The affirmative action policies of the 1970s were implemented as a means to help African-American citizens in American society. These policies would help them in several different aspects, including the job market and when applying to colleges. Many American citizens did not like these policies, as they felt that they were being discriminated against and given less opportunity because they were white.
War poetry, regardless of the era from which it originated, captures themes that carry across generations. It also seeks to create new language, which later generations use as a framework for understanding war history. For Decaul, poetry falls into two categories: visceral and meditative
The event that most hardened colonists’ attitudes toward local American Indians in Virginia during the early 1600s was " the massacre of Jamestown colonists" at the hands of the natives, although it is unclear the extent to which this was provoked.
