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    Why Did John Brown Raid

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    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…

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    that area to join him in the raid to make his symbol more powerful. While the plan did not work out to the magnitude he had originally planned, John was successful in putting fear into the minds of southerners. They saw Brown’s ideals in the Republican party and attached what he had done to decide that a Republican president would be the death of the South. One of southerners worst fears was their slave rising up and rebelling against them. In this way, John Brown’s Raid symbolized what could…

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    need to expand beyond. Science fiction stories such as “2BRØ2B” by Kurt Vonnegut in which humans have tried to created a utopia by controlling the population to the point where someone must volunteer to die in order for someone else to live. Also “Air Raid” by John Varley which tells the story of people from the future who are snatching humans from the past to live on a faraway planet in order for the human race to continue. As…

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    The Red Scare and Palmer Raids Between November 1919 and January 1920, at the height of the first Red Scare, the American Justice Department arrested thousands of people without warrants and federal authorities deported many arrested immigrants. Some of the prisoners were beaten and mistreated while in captivity. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer determined that the “Reds” were a threat to America. Though not well defined, the term “Reds” generally meant those on the far political left,…

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    of Carol Shaw’s most famous works, "River Raid" was one of the most popular games back in 1982 when she worked for the company Activision. This achievement was controversial and has paved the path for other female game designers to rise from the dark to fight the oppression and prove that more prominent women have a positive radiant. While some might say that the River Raid game still would have been developed without her, this is falsely stated. River Raid was completely developed by Carol Shaw…

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    want this all taken away in a course of a few hours for unnecessary resources. What if they use these resources knowing it would end up becoming waste for their profit? How would you feel as that animal? Instead of Humans being extremely selfish and raid natural animal habitats for resources, which will decrease many species of animals in existence, the resource companies that want to destroy for their benefit, should find a way to extract the resources they want without harming any animals or…

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    John Brown’s Raid In October 1859 the abolitionist Brown resurfaced in the East. Since the Pottawatomie Massacre held a furtive existence by earning money and weapons from New England sympathizers. His commitment to abolish the wicked sin and promote racial equality created a fever within the abolitionists. Brown was one of the rare Whites that committed their lives to the black people and lived among them. He believed that he was a powerful tool of God. In carrying out his mission, on October…

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    Back in World War 2, there were a lot of wars: the battle of Britain, which took a good amount of the troops, the battle of Atlantic, which took most of the battle ships. But the worst battle was the Dieppe raid. That battle was both a success and a failure. It all depends on the way the troops where, if they learnt their lessons and if they are planning to ever do that again. So what made it a success? The troops had learned that when they go to attack, they need to send a lot of people,…

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    golden eyes. He wore a white robe on top of a black shirt and pants with a brown belt, a feather pin behind his ear and a collar-like accessory on his neck. They too were investigating the crime scene and the massive damage left behind by Ash and Night Raid. "Whoa!" Wave gawked at the destruction within the plaza. "It looks like a warzone." "Stop gawking like an idiot, Wave. You’re embarrassing us." Kurome insulted her teammate with a blank stare. Wave made a face. "Hey, I’m just saying,…

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    John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry was a struggle by John Brown, a white abolitionist, to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859. Brown planned on taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, build up an army of both white and black volunteers, and then follow the Appalachian Mountains south to free the slaves along the way. Unfortunately for him, Brown and his men were defeated by a platoon of U.S. Marines led by Colonel Robert E. Lee. In this essay I will be talking about…

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