This article talks about the protest that had occurred in Charlottesville. White nationalists march into the Dallas Public Park in Virginia to protest the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee. In this article Steve Chapman brings up history. Going as far back to the system of monarchy. He points out how the British King and Parliament takes huge and minor actions without any reasoning. “That is rarely how the evils of this world are undone.” He also discusses about the birth of the United…
The way Charles B. Dew opened up this book was touching and smart. He and I share the same qualities in thinking about issues by looking at things from both sides, and in ways that haven’t been discussed or thought about. He was a born and raised southerner, and told of his up bringing in the south. His ancestors fought and died for the Confederacy. Although it may seem that he should be a die-hard supporter of the Confederate, he openly looked at this issue at hand and dissected the facts. He also had actual documents, speeches, and writings that supported his these views. He said “I believe deeply that the story these documents tell is one that all of us, northerners and southerners, black and white, need to confront as we try to understand our past and move toward a future in which a fuller commitment to decency and racial justice will be part of our shared experience.” (pg.3)…
Throughout life people are misrepresented, stereotyped, and seen as something they aren't. This can greatly affect the person's life and the way they interact with the world. The image of the mockingbird is represented through many characters in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird such as Tom Robinson and Boo Radley. In the novel killing a mockingbird is a symbol of loss of innocence. There are many “mockingbirds” in the story, which takes place in a town called Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression. One of the “mockingbirds” in the story is Tom Robinson, a African American man, accused of raping a white woman and falsely convicted for it. Another “mockingbird” in the story is Boo Radley, an outcast…
Shaara asserts that the war would not have ended in defeat for the Confederacy if Robert E. Lee had listened to James Longstreet. Longstreet repeatedly suggests to Lee to move the troops around to the right and loop back behind the Union army to cut them off from Washington and attack from there. Lee refuses, turning down Longstreet each time. He will not listen to reason. Thinking that his way is the only way and no one knows better than him, Lee decides to make a full-frontal attack on the Union forces. Lee thinks that marching forward out in the open across a vast field heading straight into the frontward direction of the Union army will work. Longstreet points out that Union artillery will surely destroy most of the rebel troops before they even make it to where the Union lines are, and that when they do get there, there won’t be enough men left to put up a hardy enough fight to possibly win. He strongly feels that the Confederacy should move to the right since there was room in the west to get around them and attack them from behind. Apparently, Lee denies his theory. As I was reading, I was very satisfied with Shaara’s portrayal of the Union views of slavery: Chamberlain’s encounter with the black man. When Chamberlain’s soldiers discovered a sleeping black man and Chamberlain went to see him, he treated the man with the same respect as he gave his own men. Here you can…
Another way Leopold’s actions were unjust was because of his use of slavery and racism. Leopold thought the Dutch were justified in using forced labor, as it was ‘”the only way to civilize and uplift these indolent and corrupt peoples”. This racial opinion reflected his own thinking about the African people. He once told a reporter: “’In dealing with a race composed of cannibals for thousands of years it is necessary to use methods which will best shake their idleness and make them realize the sanctity of work’. The people of the Congo were seen as “lazy” in his eyes because they didn’t want to be salves to his work. Trying to rebel against being starved to death and doing forced labor was interpreted as the people wasting his time. There was…
Some ask the question, was the Vietnam War just? Some may say yes it was just,and others say that it is unjust. However,Certain people view justice as slippery concept. There are always ways to get aroud justice, and that is why people believe that justice is a slippety concept. Even Plato one of the brightest of his time could not figure out whether war was just or unjust. A Certain individual, by the name of Aquinas, also attempted to elaborate his view on the war through the document Summa Theologica. His reasons consisted of, First, the authority of the sovereign by whose command the war is to be waged(Article 1). The second reason being, a just cause is required, namely that those who are attacked, should be attacked because they deserve it on account of some fault(Article 1). Thirdly, it is necessary that the belligerents should have a rightful intention, so that they intend the advancement of good, or the avoidance of evil(Article 1). In the article of Summa Theologica, he alos talks about whether it is just to ambush in war. On the other hand , the novel written by Jonathan Shay, Achilles in Vietnam, he agrues that the war was unjust. He gives examples using the stories the returning soldiers from the war told him. With these stories and sotires from the Illiad, he attemtps to explain to the reader that the war was unjust , and that it corrupted the innocent people sent to the battle zone.War is not just something that just happens, rather, it is something that has been festering for a while, and once it reaches the surface it explodes like a volcano. This war began as a peacful assist to the Southern Vietnamese, then once JFK was assasinated the U.S. began to take over all aspects of the war. Is the war just or unjust, maybe both, but with careful analysis of the war, one will get an uprfront and personal view of whether it was just or not.…
