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- 461: The Symbol Of The South
- ... have been best for the South to have won the war, but we should respect and uphold the men who fought so bravely for their cause. The mistaken idea that the Civil War was about slavery is one of the many causes that the flag's right to be above the capitol is questioned. This mistaken idea often causes problems between the races of this state. Slavery was wrong. I would never try to justify it, because it can not be justified. It was simply wrong, God made us all equal. A human being was never intended to be treated like an animal, animals even were not meant to be treated like slaves. Slavery is a sensitive area, but the flag does not reflect this. The war was about the South's right to make it's own laws, and to be free from the Union. There were ...
- 462: "I Do" or "Please Don't": Hawaii's Same Sex Marriages
- ... be." The gay rights' activists claim that this denial of love, in the form of marriage, is a form of discrimination. These gay rights' activists claim that this denial of love is similar to when slavery was being defended, women's voting rights were being denied, or even more specifically and more related, the anti-miscegenation laws of a few decades back. This is clearly an attempt at tugging at the ... nation's heart chords by comparing the struggle for same-sex unions to several notable, if not the most notable, equality struggles in the history of the United States. The comparison to the defense of slavery or the denial of women's voting rights by gay right's groups is simply unfounded. Homosexuality has never been considered morally "good," and it is a tremendous jump from saying that black-skinned people ... effect society. This also directly relates to interracial marriages because a person's skin color does not produce a certain effect on conduct or character. If polled at the time of the respective movement (anti-slavery, women's rights, or interracial marriages), a majority of the United States population would have supported the movements (population includes those who are directly involved), but in the United States today, over 2/3rds ...
- 463: The Mississippi River (huckleb
- ... runaway slave Jim. A cornerstone of Huck s maturity during the novel was the Mississippi River. This body of water reveals all that is wrong and ignorant in American society. The ignorance ranges anywhere from slavery to something as petty as a couple of small town swindlers. The Mississippi River was as routine as slavery and cotton plantations in this country s infancy;however, the significance of the Mississippi River cannot be measured, but it can be revealed. The majority of Americans take freedom for granted, and the only way ... now sees Jim as his best friend, not a nigger or a slave. The ignorance of American society during the early- to- mid nineteenth century is astounding. In the modern United States, the thought of slavery is almost extinct. Simple, everyday tasks for many were turned into highly scientific experiments for others. The thought of shooting cannons to find a dead body is preposterous thinking. Also, to think that a ...
- 464: Harper Lee: Introduction to Harper Lee
- ... background of its setting. The South in the colonial times grew into an area with large cotton plantations and small cities. Because of the necessity for cheap labor to pick and seed the cotton, Negro slavery took a strong hold there. At the outbreak of the American Revolution, there were over 500,000 slaves in this country, with by far the greatest number in the South. As time passed, plantation owners ... 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 treated Negroes with less kindness. There were two extremes. A few Southerners gave their slaves freedom, while others totally disregarded them. The Civil War brought slavery to an end, but created other, worse problems. The carpetbaggers who streamed into the South for political and economic gain aggravated the wounds which the war had opened. The Negro was caught in the ...
- 465: The Adventures Of Huckleberry
- ... benevolent and amiable man. It was not righteous that he should be hurt, but if Huck helped Jim run away, he would have to turn his back on his own people. He would be saying slavery, and everyone who believed in it, was wrong. Huck came to the decision to tell someone about Jim that will force him back into slavery. Soon enough they encountered two white men on a skiff. During this incident Huck perceived that his feelings to protect Jim were stronger than his feelings to turn him in. He lied when the men ... was like a father figure to Huck. As they spent more time with each other, their friendship grew stronger and stronger until Huck could sacrifice things for Jim. Mark Twain presented the terrible existence of slavery and gives the reader a big adventure in how a white can sacrifice so much for a slave to reach freedom.
- 466: Native Son: Bigger
- ... over local buildings during the Los Angeles Riots? Unfortunately the whole event does not seem as if it was too far off in the past. Although today we live in a nation, which has abolished slavery, the gap between the whites and the blacks during the early stages of America's development has plainly carried into the present. In Native Son, author Richard Wright illustrates this racial gap, in addition to ... subconscious depths of the final scene, the development of Bigger's self realization becomes evident. An entire period of Bigger's life, up until the murder of Mary Dalton, portrays him under a form of slavery, where the white society governs his state of being. While he worked for the Daltons, "his courage to live depended upon how successfully his fear was hidden from his consciousness"(44), and hate also builds ... only occur if Bigger's father was present, his family was not so impoverished, or even if he had maintained his job working honestly for the Daltons. To produce the "Bigger That Might Have Been," slavery should never have occurred!
- 467: Harriet Tubman
- ... the most famous abolitionists is Harriet Tubman. Her efforts in the Underground Railroad and in the Civil War strengthened the abolitionist movement by accomplishing the goal it was intended to do: free slaves and abolish slavery. (www.teleport.com p.4) Arminta Ross was born a slave in 1820 on a plantation in Dorchester County, Maryland. At age 6, she was considered old enough to work and her master, Edward Brodas ... life to visitors. On March 10, 1913, Harriet died of pneumonia. She was 93 years old. (www.incwell.com p.2) Harriet Tubman was a major influence on the Abolitionist Movement. She felt that if slavery was non-existent, then her past was really behind her and she could live her life as a free citizen of the United States. Harriet Tubman helped open the eyes of people all over America and helped them in understanding why slavery was immoral. (www.teleport.com p.4)
- 468: Following A Dream Toward Freedom
- ... the struggles we were put through to get these freedoms. Since I am a black woman my general knowledge of history tells me that the struggle for freedom was extremely great. Blacks had to endure slavery and go through wars to achieve their freedoms. Woman had to live in silence while the world was run without their say. To overcome this they created woman's suffrage and woman's rights acts ... the things they went through to give me the luxuries I have today. But what if they didn't? What if we were still having to fight wars for our freedoms? I often wonder what slavery would be like? Looking in todays society slavery is still the same nightmare it was then. People in South Africa and Iran wake to this same nightmare everyday. They have no personal rights or freedoms at all. Everyday they live in fear ...
- 469: Pride And Perseverance
- ... to overcome the obstacles they fought in daily life. The slave narratives show us an in-depth illustration of pride helping to overcome one's struggle. For years and years we have heard stories about slavery and they are usually all negative, but in excerpts from "To My Old Master," "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl," and "The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass," each of these slaves ... New York in search of her the last place he would look would be right on her families own property. In "The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave," the accounts with slavery had to be the worst of all three narratives I read. During Frederick's life under Mr. Covey, he was beaten many times. "Mr. Covey had acquired a very high reputation for breaking young slaves ... a slave for four years after his battle with Covey, and although he had several fights, he was never severely whipped again. While reading these narratives, especially the last one, it made me think about slavery and the struggle these people had to go through. It is hard for me to grasp the idea of being enslaved to someone else, or being severely beaten for not doing as one is ...
- 470: The Color Purple
- ... for the introduction of a second model, "historical and empirical data" in representing the real world of The Color Purple. As illustrated in the pages of American history books, it is evident that American Negro slavery had a peculiar combination of features. The key features of American slavery were that it followed racial or color lines and that it was slavery in a democratic country (Sowell 4). The fact that it existed in a democratic country meant that it required some extraordinary rationale to reconcile it with the prevailing values of the nation. Racism was ...
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