Desiree's Baby By Kate Chopin: An Analysis

Violence and racism are facets of American character ever present throughout its history and different time periods. Violence, in particular throughout 1877-1900, is mainly present domestically but shows up in foreign affairs as well. One specific example of such domestic violence, is the Haymarket Square Riot in Chicago on May 4th 1886. What began as a peaceful protest in favor of an eight-hour work day and against the previous day’s violence towards workers quickly devolved into a massacre after a homemade bomb was set off. The police force opened fire against the protesters and after the battle was over seven policemen and four civilians died followed by around sixty others injured. This event led to a nationally known trial that led to the conviction and hanging of seven men along with becoming well known as an important event relating to labor protest. Desiree’s Baby by Kate Chopin, published in 1893, illustrates a specific aspect of racism misgenation, the mixing

One of the most violent parts of the Cold War was the Vietnam War from 1955 to 1975. However, the United States troops did not begin a ground war until 1965. The Vietnam War was essentially a war against communism and to stop the spread of the economic ideal despite the fact that Vietnam was a fairly small country that was nowhere close to the communist superpowers of China and Russia of the time. Still, a war was waged that the people back home would grow to protest and not support. These protest were for an understandable reason too, the war in Vietnam was insanely brutal using napalm and chemicals that would even kill children. Many people were mad about losing American soldiers for a war that some might think unethical. After media coverage back home revealed the horrors of the war and its casualties, the backing of Americans was lost. Without the backing of the hearts and minds of the American people the war would inevitably