...Native American Chief of the Dwamish tribe, Chief Seattle, in a letter sent to President Pierce, warns him about the effects created by purchasing their beloved land. His purpose is to express the ideal situation to the president and let him understand the consequences of acquiring their land. As a result, through Seattle’s extensive use of anaphora, irony, and extended metaphor, he creates a candid tone in order to emphasize the beauty and love of the land that President Pierce is gaining control of and the misunderstandings that the white men have of Seattle’s land. The reason for Seattle’s use of anaphora is to concern president Pierce about the impending controversy of the land. For example, Seattle states, “Every part of this earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle…” to emphasize his land as sacred and holy. He uses the words “sacred” and “holy in the memory” as qualities of the land and to describe the white men as the opposite it what he approaches towards. Also, Seattle states, “...every humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people.” to explain to Pierce what the white men do not see...
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...could blink their eyes they seen the president coming up to them. "Good evening", said the president, “This is a very nice piece of land you have. Do you mind me asking you who’s it is, said the president, “oh you mean this land, well everyone knows who’s land this is, it's Fancyman John’s land, said the haymakers, “He must be a very hard worker to keep this land nice, said the president, he sure is said the haymakers. Well I best be on my way the president ordered, “see yah”, said the haymakers. Next, Puss went to the Rich Man’s Mansion. “Stop right there!” yelled the security, “who do you think you are just walking into the rich man’s castle.” “Who me” said puss well I am the presidents good friend. “Oh sorry for bothering you, you may enter.”said the guard. “Who is it!” yelled the Rich Man, “its me Puss the chimp”, Said Puss, “come here Puss the chimp.” then Puss said,“I heard that you can dress up as a sheep”, said puss, “well yes I can said the rich man.” 5 minutes later he came out, “how do I look?” he said, “you look like a sheep.” said Puss, “follow me” said Puss, “out to the field of sheep to see if they think you are one of them, okay? he said, “Here we are” ,said puss, “well here goes nothing” ,said the Rich Man. Puss started to run away behind him, he could hear the wolves howling. None ever seen the rich man again. Puss went back to invite the president to dinner at the rich mans mansion that is now Fancyman Johns. When the president got there puss told him that this...
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...Chief Seattle is contemplating whether or not he should accept President Pierce’s offer. While considering the offer, Chief Seattle compares the white people and their views, to his own people and their views. Chief Seattle describes the white people and his own people, by using imagery to help make a connection. Chief Seattle describes his people as few and resembling, “the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain.” (309), while describing the white chief's people as many and like, “grass that covers vast prairies.” (309). In his speech, Chief Seattle contemplates Presidents Pierces offer and compares his people to the white people. Chief Seattle describes his people as few and weak. He describes the youth as “impulsive”, (309), “cruel and relentless”, (310) and as having “everything to lose and nothing to gain,” (310). Chief Seattle even stated that “our old men and old women are unable to restrain them.”. The way that Chief Seattle described the youth of his people, portrayed them as foolish and angry people. Chief Seattle could have even been hinting that the youth were a possible cause for the downfall of his people. Chief Seattle compared his God to the white man's God. Chief Seattle described his God...
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...If you were offered $5 million dollars and 70,000 square miles of land, would you agree to move away from home? For most of the Cherokee during the earlier 1800’s, the answer to this question was a firm no. During that time period, the United States government had been attempting to move Native American tribes west into their newly purchased Louisiana Territory. Previously, the Cherokee had sided against them in many wars, and had expressed violent attacks against them. The government wanted to move them off of their Georgia land. This caused the Indian Removal Act to be created. The president, Andrew Jackson at the time, suddenly had the power to negotiate treaties with Native Americans that would move them into Indian Territory. While many...
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...Presidents Jackson and Jefferson both claimed to be supporters of what was known as the 'common man' – white men who didn't belong in the upper class. Both also claimed to champion democracy. However, their views of democracy and their treatment of the 'common man' were wildly different. While Jefferson had a vision of a small, agrarian vision which led him to support the growth of the class of the 'common man', he didn't believe in or support extending their rights or protecting them at the expense of elites. Andrew Jackson was the more active proponent of the common man, and therefore had more of a right to claim that he forwarded democracy. This is shown in Jackson's belief in rotation of office holders, which allowed men who weren't career politicians to influence government; his closing of the...
