...Today, Sunday June 10, 2018, I visited the Civil War Reenactment in Morristown, New Jersey with Aleeza and met up with Danielle and Derek. Honestly, when I first arrived I thought it was going to be boring, but to my surprise I actually enjoyed it. I thought everything was so cool. The first thing I did when I arrived was look at all the herbs. The man who was running the herb area had us rub our fingers along the leaves of one of the plants and told us to smell it, he later explained that it was a lemon verbena plant that the women used to use to keep everything smelling fresh. After this, Aleeza and I strolled along the path and eventually saw a group huddled around a cannon. As we were observing from afar, a loud boom was produced from the...
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... It was 1860 and the Deep South was known for slavery. I was sick of being used for labor just for the color of my skin. I needed to get out, break free, but I had a fear of punishment if I got caught. One day, January 23, 1861 I overcame that fear and decided to flee to Canada that night. I chose Canada because it was free there, I had no risk of being sold back into slavery. So, I started my journey. I knew it was going to take a while, especially on foot, but it was worth the risk. Freedom, freedom was the only thing I wanted, and anything that stood in the way of that, went through me. My first stop was the North, they were free but I still had a risk of being sold. Along the way, I decided I needed some rest, so I sat down and took a nap. Once I awoke, I found this black man, he told me to follow him, I had trusted him, so I followed him. He led me to this old cabin where he told me to say “I’m a friend of a friend”. I did what he said, having my trust in him, then suddenly the door opened and I was welcomed by a white family, abolitionists, they were quite kind and gave me food and shelter. The next day, the white abolitionist handed me a map and told me to follow it and stop by the circled areas. The circled areas led me to other abolitionist’s homes to help me along the way. I had made it, I finally crossed the border from South to North. I jumped in the air and cheered so loud a person 3 miles away could probably hear me. I didn’t care, I was, to the most part, free...
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...Butterflies were flying in everyone stomach at that first shot. We had all knew that the Southerners had arrived. Our army was split into 2 groups, one was in town and was in charge of leading them across the stream to the other side, where my group was waiting. The Southerners however weren’t slowing down and starting firing at both groups. We didn’t know whether to fight there or retreat, but our general Winfield Scott Hancock chose to stay there and fight. The next few hours were a flash, the southerners were still on the offensive and we had to play defense. They were slowly advancing so we had to move back to a better position. During the Confederate’s push, more and more Southern reinforcements had arrived. During the night, we had received reports that we had lost about 4,000 men in that fight, and the amount that the Southerners lost was unknown. As I woke up in the morning, we had received even more reports that more reinforcements had arrived for the South, about 20,000 soldiers. General Meade told us to go to the field, and defend it in a fishhook formation. Once we were in formation, General Meade and General Sickles had decided that he didn’t want to defend this area, so we moved up to Emmetsburg Pike. Sickles then split our army of 10,000 men across the field in very small portions. When we got into formation, we found out that the opposing side had found out that we were across the field. Once we got into our formation, the Confederacy had charged through the wheat...
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...It was a warm day on March 28, 1862 in Glorieta Pass when my brother came running through the door. "The Unions are coming! And the Confederates!" I looked at him with a blank stare. They were supposed to be at Pigeon's Ranch, which, guaranteed, wasn't too far away but still. I had heard about the war between the Confederates and the Union, the Civil War, but why would they be coming here? To our part of the town? Just then, I heard gunshots coming from outside. I looked out our window and saw men in dark blue uniforms , and on the other side, there were some people in gray uniforms and some people with regular farming clothes on. On the side with the dark blue uniforms, I recognized two of the men- Colonel John R. Slough and Major John Chivington....
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...REUNION: AFTERMATH The very next morning I was huddled on the sofa, curled up in a blanket watching the local news. My mom placed some cocoa on the table but I was too entranced by the images playing on the station. "High School fire, four dead, few more in critical, several more wounded with third degree burns." was the headline, and they're still finding bodies. The reporter was already jumping on notion that this is the largest tragedy in American history, already surpassing the likes of Columbine and Virigina Tech. Right wing pundits are already throwing out the word "terrorism" and of course in typical right wing fashion they naturally assumed it was a Muslim that did it... "For fucks sake people, let go of your stupid boogeyman and have some dignity." I would usually shout at the screen, but not today. All I can feel right now is shame, and guilt. I could barely get a wink of sleep, stayed up all night crying. My mom did everything she could to comfort me, my sister still away on a work trip, but she checked in on us late last night when she saw what happened on the news. Ashley was trying to get me to play with her until my mom took her to her room. It's a fairly decent sized house, three bedrooms, two bath and a spacious living room. Sister has the master and I sleep in the attic. I kept checking my phone for any social media updates, left messages to Becky and Guru. Neither of them replied. I'm led to fear the worst, and I still didn't want to believe...
