Gone with the Wind is a film that is based off of a novel written by Margaret Mitchell, published June 10, 1936. ... After some time as a cameraman, Fleming broke into the director's role with his first big hit, The Virginian in 1929. His greatest works include Red Dust in 1932, Bombshell in 1933, Treasure Island in 1934, The Wizard of Oz in 1939, and of course Gone with the Wind in 1939. Fleming was actually brought in to direct Gone with the Wind as a replacement for George Cukor, who had a disagreement with the producer about the filming pace and budget. ... I believe that Gone with ...

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But no work about the Civil War has attained the place of gone with the wind. ... On the other hand, she becomes entwined with a mysterious, charming man named Rhett Butler. ... Both the movie and book versions of gone with the wind became important documents of American culture for the rest of the world. ...

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Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind discusses the Civil War from the South's perspective, while intertwining a wonderful, page turning story. ... Scarlett began living in Atlanta with Charles's sister and aunt after her first child was born. ... The war had changed everything and the people of Atlanta saw their city go from a thriving city to dust blowing in the wind. ... Taxes needing to be payed was a prevalent issue with the "Republicans and Carpetbaggers runnin" things"(510). ... The events in Gone With the Wind coincide with what actually happend, making Margaret...

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Also, the bible and beliefs are shown to change at the end with the quote, "After a while Lee came. ... The light rain went on falling on the hills above Gettysburg, but it was only the overture to the great storm to comethe true rain came in a monster wind and the storm broke in the blackness over the hills and the bloody valleydrowning the fires, flooding the red creekscleansing the earth and soaking it thick and rich with waterdriving the blood deep into the earth, to grow again with the roots towards Heaven"(Shaara pg.330). ... They had gone from fighting for each other to fighti...

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The Republican Party, dominant in the North, secured a majority of the electoral votes, and Lincoln was elected the first Republican president, but before his inauguration, seven slave states with cotton-based economies formed the Confederacy. ... Speaking directly to "the Southern States," he reaffirmed, "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the United States where it exists. ... From the anti-slavery perspective, the issue was primarily about whether the system of slavery was an anachronistic evil that was incompatible with Republicanism ...

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act dealt with the problem of Slavery in new territories. ... The National Head is bowed down, and our face is mantled with shame and confusion. ... We have sown the wind, only to reap the whirlwind. Against argument, against all manner of appeal and remonstrances coming up from the warm and merciful heart of humanity, we have gone on like the oppressors of Egypt, hardenin! ... over all departments of Government and now, as our reward, this slave-holding power comes with sword, gun, and cannon to take the life of the nation and overthrow the great American Government (Long ...

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