Benjamin Martin Summary

Joseph Plumb Martin was born “upon the twenty-first of November, in the year of 1760” (Martin 6). His grandparents raised him on their Connecticut farm. Inspired by the Battles of Lexington and Concord he decided to enlist into the army. He was eager to help for the patriotic cause. In June of 1776, at the age of 15, Martin was able to enlist but didn’t want to sign up for a long enlistment. Soldiers at the time were enlisting for a year’s service but he did not like that and thought it was too long a time for him for the first trial, “I wished only to take a priming before I took upon me the whole coat of paint for a soldier” (Martin 16). Orders soon came allowing men to enlist for six months so Martin enrolled in the Connecticut

In this book Samuel Western was briefly talking about Wyoming’s past and how he will input his ideas about how he could better its future. Sam Western's book states every economic failure and loss of what the people have gained for that has always tormented Wyoming. He follows the roots of myths that have impacted the advancement or absence of improvement in the state from the territory's regional days to the present. He utilizes statistical data points, however he additionally utilizes data and profiles of essential individuals that was provided. While this famous financial history will most engage perusers with an enthusiasm for Wyoming, it brings up the more extensive issue of how our understanding of the past impacts current arrangement choices. Samuel Western, a

I read this book in high school, and I really enjoyed it. After we were finishing reading the book we had a guest speaker who was a Vietnam war vet come into our class and speak on different parts of the book. I picked this short story to do my paper on because I felt like I had the most connection to this story because of my prior knowledge from reading the book. I do think I am getting some parts confused with the short story and the book. I know when I read the book in high school some chapters were very dull and boring but others were exciting and interesting. After reading the short story it was just a refreshment of the interesting things that happened in the book.

Ashamed of his brutality during the French Indian War, Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson) a widower stays on his homestead with his seven children in South Carolina vowing to live a peaceful life. As one of the most crucial wars in the American History gets closer and closer to South Carolina, the state must decide whether to join or flee. Benjamin, who wants nothing to do with the war, argues against joining the fight with the most powerful country in the world, Britain. When it is decided that South Carolina will join the fight Benjamin 's eldest son Gabriel (Heath Ledger) enlists without permission. Even though he argues against it, he lets Gabriel go. Benjamin stays as far away from the war as possible until a sadistic British officer, William Tavington, burns down his home, takes his slaves, murders his second oldest son Thomas, and takes his oldest son as his prisoner.

    A little ten year old boy is snatched out of his life as he was taken as a prisoner of war. He is destined to die when others lived. His death actually happened in history, but also in the novel, My Brother Sam Is Dead. It is the year 1775, the Revolutionary War just stirring among the people. The narrator is Tim Meeker, the youngest son in a family that runs their tavern in the town of Redding. The Meeker family goes through lots of sufferings at the cost of war. His older brother Sam is a Yale student who goes to war to fight the British against his father’s wishes. As the war goes on life gets tougher and the Meekers experience the hard reality of war. Tim is split between the sides of war, but realizes neither side is right. As Tim goes through story the authors show the reader of the difficulties of war. In My Brother Sam Is Dead although both sides are shown, authors Collier and Collier argue that war is futile.

The story of Martin Guerre shows how easily families were disrupted during the course of foreign wars. Guerre grew up in a small town where he eventually was betrothed to his wife Bertrand. After an argument with his father, Guerre decided to leave for Spain where he served in their army during the war. After 8 years away at war, much happened to Guerre and his family back home including the death of his parents, and a man pretending to be him that had nearly the entire village fooled for a short period of time.

James Webb focuses on three main characters in his novel: Robert E. Lee Hodges, “Snake,” and Will “Senator” Goodrich. The inspiration for these three characters seems to be not the life of any particular historical figure, but rather the common backgrounds of real soldiers who served in Vietnam in general. Characters in the novel are most often developed only after their initial introduction into the story. After introducing a character to the reader, Webb will often follow this introduction with the story of the characters life before the military and how or why he decided to enlist. Those characteristics not mentioned at his introduction or those that change are typically revealed during or after intense, traumatic events, such as near-death experiences or witnessing the death of a friend. Although the novel centers on only three characters, these three characters represent highly prominent reasons that American’s had for enlisting; to continue a family legacy and protect his family’s honor, to escape the steep decline and unhappiness of his life, and by accident or unwillingly being drafted.

