Land of the Free‚ Home of the Slave Our national anthem chants “O’er the land of the free‚ and the home of the brave.” My challenge is although this is indeed the land of the free; it is more the home of the slave than the brave. The reasoning behind this logic is that it was the slave whose muscle built the soul of America‚ and whose uncanny intrusion branded an indelible mark upon U.S. history. It is not fourscore‚ but seven score and five years later that the controversy which comprised the
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The book From The Land of Shadows by Khatharya Um made me think if people really believed to the communist party and their propaganda or if they were just scared to stand up against them. The book talks about revolutions and how some movements were trying to fight against the regime‚ but they were usually not successful and lots of people were killed during revolutions. Did it result in resignation and accepting the life based on the communism ideals or people were really persuaded by the politic
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Waste Land is a documentary about finding beauty in things that people discard. Directed by Lucy Walker‚ the film follows Brazilian artist Vik Muniz who travels back to his home country from New York City to create artistic photographs shaped by using garbage that depicts the lives of the pickers who live in the largest landfill in the world. Located in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro‚ Jardim Gramacho is a landfill that holds 3‚000 garbage pickers‚ also knowns as catadores‚ who pick out recyclable
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quatrains and an ending couplet‚ "To India My Native Land" is a song of love and deep emotion from Henry Louis Vivian Derozio to his "fallen country‚" India. The poem was published before Derozio’s untimely death at the age of twenty-two from cholera in 1831. The abab abcc dede ff rhyme scheme employed by Derozio is most clearly identifiable as a variation of Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti rhyme scheme Introduction to the Poem • To India- My Native Land is one of the best known poem of Derozio. •
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The Texas Revolution can be considered a land grab by The United States. Texas was first under the control of Mexican government. Steven F. Austin then goes and asks for approval to set a small colony in Texas. Texas had agreed to four main stipulations: must have moral and hardworking settlers‚ keep Spanish as primary language‚ primary religion is Catholicism‚ and no slavery. All is fine until more and more settlers come to Texas. The United States essentially wants Texas for slavery rights‚ sees
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Book Summary: Published in 1965‚ Manchild in the Promised Land is an inner city coming-of-age tale first and foremost. Claude Brown’s fictionalized retelling of his own life is a complex story of survival and hope; one that history often buries for convenience sake. Raised on the streets of poverty-stricken Harlem‚ Brown’s childhood was one of crime‚ drugs‚ hustlers and violence all recounted in angry slice of life details. Brown’s protagonist Sonny spends time in and out of various reform schools
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factors resulting in the loss of the Roman army to practical terms provides a template for commanders to use when planning future operations. These lessons fall under several aspects of current United States Army Unified Land Operations doctrine‚ namely the Tenets of Unified Land Operations (ULO)‚ Warfighting Functions‚ and Mutual Support. The first tenet of ULO is flexibility. Hannibal’s on the spot decision to establish a hasty ambush demonstrates the importance of allowing leaders the ability
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LOLAB: Land of Love and Beauty As it is with any young soldiers‚ it was my dream too to serve in the Kashmir valley. I wanted to be the saviour of “the heaven on earth” as it was called by Mughal Emperor Jehangir‚ marred by religious extremism and terrorism. I started for my posting in Rashtriya Rifles (Counter Insurgency Force) with a lot of enthusiasm. My posting was in the sleepy North Kashmiri district of Kupwara. Despite its breathtaking beauty Kupwara has been infamous in the recent times
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fights primarily on land. In the broadest sense‚ it is the land-based military branch‚ service branch or armed service of a nation or state. It may also include other branches of the military such as the air force via means of aviation corps. Within a national military force‚ the word army may also mean a field army. They differ from army reserves who are activated only during such times as war or natural disasters. In several countries‚ the army is officially called the Land Army to differentiate
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Katla Iceland is called the land of ice and fire. It is formed by the divergent plate boundary between the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates. Spanning the Mid-Atlantic Ridge‚ Iceland emerged as a result of the divergent process; the results of which‚ can be measured and observed on land. About the size of the State of Virginia‚ with a population of around 300‚000. Iceland has 30 volcanoes and 13 of them are active. The most fatal volcanic eruption of Iceland’s history was the Skaftáreldar
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