...War of 1812 A war that defined North America The war of 1812, a war between the United States and Great Britain allies(United Kingdom and The Canadas ), lasted for two and a half years(1812-1815). It was a story similar to rags to riches, how the developing young nation United states had proved that its not an underdog any more opposing the then super power Great Britain, the greatest naval power of the world. It was a story that tells us why the ‘Father of U.S constitution’ James Madison is remembered for something else as well. It was a story that tells how a country earned respect and why winning is not everything and loosing is not the end. It tells us a story of how the not-so-popular Canada has fought for its independence. After all, it is not a story at all. The U.S army suffered many terrible loses in the war which includes the capture and burning of their nation’s capital Washington D.C, but not before giving up a tough fight and repulsing the British forces in New York, Baltimore and New Orleans. Though the war ended with many unsolved questions even after signing Treaty of Ghent, it is celebrated as a “second war of Independence” in United States. Cause of the war: The reasons behind a war can never be known to anyone accurately except the one who started it. Historians tried to find the complex reasons and multiple factors behind the decision of war. Out of the few immediate...
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...analyzing the cultural history of the United States, it helps to first look at the novels written from a specific time period. The first three novels read in this class, McTeague, The Great Gatsby, and The Sun Also Rises, help to demonstrate how the people of this nation reacted to the fast paced changes that spanned from the late 1890s through the 1920s. Throughout this paper I will show how each of these novels reflected the evolution of American culture through the stories they told. At the turn of the century, American culture started to see a large shift of people attempting to expand their horizons. Before this time, if your father was a farmer you would most likely be a farmer. The same goes for many other professions. When someone did take a different path than their parents, it was still in similar work. For example, the son of a miner may become a black smith. The core work is different; however it still involves some sort of manual trade labor. When the 1900s came around sons would try to break away from their family’s tradition of work. Instead of becoming a car boy, sons would become printing apprentices. Or in the case of McTeague, the son of a miner would go on to become a dentist. This was the trend of the time, people trying to create their own destinies. The Novel McTeague tells a story of this search for a new destiny, but in a way that depicts this pursuit as futile. This is because McTeague is a naturalistic novel. There are many ways to describe naturalism, but...
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...of logos and pathos, rhetorical questions, and anecdotes President Obama strengthens his argument and convinces his audience that the United States of America are in a time of economical growth and that the public has no reason to be concerned about the little things, like national debt and terrorism. President Obama initially addresses the number of troops on the ground and involved in war in some way. His approach here is logos because he is providing facts to reassure the audience that something is being done to minimize the number of troops deployed to the lowest number possible. Obama says; “ Six years ago, nearly 180,000 troops served in Iraq and...
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...The Scars of War Lou Hampton United States History 1763-1877 September 18, 2012 During the 1840s and 1850s, great change was coming to America. Northerners lived in a world of change in which they hardly understood. Their confusions and anxieties of that world made them ready for conflict. However, it was not completely clear what they were fighting for. The war wiped away their confusions and revealed to them where they stood and defined what kind of people they might be. Social and economic changes were happening as the North headed toward war. The economy accelerated, increased output, generated more wealth, moved products and people at faster speeds, transmitted information more rapidly and linked distant places by rail, telegraph and newspapers. New inventions, industries and products had sprung to life. The population multiplied six fold and the amount and size of cities were continuing their growth. There were 400 places with over 2,500 people. Swelling its possibilities, the nation expanded in size when in 1845 Texas joined the Union. Another factor in the nation’s growth was in 1846 when the Oregon territorial boundary was settled. The sudden economic growth was not as beneficial as it seemed. Per capita wealth was growing but there was a decline in actual wages. The North controlled about 92 percent of the wealth. This helped fuel sectionalism because the Southerners became afraid that they would lose their own culture and power in Congress. This...
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...Having been born at the end of the Korean War and growing up in the Cold War Era, she felt a strong connection to her cultural ties and grew up with some discomfort in having to adjust to life as a an immigrant. She derives inspiration for her artwork through her own personal experiences as both Asian and American while embodying the motto “Personal is political” (Oxford University Press 317). A great deal of her work is done in a mixed media format or as a performance piece and often calls for audience participation (Oxford University Press 317). DMZ-XING Yong Soon Min, DMZ-XING, 1994, (Mixed-Media Installation) One such piece by Min is called DMZ-XING (1994), a mixed-media piece taking its name from the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Yong Soon Min created an installation in 19pictures, and a series of narrative texts strewn about (Min 134). Here, she was capturing and retelling her own story as well as the stories of several families from Asia—Cambodia, Korea, Viet Nam, and others—that escaped from their homelands due to the onslaught of wars, and the experiences that they encountered while acclimating to the new experiences they would find for themselves in America (Min 134). Particularly in focus within the art piece is the story of a Laotian man, Mr. Saengaly, who fled with his wife to America after he had been a prisoner of war at a Viet Cong re-education camp during the Viet Nam War (Min 136). Pictures and the accompanying story tell of how he went from a farmer that was...
