through these dynamic characters. He shows the violent nature of soldiers under the pressures of war, he makes an effective antiwar statement, and he comments on the reversal of a social deviation into the ...
- 470: Racism and the Ku Klux Klan
- ... the actions of the Klan b. the incidents the Klan made all over the United States The Ku Klux Klan is the oldest living group in this country. Ever since the Reconstruction started after the Civil War, a group called the Ku Klux Klan was formed to prevent other races from interfering with the white race. The Klan wants the white race to take over the land of the U.S and save it from the immigrants. The Klan originated in the southeastern states during the Reconstruction after the Civil War. The birthplace of the Klan was in the state of Tennessee, in a small town called Pulaski. Pulaski is the capital of Giles County, located in the middle of southeastern Tennessee. It had ...
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