...people leading the slave revolts. Slave Nat Turner was a religious visionary and the visions that he could see led him into believing that judgment day was soon coming. Even as a child Nat Turner was impressive with a sense of purpose. Later a host of followers who did not have clear goals joined Turner. On August 22nd, 1831, Turner led a group of about sixty slaves and free blacks into slaughtering the whites that had enslaved them. The group murdered his master and the family and then proceeded to kill about sixty other whites. Other slaves were set to join Turner’s rebellion, but they opted not to join them after the whites began attacking the followers of Nat Turner. Turner was later seized and tried then sentenced to hanging. Turner’s followers were sold or sent to the gallows. Free slaves fled from Virginia while Turner remained to be a legendary figure in the war against slavery. Denmark Vesey led the Vesey revolt. Vesey was a literate, intelligent man who had purchased his freedom making him the only free slave to participate in the Vesey revolt. The plan was that the uprising would occur on an unknown date near Charleston. Vesey began planning his revolution...
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...In the August of 1831, Nathaniel “Nat” Turner led one of the only effective and sustained slave rebellions in U.S. history which left dozens, including young children, dead. Turner moved through the county, accompanied by his group of rebels. They went through houses, recruiting followers and killing whites. Nat Turner had gathered approximately 75 men, including five free black men, by the time the white population of Southampton had become aware of the insurrection. Despite the fact his insurgency was crushed, it created a wave of fear through the South and triggered a new surge of tyrannical legislation which forbade the movement, education, and assembly of slaves. It stiffened pro-slavery, anti-abolitionist convictions which continued in the district until the American Civil War in 1861. Historian Eric...
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...Nat Turner was a Virginia born slave best known for leading the slave rebellion of Southampton County, Virginia on August 21, 1831 that both resulted in the harsher treatment of slaves and added fuel to the abolitionist movement of the north. To begin, Nat Turner was born to his mother a slave name Nancy on Benjamin Turner's plantation on October 2, 1800. As a child he was allowed to both read & write and was believed to be a prophet due to his ability to see what happened in the past. This may have played a part in him being highly religious often spending his free time reading the Bible, praying and fasting. At about the age of 21, he ran away from his then owner Samuel Turner plantation only to return thirty days later saying he had seen a sign from god. Later in life he would have another vision of a bloody revolt between both black and white spirits that may have played a part in the revolt....
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...In Southhampton Virginia, August 1831, the turning point of slavery in the US took place. This event was called the Nat Turner rebellion. During this rebellion, Nat Turner (pictured in document A) was a slave who was a common man who was also, quite religious created a force of about 70 slaves. This force wrecked havoc on the town of Southhampton. This rebellion left around 60 white men, women, and children dead. Why would anyone do something so awful? Nat Turner was said to be a prophet. He could tell stories about events that took place before he was born in perfect detail. This led Turner to believe that he was sent down to Earth on a mission by God to help his people become free. One day after the rebellion took place, Nat Turner was...
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...Nat Turner was an African American slave, who led a rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia on august 21, 1831, he led a violent insurrection, and he hid for six weeks but was eventually caught and later hanged. Turner, a slave and educated minister, believed that he was chosen by god to lead his people out of slavery. Turner and 75 followers rampaged .as they went from plantation to plantation, they gathered horses, guns and freed other slaves along the way and they recruited other blacks that wanted to join their revolt. During the rebellion Virginia legislator targeted free blacks will colonize bill, which allotted new funding to remove them, and trial by jury and made any free blacks convicted of a crime subject to sale and relocation. White organized militias and called out regular troops to suppress the rising in addition, white militias...
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...standing up for something a person believes in. Rebellion has been a part of human history for a very long time, from protesting to unfair leaders. Rebellion is making sure that a person is heard and that a person stands up for what they believe in, even when people discount a person or opinion. When it might be one of the only ways to bring change into this world. Some examples of rebellion are the Holocaust, the Turner rebellion, and colonialism. The reason the Holocaust is an example of rebellion is because the Nazis gained power, which they used against...
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...The husband, James Wigton, was away from his house, the Indian came there, and from his confession, murdered Mrs. Wigton and her five children by beating their brains out with stones. “Mrs. Wigton and the youngest were not quite dead, when first discovered…. he next went to Mr. Kiester’s, where he was captured, in a desperate resistance, in which a man named Blair was seriously injured.” He was taken to trial on Wednesday the 13th, in which it resulted on Saturday in a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. In addition, I have realized that through my research the slaves had many altercations with their masters or other whites. In this case, I begin to wonder what would come of this. Yes, the slaves did resist and take drastic measures but there was never a further punishment than that of death. I ask, why did they continue to rebel against the institution, if in the end they did not win. Was it that they needed to take a more forceful approach to the situation? Indeed! This is where revolts would come into...
