The Turner Diaries

professionally compared to the centralized system. According to Pennington (2002), centralized network pattern is usually perceived like the wheel, the chain, or the Y; while the circle network is the example of the decentralized network. Besides, West and Turner (2014) stated that roles are the group members’ position and their affiliation to the group. Different member will be assigned…

Turner was deeply religious, and planned his rebellion after he experienced prophetic visions ordering him to gain his freedom by force. On August 21, 1831, Turner and his accomplices killed his master’s family as they lay sleeping. From there, the small band of about 70 slaves moved from house to house, eventually killing over 50 whites with clubs, knives and muskets. It took a militia force to put down the rebellion, and Turner and 55 other slaves were captured…

Nat’s Religion and Celia’s Gender Nat Turner was religious, very religious. It was the center of his identity and his family inculcated religion’s importance in him. Believing to himself being a prophet of God, “my father and mother strengthened me in this my first impression, saying in my presence, I was intended for some great purpose...” He briefly mentions his grandmother, “My grandmother who was very religious, and to whom I was much attached...” He was divinely inspired and saw his…

In Colonial America, Christianity slowly penetrated the lives of slaves. Protestantism was regarded as a private matter and masters did little to Christianize their bondsman. Anglican Protestantism did not resonate with most of the slave population, as it heavily rejected mysticism, something which many African slaves still culturally practiced. Although, during the Great Awakening (1700-1790) blacks and whites in the South were swept up in the religious revival which taught all souls are equal.…

1. What are your strengths as a writer? My strengths as a writer include my innovative side. When I obtain opinions from individuals about my work they are quick to mention that I am very creative. With my creative energy, I have no issue creating a story. Storylines and portrayal are my strengths. 2. What do you feel you still could improve on as a writer? I certainly need to enhance my sentence structure. I generally have a troublesome time with language use. My imaginative side is extremely…

prefer paper-based writing as seen through the survey and paper based writing can never be erased away from the scene. Writing informal diaries are a way to purgation of emotions and sometimes help a student in reflecting his attitude towards negative and positive events in life. Diary can be a resource in which the child could share his feelings and emotions too. Diaries also help planned and focused learners in organizing their schedules, events…

In the late 1700’s, in a meeting room in Philadelphia, a group of concerned citizens drafted an extraordinary document, one that would form the backbone of a new and prosperous nation. That document, of course, was the Constitution of the United States. The document was full of extraordinary principles, from a system of checks and balances, to the radical view that some rights are inalienable and self-evident. But the most extraordinary precept that the framers of the Constitution embodied in…

Perhaps one of the deadliest attacks on American soil prior to September 2001 is the Bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The main perpetrator was Timothy James McVeigh. McVeigh was later tired and executed for this act of domestic terrorism. McVeigh planned to incite a revolution against the Federual Government resulted in 168 people losing their lives. Who was Timothy McVeigh and what lead up to the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building. Timothy…

1831: Year of Eclipse by Louis P. Masur questions the events that occurred during the year of 1831 in the United States and how they affected the country and put it on the path towards the Civil War. Masur addresses this question by focusing on four main subjects, which are coincidentally the four chapters of the book. These topics are Slavery and Abolition which discusses the issues regarding free blacks and the plans that were formed in order to abolish slavery, among other topics, Religion…

the primary sources from colonial times are thus about, and by, white men. For example, in Wendy Warren’s essay The Cause of Her Grief": The Rape of a Slave in Early New England, she analyzes a single passage about the rape of a slave from a single diary entry from a man’s travels through colonial Boston. About the [slave owner and traveler], at least, some evidence exists. Their sex, race, class, and literacy combined to ensure that some record of their lives survived their times. As for the…