Colfax Massacre Essay

On the day of September 11, 1857, an emigrant party camped at Mountain Meadows was brutally killed by the Mormon militia aided by Indians. This essay examines two viewpoints regarding the massacre found in Sally Denton’s “American Massacre” and in “Massacre at Mountain Meadows” by Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley, and Glen M. Turley.

The battle at the Alamo is one of the most significant events in the Texas Revolution, as well as in both Mexican and American history. For Mexican President and General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, it was a tale of determination and holding to the principles of a strong, central government. For Americans living in Texas, the Alamo was a venture of small scale Revolutionary ideals; a people should be able to democratically express how they feel their homeland to be governed. As we know, both countries experienced the extreme opposites of their desired outcomes, if only initially. The tales of this specific point in time are many, though some certainly contain many varying details from the next. However, most can hardly be proven, as

Moral Panic Moral panic is a widely used and often misinterpreted concept in social sciences. The term was invented by the British sociologist Stanley Cohen the late sixties. Cohen defined moral panic as a form of collective behaviour during which: "A condition, episode, person or group emerges to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests; its nature is presented in a stylised and stereotypical fashion by the mass media; the moral barricades are manned by editors, bishops, politicians and other right thinking people; socially accredited experts pronounce their diagnosis and solutions; ways of coping are evolved or (more often) resorted to; the condition then disappears,

In reading Jasmina Derivsevic-Cesic’s novel, The River Runs Salt, Runs Sweet, I find the purpose of her telling her painful story fascinating. Her purpose in writing her story evolves over time from when she was asked to write about her family members’ deaths, to when she began the writing process. Jasmina begins by stating that she originally was “writing the story for Bosnia’s sake.” (Dervisevic-Cesic, 2) Although, when she begins writing her story, the purpose shifts from the story telling of her lost loved ones to helping the people of her new home to understand what Bosnia went through and how they can help. (D-C, 1)

The Bloody Sunday massacre unfolded on the 22nd January 1905. An unarmed, peaceful march in St. Petersburg, Russia to the Winter Palace was organized by Father Gapon. Approximately 200,000 workers gathered with pictures of their ‘Little Father’ the Tsar, singing the anthem God Save the Tsar all the way along. The problem that it was illegal to hold any demonstration against the Tsar’s authority had threatened the government to believe that it would became a riot and thus, ordered the Imperial Guard to stop and dismiss the protesters. As there were too many protesters that the limited soldiers could not control over, some started gunning down the demonstrators even if no physical threat was shown. Whether the soldiers was given an order to fire

Mass hysteria is a phenomenon that transmits collective allusions of threats through a population in society as a result of rumors and fear. The Crucible by Arthur Miller accurately portrays mass hysteria that took place during the Salem witch trials of 1692. People were accused based on revenge or other malicious motives and to make the situation worse, nothing about the trials was logical. After a few people were accused, fear set into the town and everyone was viewed as a witch until proven innocent. Mass hysteria not only happened during the Salem witch trials, but right after the Twin Towers fell on September 11, 2001 as well. Mass hysteria ties into both the accusations made in The Crucible and the islamophobia that set in after 9/11.

The Unredeemed Captain is the factual telling of the Deerfield Massacre and the ways it effected the Williams family who lost their daughter as a captive to the Bear tribe of the Mohawk Native Americans. The book deeply explores religion and how it relates to the ideas of savagery and family through comparison of experiences in the lives of the Puritans and the lives of the Native American captors.

The siege, fall and ensuing massacre of nearly two hundred Alamo defenders at the hands of Mexican General, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna y Perez de Lebron’s army of over five thousand was a defining moment in both Texan, and American history. For 13 days against insurmountable odds, a small, but very determined Texan garrison force fended off an equally determined Mexican Army ordered to capture it. I’ll discuss the events and political climate leading up to the siege, key historic figures involved on both sides, the siege itself, along with events immediately following the battle. The iconic phrase, “Remember the Alamo!” would later go on to become a rallying cry at the Battle of San Jacinto.

Willa Cather’s My Antonia and Mary Austin’s The Land of Little Rain are two literary works that effectively recreate the landscape of the stories they are telling. Their writing styles have a few similar characteristics, such as their word choice and their usage of visual elements; however, they take advantage of various writing elements that make their writing styles distinct, such as the use of figurative language, emotion, and rhetorical questioning.

A massacre is “an indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of people.” “The Cayuse are a Native American tribe in the state of Oregon in the United States. The Cayuse tribe shares a reservation and government… with the Umatilla and the Walla Walla tribes as part of the... Reservation… The Cayuse called themselves the Liksiyu in the Cayuse language. Originally located in… northeastern Oregon and southeastern Washington, they lived adjacent to territory occupied by the Nez Perce and had… associations with them… The Cayuse ceded most of their traditional territory to the United States in 1855 by treaty and… formed a confederated tribe.” The massacre was on the date November 29, 1847, the murder of Oregon missionaries Marcus Whitman and his wife Narcissa,

Step through as the curtain is pulled back, the wizard considered, and the tools used to create worlds are examined. Nora Roberts has had a long and successful career as a writer and novelist since her first novel, Irish Thoroughbred, was published in 1981. Since then her readers have been rewarded for their loyalty with hundreds of other gems including The Return of Rafe MacKade, and Blood Brothers. Using excerpts from the aforementioned novels, the linguistic elements employed by the author will be carefully looked at to provide explication on how Ms. Roberts created such a unique voice in the wealth of talented writers. In this paper, a detailed analysis of Nora Roberts’ usage of syntax, sentence structure, semantics, the meaning in language,

The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History. First Edition. Robert Darnton. New York: Basic Books, 1999 XIII + 298.

With thousands left wounded, a seemingly countless number of citizens reported dead, and a country left with a reputation in jeopardy. All of these were the consequences of a shocking and devastating event which happened on the 4th of June 1989, the Tiananmen Square massacre. Overtime this has been viewed as a major turning point in Chinese history. It catalyzed movements for generations across the world.

Dhowli by Mahasweta Devi and The Magic Chalk by Kobo Abe though having their differences the two stories reveal similarities in the ideologies the writers are trying to propagate. Though set in different contexts, Dhwoli in village setting in the East and The Magic Chalk in an urban setting in the West, the two stories tell of the frustrations of the characters Dhowli and Argon respectively. Both writers also portray similar skills in how they created their stories. Both have used imagination, creation and suspense in their works. However, there are also some differences in which they have used these skills. This essay attempts to depict the similarities and differences in how the writers include these skills.

Dhowli by Mahasweta Devi and The Magic Chalk by Kobo Abe though having their differences the two stories reveal similarities in the ideologies the writers are trying to propagate. Though set in different contexts, Dhwoli in village setting and The Magic Chalk in an urban setting, the two stories tell of the frustrations of the characters Dhowli and Argon respectively. Both writers also portray similar skills in how they created their stories. Both have used imagination, creation and suspense in their works. However, there are also some differences in which they have used these skills. This essay attempts to depict the similarities and differences in how the writers include these skills.