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...Contrary, American producers were not over producing, the companies simply wanted more markets, an increase in profits, and the government wanted to be a world power. Trades in the Philippines would be beneficial, but not as much as the China markets would aid American companies. Beveridge thought that the Philippines would be the entry ticket to China’s markets and territory, thus increasing America’s status to a world power. Imperialism was thought to positively change American life and influence in national matters, by developing the economy through trade with the East, but at the cost of the employees and local businesses. Beveridge was pushing so hard on colonizing the Philippines not fully for the trade factor, but for the “white man’s duty”, Beveridge believed the Filipinos needed to taught how to be civilized and alike a white man. China’s markets, would greatly benefit American life through financial advancement and elevating national ranking to be a world power, but stepping through Philippines would only cause more disfunction than the clear path Beveridge and his supporters believed in. Imperialism expands the number of products a country can sell through the extension of the number of markets to offer foreign countries because new natural resources are obtained from the seized area. However, in the process Americans will take all the Philippine crops and totally steal from the rightful owners, American would basically bully the Filippos into handing over their...
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...published and these cartoons were showing the political struggles in the south.(Doc 5) This document showed Grant’s policies towards the defeated south. President Grant strongly supported the reconstruction and he made strong efforts to defend the reconstruction. He was also the last reconstruction president. This political cartoon shows how African Americans were treated during this time, treated like horses who were still inferior to white people. Another example of political rights African Americans gained was the right to hold public office. In the 1870’s, the first African American in Congress...
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...“The Reign of King Andrew” President Andrew Jackson might have lived a common man’s youth, but he eventually transformed his life of poverty into that of a king. As Jackson grew older he became a powerful ambitious man and was ready to assert his influence throughout his presidency. Jackson left a memorable legacy with his days in office that included forceful removal of Native Americans, setting off the Spoils System into the American Government, and turning the presidential veto into an executive weapon; making use of it more than any other president before him. One of the most controversial events that occurred during Jackson’s presidency was the “Trail of Tears”. Jackson, a strong oppose of Native American rights, issued the “Indian Removal Act” which ordered for Indian relocation from their homeland to west of the Mississippi River; this relocation was meant to be voluntary, but it was not. In 1832, the Supreme Court mandated that the Cherokee had rights on their own land and did not need to abide by Georgia’s claims for their land. Jackson ignored the ruling and forced the Cherokee along with many other tribes to go relocate west of the Mississippi. Jackson’s decision to do this was considered extremely unconstitutional by many people outside of the Democratic- Republicans. President Jackson was heavily against the Bank of the United States. It had the most power out of any bank in America...
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...the late 19th century? Since the migration to reservation camps, things have changed a lot in the Lakota Sioux culture. Before the migration the Sioux were used to living off of the land, making clothing out of hides of leather and hunting for their own food. Now half of the Sioux live on reservations in South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska, and some in the northern part of Montana. Most of them have a hard time just trying to survive because the way they use to live was the only thing they knew and they didn’t know any other ways of getting food other than hunting. The Sioux tribe was torn apart because of their land being stripped from them by white settlers. The government, particularly President Grant, purposed and passed many treaties of peace, but wasn’t able to properly enforce them causing American military personnel and citizens to become openly hostile. These peace policies’ required Plains Indians to live in small reservations, receive a ration of food and supplies from the U.S. government, and adapt American ideals. The small reservations were built on land with soil that could not be harvested and were constantly being invaded by the surrounding white population, and corruption within the U.S. government allowed many White settlers to eventually take over reservation land, further confining the Plains Indians to a smaller and smaller territory. They tried to still keep some of the culture alive by dressing like their ancestors did in the past and also...
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...The central idea in the texts from Morgan, Momaday, Ambrose,and Chief joseph is that people have a desire to own vast amounts of land and possessions that aren't always theirs to take. I disagree with their statements and claims made about westward expansion. Momaday and Chief Joseph bring out their ideas by showing how the native americans were pushed out because of the “white man's”’ greed. Stephen Ambrose shows directly from the settlers point of view how the land space they had acquired was not enough. We also do not consider that maybe the settlers didn’t have the same mindset as the people reading these articles today. Over the years people have changed their opinions on racial differences. Momaday and Chief Joseph show how the native americans were pushed out of their homeland because the whiteman wanted to expand to satisfy their own greed. In chief Joseph speaks we find that the Chief is allowed to visit Washington D.C., when he meets with President Hayes. “They all say they are my friends, and that I shall have justice, but while all of their mouths...
