... and scholarly awards where he was teaching at the time, L.S.U. He would go on to become a very respected writer during his forty-year career. He would also win the Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for his book Huey Long (437). Williams main theme in is about the Civil War being the first modern war and Lincoln’s function in the position of President. He introduces the state of the Union army as one that has no shape to it. This includes the lack of any plan of attack, as the thought of war had not been translated into any type of scheme. The armies lacked organization and communication, and existing qualified generals were old and inept. The first task that Lincol ...

... XIV the beatings and abuse usually given to French princes” (Buranelli 23). His mother and Marzarin, the cardinal, raised him. He had tutors who gave him an education. Marzarin taught him everything he would need to know about court ceremony, war, and the craft of kingship. It is obvious that Louis has been brought up very different than other young kings. That is what might account for his unique style of ruling. When Marzarin died in 1661, France was shocked to find out that Louis refused to select a first minister (Michael 73). He wanted to rule alone. He chose Jean Baptiste Colbert as his financial advisor. Louis had many goals. Hi ...

... Who shall finally be the one to find the thread that will help us map this maze and slay this beast of mystery? One can not say. But there was one man. This Theseus of modern day science was the first to explore the deep and vast systematic chambers of the human unconscious mind. His ideas profoundly influenced the shape of modern day society by altering mans view of himself. This modern day Jason who found the thread and began to slay the beast of mystery goes by the name of . was born on May 6, 1856 in Freiberg, Moravia (now Pribor, Czech Republic)and was the oldest of his father's second wife. Freuds father, Jakob, encouraged his intellectually gifted son and p ...

... to sob uncontrollably and his heart filled with sorrow. " 'I was asking myself these questions, weeping all the while with the most bitter sorrow in my heart, when all at once I heard the sing-song voice of a child in a nearby house. Whether it was the voice of a boy or a girl I cannot say, but again and again it repeated the refrain "Take it and read, take it and read".'" (Brown 108) Augustine could not remember these words being part of a game and took them as a command to open his Scripture and read the first thing he saw, just as Anthony had. Paul's Epistles was the first thing he saw. "Not in reveling and drunkenness, not in lust and wantonness, not in quarrel ...

... often treated unfairly but there were always nice people that backed them up. In this essay, I�fm going to discuss the different sentiments towards the African American solders that dedicated their life to preserve the union and abandon slavery. During the Civil War, there were people who were extremely prejudiced against the 54th regiment because the soldiers were all different colored skin and the people where used to the idea that different color skinned people worked as slaves. In �gGlory,�h Colonel Montgomery, Sargent Mocati (the Sargent that trained and prepared them for war) and the colonel that was in charge of distributing necessities, served as the peo ...

... in Cuba, most of which benefited the poor or the majority of the people. Education was improved for the poor, there are many times more schools and staff members to educate the young. Health care was improved, infant mortality rate has dropped from 60 to 11.1 which is comparable to industrialized nations. Even with all the good changes their are hardships do go with them. Castro took over business's, some of which were owned by foreign investors, collecting some of the revenue to help Cuba's economy. Some of Batistas followers and the wealthy fled to the U.S. to escape the taking of their wealth or being jailed. On April 17, 1961 the CIA arranged a invasion with 2 ...

... The English also had various other local courts that the colonies used as well. Codified laws or that is to say laws that are written down in a book of codes or body of laws were used by some of the more organized colonies. These codified laws were also loosely based on English law not to say that we took their laws and directly copied them down but suffice to say that most were directly related to English law. The colonies put their own spin on these laws and created new laws to fit their needs. Trial by jury, grand jury indictments, and procedures like cross-examination, evidentiary procedures were also used by English and colony court systems. Other right ...

... They were afraid of losing their culture if they joined the Canadian confederacy, but they also didn't want to get assimilated into the United States. The French Canadian attitudes towards confederation in the eighteen sixty's, can best be seen through the views of the leading French Canadian politicians of the day. In French Canada around the period of confederacy, their were two main political parties, the bleus and the rouges. In the 1860's, the leading French Canadian party was the conservative bleu party. This party, had the largest bloc of French Canadian legislative seats in parliament.1 The leader of this party at the time that confe ...

... was not attempting to make any changes that would help the colonists. They limited the colonies commerce to internal trade only(Miller 9). The English were exploiting the colonies by demanding that the colonies import more from England then they exported to the colonies. They were importing raw materials from the colonies and making them into exportable goods in England. They would then ship these goods to foreign markets all around the world including the colonies(America Online ). Throughout the seventeenth century the English saw America as a place to get materials they didn't have at home and a market to sell finished products at after the goods had been manuf ...

... time, he joined the Canadian Militia. In 1897, he had enlisted as a lowly gunner in the 5th Regiment, Canadian Garrison Artillery; by 1909, he was the lieutenant-colonelcommanding the regiment. In late 1913, Currie accepted the challenge of raising and training an infantry unit, the 50th Regiment, Gordon Highlanders of Canada. When the war broke out in August 1914, the highly regarded Currie was commanded of an infantry brigade. Currie fought with exceptional composure at Ypres in 1915 where his 2nd Brigade made a remarkable stand against the poison gas. Having impressed his superiors, Currie was promoted to command the “crack” 1st Canadian Division. He led ...