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On the Waterfront is a 1954 award-winning drama film directed by Elia Kazan. The black and white film location established on New York’s waterfront docks. While watching the motion picture, the audience learned about the corrupt practices the mob’s “on the waterfront” performed; clandestinely murdering the dockworkers and anyone who stood in the mob’s path. Not until the end of the film, one courageous man, Terry Malloy, took charge and broke the “strangle-hold power of the union boss, Johnny Friendly” (Dirks).
Going on slave voyages to Africa was a dangerous occupation to perform during the time of the Atlantic slave trade considering that “nearly one crew member in four died on French slaving voyages” (Harms 80). The Diligent would lose several of its crew members during the fifteen month voyage since it was relatively common to lose crew members and even the African captives during the Atlantic slave trade. Furthermore, the journey itself was difficult to accomplish during the Atlantic slave trade because of many factors such as “increased dangers from pirates, tropical diseases, and shipboard slave revolts made it risky” (Harms 80). On their way to Whydah and Martinique, the crew of the Diligent noticed a vessel that could have potentially been a pirate ship. Pirates were such a significant threat to the crew of the Diligent, that on their way back from Martinique, the Diligent had to travel with two other ships to protect their goods from being raided and jeopardized.
Joel Leviten November 28, 2015 HIUS 221-D-21 Roanoke: The Lost Colony, directed by Goeckel, Brendan, in Digging for the Truth (A&E Television Networks, 2006), 44:49 mins The Lost Colony of Roanoke were perhaps the some of the bravest men and woman I have read about. The lost colony began their journey in England in the late 15th 16th century. A group of colonist numbering about 165 left the safety of England to journey to the new world of North America. The queen of England granted the leader of this group whose name was Sir Walter Raleigh.
Do you believe women can do things just as easily as men can? In the novel, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Charlotte Doyle becomes part of the crew on the ship, the Seahawk. For starters, Charlotte is very brave, she climbed the Royal Yard just to become part of the crew. She is also tough, her knife throwing skills are incredible! Additionally, Charlotte is a hard worker.
Rum, Sodomy and the Lash by Hans Turley explores the intersectionality of masculinity, sexuality and identity within the British Royal Navy from 1660 to 1820s. The book sought to explore the connections between sexuality, gender and authority within the historical context of this period. It utilized several pieces of work, including diaries, letters, and popular literature during this time. Further, Turley’s work explores how these cultural forces that shaped sexuality and masculinity throughout the eighteenth century have continued to shape ideas about gender and sexuality following this era and even into society as we now know it. For example, Turley sought to explain that culture within piracy contained hypermasculine ideas which were built
DBQ Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published in 1851-1852. The author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a white abolitionist who believed in the anti-slavery movement. Her name was Harriet Beecher Stowe. From when Harriet Beecher Stowe was in her twenties she became familiar with stories about slaves and runaways passing through the area. She had hoped it would convince the South and the North that slavery was wrong, but sadly more people supported slavery then against.
In October 1859, the U.S. military arsenal at Harpers Ferry was the target of an assault by an armed band of abolitionists led by John Brown (1800-59). (Originally part of Virginia, Harpers Ferry is located in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia near the convergence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers.) The raid was intended to be the first stage in an elaborate plan to establish an independent stronghold of freed slaves in the mountains of Maryland and Virginia. Brown was captured during the raid and later convicted of treason and hanged, but
On this flight there were 45 passengers and a total of four crew members. The crew consisted of two pilots and two flight attendants. The two pilots were Captain Marvin Renslow and first officer Rebecca Shaw. Both pilots had over 2,000 flight hours but were fairly new in their positions. On the night of the flight the weather was forecasted to be poor visibility and icing conditions towards their destination Buffalo.
The Interconnectedness of Loss Losing someone is inevitable. Because of that inevitability, people find it hard to move on and forgive. Because of that inevitability, conflicts rise and when comfort and unity is needed, it is not there. Because of that inevitability, people are influenced to do things, whether negative or positive, to ease the pain that they know they have to endure. Just like this, Saints at the River is also conflicted in a similar way.
In Marcus Rediker’s Villains of All Nations, pirates Mary Read and Anne Bonny are represented as being vulnerable, emotional, extraordinary women. Both being born illegitimate children, Rediker poses an understanding, empathetic treatment of these women, despite their representation of ‘liberty’ emanating from the brutality of piracy. The constant referral to Read and Bonny as female pirates indiscreetly implies that Rediker interprets their participation in piracy as delicate, which is unjust. Females and delicateness were a dominant association in the 18th century. Rather than referring to the two women simply as pirates, Rediker uses the phrase female pirates to imply that their participation on ship was neither masculine nor violent.
Allegedly, both women would impersonate men as they fought side by side with pistols, as they took down other privateers along the Caribbean coasts (Cartwright, 6). Over the span of 2 years, the two made a huge reputation for themselves in and around the Caribbean, causing the Governor of the Bahamas to confront it (Pallardy
When comparing stories the reader may point out revelations about human nature. The two awesome stories, Lord of the Flies and The Most Dangerous Gameshow a motif of being trapped, and they show that being nice can be taken for granted. Lord of the Flies and The Most Dangerous Gameprove that people can behave like animals when it comes to survival. There are several different simalarities for the two trapped stories Lord of the Flies and Most Dangerous Game; however, the most significant would be the setting of the stories. For example when Golding was explaining what the island looked like.
In the 1953 film adaptation of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes there are two main characters complemented by a group of men. Lorelei Lee, played by Marilyn Monroe, is a young entertainer who is obsessed with diamonds and can point them out anywhere. Dorothy Shaw, Lorelei’s friend and also an entertainer, is Lorelei’s confidant and chaperone on their trip to Paris. The main portion of the film is played out on a boat, which is where a majority of the sexual nature is formed. Lorelei and Dorothy aren’t the only passengers and no doubt there are some male counterparts.
When the United States government put a federal tax on liquor, there were protests and riots throughout the country. This rebellion was called the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794. It was the first federal tax of the U.S. Government and the catalyst was rumored to be Alexander Hamilton. The uprising that followed gave the new U.S. government the opportunity to establish federal authority using the military means at their disposal (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica 2018). It was originally a tax, but it became a true law in 1791 (Hoover 2014).
Feelings or Fiction?Lavallee Gerard Manley Hopkins once wrote, ? That nothing can be old or borrowed however cannot be.?1 He is a poet that is considered to have written classic poetry for religious and nature poems. Hopkins believed that all poets should have some originality.
