Almanac of the Dead

Dubois v. Washington Debates The Afro-American Almanac located on Professor Tygiel’s “Sites of Interest to History Majors” have a copy of Booker T. Washington’s famous “Atlanta Compromise” speech that he delivered in 1895. Neither before, nor since, has one speech had such a profound effect upon the career of a politician and the people that he sought to represent. Indeed, Washington’s primacy was assured when he in dramatic fashion promised (eye witness accounts have him thrusting his

Assassin A. In Texas trying to make their rights better B. 3 shots, one hit his head, one his neck, one his friend john Connolly C. Lee Harvey, shooter, captured, D. JFK pronounced dead at one on November 25th E. Body flown to love field F. Oswald assassin, captured, shot in the head by means of Jack Ruth G. JFK buried in Arlington National Cemetery III. Conclusion A. John F Kennedy was a

The Black Death was an extensive epidemic that spread across Europe from 1346 to 1353, killing over an estimated one-third of Europe’s entire population (Medieval World 56). Although historians are not entirely sure of its origin, the Black Death spread quickly across both Europe and Asia with a death toll that augmented rapidly. The plague also had unusual and deadly symptoms, causing “panic everywhere, with men and women knowing no way to stop death except to flee from it” (Kohn 28). The chaos

The bloodiest conflict in American history is the American Civil War. Prior to the war, there were many important events that triggered the conflict between the proslavery forces in the South and antislavery forces in the North. The Missouri Compromise of 1820, the Mexican American War, the Industrial Revolution, the Compromise of 1850, the Abolitionist Movement, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry, and the election of Abraham Lincoln were some of the events that contributed

effect of the war. “The Stamp Act of 1765 fundamentally altered the relationship of the colonies and the mother country. Prime Minster George Grenville proposed to raise revenue to pay for defenses of frontier with the Stamp Act, which levied taxes on almanacs, legal documents,

In 1939, the world was torn between the countries of the Allies, and the countries of the Axis. Some of the neutral countries were battlefields, but most of the intense fighting was originated within the continent of Europe.World War II led to millions of deaths, both civilians and soldiers. It caused economies to drop drastically, innocent people to be slayed, and tons of damage throughout the world. It caused many terrible things, but it also led to a few good things that have been made to help

Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener" The narrator states fairly early on in Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener" that both he and Bartleby are "sons of Adam" (55). The phrase plays on a double entendre, referring to both the Calvinist Biblical Eden and to the view of America as the "new Eden." Many recent critics have traced the biblical aspects of this and other elemen ts of the story, claiming the character of Bartleby as a Christ-figure, and as such carries out the role of a

gathered, “a motley rabble of saucy boys, negroes and mulattoes, Irish teagues and outlandish jack tars” as John Adams called them during the soldiers’ trial. Soldiers received a heavy bombardment of snowballs and rubbish when they opened fire. 3 dead, 8 wounded , including Crispus Attucks. The story spread rapidly throughout colonies. Americans by now had realized that Boston’s cause was their cause.​They all had property which Parliament claimed the right to take away. They all had rep.

Why Marjane Satrapi chose to tell her story Persepolis in the graphic form The graphic novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi was written in the graphic medium to appeal to a wider audience. Literary critic, Manuela Constantino, proposes that “the combination of a visual representation and a child’s point of view makes the story easily accessible and therefore attracts a wide range of readers.” (Constantino, 2008: 2) Another plausible reason for Satrapi's choice to do the novel in this medium is the

Brief Survey of American Literature 1. Beginnings to 1700 Great mixing of peoples from the whole Atlantic basin Bloody conflicts between Native Americans (or American Indians) and European explorers and settlers who had both religious and territorial aspirations - Native American oral literature / oral tradition - European explorers’ letters, diaries, reports, etc., such as Christopher Columbus’s letters about his voyage to the “New world”. - Anglo (New England) settlers’ books, sermons