The Last Colonial Massacre by Greg Grandin is about the Panzós massacre of the Q’eqchi Mayans in 1978. This was unfortunately a violent precursor the Scorched-Earth campaign of the 80’s that would kill many more Q’eqchi. This book‚ while examining an individual event on a personalized level through the life of Adelina Caal‚ a focus of the last chapter‚ this book shows the effects of Neoliberalism‚ the US’s involvement in Latin America in the Cold War‚ and ethnic tension stemming from cultural differences
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Racial tension in American literature 1930’s-1960’s ‘You know if I was a negro i’d probably think the same way they do’ Anderson ‘If you were a negro nobody would give a dam what you thought’ Ward- Mississippi Burning (1988) During the 1930s-1960s America was a place of racial tension. The blacks and white were not equal. It was a time of black oppression an injustice. These themes are shown through the texts‚ ‘The Help‘ by Kathryn Stockett‚ ‘Mississippi Burning‘ directed by Allan Parker
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The rebellion was led by a man named Daniel Shay and lasted over six months. The goal of the rebellion was to prevent the trial and imprisonment of the debt-ridden farmers. After a few protests following the tax collections‚ the governor of Massachusetts‚ named James Bowdoin‚ called the militia to report the peoples’ unwillingness to pay and follow the law. The critical point of the rebellion was Shays’ march on the government arsenal at Springfield in January 1787. The only means of standing off
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interstate tensions in SEA since independence. To what extent do you agree with this assessment? The assessment above is accurate to the extent that political differences had triggered direct tangible actions which led to actual tensions between SEA states. Compared to ethnic-cultural divisions which merely bred suspicions and mutual distrust‚ contributing indirectly to the development of i/s tensions‚ political differences were able to explain the immediate and long term causes of i/s tensions. In general
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How did the tensions of the 1860s show the human side of the Civil War? Three perspectives of the Civil War were the children‚ African Americans‚ and the medical staff. Most of the effects of the tensions made were not good. One side of the Civil War were the children. Tens of thousands of fathers were killed in the war. This caused many children to become orphans‚ causing the opening of many orphanages all across America. Some children wanted to become soldiers and they would slip through the cracks
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Almost every child will have rebellion during their growing process. Some of them will behave quiet different from parents’ expectation. They often argue with their parents‚ easily get angry‚ do not do what their parents tell them to do‚ and even do some dangerous activities like drinking or having drugs. Knowing the important cause and potential effects of teenage rebellion is very necessary. The most important cause of teenage rebellion is parents’ unconscious control. Usually‚ parents always
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Surrounding the Whiskey Rebellion For hundreds of years‚ there have been many reasons for citizens to feel like they were being taken advantage of by their government. The biggest source of these exploited feelings seems to be taxes. Now‚ when citizens feel like they are taken advantage of‚ there seems to be 2 ways that they deal with it: they accept it and pay their taxes‚ or they get angry until the whispers of rebellion are heard ‘round the country. A great example of a rebellion caused by taxes was
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English 102 TEACHER NAME HERE 2 October 2012 Analyzation of Rebellion: Good or Bad? William Butler Yeats’s poems "Easter 1916" and "The Second Coming" each portray the theme of rebellion. However‚ rebellion is not always heroic and these two poems clash with one another to prove this point. "Easter 1916" contains text which presents rebellion as a positive action; whereas‚ "The Second Coming" makes the reader believe rebellion only leads to pure chaos and disorder until the end of time. In addition
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in the United States‚ the slaves‚ also performed their own acts of resistance in hopes of freedom. While ultimately none of them destroyed the system of slavery‚ they did have an impact‚ especially on white Southerners. Often‚ large scale slave rebellions were inspired by Christian sermons and meetings and small scale acts of individual slave resistance were motivated by a hope to achieve the popularized idea of American freedom. These actions of resistance caused fear among white Southerners‚ stricter
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In 1945‚ the two superpowers--the United States and the USSR--became enemies because their beliefs and objectives were completely at odds‚ this was known as the Cold War. An aspect of the Cold War was the race for nuclear superiority. As tension grew between the USSR and America‚ Americans were engulfed in great anxiety and fear towards the atomic bomb. During the atomic era and since then‚ the atomic bomb had predominantly been portrayed as the cause of great fear and anxiety. As fears intensed
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