Salvadoran Civil War

I read Sitting Bull: Champion of the Sioux by Stanley Vestal, Sitting Bull was a Hunkpapa Lakota Leader that wouldn't back down from the war. While reading Sitting Bull Champion of the Sioux I found a variety of things that I could compare to but I also found things that aren't similar. The biggest thing that I found that wasn’t similar was the fact that he was a man of his word if I were to say that I'm going to do something I wouldn’t do it but Sitting Bull would. There were countless parts…

The Columbian Exchange took place from 1500-1700 CE and was said to be one of the most important time periods in history. During this period, the world took big steps into defying the society that we are today. Slavery was one of the main influences on trade during that time, which led to the exchanging of foreign goods, increasing in women's rights, and the global flow of silver impacted currency all around the world. The increase of trade, cultural advancements, and the rise and fall of…

In 1838 in the British West Indies, there was a dire need for labour after the Apprenticeship system ended. In the large colonies such as Trinidad and Jamaica, there was a vast amount of land available. The ex-slaves tried obtaining these lands with tactics such as squatting, buying land and renting in order to become independent peasants. In the smaller colonies however, the ex-slaves migrated to the larger colonies for work and available land. Some ex-slaves made the choice of working on the…

Charles Deslondes used his position of power and privilege to lead a slave rebellion in 1811, resulting in his early death at age 31. Like a true upstander, he stood up to the prejudice and discrimination engraved in the lives of slaves. He sacrificed everything he had for the slightest possibility of freedom for his people. Without upstanders like him in history, our world today would be a lot worse than it is now. Deslondes, originally from Hispaniola (today’s Haiti), was inspired to rebel by…

origin of the topic will help enrich our understanding, and enlarge our perspective of the American culture. -The topic will study the American Dream which is an idea that conquered all American mind in the period after the end of the Second World War 1945. Both plays A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller discuss the subject of the American dream with characters who were hypnotized by the idea of success. Both plays give different perspectives, one…

component of the book and its time period. In chapter 10, Whitehead writes “and America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes––believes with all its heart––that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave…

The civil rights movement was started in the 1950s to change the way African Americans were viewed. TREATMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICANS In the history of African Americans, they have struggled with being treated poorly. Richard Wilson explains, “Civil rights are among the most basic of all conceptions of human individual rights, but they must be paired with civil liberties to be effective”(1). Civil rights should be a privilege that every human being on planet Earth should have, but to have civil…

The Slave Trade was a very brutal thing. Slaves were treated worse than most animals, and had no rights at all. They were shipped off in exchange for raw materials that usually had very little value at all. These human beings were sometimes stolen by their neighbours, or even their family members to be sold. Their way of life was absolutely terrible. Whoever sold the slaves, had no regard to their rank, or possessions. Before they would get on the boat, they were stripped of all the…

Eun Ei Hong Mr. Durkhoop US History 11 11 September 2014 Slavery in Colonial Era In the middle period of Colonial Era, a large number of black men came to America as labor force of the southern colonies. The slavery of blacks was legitimized and accepted practice during that time. Practice of slavery was more common and demanded in southern colonies than in the northern colonies because they needed multiple of people to work on vast farm land. Southern colonies were ideal place for…

One of our own, Upton Sinclair has now published his novel, The Jungle, in its entirety. Despite the “muckraking” as our very President might deem it, this novel is pivotal to the causes we believe in. Sinclair has used The Jungle, to simultaneously expose the problems layering our very federal and local governments, as well as the society in which we all partake in. His novel has forced the federal government to finally take action and begin to impose regulations on the Union Stockyards and the…