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In the Civil War, there was a lot of strengths and weaknesses on each side of the war. Factories and factory workers were one of the most important things in the war. These people gave all the supplies to all of the troops. The railroad mileage was a big factor too. Abraham Lincoln said “I walk slowly, but I never walk backwards”. It means that the economy and war support needs to keep on going forward. It does not need to go all go at once, but it cannot go backwards. Because if it did the…

The Chilling and Darkness in Edgar Allan Poe’s Writings “I do suffer from insanity, but I enjoy every single minute.” Poe was a man of talents and skills in writing. His writings were usually dark and dreary and it was all based on events of his life. He was very skillful in something called genres of macabre and mysteries. Macabre is a style of writing, which the writer adds a dark atmosphere and puts emphasis on the details and symbols of life. Many macabre stories or poetic works are…

Mad Murder Edgar Allan Poe’s uniquely mysterious style of writing is why he is recognized as one of the great masters of horror. This dark way of writing appeals to emotion and drama and is one of the many elements he meticulously uses to bring his stories, the Tell-Tale Heart and The Cask of Amontillado, to life. There are many similarities between the two short stories in terms of irony, symbolism, tone, theme, and the diction of the protagonist. These elements working collectively are highly…

The writer of this primary document is Patrick Henry, an upset colonist who was trying to get his voice out there. The audience of the document is mostly the king, or "President" as Patrick Henry calls him, and the colonists. The writer is representing a man who thinks more highly of patriotism that any man. He really knows what he wants and is trying to persuade others of his position. In my opinion he is representing change. Patrick Henry was a major figure of the revolutionary era, he is…

audience of the document is the king, or "President" as Patrick Henry calls him, and the colonists. Henry represents change. “Give me Liberty or give me death” is a speech given by Patrick Henry on March 23rd 1775 at St. Johns Henrico Parish Church in Richmond. This meeting discussed the records of Americas First Continental Congress that was later turned into a series of debates over whether or not to arm the colony of Virginia as a defense against invasions by the British army (Lively).…

In Richmond Virginia a fire at a theatre with numerous deaths led to many actions. One of them being a speech delivered by Rev. Robert May. Within it laid a writing genius to help persuade the crowd to his view. It started with an appeal to the emotions to hinder the rational judgment of crowed and the initial presentation of his goal before his real argument. Transitioning into a section where he presented the arguments for going to the theater and provided a convincing counter argument for…

He joined the texas army to get independence from mexico. He was responsible for saving the life of future texas senator Thomas J. Rusk. He served in Managua 20 months before returning to texas in October in 1859. He died of a heart attack at his richmond plantation on December 19,1859. He enjoyed the retreating of a texas army as a private. High schools are named after Lamar in Houston,Arlington,and Rosenberg. Middle schools are named after…

She also made nursing a profession and established the world’s first school of nursing at St. Thomas’s Hospital in London in 1860.10 Several women of the South volunteered themselves to help the wondered soldiers as nurses and found hospitals. Richmond had on of…

away, and he left Poe out of his will. Poe continued to live life in poverty, but that ceased when one of his short stories won a contest in the Baltimore Saturday Visiter. Poe secured an editorial position with the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond in 1835. He obtained a reputation as a rigid critic by writing villainous reviews of his contemporaries. His belittling critiques scored him the moniker, “ Tomahawk Man.” Poe’s belligerent reviewing style and occasional combative personality…

It takes true talent for a playwright to include topics and themes that are common for their time period, and yet be able to simultaneously incorporate messages far beyond those performed around them. Hroswitha of Gandersheim, as her title indicates, was a woman from a very Christian background. She had been raised and educated in a place that would almost guarantee that the influence of Christian doctrine to permeate into her work (Hroswitha, ). Though considered a mystery play, The Conversion…