What is thanksgiving to you? When most people think of this beloved holiday, they think of having a huge feast with loved ones who are gathered at the table. Envisioning celebrating love, hope, and happiness during this day. But there were many rebellions, which led…
The idea of a planned and deliberate retribution at the heart of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” reflects to some degree the vengeful ideology that inspired the Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts. Jackson took immense inspiration from tales of the macabre in an otherwise seemingly mundane…
Living in a society propelled by growth certainly has its advantages. Today, we are blessed to have the internet. The times of heading off to the library to take out books, and talking with an attendant at a desk for their aid in researching topics…
Political power is the ability to control or influence the behavior of people, and the bigger your sphere of influence, the more political power you attain. In the Spring and Summer of 1898, the United States went to war with Spain. The Americans were victorious,…
In “The Declaration of Independence” Thomas Jefferson calls for the separation of the American colonists from the grips of an abusive and tyrannical England. He makes his position clear to the colonist and most importantly the world by using persuasive appeals, syntax and diction Thomas…
The creator of the I Have a Dream speech, Martin Luther King Jr., was famous for being the leader of the civil rights movement from years 1954 to 1968. Amongst his career he believed in the strategy of nonviolence, and he proposed the civil and…
Over 250,000 people gathered around the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC on August 28, 1963 to listen to a speech that would be known as one of the greatest to ever be delivered. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech to…
The time was during the 20th century when racism, segregation, and many more things were making African Americans socially, and economically weaker than whites who usually had many advantages over them. Such things were the schools they went to which were superior when compared to…
On August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and delivered a speech to thousands. This speech would go on to be known as the most famous speech in history, it is known as the “I Have…
Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” address falls under the broad genre of non-fiction persuasive prose in the form of a speech. It is broadly targeted at all American citizens; black and white civil rights activists, as well as members of society who are…
Martin Luther King Junior stamps August the 28, 1963, as a historical landmark of equality for black Americans, ironically in the Lincoln Memorial. Not only does King proclaim equality, but the format in which his speech was composed, influenced writers for decades to come. King…
According to the article, “Cherokee Petition Protesting Removal, 1836”. Along time before, the idea of Indian removal has its origins rooted earlier in the eighteenth-century. A form of Indian removal was first proposed by Thomas Jefferson. However, Native Americans resisted the violent attack of American…
After watching “Gold Rush”, I learned a lot about how the Gold Rush affected not only the past, but the present. The discovery of gold in California affected immigration/migration, ethnic relations, and social and political developments in the United States in the mid-1800s. Watching Gold…
At the hour of the production of the Constitution, the issue of slavery had been put off and maintained a strategic distance from, a choice that would later prompt the debate presently known as the American Civil War. The composition, which was at one time…
California became an American territory when the United States defeated Mexico in 1847. John Marshall discovered gold the next year, bringing people from all over the world to the port of San Francisco and the surrounding area. These prospectors scoured riverbeds and mountainsides, and eventually…
Cold Mountain is a historical fiction novel written by Charles Frazier that tells the story of Inman, a wounded deserter from the Confederate army near the end of the Civil War who journeys for months to return to Ada Monroe, the love of his life….
In the book Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier, is recognized as one of the best novels written about the Civil War. Although this book does not talk about specific battles, it shows a point of view of the Civil War era that most authors do…
It began on Thursday, October 24, 1929. 12,894,650 shares changed hands on the New York Stock Exchange-a record. To put this number in perspective, let us go back a bit to March 12, 1928 when there was at that time a record set for trading…
It was not the downturn within the commerce cycle, exchange protectionism, or the 1929 stock market crash that dove the nation to misery. It was the collapse of the banking system amid three waves of panics over the 1930-33 period. After the market crashed, certainty…