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- 491: KKK
- ... example of this is the southern-based organization called the Ku Klux Klan. Immediately following the Civil War, this group came about during the Reconstruction Era. Because of the ratification of the 13th amendment, ending slavery in the south, the KKK emerged with a cause that has yet to be put to rest
the rise of white power. Although slavery was abolished, racism was not. Because the government had started recognizing African Americans as more than just slaves, the Klan decided they would have to take matters into their own hands. They felt extremely betrayed ...
- 492: African Diaspora
- By: Andrew Wright The study of cultures in the African Diaspora is relatively young. Slavery and the trans-Atlantic slave trade brought numerous Africans, under forced and brutal conditions, to the New World. Of particular interest to many recent historians and Africanists is the extent to which Africans were able ... from accounts of early slave cultures and the Anthropological background provided by Thornton on cultural transformation and change persuasive in suggesting the formation of Afro- American rather than "Afro-centric" communities. This approach to the slavery and the slave era is relatively young and will have to be developed. A conclusion that is clear after studying works of Peter Wood, Gwendolyn Hall and Richard Price, is that the early arguments suggesting ...
- 493: Maggie A Girl of the Streets and Puddnhead Wilson
- ... was realized who was really who and the mistake was returned to normal. Roxy, the mother in Puddnhead Wilson was first seen as a hero in the book. She saved her own child from slavery and put her masters child into it. This idea does not work out and son grows up beating her and whipping her. Her son turns into the laughing stock of the town. According to the ... her son keeps being thrown back in her face, finally she threatens him with his gambling debt and his true identity. Tom pleads her to not tell, Roxy agrees and volunteers to sell herself to slavery so Tom can get out of debt. The plan is after one year Tom will have enough money to buy Roxy back. This also shows how naive Roxy is. She trusts her son to buy ...
- 494: Life Of Fredrick Douglass
- ... age. Douglass was born to a black mother and a white father, who he believed was his master (Douglass 19). By secretly studying books, Douglass learned to read a crime punishable by death. He escaped slavery when he was barely an adult and wrote the story of his life and how discrimination affected it. Not only is discrimination the theme of Douglass novel, it is also the cause of his horrible condition. In his autobiography he claims he was made to drink the bitterest dregs of slavery (73). Throughout the novel Douglass never encounters a slave who is not black. Why am I a slave, Douglass asks (Douglass 73). This is surely a question asked by every victim of prejudice. Another piece ...
- 495: Hosea
- ... they earnestly seek him out. In chapter 11 God capsulizes Israel's sins and his judgment against the people. He describes how he chose the Israelites as His people and how he delivered them from slavery in Egypt. During this dissertation he has a change of heart and decides he will not destroy the nation Israel even if they turn from Him. He decides he will force Israel to repent by ... of Baal has angered God. God intercedes and reminds the nation Israel that they should acknowledge no other God besides Himself. He also restates the exodus epic and how He led the nation Israel from slavery and saved them in the desert. He then goes on to describe an east wind that will destroy their crops and dry up their wells. The final chapter of Hosea describes how God will save ...
- 496: Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead"
- ... misery and frustration. The fool refuses to accept that, ' Where there's sacrefice, there is some one collecting sacreficial offerings,' and, Where there is service, there is some one being served.' Ultimately, this ties into slavery, and worst yet, its self slavery. Keating flows through a transition of vanity, fame, lies, flatter, and eventually guilt. He lacks the essential of self respect. A person without self respect lives in insecurity, holding a bomb that has no control ...
- 497: Moral Development in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Great Gatsby
- ... the narrator is distinctly seen as time progresses. Through this moral development he is able to bring out the reality of freedom, which Jim possessed as a dream. Huck accepts the society's view of slavery, at first, even though he traveled with a run- away slave. The society's view of slavery is that all slaves are part animal, and should be treated like one, therefore they are worthless; Huck accepts this at first, but then when he runs away, he is caught up with Jim, a ...
- 498: Liberalism: Hervert Spencer
- ... what they had originally been. Therefore, the English Conservative would become the party of economic individualism and free enterprise, whereas the Liberals would accept public control of the economy. The second essay is The Coming Slavery. In it, Spencer refocus on the necessity that the laws of the society must not be interfered with the beneficent process of the survival of the fittest, and that interference with natural selection lowers the ... state will take care of them, and therefore, they lose the spirit of initiative and enterprise. Spencer predicted that social-welfare programs would lead to socialization of the means of production, and all socialism is slavery. Spencer defines a slave as a person who labors under coercion to satisfy another s desires. Under socialism or communism the individual would be enslaved to the whole community rather than to a single master ...
- 499: Rollin Down the River: The Uniting of Theme and Plot in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- ... is somewhat surprising that Huck's traveling companion is Jim. As anti- society that Huck is, you would think that he would have no qualms about helping Jim. But Huck has to have feelings that slavery is correct so we can see the ignorance of racial bigotry. Huck and Jim's journey begins as Huck fights within himself about turning Jim over to the authorities. Finally he decides not to turn ... property. He is a human being with feelings, and hopes for a better future. He is not some ignorant, uncaring sub-human, but plainly the opposite. Twain does not necessarily come out and say that slavery is evil, that is far above Huck's understanding, but he gives us the ammunition needed to make that decision for ourselves. Huck and Jim's adventures give us a chance to examine the society ...
- 500: The Adventures Of Huckleberry
- ... feelings and hate almost no longer exist. These changes can be attributed to the education people now have by reading such novels as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain addresses these issues of racism, slavery and education in a humorous, almost childish way, yet the effective themes are clearly visible. Twain utilizes Huck Finn and Jim as the ideal characters because they are the ones at the end of the novel who realize slavery is wrong. Mark Twain establishes the ideals by portraying them through the protagonists and criticizes the failure to live up to them by portraying them through the antagonists. Prejudice can be observed throughout the novel ...
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