Ambrose Briere Research Paper

Ambrose Burnside was born on May 23, 1824 in Liberty, Indiana. He was the son of a farmer and a court clerk. His father helped him get into the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1843. He was almost expelled many times. He graduated from the academy in 1847, 18th in his class, of thirtyeight students.

Ambrose Bierce's’ view on the military is much similar than the view of some of ours and he expresses his view throughout “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.” Bierce looks at the military, or even war, with an opinion of pure violence. Bierce describes the war as violent and full of suffrage. Never once does Bierce describe war as a pleasing idea.

Born in Denmark, Ohio in 1845 to a Presbyterian minister, Calvin Brice grew up in a lower-middle-class background. At the age of thirteen, he enrolled at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. During the Civil War, Brice would go back and forth between the Army and university. After serving

Braxton Bragg was born on March 22, 1817 in North Carolina (History.com). Bragg did not talk about his parents but what we do know is that his dad was a contractor and his mom was arrested for killing a freed slave. Though his parents were not the best, his brother was a politician who helped him get into the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1833 (History.com). He flourished at the academy and graduated one year later, he finished fifth out of fifty soldiers.

Stephen E Ambrose has been called “one of this country's best-known nonfiction writers in the last quarter of the twentieth century” ("Stephen E. Ambrose." Encyclopedia) due to the truth and how he captures every single detail of each battle he recalls. Ambrose was born on January 10, 1936 in Lovington, Illinois, United States and died on October 13, 2002 in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, United State due to lung cancer. Ambrose father was a small town doctor who served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. With the experience of war Ambrose Father got it also affected Ambrose and his outlook about war which stuck with him throughout his career.

Like many communities in Tennessee, Briceville's founding was tied to coal mining. Originally known as Slatestone Hollow, early miners used wagons to haul coal to Knoxville until the railroad connected Knoxville and Coal Creek. In 1888, Calvin Brice, who was then the president of the Lake Erie and Western Railroad and would later serve a single term in the U.S. Senate, requested the construction of a spur connecting Slatestone Hollow with Coal Creek. Upon completion of the spur, the community was renamed in Brice's honor. Although the population of Briceville has risen and fallen since the community's founding, residents have never been short of pests. Two common pests found in the area are bed bugs and fleas.

I am reporter Jacob Busby and today is a a monumental day in the world of sports. Today is Sunday, February third 2013, also known as Superbowl XLVII. The New Orleans Super dome is filled with purple and red jerseys ready to support the Baltimore ravens and the San Francisco 49ers. I am ready for some football.

A handsome African American baby boy named Brennen Jair McAllister was born on February 23,1998 in Akon, Ohio.

Ruby Briges was born on the exact same year as the Supreme Court’s Brown Vs. Board of Education decision in the school is noticable coincidence in her early life into Civil Rights movement . When she was in the kindergarten , she was one of the African- American students in New Orleans who been choosen to take a test to be determining whether or not she can attend a all white school . The idea they planned was that if all the African American failed the test , then in New Orleans all the schools might be able to stay segregated for a while . Ruby lived five blocks away from an all white school , but she attened kindergarten serval miles away , at an all black school .

Bryan Johnson: a son, a brother, a uncle, a friend, a lover, a athlete and outdoor enthusiast. Bryan Johnson is a man with many hats, depending on the day you may see several of these. When he is not working, Bryan loves to be in the outdoors or spend time with his family. Bryan is tough as nails, however, on the inside he is softer then cotton candy.

On November 9, 1731, in Ellicott’s Mills, MD, Mary Banneky gave birth to Benjamin Banneker. Benjamin was the son of an ex-slave named Robert, and his mother Mary was the daughter of an Englishwoman named Molly Welsh. The both of his parents were both freed slaves and he was luckily able to escape the torture of slavery as well. His ability to read was taught by his biological grandmother when she’d read him books. He also attended a Quaker school for a very short period of time, but was primarily self-educated. At an early age, he was able to execute making an irrigation system for his family’s farm. He was had the ability to create a wooden clock that was able to compute accurate time for more than 50 years until his passing.

Describe a place or environment where you are perfectly content. What do you do or experience there, and why is it meaningful to you?

I was born on May 23, 2001 at home in Kaua’ula on Maui, Hawaii. My mother’s name is Katie Bertacchi and my father’s name is Charlie Palakiko. I am Hawaiian, Italian, Native American, Filipino, Chekloslovocian, and English. I have one brother, Iliao, who is thirteen years old. I was raised in the Hawaiian community, culture, and language which has definitely impacted my life in more ways than one.

Bret Harte, an American author and poet, was born on August 25, 1836 in Albany, New York. His father, Henry Harte, and mother, Elizabeth Ostrander, both worked as teachers. His full name was Francis Brett Hart,

This extract originates from ‘A memoir of Robert Blincoe’, authored by John Brown, and published in 1832. The memoirs originally appeared in Richard Carlile’s radical newspaper, The Lion, in five weekly instalments in 1828. They highlighted the dismal working and living conditions abundant in cotton-mills during the 19th century. Robert Blincoe was a workhouse orphan who originally lived in the St Pancreas Workhouse in London, his memoirs depict how he was subsequently sold to numerous cotton-mills until completing his apprenticeship in 1813 . The source itself focuses on how the workhouse children were manipulated into believing that the cotton-mills were an institution were apprenticeships could significantly change their lives, such as having ‘plenty of cash in their pockets’ and sufficient meals. The reality, later shown in the source, is that the children were deceived and how their lives were in fact worse than when they were in the workhouse of St Pancreas.