(-A+E Networks‚ History.com Staff‚ 2009) The KKK had well over 500‚000 members in southern states. Numbers varied throughout Northern states in the 1800’s. In 1924 there had been five to six million members. The numbers of the KKK slowly diminished. There were fewer than 100‚000 by the 1930’s. People started to see the klan as cruel and
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1. Ida B. Wells wrote the primary source Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases. This article was published in October 1892. On the Encyclopedia Britannica Online I read that Ida B. Wells attended Rust University‚ which was a freedmen’s school‚ in Holly Springs‚ Mississippi. She started teaching when he was only 14 years old! Later she moved to Memphis‚ Tennessee and she taught there as well. While living and teaching in Tennessee she attended Fisk University‚ which is in Nashville‚ she was
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metamorphosis in The Bloody Chamber and comment on how it contributes to the Gothic element of the tale In The Tiger’s Bride and The Courtship of Mr Lyon Carter uses transformation from human to animal and vice versa‚ exploring how two natures can exist in one person‚ and how transformation can reveal some idea of truth. Metamorphosis is essential in these tales and the idea of blurring reality and fantasy is traditional in the gothic genre. However‚ these stories can also be linked to a wider feminist
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Before analyzing the way in which Carter created a Gothic story from the tradition fairy-tale of Bluebeard‚ we must first understand the meaning of ‘latent content’. Freud explains latent content to be ‘the forbidden thoughts and the unconscious desires which appear in the manifest content but are disguised and unrecognizable.’ However‚ in saying this‚ the manifest and latent content can sometimes be indistinguishable (referred to as ‘Infantile dreams’); much like in the case of Carter’s The Bloody
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Grand Wood‚ who painted the American Gothic. Wood made certain atmosphere the bases of his painting and through his unique style of painting impressed everyone who liked good artwork. As a result‚ the painting stands amongst the likes of Mona Lisa and other highly famous paintings today. American Gothic by Grant Wood American Gothic by Grant Wood is one of the most famous painting in the history of arts. The Art Gallery of Chicago is the place where American Gothic was displayed for the very first
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While it seemed that Joyce Carol Oates experienced dark childhood experiences‚ she seems to explore her thoughts according to similar events that had happened in her life. Written by Joyce Carol Oates‚ “Spider Boy” is an example that highly defines gothic horror. Many of her works deal with violence‚ rape‚ death‚ or a character that has gone completely mad. “Naked” has many dark and nightmare like scenes‚ Oates writes on how a normal day can be your worst; it is that Oates puts a woman in a scene that
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The succession of the Southern States had been brewing for many years; this was due to fundamental differences in agriculture and resultant adoption of slavery in the South. From early days‚ the thirteen states had grown up separately‚ and each had their own culture and beliefs‚ which were often incompatible with those held in other states. The geographical and cultural differences between north and south would manifest themselves at regular and alarming intervals throughout the hundred years following
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The northern and the southern colonies are very different than each other. Each colony has their own life and traditions‚ and ways of how their colony works. The difference between those two colonies was in the trading‚ religion‚ and their planting. Each colony has different plants than the other. Each colony made and consists of different things. The north colony people was very cling with their religion. But the southern colony people was not very clinging with their religion. There is some difference
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How do you explain the disenfranchisement of southern blacks during the 1890’s? What measures did whites enact to prevent blacks from voting? The disenfranchisement of southern blacks during the 1890’s and well into the early twentieth century was based on a number of actions that upper-class‚ white‚ southern Democrats used in order to reverse the shift of political power created by southern blacks voting Republican. These actions can be further characterized into two techniques: direct and indirect
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have achieved so much‚ but these opposing forces held a stronger bargaining power than the politicians. The paper discusses these forces and concludes by offering a compromise that could have forestalled the war. The Difference in the Northern and Southern Economic Muscle The northern
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