American Civil War spies

My American Dream “So we beat on boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past” (Fitzgerald 180). This quote means that the past cannot be relived so having to move on and not dwell on the past is a necessity. Fitzgerald uses this quote to explain what is happening after Gatsby’s death. Gatsby’s American Dream is much unlike mine. He dreamed of having Daisy as his girl and to be able to show her off and be proud of her; everything he did was to either impress Daisy or…

The Civil War was a monumental and tragic time in American history. A professor at the University of Illinois wrote, “At least 600,000 men died in the Civil War....Mass death numbs the mind and heart as it numbers its vast toll.(Phillip Shaw Paludan, Victims: A True Story Of The Civil War) ” The horrors and bloodshed of this war were translated into every artistic medium imaginable, in an attempt to honor and come to terms with the mass destruction caused.. One author in particular used his…

Jackson, and the growing number of textiles in the U.S. between 1810 and 1840. In the late 18th and early 19th century, Jefferson and Hamilton explicitly exemplify their views about the agricultural and industrial economy. During the Revolutionary war, Americans boycotted manufactured goods that the British made which then lead to the Intolerable Acts in…

Keese Sociology 1101 9 November 2017 Penalty and Privilege Do any white Americans truly believe that blacks in this country are treated as equally as they are? African-Americans have faced shortcomings in this country since the 1600s when we were brought here as slaves, also in the early 1900s when we were being beaten, killed and hung by the KKK, and even now with issues we encounter with police brutality. Many Americans fail to realize that just because we elected our first black…

Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation: Constitutional Conflict in the American Civil War, he offers his readers two notable as well as important contributions to the study of the American Civil War. These contributions consist of the attempt to compare and examine the constitutionality of the acts that were committed by both the Union and the Confederacy, the other contribution is that of the “nationalistic” interpretation of Civil War Constitutionalism that is present throughout the latter end…

Du Bois: 0, Washington: 0 -- A Great Rivalry in American Equality Imagine a country, split on an opinion of a subject. Now, within one of those sides, there was another division. This occurred in the U.S. throughout the late 19th century and early 20th century.Human rights was a big topic of discussion, especially by people of color. In cities all over the country, African Americans were treated unfairly. They were beaten, harassed, and sometimes killed for something as silly as looking at a…

The Lost Art of Rhetoric: Ethos, Logos and Pathos Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach us About the Art of Persuasion by Jay Heinrichs is an excellent, remarkable analysis on how to adequately argue. This book not only discusses argument, it literally studies it. Heinrichs is a master of rhetoric, having twenty-five years of experience in journalism and executive publishing, furthermore teaching multiple companies and universities on the art of persuasion,…

weapon was exposing persuading and convincing with his photographs to help the less fortunate. To fully understand who Jacob Riis was and the accomplishments he made involves understanding his life in the tenements, how he contributed to fast growing American cities, and how he used photojournalism to change America. Though Riis had a rough upbringing he made the most of his situation, worked hard, and did not give up and because of the he is a well-known photojournalist. He is someone we talk…

For many centuries, slavery was one of the common, yet cruel, practices that among many nations. Because of the many individuals who have suffered the adversities from enslavement, people developed numerous different views towards slavery. In the Olaudah Equiano’s autobiography, “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African”, Equiano focuses on his own past experiences as a slave that led to his political motivation to end slavery. At a young age,…

they are trying to be strong, they still cannot run away from it. Slavery is the cause of many things, such as discrimination and low expectation of society to African-American. For instant, in the article “The Case for Reparations,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, expresses the difficulty that black folks had been facing at the time. American tends to denied the contributed that black folks have for America. Coates purpose is to acknowledge to his audience about the damage and mistreatment of blacks…