What is a revolution? According to the online dictionary, a revolution is “an overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed.” Knowing this we can ask ourselves what were the colonist goals whenever they started the rebellions and protests? Did they start out wanting to completely overthrow their government? Not knowing every colonist’s thoughts makes it hard to have a set yes or no if the latter was what was planned.…
The American Revolution was one of the bloodiest wars that we had in America and a lot of American soldiers and citizens died in the war.The American Revolution was not justified because the colonists started tarring and feathering the tax man, the British started taxing the colonists in not the right process, and the British say Parliament can do anything they want with the colonists. This explains that the colonists did non-professional things and the British did to because feathering the tax man and taxing colonists in not the right process is non-professional. This explains about why the American Revolution wasn’t justified is because the British were taxing the colonists in not the right process. This is why the American Revolution wasn’t justified.…
It is acceptable and even necessary to to protest unjust and unfair laws, because it is morally wrong. People who were being punished inhumanely because it was the law, “My teammates and I saw a man strung up by his neck - and set on fire.(James)” Lynching was a legal crime against black as a form of punishment. This is not a law a country is suppose to allow, allow such a violent law against a certain race in a way to show superiority. No one has to right or liberty to take someone’s life for the mere enjoyment of the ability. No one knows this man’s story, “Were his children waiting up for him?(James)” There is an answer to this question, the fact is that no one knows because that man did not have a chance at fighting for his innocence and…
Robert E Lee was born on January 19th, 1807 to a mother by the name of Ann Carter. Lee’s father was a commander in the revolutionary war, and even had a nickname called “light horse Harry”. Who was praised for his efficiency on the battle field and by his men. He was very stern with his men and always put the American cause first. He even once decapitated one of his men that deserted and ran to the enemy, He sent the head of the deserter to General George Washington which terrified him although there was no more deserters from Harry lee’s army. Despite his brutality he took care of the men that were loyal to him and served him well by compensating them after the war ("Virginia Historical Society" Web).…
The Confederate monuments are a vital part of history and eliminating them is like eliminating history. The past is the past and the monuments do not stand for racism it stands for a part of history and it definitely wasn't a good part of history but it was a learning experience for it to not happen again. The statues and flag stands for history of the south and every time someone see a flag or monument it reminds them of what the ancestors of the south did and fought for in the civil war. If that is taken away eventually the whole memory all together will be forgotten. They stand for the south and the way of life , the struggle they went through in order to obtain states rights, and the past events and without them the nation wouldn’t be where it is now.…
The rights of the supporters should be protected, just as the feelings and beliefs of the adversaries should be protected as well. The supporters need to understand that the flag does represent slavery and racism to some, such as the people whose ancestors were slaves during the time of the civil war, or those who simply feel grief and pain when they see the flag. Also, the adversaries of the flag need to understand that the supporters should have the right to express their beliefs just as everyone else does, they have reasons as well, such as it is their culture, their history. They believe that the Confederate states fought for the rights of the state’s, and not allowing the federal government to dictate what they can and cannot do. Each side needs to support and empathize with the other in order to solve this…
Not so long ago, if you loved baseball, mom, apple pie, pledged allegiance to the flag and hated Communism, there was never any question! Today, some patriots view taking a knee during the National Anthem as Un-American, while others believe it is their patriotic duty as Americans to demonstrate and exercise their right of free speech on behalf of those people treated unfairly. In fact, for many reciting the rarely sung second stanza of Francis Scott Keye’s National Anthem, they are surprised to find it strongly speaks out against those African American soldiers that had the audacity to fight for their own freedom during the Revolutionary War.…
Those who argue against tearing down the statue claim that “we are not proud of absolutely everything that happened in our past, but we cannot erase it all” ("Backlash over Plot to"). They claim that the statue does not represent racism or oppression and that if the Rhodes statue is removed, then commemoration of many…
2.Though Malcolm changed many of his views after the time covered in this portion of his autobiography, the project of recovering African history remained important to him and remains important to many African Americans. How do you react to his claims about African history?…