He tried to turn to face the pigged faced lady, but he couldn’t. He screamed and hollered for his dad,nothing, again, again, still nothing. He realized that he was on his own, the lady stepped closer and closer while she laughed. Martin was forced to wobble into the corner of the tiny elevator. He was at a loss of what he could do to protect himself, then a light bulb went off in his head.

George Raymond Martin was born on September 20, 1948 in Bayonne, New Jersey. He adopted the name Richard at 13 years old. Martin was born to Raymond Collins Martin and Margaret Brady Martin. His father was a longshoreman, while his mother was a housewife. He is the oldest of three and, he has two sisters, who are Darleen Martin Lapinski and Janet Martin Patten. His family lived in a house that was owed by his great-grandmother. Martin and his family soon moved to a house close by the Bayonne docks with the Federal Housing Administration. As a child, he started writing in grade school. He sold monster stories too his friends and students from school. He even created different superheroes in comic, and created fanfiction out of his favorite comic books. When he began high school, he started to join different activities. He attended a Catholic boys school called Marist High School. He played on the chess team and spent time working on the school newspaper. Martin graduated in 1966. He continued to write while going to Northwestern University. “He earned first a bachelor’s degree in journalism in 1970 an then a master’s degree in the same subject the following year” (“George R.R. Martin” biography.com).

It all happened out of nowhere. In January 1998, Martin came home complaining of a sore throat. As the days followed things got worst. He stopped eating, started sleeping for a long period, and had developed pain when walking. He stopped using his body and started to forget things. It’s pretty alarming how at first you can be fine, and in instant get severely sick. He slowly started forgetting where he was and his speech started deteriorating. What shocked me so much is the things he endured when he was in a vegetative like state, but still endured them later on when he could comprehend what was going around his surroundings. It was pretty upsetting how Martin knew that many of his caregivers talked to him as if he wasn’t there. Surprisingly

While they were retreating in the ambulances they pick up the two sergeants and they go on with the retreat. As they move on they get stuck in the mud. When they got stuck they were asked to help get it out, then they refused to do anything. while they were walking away from the ambulance he shot one of the sergeants and the other one ran away. When he shoots them this made him seem like a bad person but he was just following the rules of the army when later he won't be able to follow. When he shot that sergeant in the back he wasnt seen as a hero to the people he was more of a hero to the army because he was following the rules as they were

Martin quivered, and with a shaky voice, asked “Who are you?” The lady looked confused as to if Martin should have known her name. Martin now somehow recognized her a little bit more when that expression hit her face, but he was still clueless. Martin yelled a bit louder “Who are you, tell me now!”

Martin Luther is a name that brings various images and ideas to ones mind. He is known as a great scholar, yet he is most widely known distinctly for his part in the great reformation. Many have taken it upon themselves to compose biographies of Luther’s life. Eric Till sought to portray the life of Luther in his film entitled Luther. This paper is a review of Till’s work. It will seek to review the movie while noting the historical accuracies and inaccuracies. This work is not attempting to be an exhaustive commentary on Till’s work, yet it does seek only to reflect that which the author noticed.

Run, jump, hide, run. That’s what Ben’s life consisted of for the past 2years as a criminal. They say you don’t chose the life of crime and that it chooses you, but for him it was the complete opposite. He chose it. Ben brought himself into this mess because he wanted to. Only being 17 years old he had robbed over 10 stores, assaulted 6 people, and broke into 14 houses. Ben was the adventurous, trouble making friend who everyone knew they shouldn’t be affiliated with but still stuck with him throughout his crazy schemes. Especially his partner in crime, Fiona. Fiona was cautious about her decisions and was more mature. Ben was just as smart as her, but he kept his wittiness a secret and turned it into a mystery. But, this time might be his last robbery. Her partner in crime had robbed 3 houses in the neighborhood next to them and had beat up a man who tried to stop him. Never before had he been caught but this time seemed more odd than

and Uncle Bobby (Robert) was going to look for a job when Uncle John told him