Confiscation

Joseph Conrad wrote the heart of Darkness in 1902. The novel is about an expedition being taken up in the Congo River into Congo Africa. The Heart of Darkness is actually somewhat based on a trip Conrad took through Congo during his days as a sailor. He wrote the novel because he wanted to showcase things that were happening in the Congo while it was under European control. Conrad wanted to expose the evil and ugliness in people. He wanted people to know that evil exists in humans. He wanted to…

San Bernardino, California; Charleston, South Carolina; Newtown, Connecticut and Roseburg, Oregon. These cities separated by hundreds of miles all have been visited by a certain tragedy that make them the same. This tragedy is the senseless massacre of its citizens by the use of guns. Many people ask why gun control is something we need and the answer to the question is because it keeps violent and mindless crimes such as these from happening. It has been shown that in many developed…

The Native and African alliance in the later part of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century could be better described as a political partnership with common interests. They both cooperated against British occupation and aggression, and later American expansion and slave raids. The tenuous partnership began disintegrating more so as early as the 1845 Treaty with the Creeks, which would be temporarily moderated with the elimination of all slavery among the Seminoles and the other…

absolute power as depicted in the quote by Fitzpatrick describing the first duma’s suggestion to the Tsar of, “abolition of the death penalty, the resignation of the government, the elimination of the upper house, ministerial responsibility, the confiscation of large estates, the right to strike, equality before the law and the reformation of the whole tax system…” This portrays the people’s…

“The ratio of students to computers in 1983 was estimated at 168 to 1,” declared Carver. (p.1). However it is now reported by the National Center for Educational Statistics that 97% of teachers in the U.S. have at least 1 computer and the ratio of students to computers is 5.3 to 1. (Carver, 2016). Technology today is expanding and involving within the educational setting. It is not only computers that are available, teachers now have, smart boards, smart projectors, IPads, IPods, smart phones,…

The First World War and its aftermath opened to gates to international politics and warfare as we know them today. After five years of brutal and slow stalemate, American intervention finally broke the back of Germany. The abdication of the Kaiser and unconditional surrender of the Weimar Republic led to treaty negotiations at the Paris Peace Conferences in 1919. The world that Georges Clemenceau, Woodrow Wilson, and other conference participants found themselves tasked with reshaping was in…

began. The first attack on the homosexual community was “on May 6, 1933, [when] students led by Storm Troopers (Sturmabteilung, SA) broke into the Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin and confiscated its unique library” (Website 1). After the confiscation, the majority of the 12,000 books and 35,000 photographs and pictures were destroyed along with any other materials that pertained to homosexuality. In many ways, this act was the first in a series of steps to…

Angelina Grimké evoked an amalgamation of criticism and commendation from numerous sources through the composition of her infamous “Appeal to the Christian Women of the Southern States.” In her 1836 appeal, Angelina ardently refuted the South’s biblical argument for slavery by examining numerous biblical laws relating to slavery and servitude. Additionally, Angelina daringly entreated her female peers to educate themselves on the subject of slavery and its monstrous evils. By urging them to…

African American Speech Maker is an oracle of all the great voice written and heard through the time of the Mayflower until now. In the book of Fitch; how sweet the sound is about the spirit of African American History. It shows that they were some of the greatest speechmaker of their own time. The book speaks of African American speech, tradition, community, ceremony, and rituals and how it gave them the strength to persist in their struggle toward freedom. In Vincent Harding speech he uses…

The Vietnam War was a proxy war that occurred in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. Vietnam was split into two in 1954 as part of the Geneva accords in order not to have another large-scale war after Korea. Communist North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union, China and other communist allies whilst democratic South Vietnam was supported by the United States and other anti-communist allies. The two were due to be reunified by national…