Title: “The South Since 1865” Author: John Samuel Ezell Publisher: The Macmillian Company‚ New York Length: 511 Reading Time: 2 weeks Reading Rating: 6 (1=very easy; 10=very difficult) Overall Rating: 7 (1=poor; 10=Outstanding) SCOPE The South Since 1865 delivers an entertaining account and perspective on the drastic changes in the South. This book is an excellent resource to students‚ educators and history enthusiasts. In reviewing the book‚ the principal criteria included content
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slave. The “flesh” on the slave ship is nothing more than just an object that can be overworked and thrown out once it no longer functions. The white-man/owners do not care for this loss because there is an excess of the supply of slaves coming in from West Africa. Soto’s character is a lot like the slaves that Yaeger illustrates because the Chicano is overworked and suffers from fatigue much like the slaves do in the New World. Mexicans come into the Americas looking for a new living and a new source
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“They call me Rain. I have long forgotten my real name as I was very young when they came into my village and took me. I can’t remember much from my life before being a slave girl‚ but my masters have told me I am from a small village in West Africa.” Late one night‚ in a small village in Africa‚ when all had gone to sleep‚ they came like ghosts in the darkness. They took Rain from her mother’s arms and bond her father. They were crammed into pens on the back of carts like
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streets‚ what should be promoted? Should a nation rebuild work‚ jobs and the people’s lifestyles or should they be promoting drinking‚ dancing‚ movies and entertainment? In the period from 1900-1930‚ drinking‚ dancing‚ movies‚ and entertainment was seen as a problem rather than progress. The uprising of American entertainment was first viewed as progression due to the new technological advances and higher scale of living. However‚ one could argue‚ the content that was being produced within such entertainment
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meaningful? After reading “1865-1914: A Brief Overview”‚ I must admit that I already possessed knowledge of the historical occurrences and changes in society that occurred between 1865 and 1914. However‚ because I obtained this knowledge from a United States history course‚ I was not necessarily aware of the changes in literature that were taking place during this time period. From this article‚ I have learned that literature was undergoing an evolution between 1865 and 1914‚ and that there was
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Revolutionary War Project: West Point General George Washington‚ one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America‚ the Continental Army commander‚ and later the first president of the United States of America during the American Revolution declared West Point‚ as “the most important military position in America”[i]. West Point is located in New York‚ along the Hudson River and 50miles from New York City. West Point was a very strategic point during the American Revolution‚ due to
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2011 The American Old West: Myth versus Reality Western‚ a genre of short stories that are set in the American west‚ primarily in the late of the 19th century (“Western” 598)‚ and still being told until today by films‚ televisions‚ radio‚ and other art works. The major of moving to the west was because of the Homestead Act‚ 1862 (“U.S. Statues at Large” 392) which would give lands to people who stayed there for five years. This lead to a huge wave of immigrants moved to the West‚ and they
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West vs East Germany After World War II‚ Germany was in ruins and the world was divided. In a famous speech Churchill expressed his view that an Iron Curtain had now descended across Europe (Harbutt 551)‚ “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic‚ an iron curtain has descended across the Continent” (Perry 452). The “Iron Curtain” that had fallen across Europe‚ separated the West and East. A Cold War had begun between the two major powers: The U.S and Soviet Union. It was Capitalism\Democracy
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the uniforms worn by the staff of the franchisee have to be of a particular design and color. The advertising industry encouraged more spending by investing more money on ads would convince American to buy things that they didn’t really need. To increase sales of consumer goods‚ advertisers appeal to American’ desire for status and conformity. Therefore‚ ads from the 1950s were overtly sexual and were generally about the family
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The differences between USSR and the West can be divided into two groups; one is from the political point of view‚ and the other can be the difference in economic system on both sides. After the Bolshevik Revolution‚ under the rule of Lenin‚ the first socialist country was created‚ the USSR. The idea of socialism was developed through Marxist-Leninist theory‚ which is the building of the material base for communist under the dictatorship of the proletariat. Under the theory of socialism in USSR
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