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Charles Deslondes used his position of power and privilege to lead a slave rebellion in 1811, resulting in his early death at age 31. Like a true upstander, he stood up to the prejudice and discrimination engraved in the lives of slaves. He sacrificed everything he had for the slightest possibility of freedom for his people. Without upstanders like him in history, our world today would be a lot worse than it is now. Deslondes, originally from Hispaniola (today’s Haiti), was inspired to rebel by…

The Tokugawa dynasty issued policies and reigned in a manner so as to create a new and more powerful kind of government than had been seen in the past. They built their superstructure of power on twin cornerstones- unassailable armed strength and unquestioned monopoly over the office of the shogun. However, their power was revolved around the shogun’s own lands, which could be considered as a super-daimyo domain. The shogun ruled some important ports and cities like Edo, Kyoto, Osaka and…

The media was not only against Indigenous people, but in the 1990s and before there was still a great amount of tension between the Franco-phones and Anglo-phone Canadians. “Robin Philpot argues in Oka: Dernier Alibi du Canada Anglais (Oka: English Canada's Last Alibi) that English-language coverage of the standoffs at Oka and Kahnawake was tainted by anti-Quebec,” potentially caused by the end of the Meech Lake constitutional accord (Wells, 1991). This accord was intended to persuade the…

S. troops arrived in the end of July. The ship Charleston stop in Guam and surrendered. The Governor did not realize he was at war. There was a peace treaty signed on may 12 Between the ship and manila. but the next day Manila got attacked by commodore Dewey ,…

Evelyn Albright “Japans Systems of Religion and Politics over the Years” The country that I have selected to complete my research paper on is what was once known as the isolated country of Japan. Today although Japan’s classical roots can still be seen, it is mostly seen as a country that has been influenced with ideas, customs, practices, etc., and characteristic of the western U.S. country through various incidents. Paragraph 1: The history of Japan and its governmental and religious…

“Her lack of opportunity as a reporter at the Pittsburg Courier led her to reinvent herself as a newswoman by reporting through the visual and print form of comic strips” (Whaley, 2016, p. 33). She received less pay and mentored cartoonist Chester Commodore who had no former art education and eventually became leading staff cartoonist at the Defender while Ormes was still not considered a regular staffed employee. Because of Ormes’s light complexion she could have easily passed for White to…

Modern History Assessment Term 2: Jack North Source A gives a useful insight into the roles and influences of western nations with respect to Japan, elucidating the instrumental nature of the foreign: ubiquitous in the Meiji Restoration. Spanning the wake of this epoch, defined by the probing bows of the “black ships”, through to fin de siecle occurrences, foreign power attested as vital in the shaping of a contemporary nation. When regarding…

tells the story of how these men who were thought to be out for themselves helped to shape society. These entrepreneurs are some of the most iconic businessmen in all of history because they gave us examples on how to run successful companies. Commodore Vanderbilt faced many setbacks when it came to his business life, but that never stopped…

The first opium war, which commenced on the 18th of March, 1839 and ended on the 29th of August, 1842. The First Opium War was fought between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and the Qing Imperium. This war came about due to their conflicting opinions on trade, additionally occurred due to the factor of the extinction of opium. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the request for Chinese goods (particularly silk, porcelain, and tea) in the European market engendered a trade inequity because the…

How do you define a generation? Relate to a whole ethnicity? Or make everyone come together as one? The answer is with music. In 1959 a man named Berry Gordy made a small business in Detroit Michigan with a small loan from his family to start something amazing. This amazing thing was a recording studio by the name of motown records. Berry Gordy was the son of a Plantation owner and his female slave. They relocated to detroit because his father found a better job working for the automotive…