Brock Kennedy Mr. Pitler 112-012 3/25/08 Annotated Bibliography Acomb, Deborah, L. “In the News” National Journal. 34.47/48. (2002) 3503. Academic Search Premiere.Ebscohost. Owens Lib.
Statement of Intent The Book of Negroes September 19th, 2011 The topic for my ISP will be the challenges slaves face during the time period of the slave trade in Africa and North America in The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill. Throughout the novel, Hill writes of many tragedies that influences the lives of many detrimentally, but still provides hope to the readers that they can reconcile with their tragedies and move on with their lives. I will attempt to show one’s ability to adapt to change reflects directly upon their upbringing and the crises which they face. I will attempt to prove this tentative thesis by examining the impact of the difficulties the characters of the novel face and the way they deal with it. Thus, presenting
Targeting the notorious Herb Spencer and Gregor Mendel, as well as the modern intellectual pariahs like J.P. Rushton, Herrnstein, and Murray, Graves attacks paleo-Darwinian relics by repudiating such arguments as “the supposed infertility of European settlers and Australian natives” –pg. 426 of the article handout. Further on, Graves continues with the broken record by mentioning the Third Reich, sterilization of non-Nordics, and eugenics programs. At this point, Graves’ article comes dangerously close to crossing the line between academic redundancy and likely unintentional plagiarism from somewhere else, as all of this has been propagated endlessly in thousands of publications. If I were Graves I would’ve titled the article ‘We All Bleed Red, Don’t We?’, mentioned Madison Grant, H.S.
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the changes in the mechanisms of ‘volkisch’ anti-semitism and how it developed throughout the preceding decades, with particular scholarly movements including the inception of scientific racism, the volkisch movement in correspondence with new imperialism and militant nationalism. The approach suggests that the holocaust was exclusively akin to Germany’s rising ‘volkisch’ culture and that the aggressive notions of supremacy produced in the late nineteenth century influenced their attitudes towards the other races within Germany at the time and subsequent to the century’s turn. This particular approach is therefore beneficial for understanding how the very concept of a civilised genocide was manifested and how anti-semitism transformed according to the circumstances of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and is therefore the synthesis of the intentionalist and functionalist schools as the German anti-semitism was developed in the long-term through cumulative radicalisation. It adds to our understanding of how ‘völkisch-antisemitisch’ developed from mere prejudice into genocide and how it was influential in the development of advancement of National Socialism, being spawned through nineteenth century scholarly ideologies and social movements including Social Darwinism as a product of emerging ‘scientific racism’, with this and the association with romantic nationalism being
A range of language features and structures can be utilised for the purpose of challenging contextual values by speaking about the need for change. To do this skilful orators will use a wide range of the techniques of rhetoric to manipulate an audience into accepting their point of view. This is evident in the speech, “I Have a Dream” by Martin Luther King, as the empowering use of figurative language, structural techniques and vivid imagery emphasizes the distinction between the past and the present, and how injustice, such as the racist segregation of “Negros” from white society, was still present in the 1960’s. In relation to this concept, Indira Gandhi’s speech on “The True Liberation of Women” aggressively expresses her growing concern for the rights of women as it empowers individuals to stand up against social issues such as injustice and the myriad of stereotypes through the varied uses of rhetoric. This ability to use rhetoric for a specific purpose is also evident in the speech of Squealer in George Orwell’s satirical fable “Animal Farm”.
Bruce Mazlish and Steven Feierman are not happy historians. Both, in their articles “Comparing World to Global History” and “ The Dissoultion of World History”, present arguments regarding how the current form of recording history is no longer adequate to our ever more global community of today. The difference between the directions they take however is huge. Mazlish presents his arguments by defining the terms World and Global History then explaining why Global History, the new way, is the better way. Feierman similarly defines World History as the old way and Global as the new way but that is about as much as he explains them.
To Republicans, the turbulent sixties signaled the beginning of a long moral slide in the United States and an end to governmental restraint and fiscal responsibility. Patrick Jones (Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison) Maurice Isserman and Michael Kazin, attempt to clarify and explain the turbulent happenings of the
The quick move to military mobilization—now with nuclear weapons—that followed World War II led to a new type of conflict: the cold war. To generations of American politicians, from the late 1940s to the early 1990s, the ideological struggle between the capitalist/democratic United States and the communist Soviet Union seemed, as John F. Kennedy stated in his 1961 inaugural address, a "long twilight struggle." To what degree was the cold war a battle between rival European ideologies? We will explore this question. In addition, we will examine the impact of decolonization, in which process Asians, Africans, and the people of Latin America created new types of politics and struggles based on their own traditions in interaction with not only the cultures of their colonizers, but an emerging world culture.
Africa Imperialism of Africa was directly related to three factors, economic, political, and social. After the collapse of the profitable anti-slave trade, expansion of European capitalist Industrial Revolution there was a demand and assurance of raw material, because Africa was so large and fruitful this brought about the scramble for Africa. European powers, Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, and Spain sought out to gain control of land. This was so intense that the presence of fear of war would evolve, a treaty instilled by the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck was produced at the famous Berlin West Africa conference known as the Berlin Act in hopes of preventing conflict and war. Africa did not partake in the treaty and eventually use military resistance.