...The Stono Rebellion signified a sense of belligerence in Blacks during the mid 18th century. The aggression that the rebels portrayed demonstrated their desire to express their feelings towards the White people that treated them poorly. Hence, the slaves’ desire to kill portrayed how desperate they were in order to do that expressing. The only right thing that seemed okay was to go out and kill all the people they hated and get what they wanted which was freedom offered by the Spanish King in Florida. Indeed, that required a lot of courage and bravery to go against their leaders which would created massive consequences like immediate death for those rebels and effects which will try to stop this from happening again. The immediate and...
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...many stories and struggles are presented, such as the Islamic revolution, issues with school, the war between Iran and Iraq, and Satrapi’s struggle with growing up. The strongest theme from all of these situations in the novel is rebellion. Rebellion is constantly seen, in many different shapes and forms, all throughout this book. In the beginning of the book (page 3) it became obligatory to wear the veil at school. The panel at the bottom of the page shows the children rebelling against the veil by using not wearing the veil properly. They make a mockery of the situation because they didn’t understand why they had to wear the veil. This rebellion against the rules and the veil repeats several times throughout the novel when it mentions and illustrates the women wearing veils with some of their hair showing, which is not how it is supposed to be worn. Marjane’s mother later gets insulted by fundamentalists because she wasn’t wearing the veil. However Marjane’s mother would continue wearing the veil in public like all the other woman but wouldn’t wear at home. The people in Iran obey and don’t rebel for example (on page 75) Marjane’s neighbors change by wearing a chador and mouth washing every time they utter the word “alcohol.” Another example of rebellion comes later in the novel (page 128) when Satrapi’s parents are trying to bring her something special back into Iran from their trip to Turkey. Before their trip, Satrapi asked for some posters and her parents made sure that they...
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...The two novels The Last Song and The Outsiders both display numerous characteristics of teenage rebellion, where as one is more modern while the other is in an era of irresponsible excess. The more modernistic novel, The Last Song, displays a different outlook, compared to the severity of The Outsiders. There are several reasons behind these teens rebellious outburst, such as abandonment, environment, and revenge. Also, the punishments these teenagers must face are more severe in the more classical novel compared to the more current novel. The rebellious actions shown throughout both novels are quite similar, while displaying the same actions with a modern twist. Overall, today's teens display less severity, compared to the volatile actions of the teenagers in The Outsiders. The severity of the rebellious actions varies between a more modernistic outlook, compared to a classical approach. Ronnie, the main character of The Last Song, rebels against her father by refusing to play the piano. She refuses to use her incredible piano playing skills purposely to hurt her father's feelings. Ronnie also hangs with the wrong crowd, which gets charges filed against her. Although, Ronnie seems like a troubled teen, she does not engage in usage of alcohol or any illegal substances. Ronnie's mother becomes angered with the incidents that continuously occur with Ronnie. “Mom probably believed that the louder she yelled about Ronnie's grades, or Ronnie's friends, or the fact that Ronnie continually...
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...Fighting for Control: We Want to Choose our Destiny Rebellion comes in many forms. According to American historian, Howard Zinn, “Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience.” Too often the status quo overwhelms our daily lives, and suffocates our natural gravitation towards adventure and desire. In Ken Kesey’s, Cuckoo’s Nest, McMurphy is in a constant rebellion. He rebels against Nurse Ratched’s strict rules; regardless of the influence she has on his life in the ward. He undermines Dr. Spivey by convincing him he is mentally ill, even though he is a functional adult. He believes that he can save Cheswick, after undergoing electroshock therapy for him; as a self-proclaimed Christ figure. McMurphy’s character traits represent rebellion, deception, and arrogance; common traits of a teenager. There is a strong parallel between McMurphy’s character traits, being: rebellious, deceptive, and arrogant, and those which I exhibit throughout my life. Teenagers are naturally rebellious. Often, this is a...
