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How have great conflicts resulted in resurgences in Romanticism? (Civil…

- - - - Martin Luther King Jr.
        
        The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
        
        The Civil Rights Act of 1964
        
        The Voting Rights Act of 1965
        
        Both Acts were a huge milestone for the movement, but they were not the end. They gave hope to those fighting and showed the world that change was coming. While the acts did not fix everything overnight, they did mark the start of official change. (https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-us-history/period-8/apush-civil-rights-movement/a/the-civil-rights-act-of-1964-and-the-voting-rights-act-of-1965)
        
        MLK's "I Have a Dream"
        
        Taking place on August 28, 1963, this was one of the largest civil rights rallies in US history. This was a demonstration of the people coming together against the government. Revolutions and faith lost in government was a common occurrence during the romantic period, just as it did during the march. (https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-us-history/period-8/apush-civil-rights-movement/a/the-march-on-washington-for-jobs-and-freedom) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/IhaveadreamMarines.jpg)
        
        Interest in the Common Man & Going Against the Government #
      - Emmett Till was brutally murdered by two white men after he was accused of flirting with a white woman. His open casket funeral opened the eyes of America to what was happening everyday. A month later his murderers stood trial by an all white and all male jury. The men were both acquitted, creating an uproar. (https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-us-history/period-8/apush-civil-rights-movement/a/emmett-till) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till#/media/File:14EmmettTillBefore_(2534273093).jpg)
      - Innocence and Experience #
  - - - Fuerguson Protests
        
        Black Lives Matter
        
        Black Lives Matter is not a new concept, but it has been given a much louder voice with social media and due to the fact that people are seeing that our problems regarding racial equality have not disappeared. The movement is more relevant as ever and continues o have a voice as change is still needed.
        
        The Ferguson case created an uproar as the police officer who shot Brown was not indicted. Protests turned into riots as tensions rose. This case was highly publicized and just one of many as it is shown that the nation has so much work to do regarding these issues. (https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/25/us/ferguson-darren-wilson-shooting-michael-brown-grand-jury.html)
      - Michael Brown is one of many unarmed black men who has been murdered. His case mirrors that of Till's as he was murdered and justice was never served as his murderer faced no criminal charges. This incident just showed the world and the nation that the problems faced then are still relevant today. (https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/25/us/ferguson-darren-wilson-shooting-michael-brown-grand-jury.html)
      - (http://greerology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Michael-Brown.jpg)
- - - - The Eiffel Tower Goes Dark to Honor Attack Victims http://time.com/4113492/paris-attacks-eiffel-tower/
        The aftermath left "at least 129 dead and 352 wounded in Paris," but the response was incredible (Blanford, et al 15). People filled churches, lit candles at the sites of the attacks, and gathered in public plazas despite fear of further acts of terrorism. This resurgence of love and support reflected the Romantic period with its free-spirited rejoice of life and refusal to submit to terror.
    - - : Pray For Paris https://tomsworld642.deviantart.com/art/Pray-For-Paris-572133106
        Throughout social media, people were sending prayers and positive thoughts to Paris. The international support was astounding as people across the world offered hope and love to the city that represented both for so long. Sympathy and love were felt in almost every corner of the world thanks to social media and the news. This widespread outpouring of emotion reflected the ideals of the Romantic period.
- - - - After national aid was finally provided, "local and national charitable organizations donated immeasurable aid to the victims of Katrina" as well as people of the nation opening up their homes to the people affected (Maxwell 1).
  - - - People began to talk about their contribution to making earth healthier and ways to become more green. Debates began to justify certain fields of work to determine if their pollution was worth the contribution to society.
- - - - Childhood
        
        Those in favor of the war were in influenced by the Red Scare. Parents wanted capitalism to spread because it was what they believed to be safe for a children to have a childhood rather than be forced into factory work. (Siener)
      - Nature (Tyger)
        
        Enlisted Soldiers encountered a ferocious jungle that exposed them to gunfire and bombs as well as infections and disease. Poetry that soldiers wrote described the jungle as "dank abyss of [a] Jungle Tomb." (Roberts 8)
  - - - Nature (Lamb)
        
        'Hippie' and drug culture saw nature as an escape from 'the man" and freeing to one's soul away from conformity. (Bibby)
      - Common Man/ Roots of Civil Rights
        
        Soldier-Poets had been exposed to a battleground where all men were equally as equipped, train and likelihood of being shot. Resistors within the military began to describe that skin color did not make a difference in combat (Bibby)
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  - - - The Volkswagen Scandal
        
        The scandal occurred when Volkswagen vehicles were found to have a software that essentially produced inaccurate results, however, simultaneously passing the test. The software was fundamentally ingenious, yet unethical. According to BBC News, "Diesel engines, [in the Volkswagen vehicles], could detect when they were being tested, changing the performance accordingly to improve results" (Hotten 1).
        
        Imagine hearing on the news that owners of any Volkswagen vehicle should get a "check-up" for their cars. This would only add another responsibility for people and create an extreme inconvenience for many owners. Additionally, Volkswagen owners would essentially run into the possibility of having reduced performance for their cars. So many people have expressed outrage in response to the Volkswagen scandal. For example, a commenter on an article of an article by the New York Times stated, "Incentives should be offered to owners to bring their defective cars in for remedial work" (Davis 2). He also added, "Through buyback programs or other remedies, owners of affected cars should be compensated for their losses in value resulting from Volkswagen’s scheme" (2). Countless customers of Volkswagen expressed sour distaste and profound outrage due to this major inconvenience that this company has created.
        
        While numerous countries and unions already had regulations on carbon and pollutant emissions, this scandal has proved that there should be even more restrictions and detailed tests to prevent this kind of occurrence to happen again. Therefore, this evokes some similar characteristics to romantic ideals: the idea of respecting nature and chastising any acts that may harm it.
- - - - Russian Civil War
        
        Frustrating pressures from the Tsar's consistent failings as a leader broke out into a civil war in Russia, as the government's neglect promoted communist dissent among the peasants who suffered the brunt of the war. (D'Agostino 39).
        
        The communist ideals brought about by Lenin were attempts to remedy the situation of the Russian peasant under the iron fist of tsarist oppression. To bring the power from the tsar to the people, as Lenin described, "“A workers’ state," (D'Agostino 57).
  - - - German writer Ernst Junger personifies the characters in his Great War memoirs as animals, often times portraying their roles in war to those of animals in nature. For example, Junger describes the "low-flying RAF plane [whirling] towards us, and, vulture-like, began drawing its circles overhead" (98) to allude to the predatory nature of the scout planes.
        
        Killing is an inherent part of nature, however the common man did not kill his fellow man naturally. This unnatural circumstance to commit a natural action makes for an interesting dichotomy for the common soldier in the war. In Junger's experience, his comrades were simple husbands, farmers, and schoolteachers- not killers. This connection with man's darker nature through war degrades him to the state of an animal.
      - Gassed
        by John Singer Sargent
        (1919)
      - Nature also played a part in the Great War, not only in the personifications of human actions, but as an obstacle for man. During the Third Battle of Ypres, the British plans for attack had to be delayed because of the large amount of flooding due to the unseasonal torrential rain. (Hart 352).