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...guilt of an unnecessary war.” This means that killing in war is most felt when it could have been avoided. Justification for killing in war is a very debated topic. Some deem it as necessary for freedom, but what is necessary about killing another human being? Liam O’Flaherty was a short story writer from the early to mid-1900s. The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica (2015) disclose that his various novels and short stories guided the course for other authors in the literary Irish Renaissance. In his story, “The Sniper,” O’Flaherty stresses the importance of the human feeling soldiers obtain when amidts battle. “The Sniper” takes place in Dublin, Ireland in the middle of a heated Irish civil war between the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the Free Staters. An IRA sniper has been...
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...impressions It is always a good idea to register your response to a film right after viewing as you are still emotionally involved in the story. Use some of these points to help you. 1. Did you like or dislike the film? Why? (either answer is valid – but it is always interesting to explore the reasons). I did like the film because of the beautiful barren imagery, ingenious use of symbolism and Del Toro’s unique way of bringing out societal issues in a highly suggestive manner. I also enjoyed the role of the ghost to push the story line forwards with each apparition. 2. What, do you believe is the main theme of the film? The Spanish Civil War, more specifically how Franco’s army and the right-winged parties consolidated while the left-winged opposition fragmented and was, eventually, forced out. Also there is a general message about war and how such terrifying events can rob children of their childhoods. 3. Were you frightened during the story? Of what? Which characters were more frightening – Santi? Jacinto? Did this response change as the film progressed? If so, how? At first the movie seems like any other typical ghost/horror story, where one grows weary of the ghost’s presence primarily due to fear of the unknown. However, as the storyline develops, one becomes uncomfortably accustomed to the ghost’s appearance. Furthermore, after learning the circumstances behind Santi’s death and Jacinto’s involvement in the murder, one becomes morally sympathetic of Santi’s...
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...Peoples views are divided on the Syrian conflict between those who view it as a revolution, and those who view it as a civil war. Revolution inevitably holds characteristics of civil conflict, there is a aspect of civil conflict that must not be looked at in all revolutions. There is a horrible truth about the Syrian problem which is overwhelming, that there are Syrians fighting and killing other Syrians in Syria. The civil conflict taking place in Syria is not a purely sectarian one. The western media exaggerates the extent to which the conflict can be so described. An arrogant Orientalist set of views refuses to understand the Syrians have a much different life. It revolves around death and pain. Sectarian war is the inevitable the destiny of Syrians. Not every conflict is about discrimination or for religious reason. The Spanish Civil War was a conflict between the supporters of the Republic and the fascist followers of Franco. The situation in Syria is closer to the previous example than sectarian civil war. One of the biggest reason behind civil conflict in Syria is the uprising of Syrians against a new feudal class that had enslaved them in syria. For rxample, the majority of Muslim Sunni rebels are moved by a will towards social justice and revenge against these feudalists, rather than exclusively by a sense of Sunni discrimination. In Syria, Syrians are fighting for different political reasons. Certainly some parties have religion focused political reasons...
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...Evaluating the role of ethnic identity in explaining the occurrence of contemporary civil conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa. High hopes for many newly independent states of Africa became diminished as the 1990s saw over a quarter of the continent's states facing armed insurgencies within their borders (Young, 2002: 534). Commentators often point to pathological, deep-seated hatreds in an African tribal mosaic as the bases of such conflict. The fact is, however, that the continent is awash with political grudges, ethnically-framed and otherwise, but civil wars rarely break out. Thus this essay seeks to take a more nuanced approach to understand the analytical challenge posed by such disorder. Starting out by countering the centrality of ethnic identity, it firstly seeks to demonstrate that ethnic identities do not exist primordially, but that they are constructed on weak foundations. Secondly it endeavours to show that where cleavages do exist along lines of cultural difference, simple heterogeneity is insufficient to account for the outbreak of conflict. Next, it moves to underline the fact that more important in explaining civil conflict is whether such conflict is feasible. This is understood both in terms of the perceived capacity of the state and in terms of the viability of insurgency for would-be rebels. A final conclusion will then be expounded that ethnicity is not a central factor, but that it is simply one of a number of strategies under which conflict may be framed...
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...The Civil War was not only fought in battlefields, but also in the daily lives of southerners at home. Victoria Ott’s study in Confederate Daughters: Coming of Age in the Civil War examines the unique demographic of young women coming of age during the time of the war. The sources for her study come from young women born between 1843 and 1849 to wealthy secession supporting families in the south. The study is chronologically organized and seeks to understand how the young women’s gender and upbringing tied their generation together and shaped support for the Civil war, even after it ended. The late antebellum is the first period examined, specifically young women’s lives before the war. Education is emphasized as the means by which women...