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...Rebellion or Conformity? These two words both totally opposites, one meaning to obey or agree with something and the other, open opposition toward a person or group in authority. These two choices are an evaluation throughout life, an individual is face with the conflict which he or she can adapt to, rebel against, move beyond, or conform to. People are usually labelled as a, conformist or a rebel. A conformist usually develop the tendency to conform within small groups or/and society, from subtle unconscious influences, or direct and overt social pressure. People often confine to conform from a desire for a sense of security without the risk of social rejection from peers. Whereas a rebel, refuse to obey rules or accept ‘normal’ standards of certain behavior or looks, usually motivated by a sense of freedom by self – determination aimed to revolutionize. Nonetheless the act of conformity and being rebellious can have its bad and good effects depending on the situation. A simple example of ‘good’ in conformity like driving on the correct side of the road to prevent confusion and accidents can be seen as a beneficial conformity. Positive conforming like this, allows one to learn and adopt appropriate behaviors required to relate and develop correctly within a society without being perceive as seclusion. There’s also ‘good’ in the act of rebellion as it can be seen in history during the Third Servile War (1098-71 BC), when Spartacus along with the slaves rebelled against the...
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...Whisky Rebellion Phill V Advanced Placement American History A.P. Test Review Activity: Putting the Workspace to the Test One of my consistent recommendations for review for objective tests has been to review as if you were preparing for an essay test. Pose a question dealing with a key theme – go back in to your outline and see if you could bullet out four or five key points that you would need to consider in order to answer the question. Write a statement considering what factors you would need to address in answering the question. If you feel comfortable that you could answer the essay question you could probably answer an objective question dealing with any of the key points. That will be the basis for this activity, how can we incorporate the workspace into our review? 1. Write a FRQ type question that addresses the topic. Discuss the consequences that followed the implementation of the Whisky Tax and the series of uprisings known as the Whisky rebellion and the results of it. 2. Identify the key theme this question addresses. Addresses the Whisky tax, the whisky rebellion, and what happened during the whisky rebellion 3. Identify key ID’s, Events, People, Places that would be essential for answering this question (feel free to add more if five doesn’t cover it). a. Battle of Bower Hill- Mingo Creek Militia Men Surrounded General Neville’s home, Neville Mortally wounded one of the rebels so they opened fire on his house, reinforcements came from US...
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...Bacon’s Rebellion [Instructor’s name] [Class Title] [Date] Bacon’s Rebellion Introduction The historical event discussed in this paper is Bacon’s rebellion. Bacon’s rebellion was an uprising in colonial Virginia in North America that took place in 1676. The rebellion was considered first in history. It was among the first uprising against British authority by the colony and it was the first event that Blacks and Whites, rich and poor, grouped together under one cause. The rebellion was led by Nathaniel Bacon, an Englishman who had recently settled in the Virginia Colony[1]. Background Nathaniel Bacon He had extreme animosity towards Indians-hostile and friendly alike- and developed a worldview that all Indians must be wiped out in Virginia. Nathaniel Bacon was a wealthy 29 year old painter. He was a council at the governor’s office. He rose up as a leader of a group of freeholders (men who own lands and all immovable structures attached to the lands), who wanted to drive-out all the Indians in Virginia[2]. In 1674, these freeholders demanded that Indians should leave treaty protected lands or be killed. This group targeted all Indians, whether friendly or not, thus they are actually starting all out war against Indians. Hostility between Indians and the Free Holders broke out when Doeg Indians raided the farm of one of the Free Holders and stole a number of pigs. The raid was said to be a retaliatory attack by the Indians...
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...Korrie Petersen Mrs. Blomme Honors I 1 October 2014 The Whiskey Rebellion A group of people can rebel in a few different ways and for many different reasons. Rebellions can be violent or gruesome, and people can die or become severely injured. Rebellions can also be peaceful. Most of the time rebellions are violent and occur when a group of people do not agree on what is happening around them and decide to take action and do something about it. They decide to take matters into their own hands, and they do not care what the consequences are because to them, it is about their rights as a human being. That is what happened during The Whiskey Rebellion. The citizens of the United States did not agree with the government and they fought back....
