His first book was Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. The Red Badge of Courage was written in order to win a bet he made that he could write a book in ten days on a subject he had no first hand experience with. ... Crane's objective when writing this book was not to give a history lesson on the civil war actually the reader must know that he is talking of the civil war because he never actually states that in the novel. ... The first is Jim "the tall soldier- also portrayed as the religious figure in the book, with his initials being J.C. many people see him as a Jesus figure, even his d...

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• Grade Level: High School

Gods and Generals is a movie based on Jeffrey Shaara's book "Gods and Generals," and is the prequel to the movie "Gettysburg.... In fact, there was only one worth note. ... Seeing as the movie was created from a book, based on fact, the details are merely in the director and writers hands. ...

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Early in her career, she worked as a clerk and book keeper for her oldest brother. ... After a series of notes between the two leaders, Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia on April 9, 1865 at the McLean House in the village of Appomattox Courthouse. ... The terms of the surrender were discussed and agreed upon, with Grant writing them all out in his manifold order book. ...

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As we can see in the Cultural Studies of the United States of America's notes, Lincoln allowed slaves to take part in the war: "la Unión había reclutado a dos millones de hombres, entre los que se encontraban unos 186.000 negros" (González de la Aleja 76). ... Several negros remembered the insurgencies before Civil War, as shows Jacobs in his book Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: "it was always a pleasure to meet her, [] to hear her speak of the stirring times before war when the great struggle for freedom was going on, and of the events immediately after war...

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The development of a new steel navy also focused attention overseas, during both centuries. (19th and 20th) captain Alfred Thayer Mahan's book of 1890, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783, argued that control of the sea was the key to world dominance. ... Americans took note of these events, and many thought we should pursue a foreign policy with similar goals. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate