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…to keep him busy. He worked in agriculture because it's the way of life he enjoyed; right up until the point the Civil War came looming on his doorstep. Robert E. Lee had to be hounded and begged to be the general for the Confederates, but eventually complied…

…The Divine Right of Antigone <Tab/>The play Antigone is truly a fascinating play, and in some ways more interesting than Oedipus the King, which I read in High School. The character of Antigone reminds me strongly of Oedipus, she…

…ventured Asian civilization, a solitary significant point became apparent to me - whatever we do, we do for survival. We live to survive and sustain life for the next generation, as what civilizations have been doing up to this very moment. From families…

…of civil rights leaders and feminists began to emerge. Had the Grimke sisters not fought so boldly for abolition and "the rights of woman" the various generations of late twentieth century activists may never have surfaced (Felder 86). Sarah and Angelina…

…King's and Goldman's positions and why I agree or disagree with them. Martin Luther King lead the civil rights movement in the late 50's to late 60's. In 1963 he went to Birmingham, Alabama in a nonviolent campaign against racial segregation. He was tired…

…. People often think that natives in Africa are merely primitive forms of civilized people. But, in reality are cultured people and natives really different from each other? In the novel Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad uses the Congo as a metaphor for European…

…of appetites rather than of rights and duties. The Hobbesian man relentlessly pursues his own desires, whereas the Lockean man pauses to think what effects his actions will have on others. The Hobbesian society therefore requires greater constraints to be placed…

…arguing that he was no longer a slave. In 1857, after an 11 trial, the Supreme Court ruled that Scott was never free and therefore never a citizen and denied him the right to sue. This was a landmark case in the Supreme Court as it added fuel to the fire…

…The rights of African Americans between 1865 and 1900 is a subject of great discussion. It is hard to tell whether the rights of this minority group actually declined, or whether it simply stayed the same. On paper these rights improved through ways…

…<Tab/>Many historians debate the causes of the Civil war. Yet the overwhelming economic differences between the northern and southern states on the eve of the civil war contributed significantly to the growing tensions. The industrial…