Cambodian Civil War

officers. Whether it was an accident or not, these actions deserved consequences and most of the officers who were responsible for these deaths were not met with any serious consequences. The outcome of these cases brought out a serious amount of civil unrest around the country; riots and protests occurred throughout this time, people want justice for those who were wrongfully murdered. Colin Kapernick, a professional football player who has decided to not stand…

Khoa Pham Professor David Howard Pitney History 17A section 03 10/21/2017 Question A2 Olaudah Equiano: Great Fortune and Journey To the Freedom Is it possible for a slave to earn the knowledge and get out of the slavery in the 18th century? It requires a great fortune with hard-working and learning. Olaudah Equiano was the person that had changed his fate, as a slave, survived among the Whites and Europeans, saved money by the merchant, bought himself a ticket to become freedom one more time. He…

the Union. What happened at Harper’s Ferry was a fruitless assault by a man who had very poor judgement as far as leading a military attack. The anger between the North and the South became greatly widened and eventually lead to the secession and Civil…

The grandfather was a former slave who actively fought in the civil war. His last words were a collection of phrases which seemed like random babble at first. However as the story progressed, so did the clarity of the meaning of the grandfather’s last words. What the grandfather was implying was to never conform to the white’s way of life in society. Never to lose your true colors and who you are as to where you came from. That grandpa wanted the blacks to shove so much of their own identity, so…

A Narrative of the life of Fredrick Douglass Fredrick Douglass was born into slavery to be owned as property. In his autobiography, A Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass allows us to see a firsthand experience of how it is to be bought and sold, owned by many different owners, and repress from any education. We will take a look at the different slave owners and how they treated their slaves, the difference between urban and rural areas, and how he overcame illiteracy. The act of owning…

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. Andrews, Beyerlein, and Farnum, while analyzing inconsistent of perspective among the…

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…

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,…