Howard Zinn

The success or failure of Reconstruction may have been one of the most controversial questions in all of history because the answer cannot be justified. The solution to the success or failure of Reconstruction depended on the intent of the matter. Based on the fact of the reunification of the Union, Reconstruction may be considered a success for accomplishing this goal. On the other hand, Reconstruction may also be recognized as a failure if the main idea revolved around the equality of the…

As Howard Zinn informed his readers of a quote from Columbus in his book A People’s History of the United States, “The Arawak men and women traded everything they owned for beads and bells. They would make fine servants.” The Arawak welcomed the strangers, then…

First-wave feminism was caused by the American Industrial Revolution during the 19th century and the First World War because of how it drastically changed the demographics of the workforce. The Industrial Revolution changed the U.S. economy to incorporate large factories which would produce goods for mass consumerism. Instead of working and making goods just to support your home, now groups of people were working together to produce more products for a bigger audience. The drastic increase in…

Age Of Exploration; Heroic or Heinous? I woke up late that Monday morning, basking in the fact that there was no school. It was early October, and the stress of fourth grade was really getting to me. Christopher Columbus was a man I thought I would be forever grateful for and as far as I was concerned, Columbus was wonderful, exploration was wonderful, and this day off was extra wonderful. But just how thankful should I really have been? Hidden behind the great accomplishments explorers have…

1961 as class valedictorian” (Boyd et. al.). Her blindness from her BB gun accident gave her the opportunity to go to Spelman College in Atlanta with a scholarship for handicapped (Magill). Walker became good friends with two teachers at Spelman, Howard Zinn and Staughton Lynd (Boyd et.al.). “With the assistance of Lynd, Walker transferred to Sarah Lawrence College in 1964” (Boyd et.al.). This is where her commitment to become a writer started, with the influence of her teachers “in particular…

It was chosen for me through a traditional naming strategy passed on from generations to generations. This is a tradition that is somewhat unfamiliar to me just as the details of my history are not clear. I’m of Indo-Guyanese descent but like most people of my heritage I know very little of our shared past. To better understand (split infinitive) my identity, I must first learn more about my own history. Through my ancestor’s historic journey from India to British Guiana my Indo-Guyanese…

happen among individuals who work with individuals. The MBI measures the 3 sections of the burnout issue: energetic weakness, depersonalization, and nonattendance of individual accomplishment. Each perspective is measured by an alternate subscale(Kabat-Zinn J 1999). Another accommodating procedure, the Emotion Exhaustion Subscale can be utilized. It surveys sentiments of being candidly overextended and depleted by one 's work. The depersonalization subscale measures a brutal and indifferent…

Unfortunately, some companies have mismanaged their greatest asset—their brands. This is what befell the popular Snapple brand almost as soon as Quaker Oats bought the beverage marketer for $1.7 billion in 1994. Snapple had become a hit through powerful grassroots marketing and distribution through small outlets and convenience stores. Analysts said that because Quaker did not understand the brand’s appeal, it made the mistake of changing the ads and the distribution. Snapple lost so much…