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    WAS THE CIVIL WAR INEVITABLE? Shannon Olivolo History 101: US History I 5 May 2017 The American Civil War was one of the bloodiest and deadly wars in US history, with over two percent of the population dying during war from either disease or injuries (Reilly 2016). One may question why this war was the most deadly in history and could it have been prevented. A vast majority of historians will argue that this war was inevitable due to many precipitating factors, mainly being the invention

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    opened her eyes to the harsh reality of what a “slave woman felt when her child was taken away at the auction block”. The other event that influenced the writing of Uncle Tom’s Cabin was the Fugitive Slave Law, which was mentioned earlier. Harriet Beecher wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin to “encourage citizens to disobey” this “unchristian” law (Joan D. Hedrick, Stowe’s Life and Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Virginia Edu). These events stirred something in Beecher’s heart and resulted in her writing Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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    that dates back to 1784, the first trial was under the direction of Benjamin Franklin. Also, it has been said that during the Second World War, Henry Beecher a medic met with two hundred seriously injured soldiers, still able to talk. Beecher offered each soldier morphine and they refused, because they were simply happy to be alive. Afterwards Beecher remembered that before the war he experienced patients with similar injuries that begged for morphine and healthy soldiers complained about minor pain

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    perceives him as a “wonder” because August’s birth chances of having a craniofacial deformity disease was one in 50,000. Even though the kids at Beecher Prep change their minds about August, most of them bullied August because they judged his appearance, they were following Julian, and they were afraid. First of all, August attends a school called Beecher Prep and is bullied because of his disease that he was born with. For instance, one of Auggie’s classmates compared him to Darth Sidious. Darth

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    movement had a final goal that consisted of the emancipation of slavery, as well as racial discrimination, and segregation. The main leaders of this movement were social reformers, such as, William Lloyd Garrison, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. While they all had the same end goal, they carried out different methods to assist in abolishing slavery. Proslavery Southerners felt that Abolitionists and antislavery Northerners were getting in the way of their accustomed lifestyle. The

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    many more. Gilman found her love for literature as a child and the events of her early life inspired her to pursue a career in writing. As Gilman grew in her work, she had a few great poets to look up to which were her aunts, Isabella Beecher Hooker and Harriet Beecher Stowe.

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    feminists such as Catherine Beecher, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Beatrice Hinkle, Betty

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    Imagine being different. Trying to walk through the park with people glancing at you wherever you go, shuffling away from you wherever you walk. You understand why they avoid looking you in the eye or shaking your hand when they meet you. It is because you do not look ordinary. You like to imagine you are ordinary; you do ordinary things such as eat ice cream, play xbox and listen to music. What makes you different is your appearance. August Pullman, the main character in Wonder, knows exactly how

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    a first-person perspective were actively involved in producing abolitionist literature further contributed to the intense feelings that people underwent as they were reading passages in these books. Individuals like Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe were among the most renowned abolitionist writers and their works played an essential role in emphasizing the wrongness of slavery. Frederick Douglass was among the people who were unfortunate enough to experience life as a slave. However,

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    Nineteenth Century (Horowitz, 8). In order for them to control society members, they expressed and advocated that if one goes against the Christian view of sex and lacks morality, then he or she will be lead to the devil (Beecher, 45). Evangelical Christianity supporters such as Lyman Beecher believed in using the church, Bible, law and institutions to control how individuals acted upon sex as well as how sex was seen in society as

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