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...shows the sheer devastation that the American people caused in just 50 years. Numbers are an effective way to convey a point and Rogin demonstrates the unjust actions against the Indians with them. Later in the chapter, Rogin speaks about Jackson. He points out that through Jackson's selfish motives to acquire as much Indian Territory as possible, he was solely responsible for a vast majority of the inhumanity towards the natives. And he states that Jackson’s “friends and relatives received many of the patronage appointments-as Indian agents …[as he] practiced extensive bribery.” The negativity Rogin spread about the president helps supports Zinn's villainous opinion on Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy. Another pivotal Historian towards Zinn's argument was Van Every. In his book, The Disinherited, he summarizes Indian removal and quotes, “In the long record of man’s inhumanity exile has wrung moans of anguish from many...Upon no people could it ever have fallen with a more shattering impact than upon the eastern Indians.” The quote supports...
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...was once called Oriente Province. Located on the southeast corner of the island country of Cuba. Oriente Province has since been divided into five distinct provinces, Las Tunas, Holguin, Granma, Santiago de Cuba, and Guantanamo. Guantanamo Bay is situated in the belt of the Caribbean trade winds; it receives sea breezes from the southeast during the afternoons, and shortly after sunset, the wind changes to a northerly direction and becomes a land breeze. The constant breezes help to keep the bay cooler than most semi-arid deserts. However, the mountains that surround the bay to the west, north, and east shelter it from cloud systems, thus producing less precipitation and maintaining the lands aridity. The Guantanamo Bay area is a semi-arid desert very similar to the climate found in San Diego, California. With predominantly dry, sunny days ranging from 80 degrees to 90 degrees Fahrenheit, nearly one-fourth of Guantanamo’s total average annual rainfall of 24 inches, which occurs in October. The region contains parched, brown land and woody plants and succulents capable of enduring the scarcity of water. The terrain and climate of Guantanamo Bay make it a haven for iguanas and banana rats. Guantanamo Bay was named by the Taino Indians, which is a subgroup of the Arawakan Indians, which inhabited the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean Sea, consisting of Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola ( Haiti and the Dominican Republic ), and Puerto Rico. In April of 1492, Christopher...
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...be impossible to close if we depend solely on time to fix it. Other races have received reparations for what they went through, but for some unknown reason African Americans were expected to get over their trauma because a couple of laws were passed to free them from state recognized slavery. Silence needs to be broken against racism in order to open the government’s eyes to the continuous discrimination faced by African Americans daily, in addition to the centuries of torture. Jews in Europe were victimized by Nazi Germany for a small fraction of the amount of time blacks suffered and Germany paid both the individuals and the state. Enslaved Africans, on the other hand, had slavery “abolished,” and were allowed to buy stale pieces of land in order to make crops to sell and use that money to pay back their white oppressors. The government expects people to believe that racism ended, but they see nothing wrong with Caucasians getting paid for unfair treatment that only lasted twelve years when African Americans were abused for nearly three centuries and counting and received nothing. The U.S. government is currently settling a lawsuit with Native American tribes, which entails spending $2 billion on 10 million...
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...After the meeting, Douglass realized the only reason Andrew Johnson met with Douglass and other African American leaders was to get his speech into the papers. In order to respond to that speech Douglass wrote a reply that would go out at the same time as the President’s speech. Much of the response is focused around the idea of peace. Douglass’s other works do not focus on creating a peaceful America. The reason that President Johnson was not in favor of granting the black man the right to vote is because he felt it would upset the peace that the country was just now gaining after the war. Here, Douglass used the former president’s concern for peace to help his anti-slavery argument. Take for example when he wrote, “Peace between the races is not to be secured by degrading one race and exalting another - by giving power to one race and withholding it from another - but by maintaining a state of equal justice...
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...In the text Lions of the West written by Robert Morgan talks about North America in 1831 involving the issues such as westward expansion and why it was either a good thing or a bad thing. In the text Robert Morgan gives his own opinion about the westward expansion whether it was a good thing or not. Robert Morgan’s central idea will be supported by what other authors have wrote in their text.Coming from Chief Joseph Speaks…, Reporting to the President, September 23- December 31, 1806, The Way to Rainy Mountain. Robert Morgan’s claim “There Is No True History of the Westward Expansion” was not reasonable. In The Way to Rainy Mountain written by Scott Momaday stated “The imaginative experience and the historical express equally the traditions...
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