​During the Civil War, times were tense. Everyone was scared. The women hid at home while the men went off and died in droves. The slaves hid their hopes, however small, under a thick layer of impersonal stoicism. Few families went unaffected, and news of the awful violence and painful deaths horrified listeners at home, receiving information via telegrams.

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People in the modern day have grown relaxed and feel safe, and upcoming dangers, like climate change, feel too distant to be threatening. 

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However, times of hardship will come. Many times they did, and they always will. But out of the wreckage of the Civil War, there was hope. Times of hardship pushed innovation to the limit, and people under pressure were forced to adapt in spectacular ways. 

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There will always be that great tragedy, and nothing will make up for the lives that were lost on those battlefields, but if there is one thing to take away from the Civil War, it is that even in times of pain and death and sorrow and fear and mourning, there is always a light at the end of the tunnel, and the people of America, nay, the people of this world, will come together and survive. 

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(Phillips, 2020) & (Levin, 2012)