American Civil War Essays (Examples)
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Racial Tension And Violence In To Kill A Mockingbird
… film adaptation of the 1960 novel by Harper Lee of the same name. The film was produced during a decade in which the civil Rights Movement was reaching its zenith. Blacks had been protesting throughout the South, and Martin Luther King, Jr., would be arrested in Birmingham … arrested in Birmingham in 1963. There he would write his famous Letter from Birmingham Jail, justifying his actions at the front of the civil disobedience. Soon thereafter would be the march to Washington and then the Selma to Montgomery march. In short, race and desegregation was on … reflects the Jim Crow spirit that put blacks on an unequal footing with whites for nearly a century following the end of the civil War. The poverty of the farmers and blacks like Tom reflected the reality of life at mid-century in America: only the chosen few were … the farmers and blacks……
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Executive Order 10925. Thecre. https://www.thecre.com/fedlaw/legal6/eo10925.htm
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Promises Of Democracy Capitalism In Ukraine
… point), who promised to return Crimea to Ukraine (though the Crimean people themselves voted for annexation and a return to Russia), and the civil war that ensued ensured a limited run by Poroshenko and he gave way to Volodymyr Zelensky, who subsequently assured the world that President Trump … control the puppet in politics, as has been the case throughout the history of democracy and capitalism all around the world.
Conclusion
The civil war in the Donbass region of Ukraine has been an indirect outcome of Putin’s war with the oligarchs in Russia. The collapse of Communism in Russia led to an opportunity for men like Berezovsky to strike it rich … his way into the Kremlin. When Putin came to power, however, the game was up, and Berezovsky fled to UK and launched his war against Putin by supporting a coup in Ukraine. civil war broke out between……
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Alexievich, S. (2007). Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets. NY: Random House.
Alexievich, S. (2017). The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II. NY: Random House.
BBC. (2012). Russian godfathers. Retrieved from https://www.documentary24.com/russian-godfathers-putin-and-the-oligarchs--848/
Forbes. (2020). Ihor Kolomoyskyy. Retrieved from https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/how-russian-oligarchs-changed-country%E2%80%94and-not-better-97472
Klebnikov, P. (2000). Godfather of the Kremlin. New York, NY: Harcourt.
IMF. (2007). Report for Ukraine. Retrieved from https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2007/02/weodata/weorept.aspx?sy=1992&ey=2008&scsm=1&ssd=1&sort=country&ds=.&br=1&c=926&s=PPPGDP&grp=0&a=&pr1.x=41&pr1.y=2
Mezrich, B. (2015). Once upon a time in Russia. New York, NY: Atria.
Risen, J. (2019). I Wrote About the Bidens and Ukraine Years Ago. Retrieved from https://theintercept.com/2019/09/25/i-wrote-about-the-bidens-and-ukraine-years-ago-then-the-right-wing-spin-machine-turned-the-story-upside-down/
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How Religious Beliefs Affected Colonial Social Structure In America
… the duties expected of them as Quakers and pacifists. For example, the Quakers initially wanted to respect the human rights of the Native american, but as the american colonies were not united in this view. The Virginia House of Burgesses, dominated by Anglicans, wanted to abjure the treaty between the Crown … united in this view. The Virginia House of Burgesses, dominated by Anglicans, wanted to abjure the treaty between the Crown and the Native american: Virginia land owners wanted to push further West and expand their territory (Holton). Thus, there was a clear distinction between what the Anglican … other religions in Pennsylvania. Catholics for the most part were the only religious community not tolerated by the Protestant communities in the early american colonies. Maryland was founded as a refuge for Catholics, but the Catholic community was always still rather small in the colony as the … began……
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Fantel, Hans. William Penn: Apostle of Dissent. NY: William Morrow & Co., 1974.
Graham, Michael. "Posish Plots: Protestant Fears in Early Colonial Maryland, 1676-1689." The Catholic historical review 79.2 (1993): 197-216.
Holton, W. Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
Laux, John. Church History. New York: Benziger Brothers, 1933.
Melville, Herman. Clarel. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015005201424&view=1up&seq=9
Milder, R. Herman Melville. New York: Columbia University Press,1988.
Pyle, Ralph E., and James D. Davidson. "The origins of religious stratification in colonial America." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 42.1 (2003): 57-75.
