Wounded Knee Massacre

because everyone has their personal beliefs of what’s right and what’s wrong. All of which can lead to a heavyset correlation of violence that can damage either societies or small communities as a whole, as we think about things such as the Wounded Knee Massacre, anti-Judaism or perhaps the white supremacy era that have led to such violence. I believe that religion as a source of violence has played a very strong role in shaping United State’s…

Essay Question #2 Huckleberry Finn’s Jim, a runaway slave and protagonist, was a revolutionary character when the book was released in 1885. Although the Civil War ended and slavery ended 20 years prior to the release of Huckleberry Finn, racism was still an issue during this time period. Blacks were still not formally accepted as equals to Whites. With that being said, a black character as one of the protagonists, a focal point in the book, and a hero was, at the time, questionable and…

insight in how the cultures and society differ and where they are similar. We also watched the movie based on the book, which also helped us view things in a different manner. We also watched “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,” and this gave us some insight in historical engagement at Wounded Knee and helped prepare us for the opportunity we had to visit the location while out in South Dakota. This was supplemented by our weekly meetings and occurred on Mondays from 4PM to around 6:30PM. I think…

The atrocities that took place at Wounded Knee was mainly of assassination of Natives. The soldiers had used wagon guns which destroyed some bodies to pieces. Then, the soldiers typically shot at the unarmed Natives while they attempted to escape. They believed the killing of the natives was necessary to defend and save the life of the settlers. President Harrison indicated that the victims deserved the atrocities handed out at them. President Harrison agreed that the Natives were certainly…

The Sand Creek Massacre occurred on November 29, 1864 when Colonel Chivington, a high ranking military official, and his men attacked a Cheyenne camp in the dead of night with no warning (Brown 92). The novel Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown contains this account of the massacre by: “The squaws offered no resistance. Every one I saw dead was scalped. I saw one squaw cut open with an unborn…

I cannot believe how many soldiers have come in from the battlefield. I think at this point it must be on the upwards of 5,000 soldiers with casualties. The battle of Antietam Creek sure is a bloody one. What a shame. My care to the wounded can only go so far. Amputation after amputation it only gets harder and harder to see the intense pain they go through. One soldier came in with a bullet wound above the elbow. He asked me, already knowing the answer, “What can you do to save it” All I could…

Henry becomes wounded when he sees soldiers retreating, and tries to stop one to ask what’s going on. Because the soldier only wants to leave he hits Henry over the head with his rifle. Next he’s befriended by a cheery solider who will return him to his regiment. Of course…

young recruit to hide beneath his arm and Paul consoled him. With this, the young man was relieved. The gestures that Paul displayed shows that he is a compassionate young fellow. Later, after the shelling, Paul meets the same recruit who is now wounded around his hip. The young lad’s body was covered in blood and is at the brim of dying. Kat and Paul was certain that he will not make it and they decide to kill him by a gun. Though ready to shoot, they were stopped as there were soldiers with a…

paper, I compare two scenes from How to Train Your Dragon and argue that they reveal the difficulty yet the importance of foregoing one’s prejudices and accepting others based off their true self’s. The two scenes I chose are Hiccups discovery of the wounded dragon and Hiccup’s first light. I chose these scenes because their soundtracks illuminate the movie’s theme through the reflection of internal conflicts acoustically in orchestral arrangements, cues that highlight each character’s…

The reality of war and the fantasy of war are two very different things. Adults often glorify war and see it as an emasculator, even as a necessary part of progress, but the cruel reality of war only brings death and ruin. The narrator is not named in the story but is a boy who is merely six years of age. This young boy becomes an unfortunate victim to the disaster that is war. In Ambrose Bierce’s short story, Chickamauga, the young boy’s childlike innocence in the beginning is proof that war…