Angolan Civil War

I am impressed on how Frederick Douglass managed to learn to read and write through various stratagems. Frederick was considered “a slave for life”; he served the Hugh family for seven years. At his young age, Frederick had no proper education; his mistress first taught him how to read, until her husband made her realize the bad consequences of slavery when given education. Until then, Frederick had been prohibited to read anything, not even holding a newspaper. Still, I stand for the belief…

If you had a choice between doing what you want or doing what is right, what would you do? This is a question that many people in America had to answer. Back in the mid 1800’s slavery was a big issue, many wanted slavery but others did not. This is where William Lloyd Garrison comes into play. William Lloyd Garrison was one of the most influential American journalist in the anti-slavery movement for three reasons: he wanted all slaves to be freed and have rights that a 36 year old white man…

Jackson became a national sensation after commanding the American army at the Battle of New Orleans, the biggest American victory of the War of 1812. In his farewell address of 1837, Jackson stated that he worked on behalf of “the farmer, the mechanic, and the laboring classes of society.” While other politicians focused their attention on the wealthy and influential people in the east,…

It was not “cool” to be a civil rights activist; you had to stand up for what you believe in and be willing to fight for your basic rights. And sometimes, that meant really fighting back through reciprocal violence. In the article, “Afterword: Understanding History” by Charles Cobb…

by the revolutionary war. Kars explores the defiance of frontier piedmont farmers who took up arms against a corrupt government that was happy filling their wallets, at the expensive of the farmers. She follows the regulators story from their oppression by corrupt official to the battle of Alamance, using a plethora of primary sources along the way. Kars attempt to discover the regulators origins forces her to focus on four main points of economics, religion, politics and war to help explain how…

Introduction: Frederick douglass was a former slave ,he thought that slavery corrupt slave master and was bad for slavery frederick douglass wanted freedom for him and his people. Frederick douglass was a slave who wanted to learn how to read and write he soon found out that all slaves could not be able learn. All they need it to do was obey their master but douglass didn’t stop he was brave enough to sneak and give bread to be able to do tutoring and soon he wanted to be free and his…

The end of the Civil War marked a grueling time for the United States. Disagreement over freedom of slaves led citizens of the broken country to look to President Lincoln for hope and reform. After the end of the war, the turmoil continued with the assassination of President Lincoln. Andrew Johnson, the Vice President at the time, took Lincoln’s place as the President of the United States. As president during this critical time, it was Johnson’s duty to reunify the southern slave states and the…

”The Sniper” was published during the Irish civil war (January 1923) by the republican Liam O’Flaherty. It takes place as night falls in Dublin. Shots eccho. A young Republican sniper lies on a rooftop. He lights a cigarette; risks revealing himself. Instantantly, a bullet hits the parapet, behind which he hides. A car approaches and halts down the street. A woman appears from a side-street. She speaks with the driver and points to the sniper. Without thinking, he shoots the driver, and the…

tackled in the next topics. The suffering of the slaves is elaborated through the characters of the novel, and the most famous one is Douglass, who is the narrator and protagonist of novel and other characters, who are faced mental and physical abuse by their slaveholders. Firstly, Douglass is one of the rest slaves who are lost their true identity and family because of the slavery and that is abvioused from the beginning of the novel. Douglass have no accurate knowledge of his age, never…

Mark Twain was a river boat pilot on the Mississippi River for a while before he wrote books, while Dr. Richard Selzer joined the faculty of Yale as a professor of surgery from 1960 to 1985. These two have been successful with within topics of how they wrote their books, focusing on Two Views of the Mississippi and Sarcophagus, these included: the audiences they were writing to and explanation of their topics, but they also had contrasting factors such as: the atmosphere they created, the…