4th Annual Gayarre History Conference Proceedings, 2016: Heroes & Villain

ISBN-13: 9781533165367 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 278 str.

Gayarre History Club of C. E. Byrd High S.

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The 4th Annual Gayarre History Conference was held March 22, 2016 at the R.W. Norton Art Gallery in Shreveport, LA. It was sponsored by the Gayarre History Club of C.E. Byrd High School. Students from C.E. Byrd, Caddo Magnet, and Captain Shreve presented papers on the theme: Heroes & Villains.

WITH THE FOLLOWING ESSAYS:

HEROES & VILLAINS OF ECONOMICS

Joshua Bae: The Legacy of John D. Rockefeller: Villainous Exploitationist or Honorable Businessman?

Jacob Leslie & Spencer Hurst: Henry Ford: The Man Behind the Myth

Christian Roberts: 2008 Wall Street Moguls: Heroes or Villains

Abbi Thurmon: Andrew Carnegie As An Objectivist Hero

Carter Toms: Capitalist Crusader

HEROES & VILLAINS OF WAR

Ives Del Olmo: Josef Mengele: The Maleficent of WWII

Ankur Khanna: Elizabeth Van Lew: Southern Lady, Wealthy Philanthropist, and Abolitionist Spy?

Nathan Lim: The Indomitable Doris Miller: His One Day Crusade

Kyra Montes: Chiune Sugihara: Father of Visas

Jocelyn Walker: The Evilness of Man

HEROES & VILLAINS OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY

Nolan Cockerham: Evil Robots

Sarah Desautels: Luke Skywalker: America's New Hope

Nicholaus Olah: Batman: A Mirror of America's Perceptual Hero

Kirklin Powell: Darth Mosaddegh: Iran's Connection to Star Wars

HEROES & VILLAINS OF POLITICAL LEADERSHIP

Carson Handley: Vladimir Putin: Hitler 2.0

Elise McLaren: Brutus and Cassius: Heroes of the Roman Republic

Brooke Redman: Idi Amin Dada: A Ugandan Tyrant

Antares Villaneda: George C. Marshall: Architect of Peace

CONQUERORS AS HEROES & VILLAINS

Rafaela Demerath: Puting a Hero in Context: Understanding the Ethnocentrism of Christopher Columbus

Christian Koester: Napoleon Bonaparte: France's Most Notorious Villain

Traci Pardue: Does Every Crisis Produce the Same Type of Villain?

HEROES & VILLAINS OF ARTS AND LETTERS

Taha Hayat: Jacque-Louis David, Dictator of the Arts

Darby Maloch: Poggio Bracciolini: Resurrector of Classical Artists

Madeline Paul: Coco Chanel: A Businesswoman

Bailey Williams: William Randolph Hearst: Father of Yellow Journalism

HEROES & VILLAINS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Sarah Livingston: Edison the Energy Eater

Kaylee Toups: The Paradox of Dynamite

Alexander Williams: Albert Einstein: Protector of the Human Race

HEROES & VILLAINS AND PSYCHOLOGY

Taylor Cooksey: Finding the Nerve: Egas Moniz

Ann Pozniak: Serial Killers: Why They Are Society's Ultimate Villains

Alicia Smith: Dorothea Dix: A Hero To The Insane

HEROES & VILLAINS AND RELIGION

Megan Davis: Pope Francis: A Hero for the Catholic Church

Nicole Frink: Jim Jones: Leader of The Kool-Aid Cult

James Marcotte: On The Catholic Church as a Villain during the Protestant Reformation Due to the Propagation of Witchcraft

Andrew Tibbit: Catholic Church vs Progress

Reagan Woodard: ISIS: The New Wave of Villain

HEROES & VILLAINS AND ETHICS

Ethan Barton: The Chernobyl Three: An Account of Europe's Salvation

Troy Boles: Pablo Escobar: The Colombian Terror

Ramelo Ford: An Analysis of the Moral Standings of Margaret Sanger

Zoie Swint: The Evils of American Eugenics

Kennedy Williams: El Chapo: Mexico's No. 1 Hero

HEROES & VILLAINS OF REVOLUTIONS AND MOVEMENTS

De'Sean Britton: Mahatma Gandhi: Villain

Rayvin Gaudet: Maximilien Robespierre: Once a Villain, Always a Villain?

Nikolas Juneau: Che Guevara: Heroic Leader

Malik Leary: Police Brutality: The Epidemic

Nick Mominee: Inner City Blues: Marvin Gaye as a Civil Rights Hero

HEROES & VILLAINS OF PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP

John Lawson: John Fitzgerald Kennedy: The Hero of the Civil Rights Era

Megan McKinnon: Vietnam's Villain: John F. Kennedy

Gage Prymek: Abraham Lincoln: Villain

Zoey Storey: George W. Bush: Protector o