Lyrical Essays

After the US Civil War, a new period began, this period is known as reconstruction of the South, in the United States. In this week’s essay, I will be writing about the reconstruction of the South of the US; its causes, its effects, and a little bit about the Ku Klux Klan.

The Causes and Effects

After the US Civil War, the US Congress installed many dramatic reforms to the South of the US. The main cause for the reconstruction was to rebuild the South and give the former slaves new rights and freedoms. But these reforms were too harsh on the South(you cannot expect people to change their views immediately), and they even caused some unnecessary tension in the South.

 Also, the Union military was involved in enforcing these reforms. So in general these reforms did not go exactly as planned, because, for one: they were harsh, and two: they didn’t give the people of the South time to change their views(again you cannot expect people to change their views right away, it won’t work), and three: because these new reforms were enforced harshly, some people in the South grew angry, and groups such as the Ku Klux Klan came to be. Which was unnecessary and even more damaging to the rebuilding of the South. Also because of the harshness of the enforcing of these reforms and the anger of the people from the South, discrimination towards African Americans continued for many more years. So in reality the reconstruction period did not work or benefit the South for the better; there could have been better ways to reconstruct the South.

The Ku Klux Klan

Specifically, I will be writing about the Ku Klux Klan that was around during the 1860s. The person who created this Klan was a Confederate veteran named Nathaniel Bedford Forrest also other Confederate veterans were involved in the creation. These veterans were frustrated and angry because of the reconstruction in the South they wanted everything to remain the same as it had been before the Civil War. 

The group itself created much problematic violence and discrimination toward African Americans. Which did not improve the condition in the South and made it worse. The Klan was disbanded in 1869, but forms of it returned in different periods for example in the 1920s.

Conclusion

In this week’s history essay, I wrote about the Reconstruction period after the US Civil War.

Jimmy Carter was born to a rich farmer family in rural Georgia in October 1924. Rural Georgia is comprised inside the deep south where slavery was once predominant causing it to be among the last strongholds of ethnic segregation, so Jimmy grew up in that segregationist culture, but he didn’t like it until he had many close black friends, formed his anti-segregationist stance for the rest of his life.

Carter first entered into politics when he became a Georgia state senator. He eventually wanted to try to become the Georgian governor, but he failed because he openly wanted segregation to end, so he lost. Carter didn’t give up on this first loss, he worked harder but with a different strategy, he became close to segregationist leaders making him look like a segregationist and causing him to be elected as Georgian governor. When he became governor he suddenly showed his desegregation side and made much legislation desegregating Georgia.

In the 1967 presidential election, Jimmy successfully became president mostly because of his not having been corrupted by Washington DC politics and other things.

Jimmy Carter did many good things as president, but sadly got many hard challenges that he cants solve. The hard challenges are like the 1970s recession, the reescalation with the Soviet Union because of USSR invading Afghanistan, and the worse was the Iranian Hostage Crisis where he cants successfully free American hostages in Iran for 444 days.

He was a bad president because he can’t deal rightly with the hard challenges he faced, but he was not a bad guy, even winning a Nobel Peace Prize.

It all starts with water on the ground evaporating into the air by heat from the sun. then the warm air with water vapor rises up into the sky where its cooler until it starts into condensing back into small liquid water droplets, that are small enough to float in the air, which rises even higher condensing more and more into bigger droplets until it cant rise Anymore because of gravity causing the big droplets to fall. 

The reason why warmer air rises is that it is less dense than the cooler air above, so when it will rise until the temperature of the warm air evens out with the cooler air.

the beginning part where the tiny droplets first formed from the evaporated water, formed the base of the cloud, and the biggest size the cloud droplets can get before falling and being affected by gravity will be the top of the cloud.

The falling big cloud droplet will bump and coalesce with the smaller rising droplets becoming bigger and bigger faster and faster falling down until it leaves the cloud and falls as an individual droplet down to earth replenishing the water on the earth, which is called rain.

That’s the reason why the thicker the cloud is the bigger the water droplet size will be because the water droplet will have more droplets to coalesce when falling.

And the cycle goes around and around, evaporating from the ground, condensing into clouds in the sky, and eventually rain replenishing the ground with water.

There are many great authors that were born in the 20th Century. The authors wrote in many genres such as Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Mystery, and many others.

JRR Tolkien is a professor of languages and also a Great Fantasy author. Tolkien, from a child, was interested in languages until he made his own languages even when he was still a boy. He became a professor of languages and used his skills in languages to write his fantasy books to create many languages in the fictional world. The fantasy book is among the most well-known, called the Lord of the rings, and other books set in the same world as Lord of the rings called Middle earth.

JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis were great friends, and both were greatly affected and influenced by GK Chesterton’s writings and teachings.

There are so many other great authors in the 20th Century, but these three great authors are interconnected, so I present them as a trio.

Note-taking daily life for an autobiography needs to be successfully and fully, described and recorded, the things that are going around us in our daily life. There are several things that needs to be written during note-taking that are essential to describe fully things that are going on around us.

The main part of note-taking your daily life is that you need to write the main point or event of that day or season of your life into a summary so that when you are looking at your notes in the future you will easily know what roughly happened to your life in that period of time. The main point could be as short as a sentence for the events of a normal day into a whole page for a season of several years in your life.

Another important part of note-taking that needs to be written, is the minor and background events because the minor events will better fully show what really happened around you. The minor events are usually not important in themselves except that they will explain more fully the main event. 

