Slavery was a major issue in the growth of our country, and the views of Benjamin Banneker-son of former slaves, a farmer, astronomer, mathematician, surveyor, and author-are evident in his letter written in 1791 to then secretary of state Thomas Jefferson. This letter was written during a time when we were trying to bring a country together as one, but there was a huge problem in the way to treat slavery that was preventing the advancement of a Nation. Banneker effectively utilizes rhetorical strategies to get his point that slavery must be abolished across to Thomas Jefferson.…
Donald L. Niewyk’s fifth and sixth chapters both deal more with outside perspectives and outside reactions than it does with those who were persecuted. The fifth chapter, “Bystander Reactions,” offers four different arguments as to why bystanders acted they way they did during the Holocaust. The sixth chapter, “Possibilities of Rescue,” discusses three different viewpoints on what foreign governments could have done to prevent the Holocaust. These two chapters conclude Niewyk’s book The Holocaust and wrap up the final sequence of events surrounding the Holocaust and the camps.…
Texas history, as we learned about it in text books, has only told half of the story of Texas Independence. Every school child learns the story of the Alamo and how the brave souls paid with their lives for our freedom. What the historians failed to mention was all of the patriots who were involved, leading up to the Alamo and those who fought after. One of these patriots was Juan Sequin, who ended up paying for his patriotism with banishment, and being marked a traitor. It would be many years after his death before the full story of what this man, and others, actually achieved.…
At the juvenile age of 15 on April 19, 1775, Adam Cooper signed the muster book and joined the Lexington militia. Throughout the next twenty-four hour period, we watched as Adam had his first encounters with the joy that is love and the heartbreak and pain of death. We observed closely as Adam surrendered his childhood and blossomed into a strong, young man. April Morning by Howard Fast told us about how Adam conquered some of his life's toughest challenges and so much more. Please join me as I tell proceed to tell you Adam’s story.…
MODESTO - Life is back to normal for the Calaveras Redskins football team. The 2014 season which saw the ‘Skins go 5-5 and miss the playoffs for the first time in 17 years, is in the rearview mirror. Calaveras, along with Mother Lode League rival Sonora Wildcats, the Ripon Christian Knights, of the Southern League, and California State Division IV Champion Central Catholic Raiders, took part in a three-day camp at Central Catholic High School, in Modesto.…
In an editorial published by The New York Times, the author sees the altering of Mark Twain’s language within The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as an desecration of a rich piece of literature, and does not approve of a new “sanitized” edition of the novel. Although the intention of the novel’s editor was to replace certain words with less offensive phrases, the article’s author sees the replacement of “nigger” with “slave” as a corruption of a historical language. The “n-word” will be identified as the worser term and the substituted word will be viewed as having no relation to the wickedness of slavery. The author argues that the beauty and significance of “Huckleberry Finn” is its ability to precisely interpret the detailed dialect of the time period, and would be severely damaged if another writer would transform its original context.…
No, I don’t agree with the sentencing because had the judge given the message sentence, that may cause Sandusky grounds for another appeal on the maximum punishment for the numbers of years that he’s already going to serve. The sentence that Sandusky received assures that he will never walk the streets again. The sentence is based on the person and the crime. Given Sandusky age, the sentence is long enough even he was able to walk in general population that would be his death sentence as well.…
As you can imagine, immigration has changed drastically from 1920 to present day. The question is, has it improved? In 1920, Seymour Rechtzeit’s family decided to immigrate to the United States. Seymour had been a child prodigy since he was 4. Once he turned 8 his family decided to move to the United States, therefore Seymour had more opportunities to fulfill his dream. World War 1 also played a part in the decision making, Europe was going through tough times. Once arriving to Ellis Island Seymour’s father waited in a terribly long line as part of the entry process. Seymour was diagnosed with a common cold and was informed he would be detained at Ellis Island for a couple of days until he got better. He was kept with other sick boys, although they had no toys to play with they had each other to keep company, they would eat in a huge dining room, the food was strange to Seymour yet he claims the food was delicious. Soon his cold went away and he was informed his Father and Uncle were coming to get him. Soon he found himself on a boat heading toward America, with only Ellis Island and the sea behind him. Seymour described the moment he left as the happiest he had felt in months, all around him families were being greeted by relatives, greetings, hugs, and tears of joy were surrounding him. Seymour soon became a child star, he had gathered enough money to bring…
