RAID

The main plan of the raid was to get the slaves to join his rebellion, but it failed as a raid. Even though it failed as a raid it created a greater divide between the North and South. The last words of Brown were given to a guard before his hanging and those words were, “I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood.” As John Brown hinted at bloodshed was spread in the form of a Civil War. The John Brown’s Raid was the main…

The lost cause monument that I chose honors an incident called “Andrews Raid.” The actual monument is an “American” type steam locomotive engine named the “General.” The engine operated on the Western Atlantic Railroad line and serviced both freight and travel between Atlanta, Georgia and Chattanooga, Tennessee. According to Russell S. Bonds in Stealing the General, “Chattanooga was an important rail junction that controlled food and supplies coming from the dep south headed to the…

several quotes and references in order to support their case. The second connection that they have towards each other is that they all are in reference to John Brown’s alleged “madness” in the aftermath of the Harper’s Ferry Raid. Each of the essays take their cases from this raid. They all have the same setting which help us have a better idea of the time frame from which this story was written. The last connection that I recognized that they have towards…

Farm raised fish are good to eat, good for the environment and good for your health. If we eliminated farm raised fish from the menus, kitchen and homes around the world, the harm that would be done is almost incalculable. There is much misinformation, pop science and web sourced rumors to the contrary, but the real facts are quite clear. In the first place, fish is very healthy food for people. It is a nutritious, plentiful and relatively inexpensive food available across the globe. There are…

I was watching my dog bury a bone, or maybe it was my running shoe again, I don’t know, but it got me to thinking about the parable of the seed as described in John 12:24-25: “Listen carefully: Unless a grain of wheat is buried in the ground, dead to the world, it is never any more than a grain of wheat. But if it is buried, it sprouts and reproduces itself many times over. In the same way, anyone who holds on to life just as it is destroys that life. But if you let it go, reckless in your love,…

John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry In October 1859, John Brown’s attack on Harpers Ferry affected American culture in a way no other event in the Antebellum period did. The raid divided the country into two sections: the North and South; it was among a numerous significant events happened in the United States. John Brown was a white abolitionist. He was executed on December 2nd, 1859 without fair trial and sentenced to hang. Brown became a legend during the period. He was a God fearing, but…

The movie, “The Great Raid,” was an extraordinary example of the brutality of the Japanese. We have always been told of the ruthlessness of the Japanese soldiers, but I could never fully visualize the acts that they had committed. The movie even starts with a scene in which American prisoners are placed in a confined space and set on fire. The Japanese police-like people were even more vicious than the original ones at Cabanatuan Camp. The head guy ordered that if one person went out of line, or…

aircraft carrier, which It’s never taken off from before. General James Doolittle not only volunteered but also led a Group of 80 airmen on this very dangerous mission that changed the course of the Pacific theater of World War 2 called the “Doolittle Raid” (Nelson, C, 2002). The purpose of this essay is to tell you why I believe General James Doolittle was a visionary leader by leading a group of men on a daring mission on a strike against Japan. I will also explain why General Doolittle…

For this Bonus Raid, I decided to watch The Adjustment Bureau with my roommate, Mark Vos. This movie seems to represent a conspiracy theorist's dream in which a secret organization called “The Adjustment Bureau” controls all of human history and has designed a plan that includes each and every individual. The Bureau makes sure that no person deviates from this plan by either distracting us with little inconveniences or (in extreme cases) by messing with our brains in attempts to alter the way in…

eventually hung for treason.. Although he had failed, it caused an uproar in the North and South. Many Northerners disagreed with John Brown’s raid first, but as they became more united in their cause to abolish slavery in the Civil War, he was thought to be a hero and a martyr. To the Southerners, he was the epitome of evil. From 1859 to 1863, John Brown’s raid further intensified the hatred between North and the South which was already…