Langston Hughes Untold Truths About The American Revolution

"Salvation" by Langston Hughes is an Essay written about the pressures young adults can face in their lifetime. It represented the life of a young boy and the pressures he received to accept Christ into his life. The story reflected lies, sarcasm, and hypocrisy from his peers, his family, both immediate and church. This young boy was told that Jesus would come to him, he would “See” Jesus, he would know. He was faced with the misconception of “How” Jesus would come to him, he was misguided. The young boy went forward anyway, walking to the pulpit, and accepting Christ. Although he had never experienced Jesus coming to him, he had never seen Jesus, he goes anyway, pretending to be saved due to social pressures. Later he returns home and cries

1. Zinn's purpose for writing A People's History of the United States is to write about American history from the viewpoint of the people, and not from the rich or the men that made the decisions, but from the people who lived through those decisions and whose lives were affected. His purpose is not to make the people who were in charge look bad, but to see what they did from all perspectives.

With reference to chapter 8 and 9 of Zinn’s book: "Slavery without Submission", “Emancipation without freedom” in A People's History of the United States, It was clearly established that that the Civil War was not really fought over the moral issue of slavery, but rather the economic issue of slavery. To reveal these American intentions behind the abolition of slavery, Zinn focuses on the Civil War which usually thought of as the paramount event in U.S. emancipation. After reviewing a few slave revolts and their defeats, he turns to focus on Abraham Lincoln and his ability to "skillfully blend the interests of the very rich and the interests of the black at a moment in history when these interests met.

First of all, Howard Zinn proves his thesis by talking about the life of a slave prior to the war.

Zinn uses his writing as a tool to give slaves, Native Americans, and other repressed people a voice in history so they can claim the power of how history is remembered.

In the first chapter of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, there are mulitple important themes distinguishable from the text. The first is that people of power take advantage of the giving and kind, for when the Arawaks gave Spanish explorers goods, they took them as slaves. Also, that it is best to tell history from the side of the victim, because views from the higher power (Government, conquerors, leaders, etc) do not emphasize the struggles of the lesser. They also only tell history in their own interest, glossing over their cruelty and painting themselves in a heroic light. Finally, and maybe most importantly, is that if sacrifices must be made for progress, the decision to do so must be in the hands of those being

In A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn tells America’s history from the perspective of those who did not necessarily prosper as a result of America’s creation. Through the eyes of the Native Americans, African slaves, and poor white servants, Zinn tells a story different from the typical tale of a prosperous and virtuous young nation attempting to make its place in the world. Instead, Zinn tells a tale of brutality, genocide, and greed, along with the prosperity told in other versions. By exploring America’s history through the many people groups involved, the reader can better understand the paradoxes of equality for all that still exist today.

Debate has existed in the world for hundreds of years, developing at the beginning of humanity but more publicly in the early eighteenth century. Humans love to argue their point of view with others in order to determine the “correct” viewpoint on various matters. Throughout the world, many approach a debate with opinions formulated from different outlooks on life. Perceptions of a situation establish themselves based on where and how a person was raised. When elaborating on historical events, more often than not, two passionate sides emerge, those who focus on injustices and freedom and those who look at events focused on traditional values. After examining two takes on colonial America it is obvious that Howard Zinn focuses on injustice

‘America’ is a complex, layered idea; one that becomes all the more complex when the deeply embedded construct of race comes into play. As a black man born into a time of overt racial prejudice, Langston Hughes was all too familiar with the double consciousness that came with life as an American minority. This roller coaster is the subject of the vast majority of his literary work and has continued to be a major presence and inspiration for literary work everywhere today. Hughes shows a deep loyalty to the ideals that brought the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights into fruition and, through repeated motifs of the American Dream, seeks to bring about calm in a time of social and political unrest.

According to Howard Zinn, his main purpose for writing A People’s History of the United States was to give a detailed and more accurate account of the history of America. He wanted to give the history from the victim/native’s point of view. Instead of covering up the stories of the different people that weren’t included in our history lessons, he wants them to be able to be recognized as more than just the people that were eliminated by foreigners.

When I started to read this text, the first thing that stood out to me was Zinn’s writing style. I really liked his approach to history. He isn’t just digging up dirt on historical subjects and bring villians to light, rather he is making us the reader question history. The sentence that made me come to that conclusion was when he was saying is the easy acceptance of atroccitiesas as a deplorable but nessary price to pay for progress? That sentence stood out to me the most out of everything I read. There are so many events in history that looking back you can question was it really nessary? Was there another route that could have been taken? When I was reading about Columbus, it was refearshing to see him in a whole new light. Could he have made more progress if he worked along side the Indians instead of

The book People’s History of the United States by the author Howard Zinn represents the history to the readers in a different perspective, making the readers look into the history in a difference lens making it insightful. What is a history? To answer this question, we must first establish a commonality in language: namely, what is history? It is a continuous, systematic narrative of past events as relating to a particular people, country, period, person which is usually written as a chronological account. The author discusses about how the major events were recorded and mainly the stories which were untold to the people and were left out of the mainstream history books. In the first few chapters he gives critical details about how America was founded by Christopher Columbus and gradually moving into detail about how he killed hundreds of native Indians in the process of capturing the country. The author then moves into giving the readers about hidden class struggles and the period of time where racism was affecting a majority of the people. Howard Zinn also mentions about the wars, the Vietnam war and the Civil war that had changed the lives of many in the past and how it has made a major impact in the past and today to the people. Some of the details in the book are real life experiences by the author, because he is not only a writer but had also served in the army in the world war two as a pilot, which makes the readers understand every detail of some events as it is told

Zinn responds to different points of view by taking the different perspective and points out the flaws in the actions of the character, then points out the effects. An example of Zinn putting this into his book is on page twelve , paragraph two were he first wrote about what Morrison did, ¨Morrison did not lie about columbus. He did not leave out the mass murder. But he mentioned the truth quickly and then went on to other things.¨ He then went away quickly about the flaws of doings this, ¨By burying the fact of genocide in a lot of other information, he seemed to be saying that the mass murder wasn't very important in the big picture. By making the genocide seem like a small part of the story he took away the power to make us think differently

Childhood is a fundamentally important period of development in a human life. It is the time when people can discover many new things and learn new things. During the period, children establish identity, self-esteem, and good attitudes. This essay “Salvation” by Langston Hughes is about a particular moment in his childhood. He vividly describes a past experience as a twelve-years-old child in his aunt’s church. The essay is great examples of facing peer pressure and religious forces. Many young people are forced to be saved by Jesus. They feel peer pressure when they behave differently than the masses. His childhood experience gives us an opportunity to contemplate the meaning of religious forces and peer pressure.

Howard Zinn’s decision to write a subjective history gives people a more well-rounded view of U.S. history. Rather than presenting American history solely from the view of elites,