Benjamin Vankoughnett Background

“In the 1960s, for the folks in and around Ellsworth, [Indiana,] living life decades behind the time was just the way it was. Manpower over technology. The comfort of tradition over the anxiety of change,” stated Jason Recker, a journalist for The Herald. Patoka Reservoir, an economic center for recreation and flood control, encompasses 8,800 acres of land. Before its construction, a thriving community inhabited the fertile terrain along the Patoka River. Towns of this former neighborhood included Elon, Newton-Stewart, and Ellsworth. (Recker 1) Families lived their everyday lives as farmers, with an occasional visit from a local peddler. One day, though, a new kind of visit altered their peaceful ways. A government-sent official arrived

The story began with Benjamin’s return to his hometown. The member of the family were introduced one by one. It was also revealed that the situation between the Continental army and the Great Britain government is getting more complicated each days, as the town’s people were being forced to choose side for the

In return, all James did was slander Benjamin’s name throughout the community so he wouldn’t be able to find work anywhere else. This was a big challenge for Benjamin because not only did he have a bad name that lasted quite a long time but he also had to force himself to move to distant places like New York and Pennsylvania. He had to travel under dangerous conditions across seas to find another job. Also another challenge Benjamin faced after leaving his fathers job, was that he couldn’t find a long stable and suitable job for himself. He always faced problems at every new job he joined. On his way to New York, Benjamin meets Bradford, who was not able to offer him any jobs. But he refers Benjamin to his son Andrew who was a printer in Pennsylvania. When Benjamin gets to Pennsylvania, Andrew did not have a job to offer him. Then Andrew refers him to go work for Keimer, who is also another printer. Although Keimer gave Benjamin work, but it doesn’t last long. He later stops living with Keimer and ends up leaving the job. From these events in his life we are able to see the cycle and pattern, and he might face similar challenges in the future. Benjamin gets pushed around from places to places to find a jobs with very few people recognizing his ability and passion to write, and how much of an intellectual, he was. He wasn’t able to save up his money due

. . took on, over time, the nature of one more hillock in the dramatic rise and fall of the coastal landscape.” (141) Expressed in this statement is the idea that although the Larkins experienced a tragedy that held the town‘s interest for a period, adversity is a natural part of the unpredictability and ups and downs of life. In other words; tragedy and adversity are part of the landscape of life.

We start out in Lake Windsor, the housing development where Paul and his family live. Their neighborhood is nestled in among a bunch of other ritzy developments with fancy-sounding names, like the Manors of Coventry, and the Villas at Versailles. Lake Windsor even has its own middle and high school, so, for the first part of the book, the Fisher family's lives revolve around that one area of town. Mrs. Fisher heads up their Home Owner Association Architectural Committee, Erik joins his school's football team, and even Paul makes friends in their neighborhood.

At this time in history, locally, there was an Indian Reserve in New Westminster in the area that is now Front Street that ran alongside the river named Qayqayt. In 1859 the residents of New Westminster decided they no longer wanted Indians in the city core, “so three reserves were created: the 32 acres near Scott Paper’s current location; the 27 acres on Poplar Island; and the 104 acres across the Fraser River in Brownsville, an Indian village called Qayqayt.” [cite] At the beginning of the 20th century, in 1904, a small pox epidemic swept through killing many Natives. This reduced the members of the Qayqayt from the already few “400 people to under 100. Many of the remaining inhabitants of Qayqayt were assimilated into other local reserves,

Benjamin Banneker’s letter to Thomas Jefferson, Framer of the Declaration of Independence and Secretary of State, and to President George Washington creates awareness of the oppressive conditions that the slaves had been in for years and his dissatisfaction towards his target audience’s actions. Banneker uses ethos, logos, pathos, irony, political diction, allusion, sarcasm, and tone to convey his message. He conveys an unpleasant tone in order to seriously convey his message and show the intensity of the situation he is talking about. However, there are parts of the letter where the tone is considerate and sympathetic in order to appeal to pathos.

