American Civil War spies

Anti-intellectualism: Hindrance to Equality. The root of racism generated a profound partition among American society that required generational burden to undo its outcome. In the 1960s, when O’Connor published her short story, Everything that Rises Must Converge, there was a social commentary in the Southern about the civil right movement. At the time, there was a division of standpoint amongst white Americans towards the movement based on the dichotomy of literate vs. illiterate.…

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, written in 1845, is a very powerful and inspiring autobiography that, shows the brutality given to slaves, and the value of knowledge. Frederick Douglass believed in education and the power it possess, and I too now understand the true virtue of education. Nowadays many people take school for granted, and do not realise the importance knowledge has and the influence it has on a human’s life. The dropout rates have drastically increased, and the…

The Individual Cost of War as Represented in The Bhagavad-Gita and The Florentine Codex The history of war extends nearly as far as the history of humanity and so expressions of war’s impact abound in literature. The Bhagavad-Gita and The Florentine Codex, texts concerning war, exhibit similarities despite having been written centuries and continents apart. Each emphasizes that although war carries global repercussions, it causes conflict on an individual level as well. In The…

To live in a distinct region for nearly seven decades is fascinating, but to use one’s experience to capture some of the most authentic details of any American novel is both stunning and breathtaking; this is exactly what America’s most well-known author, Mark Twain, did while writing his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Huck Finn flees his father’s cabin and embarks on a journey away from civilization with his friend and…

Uncle Tom’s Cabin Term Paper Slavery is a huge part of American history. However, it was a time of suffering and hardships. In Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Beecher communicates not only the physical hardships slaves faced, but the mental hardships slaves face when forced to make drastic, often life or death, decisions. The author portrays this terrible mistreatment, by showing the harsh physical treatment of slaves, the dehumanization of slaves, and the tough choices that had to…

Chains Do you know what it is like being beaten if you don’t do your chores? Slaves in the 1700’s did. Chains is about slavery and how a girl named Isabel had to live when she was a slave during the late 1700’s. The book represents how a girl, Isabel, has to go through one of the hardest experience that she may ever had to go through. Throughout the book change the author, Laurie Halse Anderson, writes about what it was like being a young slave trying to survive. At some points in Chains,…

With the theme of human rights, Stowe targeted an anticipated audience of white women-- particularly mothers. She maneuvered the typical devotion of this group to family and home by emphasizing the destructive effects of slavery on families (“Uncle”). Her writing style and use of rhetoric served as a source of appeal for her novel’s varying audiences (Bracher). The themes present in Uncle Tom’s Cabin were meant to be debatable and to spark discussion over the issue of slavery. More specifically,…

Each contributed and created their own success as well-known authors, in spite of coming from low income family or no money at all. Both of the men became role models to the people, one being a very important leader to the African Americans and the other being an inspiration to their civic contribution. Both Douglass and Franklin worked in newspaper article organizations. They produced influential work which is now taught throughout the world influencing people to never give up and…

Dhruv Trivedi HSS-403 Mid-Essay: Paper Junius William and his Journey through Newark “There are turning points in everyone’s life when we have to fight, even if we have to do it by ourselves and in public.”(Junius Williams) Junius William is an author of book “Unfinished Agenda” which takes reader through a ride of Newark. He talks about how Newark has fought through the tough time during 1960’s and so on. Junius Williams grew up in Richmond, Virginia, he defines it as “Gateway to the…

Confederate navies at St. Johns Bluff which opened up the St. Johns River for use by the Union. Yellow Bluff Fort is actually located near the St. Johns River. The most amazing part about Yellow Bluff Fort is that it was an imperative position during the Civil War which gave access to some of the inland areas of the east coast in Florida. Module eight was my favorite module in the course; this made me excited to visit the site. I thought that Yellow Bluff Fort was the ideal location to put…