It goes without question, that human beings will always question the existence of “God”. Whether these questions are formed in support or denial of an omnipresent creator they are important in helping shape our morality. H J McCloskey and his article “On Being and Atheist” is very critical of theists. It thus presents several arguments on how believers are incorrect in their belief in “God”, cosmological and teleological. McCloskey also focus’s on the existence of evil and how one can find comfort in atheism when facing evil.…
William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury tells of a crumbling southern family, the Compsons, through the inner thoughts of three brothers and a third person narrator. Each of the three sections gives a different perspective on their sister, Caddy, who is the main cause of the turmoil in the family. The brother’s, Benjy, Quentin, and Jason, each interpret Caddy differently based on each of their interior conflicts. Benjy’s section gives the reader the perspective of the Caddy from a simple minded perspective, and describes Caddy as such. Quentin, being highly educated, gives a deeper look into Caddy and how she leads the family, and Quentin, to their end. Jason views Caddy as a disappointment and a curse upon the family. In Jason’s interpretation…
During the beginning of the book, Sal refused to empathize with others because she thought she had a bigger problem at hand, her mother. In this quote, Sal refuses to empathize with her father and how he Mrs.Cadaver, and her relevance to their family. “Who cares? I thought. Who cares how he met Mrs.Cadaver?” Sal isn’t looking at her father’s perspective and is lacking empathy to her father. She is also disrespecting her father which affects the way she is viewed. In the middle of the novel, Sal is beginning to empathize with Phoebe, when her mother leaves instead of being stubborn and ignoring. “I felt bad for Phoebe. I knew I should get up and try to be nice, but I remembered when I had felt like that, and I knew that sometimes you just wanted to be alone with the birds of sadness.” Sal is starting to empathize with others because instead of forcing a situation with Phoebe she remembers how she felt when her mother left and decided to give Phoebe space and time. At the end of the novel Sal is empathizing with people in all sorts of situations. In this quote, Sal is starting to learn more about herself than at the beginning. “It seems to me that we can’t explain all the truly awful things in the world like war and murder and brain tumors and we can’t fix these things, so we look at the frightening things that are closer to us and we magnify them…
Help can be given and received only by those who accept it. The teenagers of today’s society seem to rebel against help and those who can give help. Teenagers seem to have the mentality that they have to do everything on their own, that they have to be “independent”, and that no one understands them. With that type of mentality no one can be helped. Holden has that same mentality. He believes that he is a grown independent man who can live on his own and that he does not need anyone. Therefore before her accepts any help he is forced to reach his breaking point.…
B. Bridge: To some people, that doesn't seem too bad, especially if you come from a wealthy family, but what if that wasn't the case? What if your mother and father struggled to put food on the table for you and your siblings? You wouldn't want to be like them. You would want to be better than them and if you were a parent, you would want a better life for you and your children. Some people choose to pursue better opportunites and a better life elsewhere. These opportunities aren't always in their home countries. The problem is that some countries don't welcome these opportunists. Sometimes once these migrants enter a country, they are held back from making a living for themselves.…
George doesn’t die but he does kill his lifelong friend Lennie. He has to kill Lennie because there is no other way to save Lennie. He does this out of love for his friend but others disagree with this. Others believe that George did the wrong thing by killing Lennie and that this makes him a bad friend. In reality George is actually a very good friend and did do the right thing of killing Lennie. It was the right thing to do because he did it out of compassion and love for his friend and Lennie was his responsibility so he had to do it.…
If the only way to save your life was to blame an innocent member in your community, would you? In The Crucible, Arthur Miller expresses the acts of finding a scapegoat through John Proctor and Reverend Hale juxtaposed to Abigail, the girls and some of the accused. Many of the accused “witches” admit to being a witch and save their own lives by offering the names of other witches in the community. If the accused claim they are not witches, they will be hanged for witchcraft, but if they confess and desire God’s forgiveness, their lives will be spared. “HALE: You have confessed yourself to witchcraft, and that speaks a wish to come to Heaven’s side. And we will bless you Tituba.” (Page 43).…