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...(Temperance)Frances Elizabeth Willard (Temperance)Amelia Bloomer (Temperance) | Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Women’s Rights)Lucretia Mott (Women’s Rights)Sarah & Angelina Grimke (Women’s Rights)Elizabeth Blackwell (Women’s Rights)Margaret Fuller (Women’s Rights) David Walker (Abolitionist)Frederick Douglas (Abolitionist)Nat Turner (Abolitionist)John Brown (Abolitionist)Harriet B. Stowe (Abolitionist)James Forten (Abolitionist)William Lloyd Garrison (Abolitionist) | Objective – Create a unique presentation to act-out in front of your classmates, and sell them on the movement that is of great importance to you! Step One: Choose a partner or work independently. Step Two: Choose a topic. Step Three: Research topic and use two sources. Cite both sources. Step Four: Write or type a one to two page paper that summarizes your research and discusses the overall impact of your topic. (Every student needs to complete this independently) Include a work cited providing citations for both sources used. Step Five: You will “act-out” or record a presentation and present in class. Both must include a visual aid as a prop. The visual aid must be relevant and purposeful. Your presentation and paper must include the following information * Detailed information on the movement assigned (what? when? where? why?) * Include two goals of movement. * Detailed information on the person assigned (who? what?) * Include one quote. Student #1 | Student #2 | ___________________________________________...
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...University Jennifer Rexford Princeton University Scott Shenker University of California, Berkeley Jonathan Turner Washington University in St. Louis is almost no practical way to experiment with new network protocols (e.g., new routing protocols, or alternatives to IP) in sufficiently realistic settings (e.g., at scale carrying real traffic) to gain the confidence needed for their widespread deployment. The result is that most new ideas from the networking research community go untried and untested; hence the commonly held belief that the network infrastructure has “ossified”. Having recognized the problem, the networking community is hard at work developing programmable networks, such as GENI [1] a proposed nationwide research facility for experimenting with new network architectures and distributed systems. These programmable networks call for programmable switches and routers that (using virtualization) can process packets for multiple isolated experimental networks simultaneously. For example, in GENI it is envisaged that a researcher will be allocated a slice of resources across the whole network, consisting of a portion of network links, packet processing elements (e.g. routers) and end-hosts; researchers program their slices to behave as they wish. A slice could extend across the backbone, into access networks, into college campuses, industrial research labs, and include wiring closets, wireless networks, and sensor networks. Virtualized programmable networks could lower...
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...University Jennifer Rexford Princeton University Scott Shenker University of California, Berkeley Jonathan Turner Washington University in St. Louis is almost no practical way to experiment with new network protocols (e.g., new routing protocols, or alternatives to IP) in sufficiently realistic settings (e.g., at scale carrying real traffic) to gain the confidence needed for their widespread deployment. The result is that most new ideas from the networking research community go untried and untested; hence the commonly held belief that the network infrastructure has “ossified”. Having recognized the problem, the networking community is hard at work developing programmable networks, such as GENI [1] a proposed nationwide research facility for experimenting with new network architectures and distributed systems. These programmable networks call for programmable switches and routers that (using virtualization) can process packets for multiple isolated experimental networks simultaneously. For example, in GENI it is envisaged that a researcher will be allocated a slice of resources across the whole network, consisting of a portion of network links, packet processing elements (e.g. routers) and end-hosts; researchers program their slices to behave as they wish. A slice could extend across the backbone, into access networks, into college campuses, industrial research labs, and include wiring closets, wireless networks, and sensor networks. Virtualized programmable networks could lower...
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...Society: Through the View of Many People African-Americans, Whites, Asians, Indians, Chinese, Japanese, and etc…They are all classified as ethnicities, that are judged every day in some shape or form. From day one to now I’ve learned more through the class of “Black World Studies” taught by Professor Coates. Coates gave me the intelligent insight on how Africans-Americans were able to succeed through the tough times of learning even when they could die from learning how to read. It was a sacrifice the slaves had to do that the time. When I read more articles and watched more movies, it showed determination, courage, heart, and attitude. When reading, it switched to a period of slavery to a period of the Civil War. After that I came to an author named Jared Diamond that gave his view on the world of slavery. In the article “How Africa Became Black” by Jared Diamond he argues that diversity resulted from the geography of Africa. Africa is home to five major human groups, blacks, whites, African Pygmies, Khoisan, and Asians. Thirty percent of the world’s language is in Africa. But as the years goes on were losing about 2 per week. Soon as the world gets older there wouldn’t be any languages in Africa. As race continues to grow in Africa there will be different types of languages being made and the previous groups (ethnic groups of language) wouldn’t exist anymore. As said in paragraph 8 of “How Africa Became Black” races are stereotyping, from Black to White, to putting the Zulu...
