the union. The war ended up lasting four years led by president Lincoln and the the president of the confederacy who was Jefferson Davis. Robert E. "This is wartime. Killing the enemy is no more illegal than capturing him"(O'Riley 97). Lee and Ulysses S. Grant were the generals that were in charge of the battlefield. The war between the union and the Confederacy was very difficult as it was a matter of life and death to survive. They all went through many times following their leaders to winning or
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The Reconstruction Era that occurred several years after the Civil War was proved to be a difficult time for many americans. Some people agree that the Reconstruction was successful in some ways, but people also agree that the Reconstruction failed socially, economically, and politically. There were not many ways in which the Reconstruction was successful. Before the Reconstruction Era occurred, congress added the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the United States constitution. The 13th amendment
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The One and Only Johnny Think of your best friend and make that person ten times better; that is Johnny. In The Outsiders , by S.E. Hinton, Johnny is a boy who has a rough life. His mom and dad are abusive to him, and he is now living with his buddies. Johnny learns that he needs not to count every day, but to make every day count. In this novel Johnny is timid, though brave and protective, characteristics which he displays throughout his tragically short life. “If you can picture a little dark
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In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Johnny Cade encounters numerous challenges that he must overcome. Though he is thought to be timid and jumpy, Johnny doesn’t shy away from solving his problems, no matter how substantial or insignificant. For example, when Johnny, Ponyboy, and Dally go to a drive-in theater, Dally starts harassing a girl named Cherry Valance. Johnny leaves to get a soda after Dally says something especially inappropriate, but when he gets back, Dally is continuing to bother Cherry
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In the book The Outsiders and the movie have a lot of differences and similarities, one similarity is how Charry and Pony talk about his brothers. These two are very similar but have differences between them that make one just as good as the other one without a doubt in my mind. The book and movie The Outsiders have many similarities one is how no matter what they go to Dally for help to get them out of trouble after stabbing Bob. Another similarities is how when they are in the church instead
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On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor that was chief inspector for a show shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. John Wilkes planned to kidnap president Abraham Lincoln ,but the plan failed.John and several other people hatched and tried to kidnap the president and take him to richmond the confederate capital. As the president Abraham Lincoln was watching the play John went in and shot President Abraham Lincoln in the back of his head and died
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On February 9, 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed he obtained a list of 205 individuals that were alleged members of the American Communist Party who all of which just-so-happened to be people in the State Department (Oh and Latham). With McCarthy making numerous false accusations about innocent people, the nation was spiraling out of control. It was coming to the point where it seemed history was repeating itself; during the time of the witch hunts, anyone could point their finger to a random
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The outsiders compare/contrast The outsiders movie and the book are almost the same but they both have different kinds of details and they both have it to where they say one thing then they another but the book gives more details and description then the movie does. The movie shows when dally gets shot in the store and when he helps uses a fake gun and he gets shot by the police and he dies then ponyboy starts to read the book gone with the wind. The book says that ponyboy falls to the ground after
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"Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold." (148) While reading the book "The Outsiders" by Se Hinton staying gold is mentioned many times in the book. The book is about a greaser named Ponyboy from Tulsa Oklahoma, Ponyboy goes through trials with some of his best buddies. I think that one of the best themes showed in the book is staying gold even when things around you are changing. I think this because they talk about Robert Frosts poem "Nothing Gold can Stay" (77) Secondly the book talked about people through
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Dead Poet Society is a film directed by Peter Weir. Its context is one that is historical and social. This film is set at the fictional Welton Academy in Vermont, USA, in 1959. At that time, the economy was strong and education was highly valued. Despite widespread prosperity following the end of World War II, American society was also experiencing the anxiety of the Cold War with the Soviet Union and its satellite states. This veneer of prosperity undercut with tension is thematically reflected
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