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...Philosopher and writer Albert Camus exclaimed that “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion”. Albert Camus in his quote tries to justify how simple an act of rebellion can be demonstrated, for one to rebel is for them to not be under the control or in the power of another. For someone's existence to be an act of rebellion is for them to challenge what is deemed to be accepted by a oppressive governed society. One’s existence in a non dictated society should allow for liberty in a political community where anyone can voice his/her opinion with full comfort and in turn should be recognized by any authority who governs them. However in an environment where one is...
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...of industrialization, they would sneak up and kill them. They were also responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Chinese Christians. The Boxer Rebellion was an uprising of the Righteous Harmony Society against the West in northern China between 1898 and 1901. The Boxers began as an anti-foreign, anti-imperialist peasant based movement. It is also said to be a religious revolution against national corruption in the form of foreign missionaries, soldiers, and diplomats, as well as native Christians. Reforms were implemented after the crisis in 1900, which laid the foundation for the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Chinese Republic. In this article, we see that the author demonstrates that this event can be split into that of true history and myth. History in three keys is a work written about the point of view of its author, but not always portrayed in a factual sense. Cohen’s view in the article follows the categories of event, experience, and myth. Historical retelling is in constant tension with two other more influential ways of knowing the past - experience and myth. History retells itself through the accounts of historians with those of participants and witnesses; and sets these perspectives against the range of popular myths that were fashioned about the Boxers. One part tells the Boxer rebellion as recreated by historians. The next explores the feelings and behavior of the direct participants in the Boxer experience who understood what was actually...
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...The Satsuma rebellion was a revolt of Satsuma ex-samurai against the Meiji government from January 29 to September 24, 1877, 9 years into the Meiji Era. It was the last, and the most serious, of a series of armed uprisings against the new government. Although the Satsuma Domain had been one of the key players in the Meiji Restoration, and although many men from Satsuma had risen to influential positions in the new Meiji government, there was growing dissatisfaction with the direction the country was taking. The modernization of the country meant the abolition of the privileged social status of the samurai class, and had undermined their financial position. The very rapid and massive changes to Japanese culture, language, dress and society appeared to many samurai to be a betrayal. Saigō Takamori, one of the senior Satsuma leaders in the Meiji government who had supported the reforms in the beginning, was especially concerned about growing political corruption. Saigo offered to go to korea and spur a war. A war would not only spur the strengthening of Japan's military, but would restore to the samurai their reason to be. When the plan was rejected, Saigō resigned from all of his government positions in protest and returned to his hometown of Kagoshima, as did many other Satsuma ex-samurai in the military and police forces. To help support and employ these men, in 1874 Saigō established a private academy in Kagoshima. Word of Saigō’s academies was greeted with considerable concern...
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...Hollywood films, whose primary purpose is inarguably to entertain, are not often welcome in the realm of serious historical reconstruction. However, in his book History in Three Keys, Paul Cohen draws parallels between the process of constructing a film and the processes of constructing history. Says Cohen, the historian must choose between a “re-presentation” of historical data or a “new production, lacking some elements that existed in the past and incorporating others that did not.” (Cohen 3) So, though their goals may differ, the historian and the filmmaker must both make this important choice. This is easily observable within the mythologization of the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 and how a history colored by these interpretations reflects itself in Nicholas Ray’s 1963 film 55 Days at Peking. Though its inclusions, omissions, and areas of focus, the film contributes to history in and of itself by allowing us to analyze the viewpoint it encompasses. Because the film is presented from the perspective of the Great Powers, we first observe the point of view and portrayal of the Boxers to create a complete picture of events. Their experiences are almost completely ignored, for the only interactions the characters have with the Boxers apart from trying to repel their assault is at the beginning when a Boxer is torturing an Englishman for reasons never articulated. (Ray 2-3:00) The Boxer shamelessly attempts to extort Charlton Heston’s character and resorts to violence when this attempt...
