In my personal opinion‚ Shelby should pay the $ 800 on her credit cards. She will only owe $ 1600 more if she puts the money on her balance. On questions two‚ Shelby should adjust her withholding taxes and put a little more in her savings account. Follow these four steps to determine which calculations to use. First‚ Shelby needs to establish your maximum tax bracket for federal income taxes. Second‚ she needs to subtract this rate as a decimal from 1.0. Third‚ Shelby needs to multiply the answer
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In the readings about men and women‚ there were two stories that stuck out for me. Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” and "Shiloh‚" by Bobbie Ann Mason. To me these stories had many peculiar similarities. I felt that there were so comparable that there seemed to be a true connection between these two novels. In the short story "Hills like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway we were presented a man and his girlfriend. They order a couple drinks as they wait for a train. As the
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that affected the people’s lives. Robert E. Lee was one of the individuals who did not want war to proceed onward because of what was at stake and the consequences that would follow. Mary Chesnut was a woman who felt that the war was hopeless. Shelby foote informed us that even the soldiers didn’t have a good answer as to why they were fighting. He also communicated that he didn’t think the South ever had a chance because the North was stronger. In the selection‚ “Letter to his Son”‚ by Robert E
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Bibliography: Chisholm‚ Alexander. "Comments by Alexander Robert Chisholm." The New York Herald (1903): 64 D ’Aoust‚ Maurice. "Unraveling the Myths of Burnside Bridge." Civil War Times 46(2007): 50-57 Foote‚ Shelby. The Civil War: A Narrative: Fort Sumter to Perryville. New York: Random House‚ Inc.‚ 1958 Marvel‚ William. Burnside. New York: University of North Carolina Press‚ 1991. Marvel‚ William McPherson‚ James M.. Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam. New
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‘expose’ the south and the horrible stories of slavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe‚ the well-known author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin‚ was born on June 14‚ 1811 in Litchfield‚ Connecticut. She was one of thirteen children‚ to parents Lyman Beecher and Roxanna Foote Beecher. Lyman Beecher‚ her father‚ was a leading Congregationalist minister and the patriarch of a family committed to social justice‚ and abolishing slavery. Along with her father’s actions in social justice‚ Stowe’s seven brothers all grew up to
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Throughout the history of the world‚ there have been many failures. The existence of slavery pushed "United States" into a dreadful collision between the Northern abolitionists and the Southern proslavery southerners. With the Civil war being the most horrific war in American history with the most casualties‚ the country was bound to reconstruct. The South was devastated due to abolition of slavery causing the economy to become insubstantial. After the nation faced economic downfall‚ the reconstruction
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between the north and south was not the fact that the north wanted to abolish slavery‚ but more of the fact that the south was primarily agriculturally based around cotton. The north were industrialized and would typically manufacture the cotton (Foote‚ Shelby 26). The first signs of a potential
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necessary to achieve success. Our land is stained with fathers and sons who believed that bloodshed was necessary to achieve greatness. The Civil War is a blemish on the history of the United States of America‚ but a necessary blemish. Historian Shelby Foote said‚ "Any understanding of this nation has to be based...on an understanding of the Civil War...The Civil War defined us as what we are‚ and it opened us to being what we became‚ good and bad things. It is necessary if you’re going to understand
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War‚ historian Shelby Foote stated‚ “Any understanding of this nation has to be based…on an understanding of the Civil War . . . The Civil War defined us as what we are‚ and it opened us to being what we became‚ good and bad things. It is very necessary if you’re going to understand the American character in the 20th century to learn about this enormous catastrophe of the mid-19th century. It was the crossroads of our being.” (Burns & Burns‚ Episode 1: the cause‚ 1990) What Foote was referring
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From the beginning of the Civil War in 1861‚ President Abraham Lincoln repeatedly stated that his primary objective of the war was not to abolish the institution of slavery‚ but rather to preserve the Union. Lincoln knew that the Constitution protected slavery in any state where the citizens wanted it. As the war progressed‚ the abolition of slavery was seen as a military strategy for the Union army‚ as the newly freed slaves would then fight for the cause of their own freedom. Since
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