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...is warning his readers not to be complacent about nostalgia. Just like, fundamentalism, it is capable of irreparable damage. Nostalgia is harmful for the individual if one becomes obsessed with the past. When the present is a struggling, the future is a murky place, people often look back into the beautiful and happy past. Such feeling can become irresistible, like “crack cocaine”. The dangerous situation that Hamid points out is Erica’s love for Chris. So wonderful the past of Erica with Chris beside was that she can never forgets him and keeps pulling herself into the world, where they live happily with together. “A guy with long, skinny fingers” becomes her home, where she feels she belongs. That is why, often, “she was utterly detached, lost in her own world”, seeming “otherworldly”. “She was disappearing into a powerful nostalgia”. Her own story, her own way of drowning into the past is “too compelling”. Without a way out of the deep past, she is “trapped”. She chooses to disappear in the present to live in the past, giving up her future. Her presumed death that imposes great sadness and sorrow on both her family and Changez. It can be seen that addictive nostalgia drags one’s life back, far from present and future, hinders one from standing up, making life better. More...
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...during the civil war and was an attempt to secure the future of the nation by making sure that the institution of slavery, which was the ultimate cause of the civil war, could never cause a civil war in the US ever again. This was the first time slavery was mentioned in the Constitution * Fourteenth Amendment * The amendment to the US Constitution during the reconstruction period that promised civil rights to everyone, including persons of color. This amendment elevated former slaves to the same status as everyone else. * Fifteenth Amendment * An amendment to the US Constitution during the reconstruction period that prohibited states from denying men the right to vote on the grounds of race or color. This amendment allowed black men to vote in the United States. * Henry Ford * Inventor of the Model-T car during the industrial revolution. Changed American culture * Scientific Management * Also known as Taylorism, a new method of assembly line production, making factories more efficient during the American Industrial Revolution, designed by Frederick Taylor. The first person to use this method was Henry Ford for the Model-T car. * Thomas Edison * The inventor of the light bulb. This changed the life of many Americans, as it eventually led to the rise of nightlife, since there was a new way to keep things lit in the dark. * Luna Park (Coney Island) * One of the first amusement parks in America. Amusement parks...
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...Reboot by Amy Tintera was an excellent book in my opinion. The plot of the story I especially liked as it was original and I had never seen a plot or storyline quite like this one. It was set in the future where the United States of America was in pieces. As I can’t remember what the United States was called I do remember that many states of America had become independent countries such as the original 13 Colonies which was then called “The Union” and Texas which was called “The Republic of Texas.” Many other major events in the future of America were hinted at in the book such as The Terrible War (over resources), The Sinking of the West Coast, Second American Civil War (which had a major part to play in the plot) and The Great Slaughter of...
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...of immigrants came to America to either escape war, poverty or corruption from their home country. Events such as the Great Depression fell upon the people had a significant effect on the working class people in the country. Economic injustice plagued the whole country which caused many complications for Kracha and his family working at the steel mills. Everything from wars to social issues had an effect on the working class people. Out of the Furnace is a story that follows three generations of George Kracha’s family from Kracha’s migration to America to Dobie’s involvement in the movement for economic justice at the steel mills. George Kracha, a Slovak man, left his family back in his Hungarian village for America to escape the life of poverty and hoping to help them. When he arrived at New York, he needed a job as he only has fifty-five cents due to spending it all on a party during the voyage. He walked all the way to White Haven, where his...
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...recorded in history and is remembered throughout time. If it is remembered and celebrated as a good time it might just become a holiday. This is not the case of Thanksgiving. Very few people know the true story of Thanksgiving in America. Its origins have been twisted and it is wished that parts would be erased. The story is never really told truthfully in its entirety. Thanksgiving should be taught as it happened in history. Thanksgiving should no longer be celebrated the manner it currently is in America due to the suffering of Native Americans during the early years of United States history. This holiday should be eliminated...