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...Edonis Shehu History1301 12/7/12 Professor Troy Shays Rebellion January 25, 1787 was a day that played a huge factor in making the young nation, America, think very carefully about its form of government. Snow was falling eminently that day as the group of farmers and ex-revolutionary soldiers marched through it. All the ammunition and gunpowder the rebels needed to go to Boston and over throw the government was inside that federal arsenal. They had just one thing standing in there way, nine hundred militia troops. In this essay, we’re going to take a look at all the factors that led to Shays Rebellion, go in deep depth of how it all went down and show why this incident is one of the most important events of the United States. America after the Revolutionary War was in shambles. Americans had paid a very heavy toll for this independence. Thousands of men had died, homes and farms had been destroyed, and the nation was governed by a Congress which was governed by the Articles of Confederation; which was a really weak system of central government. Daniel Shays was born into poverty in Western Massachusetts and worked as a farm laborer most of his life. Shays goes into the Revolutionary War as a Private, spends five years fighting and leaves the war as a Captain. Marquis de Lafayette honored him with a sword because he thought Shays did a superior job under him. Soldiers were paid for the war they entered, but were paid in currency that depreciated very quickly, which was...
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...Kimberly Bailo History Review Essay 1 Bacon's Rebellion Early in 1607, the English relocated to North America for promises of new beginnings, wealth, and religious freedom. The Virginia Company had funded the operation under a charter from King James 1 hoping for promising returns on their investment. The new colonists bright and hopeful settled in Jamestown, Virginia only to find nightmares instead of dreams. The conditions for the new colonists exploited a rising tension that would soon escalate into a famous revolt called Bacon's Rebellion. Jamestown was to be the new Promised Land for the English settlers. It was surrounded by water, which would provide protection and allow for mass trading due to the opportunity to install several ports. As such, the Virginia Company believed the expedition would be profitable and King James 1 saw an opportunity to convert the savages to Christian religion, which would make settling much easier since the heathens would be no more. Many of the settlers were not accustom to getting their hands dirty and came only to find gold and wealth quickly and easily. The tobacco industry became Jamestown's wealth, which required many hard working laborers. They were called indentured servants and promised land after seven years of hard work. In addition, many of the new colonists succumbed to malaria, dysentery, and unbearable working conditions. The women were subjected to sexual abuse along with harsh emotional and...
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...Bacon’s Rebellion The personality conflict between Nathaniel Bacon and Governor William Berkeley, and the jealousy among the newer colonists over the older colonists’ power caused Bacon’s Rebellion. In many documents recorded from this event, Nathaniel Bacon and Governor William Berkeley disagree and put each other down. This leads me to support the personality conflict theory. In the “Declaration and Remonstrance” document, Berkeley attempts to persuade Virginians to oppose Bacon. Berkeley said, “Mr. Bacon has none about him but the lowest of the people.” (“Declaration and Remonstrance”) He wanted the Virginian’s to think Bacon’s bad company had rubbed off onto Bacon to impair his reputation with his supporters. Governor Berkeley also said Bacon,”treacherously carried to the dishonor of the English nation.” (“Declaration and Remonstrance”) In the assembly of June 1676, also called Bacon’s Assembly, many Acts were passed favoring Bacon. This most likely upset Berkeley. Acts were passed to declare war with Indians and naming Bacon as general and commander in chief, to regulate offices of officers and to remove tax exemptions from counselors and ministerial families, in which Berkeley had enacted. (A Summary of the June Assembly’s Laws 1676) I think Bacon was able to have a following of Virginians the way he did was because he related more to the common people. (A Summary of the June Assembly’s Laws 1676) Bacon backfired to Berkeley in “Bacon’s Manifesto,” his...
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