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Firebrand of Liberty

the coast of Georgia and Florida under Colonel Oliver T. Beards command (Kennington, 2009). Their expedition, and raids, proved su...

"Letter from the Birmingham City Jail," and Martin Luther KIng's Concepts of Just, Unjust, and Morality

or supports the individual personality is just; anything disrespectful or degrading is unjust (274). Himself a contempora...

Crane and Bierce

notes the following: "He wondered why he did not feel some keen agony of fear cutting his sense like a knife. He wondered at this,...

The Compromise of 1850 and the Dred Scott Case

was introduced and defeated; it would have "prohibited slavery in the newly-acquired territories" (Compromise of 1850, 2009). The ...

Uncle Tom’s Cabin as Protest Literature

and takes him to New Orleans (Stowe). Tom and Eva become very close because of their devout Christianity (Stowe). In the parallel...

Blacks in Uniform in the American Civil War

mistresses to look after them."4 As noted, some blacks did believe this and fought for the South, an unsettling idea at best; but ...

The Ousting of King Leopold

promote awareness of the atrocities occurring in these compounds. Like Williams, Sheppard spent 20 years in and around the Congo F...

Maya Deren and the Shadow Self

on the table with a knife still perched within it, a telephone off the hook on the stairs, as if someone is on hold. Her mind imme...

Resistance Movements During World War II

which to organize effective resistance in conquered countries. However, after their initial success, the policies instituted by th...

The Concept of an Efficient Market

of evidence for investment managers and investors gaining consistent above average profits, there is evidence that abnormal return...

Blacks and Their History as Guided by Reconstruction

equality to all its citizens. Historians have argued that the U.S. was doomed to fight the Civil War when it wrote a Constitution...

Mona Lisa and the Renaissance Humanistic School of Thought

drudgery, disease and misery of the Middle Ages. The Hundred Years War and the plague marked the end of this period, and as Europe...

Diversification at Phelps Dodge

felt when the price of copper rises. Question 2 Diversification is one of the possible routes to minimising the risk asso...

Reform in the Early 19th Century

to help the disadvantaged had to be public and systematic, rather than the private efforts then underway (Faragher et al, 2000). ...

Our Fondness for the Civil War

the Civil War. Those that supported the Civil War justified it on a number of grounds. Many even did so in religious terms, hai...

The Missouri Theater Warfare at Wilson’s Creek

The American Civil War shook our nation like it had never been shaken before. It was a time...

Women's Struggle in the Workplace

were once again going to work for their country (not for themselves). It was during this war that women started working in the arm...

The Militant Movement in the Fight for Women’s Votes

also one that had the potential to be misleading (Smith). The political stance of both the WSPU and NUWSS was to gain votes equal...

The Impact of Changing Credit Rating on Equity Prices

the measures are not a precise measure of the risk of default that a firm presents, but they are used as a standardised measure ag...

BS Ltd Ratio Analysis

of scope and scale which are likely to be available to many of the larger organizations (Nellis and Parker, 2006). The oper...

The Stonewall Riots

and boundaries or the actual physical contact among its members, but by the mental image of affinity," which he associated with "t...

Comparing DuBois and Baldwin in Early African American Literature

of history. The text is certainly auto-biographical in nature, but it frequently delves into historical and sociological topics su...

Slavery A Precipitating Factor in the Civil War

While it certainly wasnt the only reason, slavery...

Improving America's Democratic Government

in society and in the courts. The failure to do so has allowed injustices and inequities that have persisted since the founding t...

Fuel Hedging and Airlines - Are the costs Greater than the Benefits?

questions to be addressed with the research is to assess whether or not it is in the interests of the shareholders, assuming they ...

Historians' Unending Perpetuation of the Memory of the Civil War

about battle strategy or about the lives of those that fought the war. On the surface at least it is about the impact the war has...

No Civil War: a Retrospective

choice. There were very few people left who believed in the old slave system at that time. If the North had not brought the war to...

Homegrown Terrorists: The South During Reconstruction

War, more than 3,000 freed blacks were murdered by Southern terrorist organizations. In the mythology of the "lost cause" and the ...

The Feminist Movement and Criminology

Liberal feminism is characterized by operating with existing social structures to accomplish its goal or illuminating womens probl...

The Military and Civilian Control

In relationship to the possible dangers of having the military in charge of their own decisions it is noted how, "In the early...