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- 2601: The Different Conceptions of the Veil in The Souls of Black Folk
- ... B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (New York: Bantam Company, 1989) 3. Footnote2 Ibid., 6. Footnote3 Arnold Rampersad, Slavery and the literary imagination: Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk (Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1989) 104-125. Rampersad in his book says that Du Bois's metaphor of the veil is an allusion to Saint Paul's letter to the Corinthians. Footnote4 W.E.B. Du ...
- 2602: Civil War - The War Of Northern Aggression
- ... or white slaves (Kennedy 123, 124). He wrote once, "...[I] fight...to sustain a Government...independent of niggers, cotton, money, or any earthly interest" (Kennedy 291). He wasn’t the only racist general though. General John Pope wrote, "It is my purpose to utterly exterminate the Sioux." Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant was also in on the havoc & chaos. He wrote in 1864, "In pushing up the Shenandoah Valley...it is ...
- 2603: Comparison Of Colonies
- ... pledging that they would set up a theocracy, a political system headed by the clergy. In the compact, they also pledged loyalty to support and follow England. Seven years later, the Massachusetts Bay Company, under John Winthrope, coming for economic and religious reasons, set up a general court. This type of government started with 18 elected freemen, or white, male, wealthy, land-owning puritans. This government had many problems. The fact ...
- 2604: Cultural Revolution Of The 1920s
- ... the "old" and the "new" generations. The 1920's were no exception. In Dayton, Tennessee, 1925, a high school biology teacher was arrested. He was arrested because he taught the theory of evolution. The teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of having violated the Butler Act. This was a Tennessee law that forbade the teaching of the theory of evolution in public schools. The Tennessee legislature felt that teaching evolution was ...
- 2605: The Witching Hour
- ... revolve around perception and perspective. I wish to continue this saga with "Lasher", although I am going to take a brake from Rice, and I'm in the process of choosing between "Exit to Eden" (John Steinbeck) and something from Edgar Allan Poe.
- 2606: To Kill A Mockingbird: The Theme of Prejudice
- ... there's been some high talk around town to the effect that I shouldn't do much about defending this man. It's a peculiar case- it won't come to trial until summer session. John Taylor was kind enough to give us a postponement..." "If you shouldn't be defendin' him, then why are you doin' it?" "For a number of reasons," said Atticus. "The main one is, if I ...
- 2607: The Satire of Jonathan Swift Revealed
- ... mankind today. Despite all the self acclaimed advances in civilization and technology, we are still merely human; suffering from the same forces and flaws, impulses and imperfections as everyone else. Works Cited McKendrick, Neil. Brewer, John. Plumb, J.H. The Birth of a Consumer Society, Indiana Universtiy Press, Great Britan, 1982. Swift, Jonathan. "Gulliver's Travels". Norton Anthology of English Literature. 6th Ed. M.H. Abrams, vol.1, New York: Norton ...
- 2608: Drinking And Driving Offences
- ... Government Document, Canada Law Reform Commision Report on Investigative Tests: Aclohol, Drugs, and Driving Offences (1983). Erwin,Richard E. M.Bender ,Defence of Drunk Driving Cases, Criminal Civil (Albany 1986) p.79-81 Purich, Donald John, Drinking and Driving:What To Do If Your Caught (International Self Counsel Pr. 1978) p.22-25 Verticle File at Hill Crest Library, Drinking and Driving-Offences ands penalties:A Summary (1988) p.2 Verticle ...
- 2609: The Crucible: The Evil of Fear
- ... witches have with the Devil, and he knows the court is too. Later, Hale's views on the courts change and he becomes less obedient to it's decisions. When the judge finds out that John Proctor, an accused witch, plows on the Sabbath, he becomes disgusted; but Hale questions his authority. "Your Honor, I cannot think that you may judge the man on such evidence." (p.78) Hale is slowly ...
- 2610: Education And Egalitarianism In America
- ... century, the ideas of such men as Rousseau, Pestalozzi, Froebel, and, in the United States, Francis W. Parker (1837-1902) had caused little more than rumblings beneath the floor of the traditional schoolhouse. Because of John Dewey (1859-1952), they gathered force, and in the 1920s and 1930s new and old ideas collided right in the middle of the classroom. Some of the schools, where neat rows of subdued children had ...
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