This area was very popular with the English government mainly because it apparently had tons of gold, the search for this gold led to the development of Jamestown in Virginia. When the people found out that there wasn’t any gold there to begin with, they realized how this area had many other high-points. It had marvelous farming land and temperature. When word got out, the English sent out even more settlers to the area and brought with them slaves galore. This led to the development of the plantation; which was perfect with the large area span and the hot temperatures, sadly the slaves were treated horribly and weren’t even

The Market Revolution from 1815 to 1840 is the transition of American production for subsistence to commercial sales. Thus, goods were no longer produced for the purpose of feeding families, paying taxes, and providing for other essentials, but they were then produced for monetary profits. Factors Contributing to the Market Revolution and the Industrial Revolution: The extension of a national road from Virginia to Illinois permitted both farmers to settle Westward and to transport their goods more easily to major cities in the East.

While Benjamin and his militia are in charge of preventing the British to go further North until the French troops arrive, his family are safe in Charleston with his late wife 's sister, aside from Gabriel who fight in the militia along his father. As the militia led by “the Ghost” keeps ambushing British soldiers, Colonel Tavington is assigned but General Cornwallis the mission to stop them by all means necessary. He finds the location of the children in Charleston

“New France was not merely the settlement of a few fur traders.” The Acadians were “a pastoral-like people who once formed a proud nation in a land called Acadia.” Although falling under the jurisdiction of “New France,” the Acadians governed separately than the rest of the country and were an independent entity within New France. Today, “the Acadians are the French speaking population of the Canadian Maritime provinces,” and these are the Acadians that were not displaced during the expulsions, under British rule. Acadia’s beginnings, with the construction of Port Royal, could have marked the colony for success, but instead, led to a troubling conclusion for the European descendents. Through failed leadership, two

Environmental problems exist everywhere in this world today; whether it is in air, the water, traffic, crowding, or noise. Dubois, Pennsylvania which is known for its lumber and coal mining has 7, 794 people living here today. When this land was founded and cleared it was sold as one acre parcels, and each land owner had to determine their own road systems; which is why most of the roads in Dubois are narrow today. Dubois was known as “The Divided City” back in the very early stages of it growth. There was the Dubois side, and Rumbarger side, and separated by a low beaver damn. As population and business grows the

The story that is about to unfold could take place anywhere in the US and for that matter to anyone, maybe to you? The decade, what would you prefer the 30’s the 40’s or maybe the 50’s or today does it matter probably not or does it. To put this story into words we will place the events in a delightful little village situated in a charming valley nestled somewhere in a beautiful part the mid-west not far from the Canadian broader. Massive ice sheets once ravaged this landscape and sculpted its current terrain uncovering some of the oldest rocks ever found on earth and where fur trading and agriculture were its earliest industries logging, agricultural and mining now

Around a bend, and out of the blue, there came a town. Even so far from the nearest city, the town was butsling. Main Street was lined with colorful buildings restored from the Victorian era. A two floor hotel, elegant even in it’s old age, announced its presence at the corner of an intersection. The stout brick walls stood fortified, defying the valley winds. The occasional house could be seen through the tightly packed boutiques, shops, and art galleries. One was baby blue and white, another, the color of dried saffron. Further on down Main Street, natural hot springs revealed themselves. People of every age packed into the heated pools. A vicious game of volleyball had commenced, and more people were flocking to the net even in the second it took to drive past. Eventually, the quaint Main Street ended, and the highway led the car through several switchbacks that twisted up the side of the valley. At the top, a weather worn sign named the town “Ouray”, and the sight below was one to behold. Ouray spread through the bowl formed when rivers and mountains collide, spreading to the edges until not a shed more could’ve been built. But the highway kept leading, and the car kept

On August 25, 2017 student and self-proclaimed “hobby adventurer” Ashley Clark set out to seek answers to questions which had plagued her and members of surrounding communities for years. “Did the family who lived on the farm pass away? Who owns the structures that remain? Are there still descendants of the family who once thrived here in the community today?”