Abraham Van Helsing

Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, a speech delivered on March 4th, 1865, addressed the hostilities among a divided nation. In this speech Lincoln demanded that both the North and the South to put aside the divided conflict and reconcile in order to heal the wound of the divided nation. This speech did not honor the North for their victory of the Civil War, nor did it blame the South for causing the war due to their views on slavery; which was believed to be the cause of the nation’s…

Freedom is an important idea. It is a common goal for everyone at some point. “For to be free is not merely to cost of one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enchanges the freedom at others” (Nelson Mandela). Freedom is hard to achieve at times but if you really want it, you will fight for it. If not you will just have to wait until it comes to you, that is if it can. The names of the narratives are “A True Story. Repeated Word for Word as I Heard it.” By Mark Twain, My Bondage And…

In the late nineteenth century, America faced one of its biggest downfalls as the Confederates separated themselves from the Union. Tension grew within the country and the Civil War erupted. One major reason why this war began was because the Confederates wanted slavery, and the Union did not. The people who opposed slavery were called abolitionists and they were found throughout the United States. One of the most famous abolitionists was Frederick Douglass. Douglass was a politician, lecturer,…

Abraham Lincoln is known as the president that brought Slavery in America to its deathbed. Frederick Douglass is known as a leading voice in the abolitionist movement. These two heroes of history have been studied tremendously by historians analyzing the impact they have had on our nation’s history. However, many people have not taken the time to connect the dots of history, connecting each character of history with another. That is what James Oakes has done with his book “The Radical and the…

Whitman is a brief poem about the murder of the sixteenth president of the United State, Abraham Lincoln. Mr. Whitman witnessed one of his idols win one of the most significant wars in history that caused many casualties and fatalities; The Civil War. Such an event caused for celebration despite the amount of blood shed, however, a few days after the war ended the beloved president was assassinated. Abraham Lincoln could no longer see the pride and joy the nation felt thanks to his leadership.…

America and politically for Abraham Lincoln. The Civil War, a loss of so many American lives, was coming to an end, but at an incredible cost. The U.S. Congress approved the Thirteenth Amendment to abolish slavery. However, this act caused the assassination of President Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth after the end of the war on April 14, 1865. In May, the remaining Confederate forces surrendered. The estimated total casualties were 620,000 American deaths. President Abraham Lincoln’s Second…

President Abraham Lincoln I am doing my research paper on the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. I am going to tell you a little bit why and how the President was assassinated was it because of his goodness or was it because he tried to abolish slavery. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by a man named “John Wilkes Booth”. Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president of the United States and the president had a wife and one son their names are Mary Todd Lincoln and Robert Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln…

published in 1854 and was allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within the new state’s borders. This was an unfair act because it failed to end slavery, when apparently it was supposed to end slavery. Finally, Abraham Lincoln was the biggest political difference from the South. Abe was elected in 1860 and was the 16th president of the United States. Lincoln was a republican born in the North meaning that he was anti-slavery. Southerners were completely…

When Mencken asserts his claim that the average man will choose safety over freedom, it can be backed by proven psychologist’s and biologist’s theories. According to Abraham Maslow, the "father of humanistic psychology," there is a hierarchy of needs illustrated by a pyramid that demonstrates the path to self-actualization, and declaring one cannot move to the next tier without fulfilling the previous one. The first tier…

The Constitution of the United States is made up of twenty-seven amendments. The purposes of the amendments are to make a change to the Constitution. An amendment is added to the Constitution to make a change to an older amendment. An amendment can also overturn a previous amendment. To add or remove an amendment to the Constitution, the amendment has to be passed through the congress. In congress it can be passed with a two-thirds vote, meaning two out of the three accept the new or changed…