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...The accounts of the Civil War are told in numerous ways throughout the times of history from many viewpoints. We see diaries of soldiers, elite white women, and some slaves. However, there are few accounts from the civilian point of view or the comparisons between how average groups in each section felt and acted. Even though civilians were affected by the Civil War the most, their accounts are not put at the forefront of historical documents of this time. Southerners had to go through the crumbling of not only the institution of slavery, but the downfall of their economical and social aspects as well. Northerners had to deal with their society ever changing and the holding to their values. The civilians who lived along the border states were...
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...During the American civil war lots of men where forced into the battlefield. They had to obey orders. Several men very killed, other turned into cold-blooded murders. Men who used to be good working fathers, where thrown into the war. ”The thing you want” is a short story written by Jack Trammell. The short story deals with the topics; war, desire, madness and power. It pictures a man after the war and the consequences of his participation in the American civil war. The short story is told though a third person narrator and he is using past tense. “At that moment someone else entered the room. Cabe had the sixth sense common to survivors of war…” At some points in the text the third-person narrator seems omniscient, because we have access to the characters feelings and mind. “They assumed it was abandoned…” “No one asked any questions. Something inside of him was dead, though, and at the same time, a tiny spark was flickering.” There is used direct speech in the story “,,Looking for food, sir” ,, You won’t find it in her dress, Private”” This narrative mode gives a “filmic-twist” to the story, because we often connect direct speech with manuscripts. The short story starts in medias res and takes place in the real world, in continuation of the Great War (WW1). It elapses chronological and lasts no longer than 1 hour in the “great brick house”. The language is formal and very describing. “A withered, languorous old woman stared at them blankly.” The sentences are very...
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...The woman stay homes to take care of the children, while the men go to the city to work, like Okeke. We get the impression that her family is the lowest in the community. We hear Veronica lives in Nigeria around the 1970s, which is the same time as the Civil War, and the author have focused a lot on this. The author makes the reader feel sympathy for Veronica, because she is in the situation she is. Her family is very poor, she has to take care of the family from a very young age. We hear later in the story, that she is lucky getting a man which have a job, so he can get some money to the family. Guy de Maupasssant is presenting the protagonist in “The Necklace” very differently. She is very representative of her society. She is being presented as being very selfish, egocentric and ungrateful. The reader is barely getting any kind of sympathy for her at the beginning of the story. Because of her negative vision on life she only wants the best, of the best. So compared to Veronica who is always optimistic about life, she is very negative. That is on of the most obvious diversities between the two protagonists. As I said earlier the story takes place around the Civil war in Nigeria. The fact that we know it was in the Civil War, tells us a lot about how hard it was for Veronica. She had to take care of the family, while there were genocide...
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...Revolution to Civil War By Maya Bhardwaj Abstract: social movements and regime change across the Middle East and North Africa. While interconnected, uprisings in each nation took different forms and reached out distinctions and interactions between uprisings, revolution, and civil war. standing scholarly debate. The presence or absence of civil war is examined in examinations of civil war: the nature of the governmental regime, territoriality complete understanding of what constitutes civil war and provides a framework 76 Introduction the Middle East, authoritarian regimes thought invulnerable to protest and impossible to oust began to cede to massive protest. Attacks on governmental institutions and elite leaders ensconced from public opinion developed divergently in each nation, employing tailored strategies to mobilize the public and reap key support. This paper focuses on the nature and development of these Arab Spring further use these distinctions to illuminate the conceptual, instrumental, and semantic nature of civil war in general. - exacerbated the grievances felt by rebel forces and smoothed over ethnic, religious, and tribal ten- trastingly, in Syria, instances of mild reform under Bashar al-Assad, popular concerns for security, kept civil war at bay. Conceptual Isolation of Civil War presence or absence of civil war. However, the scholarly distinction between civil war and other insurgency and counter-insurgency, uprisings, genocide or genocidal...
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...the high seas, but never over territorial sea of another state -Art.1 1944 Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation: “every state has complete and exclusive sovereignty over the space above its territory” -It is a serious breach of international law for a state to order to violate the air space of another state (for e.g. USA military aircraft attacked, forced to land or shot down by Hungary, USSR, Czechoslovakia-a number of incidents) -Does the states have an unlimited right to attack intruding aircraft in all circumstances? -Lissitzyn principle (from 1953)-important (book!) -Some states support Lissitzyn principle and that flexible approach to civil aircraft as well as military craft, but other states including ICAO-International Civil Aviation Organization, believe that civil aircraft must never be attacked in such circumstances -The rule that (it is not indeed a rule) trespassing civil aircraft must never be attacked does not mean that they have a legal right to trespass -Assembly of ICAO in 1984 adopted an amendment to 1944 Chicago Conv. On the Int. Civil Aviation which confirms that “every state, in the exercise of its sovereignty is entitled to require the landing at some designated airport of a civil aircraft flying above its territory without authority.” and that “every state must refrain from resorting to use of weapons against civil aircraft in flight and that, in case of interception, the lives of persons on board and the safety of aircraft must...
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