Wars of the Roses

During postbellum South, many former Confederate States’ citizens were left reeling from the destruction of the Civil War. Southerners, with their economy and land in ruins, yearned to return to a past more illustrious in memory than it ever was in reality. Indeed, Southerners did not give up their aristocratic social structure but rather clung to the final remnants of the South’s golden age. However, as time passes on, the newer generation becomes more progressive. They are less willing to hold…

Summary In his essay, “Blue-Collar Brilliance,” Mike Rose shows us that even though there are jobs that do not require lots of studies, that does not mean that people who perform in those fields are not as intelligent as those called “white-collar” in other-word, well-educated people. He states what his mother and uncle does as examples to describe the value of a blue-collar worker performing what they know in their jobs. His mother, Rose Meraglio Rose (Rosie) worked as a waitress in a Coffee…

what other ways death can be hampered, for example, in war. Of course, the climate of opinion is that war is not preventable; however, in his anti-war book, Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut uses rhetoric to show how society sanctions war to be cataclysmic and damaging to all those involved. In the first chapter of the book, Vonnegut describes a visit he had with…

main plot of the novel begins when a daughter named Jing-mei sets out on a journey to find her long lost twin sisters. Jing-Mei’s older twin sisters were lost due to their mother having to leave them behind while fleeing China in the middle of World War 2. Part of this reason may be due to the fact that there are four whole different families. The first family I would like to introduce is the Woo family. Perhaps the most important person in the Woo family is daughter Jing-mei Woo, or also…

Mike Rose, the author of “Blue-Collar Brilliance,” argues that intelligence is not something that is defined by formal education, but rather the use of critical thinking and experience. In his essay, Mike Rose uses a plethora of examples ranging from personal experiences, historical examples, and visual content to support his assertion. The argument that education does not equal intelligence leads to an important question: how can intelligence defined and quantified? Mike Rose disputes the…

dinner ready on the table by the time dusk comes to fruition. These southern belles are practically isolated to live lonely lives without being able to participate in the one thing they enjoy which is baseball. Because this movie is set during the war, husbands and men are commissioned to fight for their country, leaving Major League Baseball…

The White Rose and the Red Kapos: Controversy and Glorification in Memorializing Resistance Groups After Adolf Hitler’s election as chancellor, infringements on freedom of speech and press in Germany started becoming more and more commonplace, until any dissent become illegal and punishable by death. On the background of this violent, repressive regime, a few distinct types of resistance occurred, defined and limited by the motivations, resources and positions of its members. Resistance in the…

Essay: In the aftermath of the Vietnam War (1955-1975) Cambodia’s political and social tensions rose so dramatically that they led to war with Vietnam. Cambodia went from celebrating their victory over the Americans to a nation on the brink of war with its neighbours. In the aftermath of the war, due to clashing communist ideologies, the countries, Cambodia and Vietnam, positioned themselves against each other. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge conducted mass purges that kill a million people and…

World War II ended, the American economy had escaped the depths of the Great Depression. Leading to the prosperous years of the post-war era and the age of a new America. As veterans returned from the warfront, they were reunited with their wives. Thus starting the start of the baby boom, but other factors also led to the baby boom. Such as Americans now feeling more financially stable and confident in spending. With the ending of rationing and businesses who produced materials for the war now…

World War Two. You really like this German composer, but you can’t listen to him because the United States, or wherever you live, won’t broadcast his music. He’s an enemy! Not every musician was like that during a time like World War Two. Even though a lot of musicians couldn’t perform during wars, music still highly affected people’s life during war times. Prior to my research, I believed that music was still created during wars but my initial thought was by who? In cases like the Vietnam War,…