Zinn Essay Period 3 US History AP A nation founded on the slaughter of innocent people will never admit what they did was wrong. Most of them will not even acknowledge that such events ever took place. They will even go as far as to tell their children that the murderous tyrants of old were heroes and how they brought peace and prosperity. They will preach of how a nation of uneducated savages was given the gift of Christianity and how the divine light lead them to become people of culture. This
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In the article How Democratic Is America?‚ Howard Zinn‚ an idealist and liberal‚ spars against Sidney Hook‚ a pragmatic conservative about the current system of democracy set up in the United States. From the first concept of standards for America’s democracy‚ Zinn and Hook hold conflicting viewpoints. While Zinn believes that we should “measure our democracy against an ideal (if admittedly unachievable) standard”‚ Hook believes that “the only sensible procedure in determining the absence or presence
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always tend to leave out some of the more disturbing parts of history. In A People’s History of the United States‚ Howard Zinn tells history from the perspective of all the minorities affected in the building of the United States. He criticizes the versions of history that are told from the “viewpoint of the leaders…” without any regard of the mass murders or exploitation (9). Zinn describes the novel as being “skeptical of governments and their attempts…” (10). The view of Zinn’s novel as a “history
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Colors and Lines. They are an integral part of our world today. Imagine a world without colors or lines. What would it be like? It would likely be a shapeless monochromatic world with varying shades of white‚ grey and black. Colors and lines are vital to the world as we know it‚ and they can be used as tools for gaining our attention. In a car advertisement‚ the Ford Motor company portrays the image of a car key with unusual grooves on the blade. The Ford Fusion ad employs the use of colors and
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Growing up in America during the 1900s was a difficult time for people of color‚ because people were judged on the color of their skin rather than the content of their character. In Color Lines by Ralph Eubanks‚ examines how DNA testing can alter the ways in which individuals view themselves. For more than a century‚ America has consistently used a racial caste system‚ a concept originally invented to categorize perceived biological‚ social‚ and cultural differences‚ to separate individuals into
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To spank or not to spank‚ where do you draw the line? How do you discipline your children? Do you think it’s okay to discipline them by spanking them? Parents use discipline to teach their children the difference between right and wrong. What is right and what is wrong? Ninety percent of parent thinks that the only way to deal with misbehaving children is to give them a smack. "The American Academy of Pediatricians say that spanking might actually do more harm than good"‚ meaning that the spanking
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W.E.B. DuBois made an argument that “the problem of the twentieth century is the color line.” After only covering the first third of the twentieth century it is a problem but not this main problem. The problem that was larger was the class disparity revolving around wages and working conditions. The color line was mainly a problem in the south where there was the most diversity. The labor dispute spanned coast to coast and was in the North and the South. The main points are the great steel strike
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make cotton worth a lot but the machine required a lot of manual labor which brought along the plantation system. Prior to the cotton gin slave trade was done most by the New England colonies‚ this was called “Triangle Trade (Wikipedia‚ n.d.).” | 2) The socio-cultural impact of the abolitionist movement including: a) The effect of Uncle Tom’s Cabin b) The Kansas-Nebraska Act c) The Compromise of 1850 d) The Underground Railroad | 1800-1870 | a. a book that describes how slaves
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XI Chapter 10 – Straight Lines Maths Exercise 10.1 Question 1: Draw a quadrilateral in the Cartesian plane‚ whose vertices are (–4‚ 5)‚ (0‚ 7)‚ (5‚ –5) and (–4‚ –2). Also‚ find its area. 14 Answer Let ABCD be the given quadrilateral with vertices A (–4‚ 5)‚ B (0‚ 7)‚ C (5‚ –5)‚ and D (– 4‚ –2). Then‚ by plotting A‚ B‚ C‚ and D on the Cartesian plane and joining AB‚ BC‚ CD‚ and DA‚ SU M IT © 20 the given quadrilateral can be drawn as To find the area of quadrilateral ABCD‚ we draw one
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ZINN CHAPTER 7: Study Questions "As Long as Grass Grows or Water Runs" 1. What is the major theme (recurring idea) in this chapter. The major theme in this chapter was about the Native Americans and their survival due to the Americans taking their land‚ spreading diseases‚ and raiding their towns. 2. What evidence does Zinn cite to illustrate the overall impact of Indian removal? The evidence Zinn uses to illustrate the overall impact of the Indian removal by talking about the book
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