Throughout her Declaration of Conscience, Senator Margaret Chase Smith uses formal diction as well as the appeals of Pathos and Ethos to criticize the Senate for its role in the Red Scare and to encourage Americans to reunite as a country. Margaret Chase Smith achieves her purposes by eliciting Ethos, which is noticeable because of her use of allusion. “…There have been enough proved cases, such as the Amerasia case, the Hiss case, the Coplon case, the Gold case, to cause nationwide distrust...” Here Smith alludes to multiple cases of people being accused of Communist associations. She states that it is cases like these- faults of the Senate- that are influencing the American people to believe that the accusations are true. Naming the cases directly allows Smith to criticize the Senate with exact examples of when they went wrong.
The Buffalo Creek Flood killed many people in the February of 1972. After the flood, Pittston not only didn’t admit the responsibility, but also claimed it as a natural disaster, called it “an act of god,” and later on claimed and blamed that the Buffalo Mining Company was a separate division altogether and that Pittston couldn’t be responsible for its actions. Furthermore, since Pittston rushed to settle the survivors with only 4000 dollars for the survivors from the flood, the survivors are angry with that. So it triggered the survivors to look for a law firm that is Arnold & Porter, and to represent them and seek for justice. After the flood, many people lose everything, and they had no choice but to accept these offers because they couldn’t wait until the lawsuit to follow through, not even guarantee that they will be compensated or win lawsuits.
Raleigh believed he could colonize in the land by trying again in a warmer climate in which the English men could handle. Raleigh tried several times to colonize in the area of Virginia but failing miserably each attempt. With each failed attempt, the English Empire lost more respect the shadow of Spanish grew greater over them. The colony in which Raleigh was trying to colonize, known as “Roanoke” mysteriously disappeared on the final try and to this day, no one knows what happened. There have been many explanations with why Roanoke disappeared such as disease, hurricanes, or the Native Americans killed them.
The Aboriginal communities presented petitions to challenge the Act concerning the Aboriginal land and resources rights. They also wanted to be part of the leadership of the country from which they were alienated from for decades. The government usually responded by enacting very harsh legislative measures and amendments to the Indian Act and prevented the communities from hiring any lawyers to challenge the Aboriginal rights in the court. With the continued uprising of Aboriginal political organizations and protests in the 1960s, a proposal was drafted, the white paper, which proposed that the Indian reserves should be eliminated and the collective rights of the status Indians should be replaced with greater integration of the Canadian community. In 1969, the government agreed to look over and discuss the specific claims and recommendations voiced over by the Indigenous
148), the movement staged many protests against prejudiced Indian rights leading up to the siege at Wounded Knee. Wounded Knee was a rebellion of the extension of the White government control, by the Indians. The Whites established a government and military quickly after the colonisation of America that pacified the Indians in order to gain control of resources. This is the natural order of colonisation and with this idea combined with the fact that these Indians were educated (as by decree of the very same government), this caused the uprising against their White oppressors by the Indians, (Bodley, 1999, p.60). It seemed a disaster waiting to happen.
Angelina Grimke for instance, encouraged women to be active against slavery and for them to impose their ideals on their husbands and sons as well (Document F). Her appeal touches on the fact that slavery breaks up family institutions which is against the Christian beliefs of many slave owners and women as well. The novel Uncle Toms Cabin (Document J) was written in a then popular women's domestic writing style to appeal and try to touch women to move them to abolitionist works. These written works were greatly used to help strengthen abolitionists works to abolish slavery by using first hand accounts from the life of a slave, thus increasing opposition of slavery. Newspapers and literature in general had a very influential impact on society's view of slavery.
The opposition was so strong and intense that, Johnson not only declined the request by commission members, but also took additional six months to disseminate its findings to the public at large and put the issue in right perspective, but he himself failed to act upon it. The most often quoted statement from the report, the prophetic value of which is only being realized in recent times is: “The United States is moving toward two societies, one Black, and one White—separate and
Northerners saw the Klan as an attempt to win through terrorism what they had been unable to win on the battlefield. Such a simple view did not totally explain the Klan's sway over the South, but there is little doubt that many Confederate veterans exchanged their rebel gray for the hoods and sheets of the invisible empire. The conditions in the South, immediately after the war, added to Southerners' fears and frustrations. Cities, plantations and farms were ruined; people were broke and often hungry; there was an occupation army in their midst; and Reconstruction governments threatened to seize the traditional white ruling authority. In the first few months after the fighting ended, white Southerners had to contend with the losses of life, property, and in their eyes, honor.
For example there were the Delaware Indians that, similar to Tecumseh, had tried for years to hold onto their tribal lands but regardless of their treaties and pleading for government assistance, witnessed the incoming settlers take as they pleased and even sell as their own to others the Delaware lands. (Donald H. Kent) There was the infamous event known as the Trail of Tears, the many instances of countless Indians massacred in their villages by the Army and their continual forced movement by the United States, eventually leading to their resettlement onto reservation land that was far less suitable than the land stolen from them. The United States Government owes the Original Americans very much. So much it could never be
Americans relocated thousands upon thousands of Indians from their tribes and dwellings. When these types of things happened, it was necessary for the Indians to change their lifestyle along with their familiarized cultures and traditions. “Change moves relentless, the pattern unfolding despite their planning” (Line 34 Tremblay). This quote helps readers understand the carelessness that the settlers had on the Indians, as the Indians are saying “Change moved relentless” (Line 34, Tremblay) they had no other alternative but to move with the rapidly changing culture. A synonym for the word relentless is harsh or ruthless; nor of these words means anything good.