2012 John Brown and Spider-Man: Hero? Villain? America Can’t Decide Students of history and those merely interested in casual inquiry will often explore a topic‚ find a legitimate opinion‚ accept it at face value‚ and move on. Too often with young or inexperienced historians this is the case. It does‚ in a way‚ make sense. Many topics an individual will study have been researched and written on countless times. It is easy to accept an opinion as is and forget about it. John Brown is one of
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John Brown is a villain due to his acts with the slaves‚ his killings in Pottawatomie Creek‚ Kansas and Missouri. He got noticed for these acts but not in the way that you would think. John brown was born on May 9‚1800. He was a sympathizer to the North. This is not true. John Brown has a very dark past. He has murdered people who murdered other people. Some people might call that gallant. It was an antihero act. John Brown was a villain. John Brown had an idea that if he killed the slave owners
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What makes a hero or a villain? A hero is defined as a person noted for feats of courage or nobility of purpose‚ especially one who has risked or sacrificed his or her life. By this definition‚ there existed countless heroes in America during the 1800’s with relation to slavery. There were many abolitionists‚ particularly from the North‚ that exhibited courageous attitudes. It was these heroes that taught the southerners‚ who believed their lives could only prevail if slavery survived and expanded
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Brianna Pabon Historical Research Writing‚ A2 January 5th‚ 2015 Research Paper‚ Final John Brown Raid on Harpers Ferry‚ A Hero or a Villain? When it comes to the topic of John Brown’s raid and if he was hero or a villain‚ most of us will readily agree John Brown was murderer thus making him a villain. Where as some are convinced that he was a hero for wanting to help free slaves. John Brown was indeed a hero he believed greatly for the freedom of slaves‚ but was using violence to fight. However
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Hero or criminal? John Brown was a radical abolitionist who was born on May 9‚ 1800‚ in Torrington‚ Connecticut. He was one of the so-called worst and the greatest abolitionists of his time. Brown believed that violence was the one and only way to bring an end to slavery. He provoked the slaves to revolt against their owners by giving them guns and support. Also in 1859‚ Brown and his 21 men army seized the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in the hope of gaining guns and supplies for the slaves.
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John Brown was an abolitionist during the lead up to the Civil War. He believed that God chose him to end slavery and kill southerners with only violence in his toolbelt. Brown had controversy over his actions. The nation was already tenuous and the murders that John Brown committed only added to that. The north was all for it‚ Brown was doing what they hadn’t had the courage to do. The southerners were outraged‚ claiming Brown for a traitor. I believe John Brown was a terrorist. He was on an expedition
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John Brown; Hero‚ or Completely Senile? John brown has been looked upon by many as a hero‚ but was he really a hero? Let’s look at the thing’s he’s done for abolition and think to ourselves as we read‚ “is this really what a ‘hero’ would do?” I’ll go into more detail later through out this of course‚ but for now‚ let’s review the gist of what he has “done for abolition.” From the third document‚ it states that he led only 21 men into the military arsenal in Harpers Ferry‚ Virginia. That was
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Feurey US History 10 November 2015 John Brown: Hero or Terrorist? There is much debate about the kind of person that John Brown was. Some call him a hero for his courageous actions‚ while others regard him as a terrorist due to his horrifying movements against slavery. John Brown was an abolitionist who completely loathed slavery. This caused him to grab hold of the weapons that were at Harpers Ferry in the United States‚ in October of 1859. Even though Brown did not admit to it‚ many people thought
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John Brown is perhaps one of the most controversial people in American history. Born and raised in a family of devout Calvinists who hated slavery‚ he befriended many Native Americans and even a slave boy. Brown witnessed his slave friend receive many beatings and saw as the boy was made to sleep in the cold in only rags and this was what he later described as having transformed him into an Abolitionist. While Browns acts to put an end to slavery were extreme‚ to call him an international terrorists
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President John F. Kennedy: Hero or Villain? For thirteen days‚ the United States’ government and citizens waited with abated breath‚ fearing the nuclear annihilation of their great nation. These thirteen days between October 16 and 28‚ 1962 are now known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. Briefly this crisis can be explained as a confrontation between two of the world’s greatest superpowers‚ the United States and the Soviet Union‚ which nearly instigated a nuclear calamity that could have destroyed both
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