Honors History Writng #1

Somewhere in the midst of careless politics and mentally blinded humans, the value and impact of the civil war on modern America has been hidden and forgotten by people all over the world.

Mentally blinded humans? You know, those people who do things without taking in the consideration of others. However, everyone was entitled to their own opinions and beliefs. Due to friction between different races, thoughts and beliefs interferred with each other causing lots of negativity and conflicts.

Union and Confederates; or the good and the bad. Union (north) being the group that is completely against slavery, racism, and segregation, while the confederates (south) are absolute supporters of slavery, racism and segregation. Why? Because in America, both past and present, finding the best solutions takes countless number of opinions from a variety of different people, while in other cases, finding a good solution only takes the strong and steady thoughts of just one person.

"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free."

Abraham Lincoln was responsible for freeing all slaves on January 1, 1863. It took Lincoln a while to do this, but his main objective was to keep the country together, and make decisions for the country that kept it balanced on both sides. In the beginning, Lincoln made it very clear to the people that he was not for slavery, and he wasn't against slavery either. He was a supporter of doing whatever it took to try and stop the country from being divided. However, despite all the pressures, loss of life, battlefiels setbacks, general's who weren't ready to fight, and assassination threats, Abraham Lincoln continued to endure four long years of Civil War. The Emancipation went into effect, and that's what led to the freedom of slaves.

The civil war split Americans into groups beyond that of the confederacy and the union, but also those who were pro-slavery and racist, against slavery and non-racist, and undecided.

" blacks just need to get over slavery," she said, as though talking of the flu. "You can't live in the past."

This quote was stated by a waitress named Frances Chapman who worked at a small diner in Kentucky, who was a supporter of the rebel mascot ( two flag-waving confederates), and felt that blacks were overreacting to the mascot. How would she know? She is not black, nor has she ever worked or experienced the lifestyle of a slave on a slave plantation. In order to understand a person's life you have to be able to put yourself in their position. So therefore, it was wrong of Frances to jump to such a bizarre explanation as to what blacks need to do with their thoughts about slavery. She hasn't even really took the time out to uinderstand why blacks feel the way they do! Luckily, there are others with common sense who don't feel the same way and were completely against slavery.

Flppin tried to calm both blacks and whites, but he felt he simply couldn't break through. "I don't know if it's the movies, the music videos," he said, "but there's no respect for adults, or for human life. You just had this feeling all the time that something bad was about to happen."

Flippin was a black teenager that attended Todd central, and also one of the few kids that actually tried to look beyond the friction between both races and bring the two together. But Sometimes, when teenagers are so far into a certain type of lifestyle and are constantly being brought up and raised by a family that teaches them not to like certain people, things, and ideas, it becomes hard trying to pull them away from that and get them to believe and do something else. But the point is, Flippin saw the problems and the conflicts, and found it within his heart and mind to at least try to get both blacks and whites to get along.

Any person, young or old, has their own individual way of thinking. But sometimes people who are undecided about themselves or their opinion and beliefs, become a little too attached and influenced by others' way of thinking, and their minds eventually begin to mold and form into a permanent mind set that becomes hard to change. In some cases, this can truly be a bad thing because instead of people moving forward and trying to come together as one to make the world a better a place, everyone begins to mentally move backward, making the world a more difficult place to live in.

Although the civil war has already ended it is still going on. How you ask? Because minds and actions of people all over the world are still reflecting the causes and amunitions that caused the civil war, marking the civil war as the beginning, maybe even the end, of modern America.