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...WP/09/95 Ponzi Schemes in the Caribbean Ana Carvajal, Hunter Monroe, Catherine Pattillo, and Brian Wynter © 2009 International Monetary Fund WP/09/95 IMF Working Paper Western Hemisphere and Monetary and Capital Markets Departments Ponzi Schemes in the Caribbean Prepared by Ana Carvajal, Hunter Monroe, Catherine Pattillo, and Brian Wynter Authorized for distribution by Paul Cashin and David Hoelscher April 2009 Abstract This Working Paper should not be reported as representing the views of the IMF. The views expressed in this Working Paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the IMF or IMF policy. Working Papers describe research in progress by the author(s) and are published to elicit comments and to further debate. In several Caribbean states, unregulated investment schemes grew quickly in recent years by claiming unusually high monthly returns and through a system of referrals by existing members. These are features shared with traditional Ponzi schemes and pyramid schemes. This paper describes the growth of such schemes, their subsequent collapse, and the policy response of regulators, and presents key policy lessons. The analysis and recommendations draw on country experiences in the Caribbean, and in such diverse countries as the United States, Colombia, Lesotho, and Albania. JEL Classification Numbers: G18 Keywords: Pyramid schemes, Ponzi schemes, Caribbean Authors’ E-Mail Addresses: acarvajal@imf.org; hmonroe@imf.org;...
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...Negro. New York: Atheneum, 1968. hooks, bell. Teaching to Trangress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. New York: Routledge, 1994. Harrold, Stanley. American Abolitionists. New York: Pearson Education, 2001. Youngs, J. William T. American Realities: Historical Episodes-From First Settlements to the Civil War. New York: Longman, 2000. Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove Press, 1963. COURSE DESCRIPTION: A survey of African American literature, introducing students to genres, trends, and major periods of African American literature, ranging from the 17th-, 18th- and 19th- century autobiographies and narratives to 20tth –century works. Authors include: Jupiter Hammon, Briton Hammon, Sojourner Truth, Nat Turner, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston, Sterling Brown, Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, Toni Morrison, Haki Madhubuti, Ton Cade Bambara, and August Wilson. COURSE OBJECTIVES By the end of this course, you will: o be able to distinguish amongst genres of literature; o be familiar with various works by and about African American writers in various literary genres; o be familiar with the Black Aesthetic, as well as other literary theories; o gain...
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...To a larger degree, historians have examined the white American businesspeople about the economies and market cultures. This paper going to talk about the African American business and consumer cultures, such as blacks’ culture and entrepreneurship, African American and immigrant self-employment in the United States. Also the African Americans’ buying behavior like the selling strategy makes it success to African American, and what is the reason. At the end going to talk about cross-cultural business, how to do business in the African American community. Known African American’s culture and background history is always helps to be success to avoid the mistakes which you shouldn’t do. Directly relating African American History and African American Business leaders, Pharrell Williams would be the perfect example of how the Black history influences the ways of business in the African American community. A lot of people might argue that he is not business man but he is the biggest entertainment business leader. “Every one of us is an amalgamation not only of all our ancestors, but of their decisions, and in 1831, Ambrose Hawkins was contemplating moving his family from America to Africa. Had he done so, his son Joseph would have been raised in Liberia instead of North Carolina and never would have become Pharrell Williams’s third great-grandfather. As it happens, Ambrose did go to Liberia, but opted for a solo round trip, rather than a family migration. If not for this last minute...
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...Television History - A Timeline 1878-2005 1878 William Crookes confirmed the existence of cathode rays by building a tube to display them in. 1897 German scientist Karl Ferdinand Braun constructs the cathode ray tube scanning device. 1900 Russian Constantin Perskyi introduces the word "television" at the 1st International Congress of Electricity at the World's Fair in Paris. Souvenir trading cards are sold at the same fair, two predicting color television and news radio in the year 2000. 1905 Philipp Lenard wins the Nobel Prize in physics for his research on cathode rays. 1907 A.A. Campbell Swinton in England and Boris Rosing in Russia independently propose an electronic scanning system in which a cathode ray tube could produce an image on a phosphorus-coated screen. 1923 Vladimir Zworykin, working for Westinghouse Electric, patents the iconoscope, a television transmission tube and in 1924, patents the kinescope, the receiver tube. 1925 In England, John Logie Baird demonstrates the first moving television pictures via a mechanical system based on Nipkow's disk; they were recognizable human faces in 1925 and moving objects in 1926. He had shown a still image of Felix the Cat in 1924. 1927 Philo Farnsworth transmits the first electronic television image and applies for a patent on the first complete electronic system, the Image Dissector. The first practical demonstration of television is arranged by Bell Labs and AT&T, when Commerce Secretary Herbert...
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