Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

Why was the Battle of Gettysburg a significant turning point during the Civil War? The Battle of Gettysburg was the deadly battle in North American history. Lots of people form both sidfes died, but so many confederates lost their lives and it was diificult to bring back up the number of men they had. Even though the Union won, Lincoln was upset that the nation was fighting. That fustarstion lead to the famous Gettysburg Address speech.

He better showed the cold, cruel side of war that other authors looked past. Throughout the story the main character dreams of instances where him and the army he fought for would triumph as heroes and the world would know of their bravery. In reality, as Crane shows, war is still cruel and filled with death.

How did World War 1 Start? There have been many wars in the world all for different reasons. However, World War 1 was one of the bloodiest wars that wrought across Europe. The War was so violent and miserable it was called “The War to End All Wars,” because only one alliance would be left standing. World War 1 started on the 28th of July 1914 and lasted until 11th of November 1918.

The year 1919 was the most horrific year in American history in terms of racial violence. David F. Krugler clearly describes the horrendous events that occurred during this year in his book 1919, The Year of Racial Violence: How African Americans Fought Back. According to the book, "Between late 1918 and 1919, the United States recorded ten major race riots, dozens of minor, racially charged clashes, and almost 100 lynchings as white Americans tried to enforce the continued subjugation of black Americans in the postwar era" (Krugler 3). Extremely violent mob attacks and the lynching of African Americans were very common occurrences throughout the entire country with some states having more acts of violence than others. I thought Krugler's book was an incredibly informative read because it gave honest, raw details of anti-black acts of violence and was focused on various African Americans' perspectives during this critical time.

Sam Lyons Mr. Brady English 10 Bell 2 8 September 2016 The Power of the Moon Racism is a powerful enemy that has run rampant in the world for hundreds of years. When the Europeans first came to the Americas, they took over the land and enslaved its native people. Europeans did exactly the same thing to African Americans. The Color of Water, a novel by James McBride, deals with a lot of conflict involving racism. At one part in the novel the author states that race is “ignorable”.

In 1863 there was a battle, the battle of Gettysburg. It was a civil war that lasted for three days and more than 50,000 people died. So Abraham Lincoln’s speech was actually to honor the fallen soldiers and to remind the people that they were fighting for

One of the most brutal battles this world has endured, with over 70 million men as causalities, dead, missing, and wounded. It started on 28th of July 1914 lasted for about 4 years, with weapons that are undeveloped and days where all you do is sit and play the waiting game inside the gruesome trenches with diseases all around made WWI claim its place as one of the most savage war this world has lived through. Alliances were made in WWI in order to help one nation and another little did they know these alliances would cause so much friction that they are one of the causes of world war one. There are 2 alliances in the European nation one called the Triple Entente and the other called Triple Alliance. Triple Entente consists of the British, French, and Russia nations, while the Triple Alliance were Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy.

These ideas based on prejudice on part of Europeans ultimately led to the death of thousands of people across the continent through violence, famine and wars. Countless generations of native Africans were enslaved and entire continents were plundered based on the pure malice, greed and prejudice only. Adding insult to the damage, were the ways in which these theories were presented to justify pure brutality under colonialism. Later these very theories were used by Nazi regime to wreak havoc on the Europe itself persecuting Jews, Roma, and other supposedly non-Aryan races. Even to this day such theories are used to justify wars, violence and other crimes against humanity that are based on pure greed, malice and

Throughout the course of the epic, deadly consequences stem from unchecked rage such as the slaughter of an entire people and even the doomed fate of Achilles himself. Along the timeline of modern American history, i.e The Civil War, or The American Revolution, the relevance of The Iliad and its thematic concept of rage and honor parallels the cause of many other if not all of these wars throughout the years of contemporary history. Rage and differences among men spark the irreversible and tragic acts of violence perpetuated throughout these wars, giving credence to the idea that rage is the great motivator behind all major historic events- arguably even into modern

Someone tried their very best to bring me down a level, but I would not honor that request. The true tragedy that day will never be comparable to anything else I may ever experience. Anne Frank wrote “In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death” (“The Diary of Anne Frank”). We are constantly fighting wars, instigating fights over race and cultural identity and this is the sad part of life that Frank wrote.