The White Feather Campaign
1. The message of the poster, source A, is for families to encourage
the man to sign up for the army and go off to war to fight for the
country. They did this because compared to the German army at the
beginning of the war, it was very small. The artist conveys the
message of two women who are both from different classes waving
off their husbands and sons who are going off to war. They are
comforting each other implying that all women should come together
and put aside their feelings to do what is best for the country.
2. Source B describes the activity of the white feather campaign as
the women of the military towns such as Woolwich especially, would
walk up to you if you were not in some kind of uniform and put a
white feather in the lapel of your coat. The source states: 'They
would come up to you and give you a white feather or stick it in
the lapel of your coat.' The source also tells us the 'white
feather was a sign of cowardice'; this meant that you should
register for the army and serve your country.
Source E explains that women sometimes surrounded you, would verbally
abuse you and criticize you for not being in the war and put a white
feather in your coat. It states: 'They started shouting at me, calling
me all sorts of names for not being a soldier! They stuck a white
feather in my coat…'
Both sources show the campaign worked because in Source B the title of
it is, 'William Brooks, talking about why he joined up in 1915.'
Source E states: 'I went to the recruiting office…I was in!' The
man for the job as President(he even killed a man when he was a citizen). Andrew
...er him as the hero is was and not the man he was accused of becoming.
In 1776, David McCullough gives a vivid portrayal of the Continental Army from October 1775 through January 1777, with sharp focus on the leadership of America’s greatest hero, George Washington. McCullough’s thesis is that had not the right man (George Washington) been leading the Continental Army in 1776, the American Revolution would have resulted in a vastly different outcome. He supports his argument with a critical analysis of Washington’s leadership during the period from the Siege of Boston, through the disastrous defense of New York City, the desperate yet, well ordered retreat through New Jersey against overwhelming odds, and concludes with the inspiring victories of Trenton and Princeton. By keeping his army intact and persevering through 1776, Washington demonstrated to the British Army that the Continental Army was not simply a gang of rabble, but a viable fighting force. Additionally, Mr. McCullough supports his premise that the key to the survival of the American Revolution was not in the defense of Boston, New York City, or any other vital terrain, but rather the survival of the Continental Army itself. A masterful piece of history, 1776 is not a dry retelling of the Revolutionary War, but a compelling character study of George Washington, as well as his key lieutenants, and his British adversaries, the most powerful Army in the 18th Century world. When I read this book, I went from a casual understanding of the hero George Washington to a more specific understanding of why Washington was quite literally the exact right man at the exact right place and time to enable the birth of the United States.
Theodore Roosevelt was a man uniquely fitted to the role that he played in American
Throughout the course of history, nations have invested time and manpower into the colonizing and modernizing of more rural governments. Imperialism has spread across the globe, from the British East India Company to France’s occupation of Northern Africa. After their founding in 1776, the United States of America largely stayed out of this trend until The Spanish-American War of 1898. Following the war, the annexation and colonization of Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines ultimately set a precedent for a foreign policy of U.S. imperialism.
courageous man who hold on to his idealistic principles of racial unity and the meaning of race in America (Claypool 4).
of all Americans during that trying era. The fate of the Nation was eventually to be
'The Permanent Campaign'; was written by Norman J. Ornstein and Amy S. Mitchell. This article appeared first in The World & I, in January 1997.
“King addressed the huge late afternoon crowd of more than 250,000” (Garrow). The Civil Rights Movement was at its peak through the 1950’s and 1960’s. People like Dr. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, the Black Panthers, and Americans against segregation helped take the first step to stopping racism from spreading to further generations. “The Black Panthers Platform,” by: Alexander Bloom and Wini Brienes is a book that helps spread light onto what the black communities wanted and to show how daily life was for a African American under a racist government. The theme of this book is to fight for what brings justice and equality to the people so that they could have the opportunity to be treated fairly. The civil rights movement requests are stated in the “Black Panther Platform”.
These men that died in order that we could all be sovereign, and that nobody
smart man with a mission. 2.His mission was to succeed as a criminal in a
his future life is finally result of what he is today, he grew up to become a dedicated veteran, a
reverence for the wealth and power the family possessed. This symbolises the quest that many minorities face as they strive to enter the middle class. Leonardo would argue that Chris, like many minorities’, navigates a society that saturates them with loving images of Whiteness. In this reality two key consequences arises: an adoration for whiteness or a “turning of the necrophiliac gaze on themselves through self-hatred” (Leonardo, 2013). It is Chris’ transition through these stages that is such a pivotal part of the movie. It is this admiration for whiteness that leads to deprivation that traps Chris in a symbolic sunken place. In the movie, Chris’ “sunken state” is triggered by the silver spoon. A metaphor for how the quest for the materialization
Changing the world was not a job for a single man—not a normal one at least. It was something that life, along with those around him, never failed to remind him. At some point even he used to think like that, believing that living in such a world was meaningless, having no dreams or goals to pursue. He dropped University two times, worked only enough to survive and even his family gave up on him eventually.