While many people may have thought that this film was just a beautiful love story between Rick and Ilsa, most did not know that its true meaning was much more significant than that. This was an early war film released in 1942 when citizens all over Europe were fleeing from the Nazis. At this time, most Americans were not too excited about the idea of entering the war to help the fight against the Nazis. Hollywood noticed this and they ended up making Casablanca, which was a pro-interventionist film to try and get Americans to support the war. Throughout this paper I will explain how Casablanca was a pro-interventionist film and how its main character, American nightclub owner Rick, changed his ways.
This image was particularly appealing to American viewers because most could relate to the struggle of this seemingly white American family. After Lange’s death, the Migrant Mother’s identity was discovered as Florence Thompson, who was actually part Native American. Stein really questions how this picture would be viewed if Thompson had been viewed as Native American when the photo was presented to the Farm Security Administration. Evidence suggests Lange’s boss Roy Striker would have little interest in a sympathetic photo of a Native American family; there was just not enough demand from the FSA’s target audience: white mass media (352). The bulk of this essay addresses the actual story of Florence Thompson, which I found very entertaining.
This just reflects on the attitude that the rich held and holds in higher contrast the dedicated drafted soldiers versus the rich who avoided injury. This impacted my thinking by adding more details to my prior knowledge of the how and whys of the Declaration of Independence. Not only was it a document to send to the king of England, but it was a symbol that even the common man could look up to. Zinn mentions that, “the use of the phrase ‘all men are created equal’ was probably not a deliberate attempt to make a statement about women. It was just that women were beyond consideration as worthy of inclusion,” (Zinn 73) and I think that if I were a male farmer working hard for his family back in the day, this statement would be just fine.
To what extent did the French people benefit from the reforms during the consulate? ESSAY PLAN FOR REVISION INTRODUCTION (KEEP IT BRIEF) * Many historians debate about whether the French public benefited from the reforms during the consulate or whether they were purely there to put forth the image of a democratic France. * Reforms during the consulate involved the economy, education, government, religion and the civil code. * Some say these reforms aided the French public, others argue Napoleon’s reasons were purely selfish and did not aid the public at all. * Napoleon bought stability which inevitably benefitted everyone after the chaos of the revolution FIRST PARAGRAPH (FACTOR IN THE QUESTION....IF THERE ISN’T ONE, START WITH MOST IMPORTANT) * Religious reforms (most important as it showed Napoleon exercising religious toleration) * Benefitted everyone, including the poor, peasants were very religious and had been afraid of the prospect of hell after the French revolution had effectively wiped out religion in France; therefore, when Napoleon introduced the concordat in 1801, the peasants were happy with the reinstating of Catholicism in France.
The United States, however, did not count on just how intense Vietnamese nationalism was. During Kennedy’s presidency, McNamera supported the increase of troops in the country. They were surprised with the difficulty they faced with guerilla warfare employed by the Vietnam fighters. This type of fighting was the kind that they were used to using in their country prior to the conflict with America and had McNamera and the U.S. empathized with their enemy, they would have known that Vietnam soldiers would use this technique. They also thought that their massive fighting force would lower Vietnam morale and would allow them to crush the enemy.
It also says ‘she possessed a spirit capable of heroic deed or sacrifice. This also suggests that she again intended to martyr herself. I believe source C to be reliable as it is written by a national newspaper editor, the ‘Sunday Times’ and it is they’re role to provide a professional non-bias service to the public. The extract from the Sunday Times was written in 1913, this shows that other conspiracy theories have not yet circulated and so this could be an honest interpretation of what actually happened from the Sunday Times editor. Although this shows that the Sunday Times should be reliable I think there could be a possibility that they could exaggerate things to make more money but overall I think the Sunday Times is a good reliable source.
Walt Whitman Shaping the American Character History Lauren Kilroy Walt Whitman, one of the oldest known poets of democracy, who has writing that has influenced the national character, during the 1840s in places like New York. Walt Whitman is important to the american character because his works inspired patriotism in the United States. "Whitman...spoke to the intrest of the day and from a particular class perspective"(Folsmon 3). During the time of his writings he wrote things that were very taboo subjects like black people. In his writing he did not concern the colored people as dirty or anything bad he empowers them and makes them seem like they are equals to the white men that own them.
Do you agree with the view that the suffrage movement made ‘substantial progress’ during the first decade of the twentieth century? During the first decade of the 20th century the suffrage movement made significant changes in the way that they campaigned for the vote. Their change in tactics did have some positive effect on the campaign however it did alienate some politicians as they felt the new violent tactics proved that women did not deserve the vote. Even though they brought female suffrage to the attention of the public eye there progress was limited as in they were not able to actually achieve their goal of female suffrage. During the first decade of the 20th century the suffragettes more militant style campaigning was met with a lot of opposition.
The white literary establishment soon became fascinated with the writers of the Harlem Renaissance and began publishing them in larger numbers. But for the writers themselves, acceptance by the white world was less important, as Langston Hughes put it, than the “expression of our individual dark-skinned selves” One of the most influential writers of the Harlem Renaissance was Nella Larsen. Nella Larsen was born ‘Nellie Walker’, in 1891, to a Danish mother and African-American father. Her parent’s relationship was a controversial issue amongst the whites of that time period, and Nella’s mother’s family strictly forbade the union. Shortly after Nella was born, her parents split up and her mother remarried a white man named Peter Larsen.
Progressivism had been growing the last decades, as it had roots deep in American society, and the New Deal shared many aspects with Progressive ideals. Even though the Progressive and New Dealers had different core problems and wished to accomplish different things in different time frames, they shared “a far greater willingness than had been seen in previous American history to make use of the machinery of government to meet the needs of the people and supplement the workings of the national economy” (Hofstadter 302). Therefore the New Deal did have some resonance in American minds. It resonated further because before Roosevelt took office “a silent revolution had taken place in public opinion…the federal government was to be