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straws that pushed the South to secede from the Union. John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry also caused more tension between the anti slavery states and the pro slavery states. Slavery, the election of 1860, and the raid of Harpers Ferry were significant causes of the dichotomy leading to the Civil War. Slavery was by far one of the largest…

Hero or Terrorist? A Case for John Brown A hero is admired for an act or acts of courage. A terrorist uses unlawful violence, often at the expense of civilians, to make a political point. Was John Brown a hero or a terrorist? Some historians think that he was a hero for saving multiple slaves and drawing even more attention to a growing problem in the South. Other historians may think that he was a terrorist for unlawfully killing slave owners and wreaking havoc in the Confederate States of…

make Kansas a free state. This essay is intended to show that John Brown gave protection against enemies. This is factual because he gave the slaves weapons from Harpers Ferry. John Brown ordered to have several hundred pikes, which he hid close to Harpers Ferry for the slaves to attack and use the stolen weapons from Harpers Ferry to start a slave revolt against it. The evidence supports the claim by saying that John Brown wanted to protect the slaves. Since he ordered to get all those pikes,…

John Brown was a 19th militant abolitionist known for his raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859. Born on May 9th, 1800 in Torrington, Connecticut. He worked with the Underground Railroad and the League of Gileadites. He was brought up thinking and knowing Slavery was a sin to god. He believed that violence was the case to end slavery. Eventually, that led to an unsuccessful raid on the Harpers Ferry federal armory. One of John Brown’s 12 kids passed away in the raid. John Brown went to trial was found…

meant more political power, which provoked countries to create more colonies. Yet, more importantly, it was the economic benefits that the countries wanted more than the political benefits in that they were the key to become wealthy. Similarly, Jules Ferry illustrates the importance of European Imperialism on the economic factors in his…

sounds and dark lighting. Combined, these film techniques operate to create an insidious atmosphere that strikes fear into the hearts of the audience. Some of these techniques can be clearly identified in the opening scene as well as the within the ferry scene of the film. Within the opening scene of The Ring, aspects such as camera angles,…

The Epic of Gilgamesh, rendered by David Ferry, is a story that manages to both transcends and very much be fixated in time with its with it themes. Some themes I find familiar and relatable in the work are that of friendship and loss, and then comes along the idea of how a king should rule that is extremely foreign and baffles me. Breaking down the themes and ideas allows us as historians to better learn of our own selves and the people of our past. Friendship can easily be seen with the…

humans. In “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” and various other poems, poet Walt Whitman portrays the idea of the “vast similitude.” The vast similitude can be defined as the traits shared between people. In addition to the vast similitude, Whitman strategically uses the concept of nonlinear time in his poetry, an idea that the past, present, and future are all connected. The idea of nonlinear time can be found in “To a Historian,” “Poets to Come” and “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.” Whitman also depicts…

Weekly Journal Entry #8 In a speech about French colonial expansion, Jules Ferry strongly encourages the French to colonize territories such as those in Africa in order to gain all their raw materials in order to help keep France as one of the world powers and not let it fall behind the other European countries and the U.S. One thing that I noticed while reading Ferry’s speech was how similar he sounded to one of our earlier readings in the semester by St. Francis Xavier when he claimed that…

property and liberated eleven slaves. He then traveled for 82 days and over 1,000 miles to deliver the slaves to Canada. On July 3, 1859, John Brown rented a farm house under the name of “Isaac Smith”. This, being a few miles outside of Harper’s ferry, provides the perfect hideout as he awaits attack. On August 16, 1859, Brown had a meeting with…