The Radical Republicans were a minority group of Republican congressmen whose Ideas differ from those of the Moderate Republicans and Conservative Republicans. Their political faction lasted from around 1854 to 1877. During the Civil War Radical Republicans‚ favored the enlistment of black troops and call for the emancipation of slavery. They opposed and criticized President Abraham Lincoln a Moderate Republican for not moving fast enough to abolish slavery and for his selection of military commanders
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Massie Rape Case Seventy years ago last month‚ in the pre-dawn hours of a Sunday morning‚ two Honolulu police officers awakened a young man named Horace Ida at his home in Kalihi-Palama. Ida dressed hurriedly and went with the detectives‚ thinking he knew what they were after. Two hours earlier‚ while driving his sister’s car‚ Ida had a near collision with another auto at the corner of King and Liliha streets. An argument broke out and one of the men riding with Ida got in a brief scuffle with
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with morals what it hurts with wit. We may safely assume that satire is a mixture of laughter and rebuke. Satire implies an accepted norm of behaviour‚ the departure from which calls forth criticism. In all the great satirists like Swift‚ Pope and Horace‚ there is always present the fire of indignation which burns away human foibles and vices. Thus satire is but an indignant and veiled protest against evils rampant in social behaviour‚ human nature or institutions. Satire spreads over all
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Mimesis‚ the Greek word for imitation‚ has been of major importance in the history of aesthetic and literary theory. It is the earlier way to judge any work of art in relation to reality and to decide whether its representation is accurate or not. Though this mode starts from Plato‚ it runs through many great theorists of Renaissance up to some modern theorists as well. A literary work is taken to be a representation of reality or of any aspect of it. Plato holds a rather negative view on mimesis;
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THOMAS “BLIND TOM” GREENE WIGGINS BETHUNE Thomas “Blind Tom” Greene Wiggins Bethune (b. 1849 Georgia-d. 1908 New Jersey)‚ was a composer and pianist born to Domingo Wiggins and Charity Greene on Wiley Jones ’s plantation in Harris County‚ Georgia. In 1850‚ Bethune was auctioned off to Colonel James Neil Bethune‚ along with his parents and two brothers. Born blind and sickly‚ he was included with the purchase of his family for free.1 As a toddler he took on the name of his new owner‚ Bethune.
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Chapter 31 Essential Questions 1. How and why did America turn toward domestic isolation and social conservatism in the 1920s? Americans turned toward domestic isolation and social conservatism in the 1920s because of the red scare. Many people used the red scare to break the backs of all struggling unions. Isolationist Americans had did not have a lot of hope in the 1920s. There began to be a large amount of immigrants flowing into the US. During 1920-1921‚ over 800‚000 immigrants had come
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Sacco‚ a shoe-factory worker‚ and Vanzetti‚ a fish peddler‚ were convicted in 1921 of the murder of a Massachusetts paymaster and his guard; 3) Horace Kallen- believed in pluralism (preservation of identity) ; U.S. should provide protective canopy for ethnic & racial groups 4) Randolph Bourne- This man was a "cultural pluralist" along with Horace Kallen. He opposed the idea of immigration restriction 5) Al Capone- grasping and murderous booze distributor; known as "Scarface"; from Chicago;
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The Emancipation Proclamation was introduced in 1863. The proclamation had many short-term effects in terms of how it affected the lives of Americans these effects can be broken down into the civil war‚ African Americans‚ the confederate states and people’s perception of Abraham Lincoln. However the effects of the emancipation proclamation can be regarded as insignificant in terms of the scale of the effect. The emancipation proclamation changed the civil war drastically. It gave the union a more
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Horace says that because of the frequent fires the days leading up to October 8th‚ and the bells ringing so frequently he thought that it was just another fire that would be taken care of. He then goes on to explain that the fire was different from others
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among the numerous people murdered during the raid. This action was condemned by most of the southerners and some of the northerners‚ but John Brown became a sectional hero to most of the North. Two months after the raid‚ noted abolitionist writer Horace Greeley wrote an editorial in the New York Tribune (Document A) which stated that although John Brown’s raid was an “unfit mode of combating a great evil”‚ “his are the errors of a fanatic‚ not the crimes of a felon.” Statements such as these gradually
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