Race-Making and the Nation-State Anthony W. Marx From: World Politics Volume 48‚ Number 2‚ January 1996 pp. 180-208 | 10.1353/wp.1996.0003 Abstract Why was official racial domination enforced in South Africa and the United States‚ while nothing comparable to apartheid or Jim Crow was constructed in Brazil? Slavery and colonialism established the pattern of early discrimination in all three cases‚ and yet the postabolition racial orders diverged. Miscegenation influenced later outcomes
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John Smith was a master at utilizing logical‚ emotional‚ and ethical appeals to convince his audience to come to America. He was able to do this by asking rhetorical questions that emphasized what his audience wanted. Smith’s audience was mainly the poor people of England but also included craftsmen like "Carpenters‚ Masons‚ and Fishers" and their apprentices. His logical appeals all lead the audience step by step to the conclusion that only hard work is needed to secure land and food in America
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Some would argue in the movie “The Patriot” that Benjamin Martin’s main motivation for participating in the Revolutionary War is his patriotism. However‚ Martins motivation for entering the war is personal revenge for the loss of his son and his plantation burning to the ground. At the beginning of the movie Martin argued against fighting the British. He wants to live peacefully on his small plantation‚ and wants no part of a war with such a powerful nation‚ Great Britain. On the other hand his
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John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address of 1961 is a classic example of a speech that makes excellent use of a variety of Rhetorical strategies. His use of archaic diction‚ oxymoron’s‚ parallelism‚ allusions and tone helped create a sophistication and eloquence that had a more powerful and patriotic impact on his audience. It helped establish his creditability and be able to transmit assurance and hope to his audience. The use of these strategies allowed him to outline his purpose of communicating to
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Justification of Manifest Destiny America growing as a nation has been rapidly expanding due to increased rate of birth and immigration from Europe and Asia. It is to no surprise that America had to gain more land than they already had in order to sustain their growing population and to give people the option of self advancement and technological advancement. Land was not only what was being sought after‚ people went out and tried to spread their Protestant religion with others. The final
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National Integration in the case of Pakistan cannot mean creating ethnic or national homogeneity throughout the country. It can only mean establishing a common citizenry‚ common political and social structures‚ a common state‚ and an additional sense of identity of belonging together. It means building commonality on top of the existing diversity‚ and not substituting an artificial new identity for the old ones. This process is not impossible. However‚ it would take some generations. It is a slow
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My Modern Modest Proposal Moving factories to other countries is exactly what America’s economy needs. Thousands of people losing their jobs for the selfish greed of the government is just all part of the grand plan to get our country back on its feet. There is no better way to improve the patriotism of Americans than by ripping away their jobs and leaving them standing in unemployment lines for who knows how long. In today’s society what is good and fair is put to the side like a rotten piece
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Conor Hardy Hist 11 Gordon Wood Paper Through Gordon Wood’s work‚ entitled The Radicalism of the American Revolution‚ I am convinced that the American Revolution was the most radical event that occurred in American history. In the face of the ways and basis of other revolutions that occurred in history‚ the American Revolution was unlike any other major rebellion of the past for it completely shaped our nation’s foundations for the future. The revolution sought drastically different ideologies
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Howard Zinn’s A Peoples History of the American Revolution Chapter 5 If someone was to look back on the most of stories of the American Revolution‚ they would see that the stories of patriotic heroes and colonists risking themselves for their country. But Howard Zinn realizes that the stories are too good to be true so he then exposes the truth about the American Revolution. Howard Zinn had many opinions of the American Revolution. Many of Howard’s opinions were interesting and fluent. Howard
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I think that Rizal’s reforms are still valid today. A great man he is‚ surely his philosophies involved something that of future because great figures always think ahead of time. Moreover‚ one can hail Rizal as a teacher and so the influence of his teachings is unimaginable. As Henry Adams said‚ "A teacher affects eternity; no one can tell where his influence stops." Indeed‚ no one can tell‚ since we are still influenced by his teachings- the idea that the youth is the hope of our nation is still
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