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- 101: Utopia...Model Or Reality
- ... overcome, as are pride and gluttony, by encouraging the practice of their corresponding virtues. Sloth is to be overcome by requiring the practice of industry; covetousness by the practice of generosity (in addition to the abolition of private property); envy through respect; pride through humility; gluttony through modesty; and lechery through continence (the Utopians punished extra- or pre-marital sexual intercourse harshly). Wrath, which seems to be the lone exception, is ...
- 102: Music In The Romantic Period
- ... and the universal brotherhood of man, longing for political and social freedom. The music represented the period of time that saw the American and French Revolutions, then the joining of Germany and Italy, and the abolition of slavery in the United States. The Romantic Era spawned the popular idea people have of a composer being a "long- haired Bohemian who, between love affairs, wrote music that no one can understand." Though ...
- 103: Morrison's Beloved: A Review
- ... struggling for emancipation of blacks. Mr. Bodwin represents a time in history where slavery starts to come into question. People (white) started to realize this travesty and begin to speak up and act towards the abolition of slavery. The abolitionists begin a process which will eventually end in the 60's where blacks will attain complete freedom. They begin a legacy of freedom fighters that will not stop till blacks receive ...
- 104: Bless Me, Ultima: The Cultural Distress of a Young Society
- ... parallelism or personification of the three people in God in his family. God, as the powerful father makes the decisions. The Virgin Mary represented by the mot her who intercedes to the father for the abolition of punishments for the sons. Then, we have the holy spirit, represented by Ultima and the owl. The pure women who has never sin, whose power and magic is the power of truth and good ...
- 105: The Effect of Uncle Tom's Cabin
- ... views about the institution of slavery contributed to the growing rift between the north and south. This chasm became the American Civil War. Uncle Tom's Cabin gave a powerful and moving voice to the Abolition movement. It shook out of complacently northerners and southerners alike, and forced a nation to look within its collective soul at the horrors of slavery and moral contradictions of the institution itself. Stowe's novel ...
- 106: The Color Purple: Real Outcome of Economic Achievement and Alternative Economic View
- ... democratic country meant that it required some extraordinary rationale to reconcile it with the prevailing values of the nation. Racism was an obvious response, whose effects were still felt more than a century after its abolition (Sowell 3). The Models (Manners and Customs, Historical and Empirical Data) of representation in the real world of The Color Purple was made clear when we discover that Celie's biological father was lynched for ...
- 107: Uncle Tom's Cabin: An Analysis
- ... was to test the conscience of the nation. This was the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin. “Was this only an “ event,” the advent of a new force in politics; was the book merely an abolition pamphlet, or was it a novel, one of the few great masterpieces of fiction that the world has produced?”(Wilson 24). The compromise of 1850 satisfied neither the North nor the South. The admission of ...
- 108: Morrison's Beloved: A Review
- ... struggling for emancipation of blacks. Mr. Bodwin represents a time in history where slavery starts to come into question. People (white) started to realize this travesty and begin to speak up and act towards the abolition of slavery. The abolitionists begin a process which will eventually end in the 60's where blacks will attain complete freedom. They begin a legacy of freedom fighters that will not stop till blacks receive ...
- 109: Frederick Douglass's Physical and Intellectual Struggles
- ... Orator. There was a conversation between a slave and a master, and a copy of a speech given by Sheridan. It was at this time that Douglass discovered the meaning of human rights and what abolition meant. Douglass used this knowledge to escape from slavery because from that time on "... the thought of being a slave for life began to bear heavily upon [his] my heart."(32) At that point, Douglass ...
- 110: William Lloyd Garrison
- ... the Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln removed the last difference between Garrison and Lincoln, and Lincoln paid public tribute to Garrison's long and uncompromising struggle to abolish slavery. In 1865, after the de facto abolition of slavery, Garrison discontinued The Liberator and advocated dissolution of the antislavery societies. He then became prominent in campaigns by reformers to promote free trade and abolish customhouses on a world scale; to achieve suffrage ...
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