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...The Impact of Dr. Seuss on American Culture “Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing (Dr. Seuss).” When Theodor Seuss Geisel was born, life was not as easy as it is today. From war to civil rights movements, Seuss endured many influential american “battles”. Theodor Seuss Geisel grew up in a large German community where his family lived and worked. When Dr. Seuss was thirteen years old, The United States went to war with Germany which brought fear and anxiety to the Geisel’s hometown of Springfield, Massachusetts. During the war, art became a popular method used to depict war and more often to escape the hardships that americans both on and off the battlefield faced. Theodor Seuss Geisel gained inspiration...
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...The Disney movie Miracle, released in 2004, is based on a true story about one of the greatest moments in sports history. Gavin O’Conner, the director of the Miracle, tries to re-create the story surrounding the climatic 1980 Olympic hockey game between the USA and Russia, which provided Americans a much-needed boost in confidence and pride during a crisis-filled period of American history. The movie begins with several excerpts of national headlines through the 1970s, which gives the viewers a feel for the emotional state and problems of the nation during this time. The final excerpt is from a speech by President Jimmy Carter. President Carter is talking about what he believes is a fundamental threat to American democracy and he states...
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...American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and poet. Although the genre of many of Ray Bradbury’s stories is fiction, he rejected being categorized as a science fiction author, claiming that the only story he has ever written that is a science fiction story is Fahrenheit 451. BIOGRAPHY Ray Douglas Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois. He enjoyed a relatively idyllic childhood in Waukegan, which he later incorporated into several semi-autobiographical novels and short stories. Bradbury's life revolved around magic, magicians, circuses, and other such fantasies. He decided to become a writer at about age 12 or 13. He later said that he made this decision to "live forever" through his fiction. His first official pay as a writer came for contributing a joke to George Burns's Burns & Allen Show. In 1937, he became a member of the Los Angeles Science Fiction League, whose help enabled him to publish four issues of his own science-fiction fan magazine, or "fanzine," Futuria Fantasia. He graduated from a Los Angeles high school in 1938. His formal education ended there because they had no money to send him to college due to the Depression. However, he became a "student of life," selling newspapers on L.A. street corners from 1938 to 1942. He published his first short story in a fan magazine in 1938. Bradbury says that he learned to write by recalling his own experiences. Many of his early stories are based, unsurprisingly...
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...people should hear. Right or wrong and in some cases bad information in some cases is spread over the airways via internet, radio, and television. The media will continue running a story over and over the replaying of a story helps to reinforce this information in people’s minds thus helping to shape their opinion on different subject. This paper will discuss media’s reaction regarding the Arab and Muslim Americans since September 11 attacks. This paper will address the historic framework as well as the political content on this issue. My own opinion will be given on certain messages the media was attempting to portray was this coverage a biased or unbiased as well as was this issue sensationalized or objectively portrayed. For this assignment comes a story from the Detroit news titled Always Suspect: Local Arabs and Immigration. After September 11, 2001 became a turning point in the lives of people in America and around the world. Many Americans lost and gave their lives as well as being injured this had a huge effect on the Arab and Muslim community in living in United States. The lives of many changed due to the actions of a few even the media had a huge impact with people in how they would view these events on 9/11. Months following this tragic event news stations even radio stations their stories focused many on terrorism by Arab and Muslim people. When the average people listen to the news this became...
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... One who wins must tell the story. Everyone who has won wars, or accomplishes mission, etc. always seems to tell the story. In a way where the teller most likely did not finish telling the truth about the story and or lied about their way on the journey. This is where the quote by Anatole France helps you understand the quote.” We have never heard of the devil’s side of the story. God wrote the entire book”. First of all, after looking at the quotation you can clearly say the meaning of the quote is winner’s get to tell the story and losers get to hear the winner’s side of the story. The first example is Iraq going head to head with the U.S. and eventually in the end the U.S. went on and won the war. The after math is the U.S. passed on and articulated their side of the story. This is why we never heard from a person in Iraq, side of the story. In addition the U.S. did not want to tell America, how they dropped food on the ground for the kids in Iraq to eat then the soldiers came and killed all of the kids. The people were afraid America would look at the soldiers in a different way. The army wants us to think that the U.S. soldiers are decent people but actually not. This is why certain countries don’t like the U.S. The recruiters don’t really tell you how messed up the U.S. soldiers are after coming from war. All they want is enough people to fight The final example of this quote is Moses and the Red Sea, as you may know the story from the bible. In the bible you...
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