The Book of Eli

an abolitionist paper, and wrote an autobiography including facts about his time in slavery and his escape from it in Maryland. Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, was also a very influential writer in the abolitionist cause. Her book showed the true horrors of slavery that she witnessed while visiting Kentucky to mainly Northerners which made them realize slavery was wrong and that they needed to join the…

to white and wealthy people, but it was not right. The Declaration of Independence clearly states that men should be treated equally and free. There was hope that slavery in the southerner states was going to end, but it ended when in Massachusetts Eli Whitney created the cotton gin. This invention made it easier for textile mills to use the cotton grown in the South. In the article Slavery: Cause and Catalyst of the Civil War by the National Park Service it is stated that “ Southern plantations…

Spaghetti Westerns, is considered one of the best Westerns of all time. It launched Clint Eastwood into stardom as, “The Man with No Name” also known as Blondie “The Good”, through his interactions with his co-stars Lee Van Cleef, Angel Eyes “The Bad”, and Eli Wallach, Tuco “The Ugly”. The hero here, Blondie, is not the typical hero that you would expect, but through an analysis of several scenes, one begins to see how he embodies a hero we all wish we could be. Also, as stated by Corrigan, “The…

2.3 Depiction of the Rural South in the ‘50s in Grisham’s A Painted House In his novel, Grisham portrays the Chandlers, a family that lives in the rural South. The family is relatively poor and works in the cotton fields, and employs people who also need money. The life of the Chandlers is not of high quality as they live in an unpainted house and have financial problems that do not allow them to buy certain facilities, such as television. Despite that, there are some forms of entertainment,…

Escaping Slavery While subjected to disease, tight quarters, feces and urine, and the fear of being raped or beaten, slaves most likely had their minds set on making it out of that hell surviving to take a step off their boat. Little did they know that as soon as they took that last step off the boat, they took their first step into their life in prison, otherwise known as America. With wishing for a life filled of happiness and freedom from their new lives they went looking for a…

Every little kid grows up dreaming of playing in the NFL, NBA, MLB and so much more. Only 7.6 million of those kids go on to play varsity sports in high school (Koebler). Seven percent of those athletes go on to play a college sport without pay (Scholarshipstats.com). Less than two percent of college athletes go on to play in a professional sport (Cheney-Rice). Eighty-six percent of college athletes live in poverty after graduation (Hayes). If the NCAA paid them for their contributions while…

except so different. Bunk beds slammed against the front wall, two dressers violently tucked into corners piled with old school papers and trophies. On the wall old posters of NFL players hang at weird angles, and in blue bins lay tons of old comic books. On the other wall is a small TV, next to which rests a GameCube covered in dust. Everything is almost exactly the same, except on the fourth bare wall, where scrapes in the floor show where a third bed used to be, and tape residue on the…

In my book Four-dimensionalism (chapter 4, section 9), I argued that four- dimensionalism – the doctrine of temporal parts – follows from several other premises, chief among which is the premise that existence is never vague. Kathrin Koslicki (preceding article) claims that the argument fails since its crucial premise is unsupported, and is dialectically inappropriate to assume in the context of arguing for four-dimensionalism. Since the relationship between four-dimensionalism and the…

Psalms 107:8:9 Let them give thanks to the LORD for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for mankind, for he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things. As I have gotten older Thanksgiving has easily become one of my most favorite holidays of the year. It 's not because of all the amazing food, fun gatherings with family and friends and football (which all of these things are great reasons) but because it allows me to reflect back on the year and in my life and it truly…

to fellow Senator William H. Seward of New York, “No, you dare not make war on cotton! No power on earth dares make war upon it. Cotton is King.” Cotton was chief to the South’s economy, and was spearheaded by 1793’s invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney, allowing for a single worker to clean fifty times more cotton than previously possible. Similarly, Friedrich Nietzsche, a 19th century philosopher, said, “The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year…