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Lincoln S Leadership Abilities Comparison And Contrast
… and understanding of the leadership ideologies and approaches of successful leaders in the field of interest. One of the greatest leaders of modern civil is Abraham Lincoln, and his method, life, and ideologies have been studied and proposed across multiple books and journals of leadership discipline. Lincoln … leadership is one of such studies that introduce the life of Abraham Lincoln as one of the most successful and memorable statesmen in american political history, and his success is examined under various contexts. Lincoln on leadership is the primary study for this paper; however, observations are … administrative and personal accomplishments to mythical proportions. In the first part, he assumed office at one of the most perilous political environments of american history, with certain states already seceded to the confederate party and others preparing to join. The major route of the Mississippi was hijacked, … of the 1857 financial panic.……
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Maxwell, J.C. (2005). Ethics 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know. Center Street Publishing. ISBN: 9780446578097. Retrieved from: http://lasacoassurance.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/John_C._MaxwelEthics-101_-What-Every-Leader-Needs-to-K-1.pdf
Maxwell, J.C. (1998). The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. Thomas Nelson Publishing. ISBN: 9780785288374. Retrieved from: https://www.speakersbase.com/uploads/3567e22e8083ad294bab525f9c0b631c57f40f2b1478780702.pdf
Northouse, P.G. (2012). Leadership: Theory and Practice. California, USA: publications Inc. ISBN: 9781483317533.
Phillips, D.T. (1992). Lincoln on Leadership. New York, NY: Warner Books. ISBN: 9780446394598
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Domestic Extremism And Terrorism
Proud Boys vs Antifa War of Words
Introduction and Research Question
When it comes to domestic extremism, there are groups on both the Right and the Left of … of this paper is, therefore, to compare and contrast the two groups while showing that they both represent deep sub-cultural trends among the american populace that are emerging into popular culture and have the potential of disrupting and subverting mainstream cultural norms. To accomplish this objective, this … into, support, and diverge from the extremist groups that purport to project them.
Review of the Literature
One of the problems of today’s american socio-political system is that it is a two-party system in which all of society is essentially forced to choose sides—Right or Left. This … that “a two-party system isn’t really that democratic at all … [because] more parties mean more ideas”—and yet in America when ideas clash, war can……
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Breger, M. L. (2017). Reforming by re-norming: How the legal system has the potential to change a toxic culture of domestic violence. J. Legis., 44, 170.
Beinart, P. (2017). The rise of the violent left. Retrieved from https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/the-rise-of-the-violent-left/534192/
Brockhoff, S., Krieger, T. & Meierrieks, D. (2014). Great expectations and hard times: the (nontrivial) impact of education on domestic terrorism. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 59(7), 1186-1215.
Brown, D. (2017). Proud boys founder. Retrieved from https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2017/12/12/19540403/proud-boys-founder-wants-to-trigger-the-entire-state-of-oregon-by-helping-patriot-prayers-joey-gibson-win-the-oregon-person-of-the-year- p
Cramer, E. P., Choi, Y. J., & Ross, A. I. (2017). Race, Culture, and Abuse of Persons with Disabilities. In Religion, Disability, and Interpersonal Violence (pp. 89-110). Springer, Cham.
Dalgaard-Nielsen, A. (2016). Countering violent extremism with governance networks. Perspectives on Terrorism, 10(6), 135-139.
DeCook, J. R. (2018). Memes and symbolic violence:# proudboys and the use of memes for propaganda and the construction of collective identity. Learning, Media and Technology, 43(4), 485-504.
Doyle, E. (Ed.). (2018). Antifa and the Radical Left. Greenhaven Publishing LLC.
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Coronavirus COVID 19
… must work virtually from home, whether face masks become required in public places, whether digital monitoring using chip implants becomes a staple of american life, whether more freedoms and civil rights are given up in the name of safety and security, and whether the divide between the Right and Left reaches a point … given up in the name of safety and security, and whether the divide between the Right and Left reaches a point where all-out civil war become inevitable—these are all crisis inflection points that remain on the table. The outcome of COVID 19 in the US is at this … that remain on the table. The outcome of COVID 19 in the US is at this time still unknown. How the future of american society and culture will be could go multiple ways with a range of outcomes spanning from the dreadful to the optimistic depending……
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Chen, N., Zhou, M., Dong, X., Qu, J., Gong, F., Han, Y., ... & Yu, T. (2020). Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of 99 cases of 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia in Wuhan, China: a descriptive study. The Lancet, 395(10223), 507-513.
Kekatos, M. (2020). Ventilating too soon. Retrieved from https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8201783/Some-doctors-moving-away-ventilators-virus-patients.html
Myers, S. L. (2020). China Spins Tale That the U.S. Army Started the Coronavirus Epidemic. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/world/asia/coronavirus-china-conspiracy-theory.html
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (2015). Improving diagnosis in health care. National Academies Press.
Oliver, D. (2020). Coronavirus genetic material stayed on surfaces for up to 17 days on Diamond Princess cruise, CDC says. Retrieved from https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/cruises/2020/03/24/coronavirus-diamond-princess-cabin-surfaces-contaminated-cdc-report/2905924001/
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Influence Of The PRC With Great Power Competition Globalization
… development within the Indo-Pacific region.
