I read the book called the Wednesday wars by Gary D. Schmidt. The book is about a boy named Holling Hoodhood who is in seventh grade and his teacher, Mrs. Baker. The story takes place mainly in school or at Holling’s home. The first main event is when Holling finds out he is the only one that doesn't leave school early on Wednesdays because of Hebrew school or catechism. Also, when Holling let the rats go, it caused a lot of trouble through the story.
The Unfinished Nation - House Divided documentary relates to our unit on the Civil War. The Civil War, also known as "The War Between the States," was fought between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America. The Confederate States of America was made up of a collection of eleven southern states that left the Union in 1860 and 1861(The Unfinished Nation, 2004). Most people thought this would be a quick war, which would cease within a matter of days or weeks (The Unfinished Nation, 2004). However, it lasted for an intense, lengthy four years from 1861-1865 (The Unfinished Nation, 2004).
David Blight, is a detailed study of the ways that Americans chose to remember the Civil War during the first fifty years following the conflict. Blight argues that throughout this period Americans used the two expression to remember and give meaning to the war with rhetorical effectiveness throughout the excerpt. Blight accomplishes the main theme of competing memories with different ideals of the Civil War seeking to overcome the issue for reunion. A majority of America’s white community chose to obscure the Civil War’s racial meaning behind a front of attitudes that acclaimed both Northern and Southern soldiers. Later Blight uses the themes of ending the war with a push for national reconciliation to demonstrate how the country’s efforts
A Better War¬-Part Two In the second half of the book written by Lewis Sorley, “A Better War, The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America’s Last Years in Vietnam” the American soldiers and the American public were in an uproar. The look into the last days of Vietnam for the United States is eye opening. In this review we will look at the affects of war on the American soldiers and a certain offensive.
The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South by Bruce Levine reiterates the compelling story of how the Civil War overturned the economic, political, and social lifestyle of the Old South. This war downright destroyed the Confederacy and the society it both represented and protected ever since the institution of slavery was established. Explained through words from those who endured it, Levine’s work illustrates the way in which a war endeavored to preserve the “status quo” fundamentally become a second American Revolution. The only difference? Soldiers were fighting their neighbors rather than an outside force.
I chose the Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt. The moral of this book is how it feels to have a school that is not normal, and have a teacher hate your guts. This book is about a seventh grader named Holling Hoodhood, and he goes around the school, acting serious about things. When things go downhill and all his classmates get mad at him, he tries his best to fix it. Mrs. Baker hated Holling, but then Holling acted like a friend to her, and the hate relationship was over.
The United States Civil War is possible one of the most meaningful, bloodstained and controversial war fought in American history. Northern Americans against Southern Americans fought against one another for a variety of motives. These motives aroused from a wide range of ideologies that stirred around the states. In James M. McPherson’s What they fought for: 1861-1865, he analyzes the Union and Confederate soldier’s morale and ideological components through the letters they wrote to love ones while at war. While, John WhiteClay Chambers and G. Kurt Piehler depict Civil War soldiers through their letters detailing the agonizing battles of war in Major Problems in American Military History.
Throughout time, war has plagued the earth with its devious nature and gruesome conflict. However, as humans seek to create a civilization ideal for living, complete with peace and order, they must first suffer through the perils of war. One of the bloodiest conflicts in American history was that of the Civil War, which as seen in Killer Angels by Michael Shaara, was not only very complicated in strategy, but also in motivation. Both sides, Confederate and Union, had their own reasons for fighting. The North fought for preservation of the entire nation while The South fought for preservation of themselves.
The period of the Civil War can be classified as one of the bloodiest and tumultuous in the history of the United States. Between 1961 and 1965 more than one million people perished on the battlefield due to an ideology that divided the continental United States. With the defeat of the Confederate secessionist states, the abolition of slavery, and the new amendments incorporated into the constitution, the geopolitical and social history of the young American nation changed utterly. Within the multiple events that occurred during this period of time, I consider that the most significant was the permanence of the federated union.
Though both authors are writing similar topics, their arguments are much different. In the book A People 's Army: Massachusetts Soldiers and Society in the Seven Years ' War, written by Fred Anderson he studies the Seven Years War from a social history perspective. Instead of focusing on the military aspects of the Seven Years War, he would look for the history of the people within the war, such as, colonial Americans in the New England area. Anderson argues for New England exceptionalism through rising tension between Britain and the colonies, as well as, claiming Puritan Christianity as what shape Massachusetts volunteers to fight, and at times desert. He aims to show how the American colonies, although unified for this war, gradually
The book The Best War Ever, by Michael C. C. Adams, is about World War II, the events that led up to the war, and the years following the war. Adams starts the book off explaining some myths that people have about the war. The biggest myth associated with the war is that it was the best war ever. Adams then spends the rest of the book talking about why this may or may not be true. In the following chapters, Adams explains the events that led to the war and the events that accorded during World War II.
The American Civil War was a conflict between the North and South that spanned from 1861 to 1865 and led to over half a million casualties (VandeCreek). The war’s causes can be traced back to events that occurred a decade or more before the initiation of conflict. One such event is the Mexican-American War, which fulfilled for the United States its own manifest destiny while directing attention towards some important political issues. The Mexican-American War of 1846 to 1847 quickly stoked the flames of sectionalism in politics with Northerners partial to free labor and Southerners seeking the expansion of slavery; the Compromise of 1850 averted an immediate political crisis, but opened the field for other controversial acts that fed to the
In the news today, a continual debate can be found about the significance of Confederate monuments and if they should remain or be removed. Confederate monuments that have been erected throughout the U.S. should be kept because of the preservation of America’s history. For instance, in the article, The Unbearable Lightness of Confederate-Statue Removal, the author lists how slaveholder monuments aren’t the only statues being vandalized, but the Lincoln Memorial and Mount Rushmore are other symbols of U.S. history that some believe need to “blow up” (Murdock). Every historical symbol can have both people who appreciate it and who oppose it. That doesn’t mean that we should tear down all symbols, but
Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War is probably one of Marvel’s most popular movies – for the simple reason that they have made it appeal to nearly everyone. Civil War is not just another one of those superhero movies where the heroes fight each other because the writers have run out of villains. Civil War is both a toast to past politics, and a response to the political anxieties of today. To be considered Political Cinema, Civil War needs to satisfy three basic categories: it needs to comment on political events, systems, or theories; have accurate illustrations of political atmospheres; and make people question their view of politics to warn them about certain policies. Civil War is a great political film because it not only satisfies
When I was about five years old I had finally met my grandfather he was nice and sweet man but he suffered from PTSD. The first thing he told me was that war caused many terrible things and that if i ever had dreams to go into the army to never go or i'll end up like he did. Unfortunately i did want to go to the army since my cousin did but after that day he changed my mind forever. This relates to the claim that war causes negative things.
