Abraham Van Helsing

Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a novel that helped lay the foundation for the civil war. In Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author seeked to communicate to the readers that slavery is inhumane and should be abolished. The author does this by using the slave’s personal incidents, religion, and key characters. Stowe looks to communicate to her audience that slavery is morally wrong by using the slave’s personal incidents along with the way masters treated them, in which many cases they were…

In the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe is trying to communicate with the North/Union how slaves are treated and the different things that happen to slaves all the time in the south. The book was created to show the people of the north a better visual of how slavery is dealt with and controlled in the south. And she explains to the Union how slavery in the south is by giving the north stories and first person experiences of how slaves are treated great on one plantation and, how…

In her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the author Harriet Beecher Stowe accurately showed her readership her reasoning for advocating for the abolition of slavery by illustrating the heartlessness of slaveowners, the immorality of slavery under Christianity, and the wrongful stereotyping of slaves in this time period. Stowe showed her readers a more intimate view on how horribly slaves were treated by illustrating how rude and absolutley heartless slaveowners could be. In this time period, even some…

Daniel Webster Defining his standing for his intent for the future of the Union with “Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!”, Daniel Webster spoke for what would become the Compromise of 1850 (Kennedy 59). A legislature that would preserve the peace between the northern free states and the southern slave states, Webster risked his reputation, political career and his followers support for preservation of the Union. He believed that the Union was more important than himself,…

Hacksaw Ridge is a real-life inspired movie about the story of America’s first conscientious objector who received the Medal of Honor; Desmond T. Dawes. The movie was released in 2016 and was directed by Mel Gibson. It stars Andrew Garfield as Desmond Dawes, Luke Bracey as Smitty Ricker, and Vince Vaughn as Sgt. Howell. The movie tells the about Dawes heroic actions during the pacific battle of Hacksaw Ridge on the island of Okinawa, and how Dawes single-handily saved 75 men by himself. It shows…

Thomas Jefferson's conflicting views on the institution of slavery Historical Context and Background Thomas Jefferson would be regarded as the founding father for democracy. As the third president of the United States of America and a former vice president, he was very instrumental in drafting bills that championed for the rights of the people. However, by the time Thomas Jefferson was born, slavery had taken route in America and it was since hard for the Americans to do away with it. Slaves…

Why would one want to retell and relive their experiences of physical, emotional, and mental abuse? In the case of human chattel enslavement, the goal was abolition – and the means were to enlighten the world about the horrors of the legal and societally accepted practice. The slave narrative is one that dates to the mid 1700’s (“Slave Narratives”), and continued into 1863 when the Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves – yet the struggle for African Americans continued well into the 20th…

War is a big impactful event that has happened a large amount of times during the course of history. It is a big decision that many presidents have to think carefully of doing. The speech mentioned today is by our forty-third president, George Bush. In the speech called “President Bush's Speech on Iraq,” (Bush, 2006) he makes the hard decision of announcing war against Iraq. The reason he decided to give this speech was because of Iraqi soldiers who invaded Kuwait, an oil rich country. Then the…

Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln is well known for ending slavery. He is still considered as one of America’s Heroes, the sixteenth president was born in Hardin, Kentucky in 1809. Due to land dispute, him and his family were forced to move to Perry County, Indiana in 1817. The movie “Abe in Illinois” is a historically accurate film, it’s a film that’s based on the early life of Lincoln from his days in Illinois, when he was a young man, to his election of the presidency. The movies directors and…

Erik Erikson was a very talented theorist in the 1900’s. Erikson believed in the human development through the social aspects of their lives. There were nine stages to Erikson’s psychosocial development theory; “trust vs. mistrust,” “autonomy vs. shame and doubt,” “initiative vs. guilt,” “industry v. inferiority,” “identity vs. identity confusion,” “generativity vs. stagnation,” “integrity vs. despair,” and lastly “hope and faith vs. despair” (Crandell, Crandell, and Zanden). Trust vs. mistrust…