"My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute!" ... Douglass uses this same imagery at the beginning of the quote when referring the word "spark" (light imagery) to the beginning phrase," my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed." ...

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• Grade Level: High School

They hoped to spark a slave rebellion that would end slavery, and in John Brown's words, "purge this land with blood." Brown's attack was one of the final causes that sparked the Civil War. ...

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Her controversial statement sparked the interest of many, "this is a nation of inconsistencies." ... We were all led to believe that this war was sparked when an innocent American soldier was attacked by a Mexican. ...

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• Has Bibliography
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When I first began reading the book "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson I was not very interested, it was slow going and I had a difficult time getting into the story. However I suddenly got a spark of inspiration. This book began to pull me in and I would wake up excited to see what would happen nex...

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Letting America Be In the beginning of the poem, "Let America Be America Again," Hughes writes about America as if it were once a country which people were able to "dream," and be "free," or never did "scheme." However, our country was basically a place to take refuge from religious oppression ...

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The book "Spartacus and the Slave Wars" is a brief history with many documents from various sources. The book talks about the Roman Empire existing around 135-70 B.C. All sources in this book are based on the facts from the Roman Empire era on how they used slaves for various purposes such as in the...

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All over the world the modern era is being born that leads to the industrial revolution. In upstate New York, a man made river is cutting through the wilderness. The Erie Canal is born, which is the biggest construction project in the western world in the last 4,000 years. It is over 300 miles long,...

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The United States of America was founded as a country where "all men are created equal". That famous line is something that should have been kept out of the Constitution for almost a hundred years. The issue of slavery prevented our country from being a place where all men are equal. During the c...

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The crew of the Moonlight consisted of thirteen members, including captain Cawthorne who didn't have a care in the world besides the money slaves would bring in, and his first mate spark who was in charge of keeping the crew in working order. ...

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Suzanne M. Coil's Harriet Beecher Stowe is a biography of one of the most influential women of the 1800s. Well-written and organized, the book is enjoyable and informative to read, although it does not go into detail about any facet of Stowe's life. Coil's sources for her book come mainly from oth...

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The show Good Luck Charlie is already known for being daring; just recently they aired and was the first children's Disney show to have an openly gay couple with a child which had sparked a huge controversy. ...

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• Has Bibliography
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Douglas Argues Against Slavery and For Black Equality Have you ever thought about what it would be like to be a slave, back in the late seventeen and early eighteen hundreds? Have you thought about the hard times that slaves had to bear? In the nineteenth century, white men needed slaves to do...

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Being from Canada and coming down to the South, I honestly didn't know what to expect. You hear stories about how bad racism is and the rich history the South has. As soon as I got down here I could already tell that it was going to be a lot different. Racism is everywhere I go down here and I can't begin to understand why people are still living in the past. Being from one of the most diverse countries in the world where there is hardly any racism, coming down here was a shock to the body. ...

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Making Race and Nation In the book Making Race and Nation by Anthony Marx, he compares the development of three different countries which were major active members in the slave trade late into there development and into the modern era.. Marx compares South Africa, Brazil and The United States. Marx's Thesis devises that each Nation though similar in the slave trade developed differently based on the control of an elite few, who in order to control the country economically and politically used the basis of race to divide or unite people to there advantage. Using historical eviden...

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• Grade Level: High School