There are other things that will make the notes about the events of your life better and more descriptive by putting the time of the events not just the general time and putting the exact locations of the events and also the description of the environment in the events happened in.

My target audience for my autobiography, should I ever write one, would probably be teenagers in the First World who struggle internally. Mentally, to be more specific.

My goal would be to show them that no matter how low you go, you should never give in completely. There’s always something you can do to lift yourself up, even if it’s only for an hour. A short-lived positive boost is better than none.

Life isn’t supposed to be easy, but it’s still a comfort knowing that you’re not the only one out there who’s struggling.

And whether it be physical, mental, or anything else, I would want my readers to know that every hardship matters. That they matter, regardless of what anyone else tells them.

When someone says: “soil is just dirt to hold a plant up,” do I agree with this statement or not? Well I mean the question does seem relatively sound, the soil does appear to offer support to hold a plant up, but there is definitely more to the relationship between soil and plants, right?

Well first of all I will ask the question: where does a plant get a lot of its nutrients? Well, the answer is simple, a plant gets most of its nutrients from the soil. With that question out of the way, soil, thanks to science, is known to have more uses than the statement above, but does soil also hold up a plant? Yes, the soil does offer support to hold up a plant; soil provides a base for a plant and keeps it in its place.

In conclusion, this would be my answer to someone who said, “soil is just dirt to hold a plant up.”

It all starts with water on the ground evaporating into the air by heat from the sun. then the warm air with water vapor rises up into the sky where its cooler until it starts into condensing back into small liquid water droplets, that are small enough to float in the air, which rises even higher condensing more and more into bigger droplets until it cant rise Anymore because of gravity causing the big droplets to fall. 

The reason why warmer air rises is that it is less dense than the cooler air above, so when it will rise until the temperature of the warm air evens out with the cooler air.

the beginning part where the tiny droplets first formed from the evaporated water, formed the base of the cloud, and the biggest size the cloud droplets can get before falling and being affected by gravity will be the top of the cloud.

The falling big cloud droplet will bump and coalesce with the smaller rising droplets becoming bigger and bigger faster and faster falling down until it leaves the cloud and falls as an individual droplet down to earth replenishing the water on the earth, which is called rain.

That’s the reason why the thicker the cloud is the bigger the water droplet size will be because the water droplet will have more droplets to coalesce when falling.

And the cycle goes around and around, evaporating from the ground, condensing into clouds in the sky, and eventually rain replenishing the ground with water.

There are many great authors that were born in the 20th Century. The authors wrote in many genres such as Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Mystery, and many others.

JRR Tolkien is a professor of languages and also a Great Fantasy author. Tolkien, from a child, was interested in languages until he made his own languages even when he was still a boy. He became a professor of languages and used his skills in languages to write his fantasy books to create many languages in the fictional world. The fantasy book is among the most well-known, called the Lord of the rings, and other books set in the same world as Lord of the rings called Middle earth.

JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis were great friends, and both were greatly affected and influenced by GK Chesterton’s writings and teachings.

There are so many other great authors in the 20th Century, but these three great authors are interconnected, so I present them as a trio.

The Autobiography I have been assigned to start reading this week was Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup. It was originally published in 1852 and was very popular for a while because slave narratives were very much in demand at that time. It lost popularity for a period and then re-emerged in the mid-1900s. It was later turned into a movie in 2013.

Northup’s autobiography tells his story. He was a free black man living in New York. Northup described himself as being an ordinary colored man, although he was hardworking and strong-willed. Anyways, he had a wife, Anne Hampton, and three children, Elizabeth, Margaret, and Alonzo.

In 1841, two men came and offered to pay him a large sum of money to play his violin (which he was talented at) at a circus. He accepted the offer and went with them. But one day, he awoke in chains, and realized that he’d been deceived: the men had sold him as a slave. He had been kidnapped and shipped to New Orleans.

He remained a slave for the next twelve years. During all of this time, though, he remembered his children. This was one of the reasons he kept going, living in the hope that he would see them again. He was determined to escape and find them, or he thought that he would receive justice for what had been done to him.

Eliza Berry was a slave that Northup met during this time. She had two children, Randall and Emily. She loved them with all of her heart, so when she was separated from them both, it pained her very much.

She was separated from both her children, just like Northup. She and both of her children were sold to different masters and different places. She pleaded and begged the slave owners to keep them together, but it was in vain. Being torn from her children, Eliza suffered greatly, grieved that she would probably never see her children again.

Northup and Eliza both suffered because they were separated from their children. There were a few similarities in the ways that they reacted, but there were also a lot of differences.

For example, Eliza left her children in tears, knowing that she wouldn’t see them again. The last glance she had of either of them was their tear-streaked faces, pulled together in sorrow. In contrast, Northup’s last memories of his children before they were taken were of their smiling joyful faces, although he didn’t know that it would be a very long time until he’d see them again.

Also, Northup had the assurance and certainty that his children were safe at home with their mother and that he would see them again when he escaped. Eliza, on the other hand, knew that her children were indeed being treated cruelly, like most other slaves of that time, and had little to no hope of seeing them again.

Eliza and Northup both loved their children a lot and being separated from them grieved them both very much. But, Northup had the hope that he would someday see his children again, and he knew that they were safe, and were being cared for. Eliza’s children were her one joy in a life filled with the pain and sorrow slaves encountered. Once they were torn apart from her, she was left hopeless, drowning in misery.

These two people reacted very differently when they were separated from their children, but they were also in very different situations. Eliza knew that she would never see her children again, whereas, Northup kept the hope that he would reunite with his family when he escaped or was set free.