People’s Republic of China Context
The People’s Republic of China emerged as the winning side in the post-WWII civil war between the Communist Party of China and the ruling Kuomintang. The latter was exiled to Taiwan, the PRC invaded Tibet, and the next … a long while, that there is a great competition between major powers. In a speech by US Vice-President Mike Pence, a looming cold war was indicated, in turn revealing how the US perceives the PRC, and likely showing that the PRC feels similarly towards the US and other major rivals – such views are seldom birthed in a vacuum, but as the result of evidence, actions and ……
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Chatzky, A. & McBride, J. (2019) China’s massive Belt and Road Initiative. Council on Foreign Relations. In possession of the author.
“China as a Trading State” (n.d.) In possession of the author. s
“Foreign Direct Investment” (n.d.) In possession of the author.
Global Times (2018) Best strategic opportunity since the Cold War. Global Times. In possession of the author.
Hoffman, S. (2002) Clash of globalizations. Foreign Affairs. July/August 2002. 105-115.
Morrison, W. (2017) China’s economic rise: History, trends, challenges, and implications for the United States. Congressional Research Service. September 15, 2017. In possession of the author.
NIC (2017) Paradox of progress. National Intelligence Council. In possession of the author.
Pollack, J. (no date). Competing visions: China, America and the Asia-Pacific Security Order. In possession of the author.
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Democracy In America In The 21st Century
… control.
Authoritarianism was always a problem for democracy, even in Athenian society, because democracy ultimately is an idealistic form of government that tends toward entropy rather than towards stability or control. There are always going to be and there have always been individuals and organizations seeking to exploit imbalances within systems, … over the decades and centuries into a behemoth of a machine with multiple organs now influencing various sectors unseen by most people. The civil War occurred before a century of this system had even concluded, and the cause was the same—tension between state (local, democratic government) and federal … principals and agents of business. “Free society” is essentially something of a canard as well, but all things relative one could argue that american are freer than, say, Chinese. But in short order, one will find it hard to distinguish between the two societies, especially if people ……
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Dahl, Robert. On Democracy.
Ferejohn, John. Is Inequality a Threat to Democracy?
Friedman, Milton. Capitalism and Freedom. University of Chicago Press.
Mansbridge, Jane. On the Importance of Getting Things Done. PS, 2012.
Runciman, David. The Confidence Trap. Princeton University Press.
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Veteran Benefits Administration
… gone unnoticed—each soldier’s commitment is valued and in exchange the U.S. government ensures that each solder is taken care of upon returning to civil life; 2) it provides compensation, insurance and other benefits to veterans; 3) it supports them in pursuing educational opportunities; 4) assists them in … disease suffered or made worse over the course of the soldier’s military service.
Second, the VBA oversees and dispenses pensions owed to to wartime veterans and their survivors. To that end, it ensures that total dependency and indemnity compensation for survivors of veterans who are injured or … Personnel. It also collaborates with third party organizations and institutions, hospitals, universities and businesses to help veterans transition successfully from the military to civil life. Transition Assistance Program (TAP) is one such example. TAP, like the National Association of american Veterans, offers guidance, a variety workshops and seminars, training and many other useful……
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Cohen, S. (2019). Disband the Veterans Administration. Retrieved from https://www.city-journal.org/veterans-administration-benefits
Faurer, J., Rogers-Brodersen, A., & Bailie, P. (2014). Managing the re-employment of military veterans through the Transition Assistance Program (TAP). Journal of Business & Economics Research (Online), 12(1), 55.
Hazle, M., Wilcox, S. L., & Hassan, A. M. (2012). Helping veterans and their families fight on!. Advances in Social Work, 13(1), 229-242.
Panangala, S. (2018). Department of Veterans Affairs FY2018 Appropriations. Retrieved from https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R45047.pdf
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. (2014). Retrieved from https://www.benefits.va.gov/BENEFITS/about.asp
VBA. (2019). Retrieved from https://www.benefits.va.gov/benefits/
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Racism In The United States
… well into the 20th century. In fact, it would be more than a century after the ratification of the 13th Amendment before the civil Rights Act would be signed into law—and it would take a major protest led by Martin Luther King, Jr. just to achieve that. … achieve that. From the Mississippi Black Code of 1865 to King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail in 1963, one can see the shape of american history with respect to its race relations.
The historical significance of the Mississippi Black Code of 1865 is that it helped to institutionalize ……
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King, Jr., Martin Luther. “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” 1963.
The Mississippi Black Code of 1865.
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