Despite the fact that the Confederacy lost the Civil War‚ monuments that glorify its leaders and generals are still up in the United States‚ mainly in former Confederate states. The argument is‚ should these monuments be removed from public places? According to the Southern Poverty Law Center‚ the rise of Confederate monuments in the United States didn’t occur right after the Civil War. After the Civil War‚ the Southern states were at their weakest and it took many years to recover from the aftermath
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To answer the question‚ “What evidences are there to support that Lincoln was acting consciously with reference to a consistent change process‚ rather than simply reacting to the immediate situation? “Breakthrough results occur primarily from unleashing the human potential in your organization‚” (Anderson‚ Ackerman‚ 2010‚ p. 17). In the leadership roles that possessed he added the best and the brightest to his cabinet to serve under him. Also‚ in his selection of generals to command his army he
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Confederate Monuments The Confederate monuments are a vital part of history and eliminating them is like eliminating history. The past is the past and the monuments do not stand for racism it stands for a part of history and it definitely wasn’t a good part of history but it was a learning experience for it to not happen again. The statues and flag stands for history of the south and every time someone see a flag or monument it reminds them of what the ancestors of the south did and fought for in
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Lerone Bennett Jr.‚ Abraham Lincoln is shown to be a white supremacist. He goes on to explain all the ways Lincoln did not have the intentions everyone thought he had. Furthermore‚ Lincoln has said in private and also in public that he was a white supremacist. He believed that as long as he was alive white and blacks should remain separated preferably by the Atlantic Ocean. Bennett believes it is his duty to prove what majority of the people think they know about Lincoln and expose the reality of the
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Legislative Analyst June 21‚ 1988 MEMORANDUM FOR THE GOVERNOR FROM: [NAME WITHHELD]‚ Legislative Analyst SUBJECT: Flying of Confederate Flag over Capital Building ISSUE: Presentation of analysis for your decision: BACKGROUND: The office of the Governor has received several demands by members representing the state’s chapter of the NAACP to remove the Confederate flag (“flag”). Earlier this year 13 African-American legislators were arrested for trespassing and as they attempted to remove
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Where Should the Confederate Flag be Flown? In the past couple of year‚ there has been a controversial battle over the flying of the Confederate Flag on government buildings. The controversy has really started to stir up in the southern states such as South Carolina‚ Mississippi‚ and Georgia. On January 30‚ 2001‚ the state of Georgia changed its flag‚ removing the large Confederate battle cross from the 1956 design and replacing it with the state seal of Georgia. Now‚ the state of Mississippi
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Clausewitz defines victory as overcoming your opponent’s will to resist in order to force him to accept your geo-political position/policy. (CL 94) Clausewitz also correctly points out that both combatants define victory and peace. Even within the pure warfare‚ the defeated gets a vote. (CL 80) Bartholomees broaden the participants to include the perception of noncombatants. (Barth p 31) Both would agree unless the victor is considering a Carthage like solutions‚ defeated people can resist in
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The Confederate Flag. An object of being proud to some people. To other people this flag is a symbol of the old days and racism. What is the right way and what is the wrong way to interpret this flag. I believe the Confederate flag is one of the symbol that need to be taken down‚ but not for the reason you may believe. I believe the Confederate flag should be taken down because this is a nation of equality. One of the aims for this society is to become integrated again‚ especially within the school
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existence but with as much conflict within its borders as compared to other countries in the world. America’s founding and growth to power was done with the intent of white dominance‚ never intending for those who did much of the labor that kept the economy afloat-the enslaved black people. America’s hierarchy of blacks having nothing and no chance to become anything more was shaken with the Emancipation Proclamation and ensuing 13th‚ 14th‚ and 15th Amendments‚ which intended for blacks and other minorities
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In May 1830 Congress passed the Indian Removal Act‚ this approved that the President Andrew Jackson could remove all Native Americans from their land and to arrange settlements of evacuation with every single Indian tribe living east of the Mississippi. After the Indian Removal act was established Georgia‚ surveyors and squatter entered Cherokee lands‚ instantly focusing on the Cherokee tribe‚ they chose to battle back in government court. The Cherokee country brought a suit against the condition
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