History Essay 2

Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass both wrote narratives that detailed their lives as slaves in the antebellum era. Both of these former slaves managed to escape to the North and wanted to expose slavery for the evil thing it was. The accounts tell equally of depravity and ugliness though they are different views of the same rotten institution. Like most who managed to escape the shackles of slavery, these two authors share a common bond of tenacity and authenticity. Their voices are different—one is timid, quiet, and almost apologetic while the other one is loud, strong, and confident—but they are both authentic. They both also through out the course of their narratives explain their desires to be free from the horrible practice of slavery.

Harriet Jacobs, a black woman who escapes slavery, illustrates in her biography Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) that death is preferable to life as a slave due to the unbearable degradation of being regarded as property, the inevitable destruction of slave children’s innocence, and the emotional and physical pain inflicted by slave masters. Through numerous rhetorical strategies such as allusion, comparison, tone, irony, and paradoxical expression, she recounts her personal tragedies with brutal honesty. Jacobs’s purpose is to combat the deceptive positive portrayals of slavery spread by southern slave holders through revealing the true magnitude of its horrors. Her intended audience is uninvolved northerners, especially women, and she develops a personal and emotionally charged relationship with them.

Early American Literature reflects many conflicting differences in the presentation of slavery during that time period. Through the two chosen texts, the reader is presented with two different perspectives of slavery; Frederick Douglass’s narrative provides a look at a slave’s life through the eyes if a slave while Benito Cereno showcases the tale of a slave uprising from the viewpoint of the slave owner.. Benito Cereno’s work shows the stereotypical attitude towards African-American slaves and the immorality of that outlook according to Douglass’s narrative. Cereno portrays the typical white slave owner of his time, while Douglass’ narrative shows the thoughts of the slaves. The two stories together show that white Americans are oblivious to the ramifications and overall effects of slavery. These texts assist a moralistic purpose in trying to open up America’s eyes to the true nature of slavery by revealing it’s inhumanity and depicting the cruelty that was allowed.

His tone throughout the prose is not one of persuasion but one of directness and candidness, but it is with the facts he lay out that helps the reader see the horrors of slaver, especially in Celia’s case. The details of the ever-present slavery debates and slave revolutions, particularly the ones in Haiti and the other led by Nat Turner, were discussed, emphasizing the fear whites in the South had of black insurrection. Newsom’s murder no doubt struck fear and questions in slaveholders throughout Missouri as to what may happen if the institution of slavery were to continue, questions as to whether a Nat Turner like mass killing would occur. The main theme throughout the book was whether Celia was justified in her killing and if the institution of slavery should be continued in America. As mentioned before, rape was a common occurrence in these households, Celia was first raped at fourteen on her way to Newsom’s estate.

For centuries scientists have been studying everything from evolution to space. During that time, there have also been projects upon projects that were taken on by new, emerging scientists who will continue the work of the teams who came before them. Each new team brings a new discovery. Something that was previously just a question, such as “what makes us water different than dirt?”, has now been answered due to dozens of different teams all working towards the same goal. Thanks to those scientists, we now know what makes water special. It’s not a physical property, such as colorless, but it’s the fact that it’s made up of hydrogen and oxygen atoms (F. Jabr 4). Taking this concept of discovery, we can apply it to something more complex such as the definition of life.

In this novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe set out on a mission to do two things: first, to inform the Northern readers of the atrocity and immorality slavery had brought to the south, and two, to show how the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 shielded slaves from escaping their owners, all the way now to Canada just to be considered “free.” During this crucial time in American history, Stowe chose to educate her readers about slavery and laws passed by spending a sizeable amount of time on the role of women in all aspects of slavery. Exposing their complex, yet rich sway with others, they manifested a divergent approach with others who came within reach of them. The women within the book, free or enslaved, were put

Author C.S. Lewis in the Horse and the Boy provided the perfect statement about slavery, “But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself”. One of the most important aspects of anybody’s life and also thought to be the meaning of life is, for everybody to what they want when they want as long as they are not hurting anybody else. A life spent playing by somebody else’s rules is simply a life not worth living. Slavery is one of the most disgusting parts of many parts of history and violates the right that every person on this earth is entitled to, the freedom of choice. Two of the most seminal and timeless pieces of literature written about slavery, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl written by Harriet Jacobs and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass both do a tremendous job of showing the harrowing effects of slavery. Jacobs and Douglass had to endure the hate of a society that despised their race and mistakenly encouraged the existence of slavery in society. These two stories present two different perspectives of people from the most oppressed groups in one of if not the darkest time in American history. Both stories while being incredibly dark and true to life, called for a change of the treatment of slaves and the black community and were able to show the true colors of slave owner’s warts and all. Slave owners had never been

The world is full of magical realism. Magical Realism may just become a word that people thought of in the 1930's; however, magical realism has been here for as long as the people have been able to tell and write stories. Whether the stories are true or made up, they are all magical realism.

