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U.S. Civil War and Major Political Figures

not assumed principal position during this, the bloodiest fight of the entire American Civil War. "Lee hoped an invasion would fu...

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

The turning point for the American Civil War was the Battle of Gettysburg, one conflict of many that stood out as instrumental in ...

Critical Biography King by David Lewis

and sufficient material for a book. Despite his earlier assessment of King, Lewis did decide to write the book. It would be a jour...

'The Wall' by Jean Paul Sartre and Existential Writing

matters since, as is shown by the plight of the hapless and rabbity Juan, the authorities are prepared to execute people for littl...

Internet Research on 1996's The Communication Decency Act

the World Wide Web. In some cases the information required is easy to locate - in this instance, for example, the CDA is a popular...

Nationalist Success and the Spanish Civil War

In the following paper we examine this assumption, providing historical information concerning the foreign allies, eventually argu...

Civil Disobedience Perspectives of Leo Tolstoy and Mahatma Gandhi

In eight pages this paper compares the approaches to civil disobedience by Mahatma Gandhi and Leo Tolstoy noting various differenc...

Post 9 11 and Civil Rights

accident. Of course, China tells almost the opposite story. One wonders then how much propaganda is being disseminated. During a t...

War and Ernest Hemingway

World War II battles in Across the River and into the Trees, this knowledge came from research and not from Hemingways personal wa...

Ethics, Eco Sabotage and Civil Disobedience

for their own activities. Mankind all too often, in fact, views wilderness is something to be constrained and tamed. This is tru...

U.S. Civil War Reconstruction and Freedmen

noble the goals of the Freedmens Bureau, however, the war-ravaged South was not in any shape to support its efforts. The e...

Civil Rights Movement and Exodus Theme

the slavery imposed upon the Hebrews and the social slavery imposed upon supposedly "free" African Americans were both forms of ri...

Co. Aytch by Samuel Watkins

was taken prisoner three times, and escaped three times. He was grazed or hit by Yankee bullets on numerous occasions, and once, h...

American Slavery

boil over, and no attempts to quell this surging rage would have proven effective at averting what was to inevitably follow. ...

Civil Rights Movement and the Involvement of Martin Luther King Jr.

possessed. But, these opportunities and these rights were more difficult for them to obtain than the average white person. They co...

Civil Rights and Law Enforcement

loopholes that allowed law enforcement officials to turn the other way during a white-on-black lynching), stories such as Janes we...

Canada, Ethics, and Cheating

cheat. They cheat with timesheets, for example, as well as cheat on financial statements which might include a deduction for a bus...

United States During the 1860s

also making it unique in history. Although names such as "War Between the States" and "War of Rebellion" are more accurate (Civil ...

Deborah Gray White's Aren't I a Woman?

sub-human and not capable of sharing the same type of human fears and emotions as true human beings. The assurance of inferiority ...

Democracy According to Socrates and Henry David Thoreau

pleas, Socrates will not hear of any escape plans. He points out that, even though the sentence was unjust, it was perfectly legal...

Morris County, New Jersey's Civil War Contributions

a Northern state that had Southern sympathies during the war ("Jersey," 1994). He describes the border state status as the product...

Ending Slavery with the Civil War

was overthrown by the election of Abraham Lincoln, aristocrats in the South refused to accept the public will (1999). Southerners...

Character Analysis of Robert Jordan in For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

unusual. The Spanish Civil War quickly became infiltrated by foreign intervention on both sides, and indeed has been likened to a ...

Karl Marx's Predictions and America After the Civil War

of the intelligensia of the period to realize that the revolution would, by definition, evolve from the most non-urbanized corners...

Civil Rights Movement and Its Origins

We would be living in Utopia, Nirvana, Serendipity or some other mythical place of perfection were it possible for that principle ...

Philosophy, Art and Literature During the Time of the Civil War

the post-Civil War period, which was one of unprecedented patronage for the arts from government and private sources, produced wor...

Life and Poetic Art of Walt Whitman

to Whitmans own estimates, he aided over 100,000 soldiers during this period, many of whom became his devoted friends (Valiumas 70...

Civil Rights Movement and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

2002). In the wake of the bus boycott launched by black residents in 1955 in response to the Rosa Parks incident on a Montgomery c...

America's Civil War, Literature, and Art

North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...

Slavery Reactions of Black Women

white freedom and black slavery. The link between whites and blacks would change considerably between the arrival of those first ...