Environment could be altered to improve conditions so that natural laws could allow healing. An environmental model was created to view the manipulations of physical environment as major components of care (George, 2011).Persons are perceived as the patients of nursing (Selanders, 2010). She perceived people as multidimensional, being compared of biological, psychological, social, and spiritual components (Selanders, 2010).Health is viewed as the best ultimate health at any given point in time. One must maximize optimal potential to be in a healthy state (Selanders, 2010). Nursing is the place that the patient is in the best condition for nature to act (Selanders, 2010).

Every film implies its own meaning and message that the director intends to convey. The same subject matter can be interpreted distinctively by many different film directors, and it is expressed in a particular way in the film according to the director’s perspective. Therefore, different movies that deal with the same subject matter allow audiences to have different perception on the same subject matter, depending on the intentions of film directors, or on the ways they deliver the message in the movie. Likewise, the movies regarding the same historical event and issue and can give audiences different impressions and perceptions of the same historical figure or event, depending on how the film directors developed and portrayed the story in the film. To give a specific impression of a historical event or issue to the audiences, directors utilize variety of cinematic devices such as the plot development, characters and scenes.

a. Burdened by debt from the Seven Years’ War and French support for the American Revolution, King Louis XVI needed to raise taxes, so he agreed to convene the , which met in 1789 at Versailles. Led by the —those outside the aristocracy or church— a new was declared on June 17, 1789. Its members swore, in the Tennis Court Oath, to create a new for France.

The first time I encountered a class assignment that contained blatantly contradicting information was during my first semester of IB History. Prior to this, the information provided to me in classrooms - regardless of whether is was presented through textbooks, note packets, or teacher lectures - had always shown one clear answer and left no room for disagreement or discussion. In other words: how it was written on the pages was how it had happened. I never thought to question the information provided to me by these sources, justifying my thinking with the idea that: it would not be in a school textbook unless it was entirely accurate. However, the assigned reading packet of excerpts explaining the causes of World War I ripped my preconceived notions about the unambiguous nature of history to shreds. Each excerpt was written by a different historian and took a dramatically different view on the issue. By the end of the class discussion it became clear that my teacher was not searching for “the one right answer”, but rather the answer that each student was able to best justify — regardless of whether that answer happened to fit with a single historian 's viewpoint or a be mix of multiple. As a student who had always been taught to memorize the “right” answer and regurgitate it back on tests and quizzes — this revelation was earth shattering. I began to wonder how it was possible for so many different ideas and theories to emerge from the same basic facts and what this

At the origin the information storage was found for millions years. A number of items were engraved on bones or woods and rocks (about 35000 years in Europe and 60,000 years in Africa: African middle stone age). Moreover, thanks to the French scientist “Gan Franso Shmelion” who broke the symbols of the ancient Egyptian language using Rosetta stone. He discovered a text in two language and three writings, that one of them was hieroglyph that was written inside the temple. During 3000 BC, Egyptian started to measure time through a calendar based on the three natural cycles (the lunar month, the solar day and the solar year). The Hyksos occupation of Egypt (1648-1540 BC) had more statistics calculation and inventions during this time and where the prophet Joseph was the interpreter of the dreams and time and a counter at that time

Those events can be connected with the theory of trauma. A tale of trauma, in the example of the one mentioned above, have a self-representation in the autobiography and also an opposite reequirements with the authority. Taking this particular events as a case, it seems that there is a plan to portray them in a frank fashion with the purpose of evoking the malice towards slavery as a whole (Lee, p.266).

Do you think if you had know certain consequences to things beforehand do you think you would’ve done them? On November 15, 1777 the United States made their first form of Government. This allowed them to make treaties, alliances, fund for a army, and make coins for money. Although they were able to to do those things they weren’t able to do trade, business, import or export goods, and collect taxes. With these problems rebellions broke out and forced the Congress to look at the state of the colonies. In Lord of the Flies there was a plane crash on a island and only the school boys survived. Once they had been all gathered together the voted a leader by number of votes and once they had they