Brother Juniper's Collapse

1. Before Francisco Pizarro began the Spanish conquest in 1532, the Incan empire dominated the Andes Mountain region. An emperor who demanded strict obedience ruled the land. All business was run by the state, which could draft citizens for its projects. The Inca, terracing the landscape and irrigating the crops, farmed the mountainsides. The Inca were brilliant engineers, whose roadways included bridges. The city of Machu Picchu is an example of their skill with tools like the plumb bob and wooden roller, which they used for in heavy construction. Hundreds of years after their civilization was subdued by the Spanish, the descendants of the once-dominate Incas make up about 50 percent of Peru’s population.

Brother Future (1991), directed by Roy Campanella II, starts off with TJ(Phill Lewis) a high school student selling stolen items to people in his neighborhood. TJ is seen selling more stolen items by a police officer who begins to chase him. While running, TJ gets hit by a car and becomes unconscious. When he wakes up TJ he finds himself in the middle of a slave revolt in South Carolina (1822). Later he is brought to a slave auction and sold to Mr.Cooper. While working for Mr.Cooper TJ gets himself into all sorts of trouble. Being on the plantation TJ became friends with many other slaves including the house slave Martilla, Josiah, and Caroline. Martilla( Vonetta McGee) tells TJ that to return to his own time “ must help another slave”. After helping another slave with their chores TJ then tries to running away and is later caught by Zeke(Bernard Addison) who whips him.TJ returns back to the plantation and helps Josiah(Michael Burgess) learn to write and read from a book Josiah stole from Mr.Cooper. TJ decides that he wants to get Zeke in trouble, so he places the book in Zeke’s cabin but forgets to take out the paper Josiah wrote his name on. Then Josiah is whipped to the point where he can’t move. Because Josiah can barely walk he sends TJ to meet up with Denmark Vesey and tell him what happened. TJ later returns and tells Josiah what Denmark Vesey says, meanwhile Zeke is outside of the window listening in on the conversation. Josiah, Tj, and Zeke were asked to work a

The first chapter of Founding Brothers talks about a famous duel between two of the founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. Burr was the vice president at that time, and although the fight only lasted a few seconds, it ended Hamilton’s life. This chapter happens to be only one out of the chronological order.

The American Revolution had many players that made it a successful revolution. The American Revolution began in 1760’s, the author separates this memorable events in history into different chapters following the 1787 Constitutional Convention. The key player in the book are Aaron Burr, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Each of these men contributed greatly during the American Revolution, with these men greatness each came across challenges against each other once in history. Some of the founding brothers serve both their country in battle and through their legislation for the people. The main

In Founding Brothers, the three most important chapters that impact America today were The Duel, The Silence, and The Farewell and the least important was The Friendship. The book is about our seven founding brothers and about different events that happened to them in post revolutionary America. It is a nonfiction book that was written to show what they experienced and how they interacted with others.

The Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, in my opinion was an interesting book to read. The beginning was a bit slow, and I was not expecting to enjoy reading it as I did. I found some points the author made to be exquisitely written, and the book gave me deeper insights into certain aspects of history I had never considered before. I both learned, and expanded on prior knowledge of many historical accounts included in the book. I enjoyed how the author gave both sides of the story. In the beginning of each chapter, he would have the story how we would read it in our text books, and learn in in our history classes. Then, he would give his

When the Bridge of San Luis Rey fell “The moment a Peruvian heard of the accident he signed himself and made a mental calculation as to how recently he had crossed by it” (Wilder 8). Citizens of Peru felt as if the bridge was “among the things that last forever” (Wilder 8) and that “it was unthinkable that it should break” (Wilder 8). I feel like many tend to have thoughts like this when

After the tragic fire, two fire investigators arrived at the scene to determine what caused the blaze. The investigation was considered very professional, since they did have the right kind of professionals and experts at the moment. One of the investigators was named Douglas Fogg, he was at the time considered as an arson investigator, due to his twenty year experience. Although, one thing I knew that was a little suspicious was the way he investigated the fire and according to Fogg, “You learn that fire talks to you” (Grann, para 12). Since Fogg has had a long experience, he believed that, that is enough skill or education to

Fear in control During the 1600s the fear of witches arose in Salem. This made people doubtful about the love of God people with ‘bad reputation’ had. In the 1950s people questioned the loyalty of citizens towards the United States and the uprising accusations of the being communist. The use of an allegory can be used as “a story in which people, things and events have a meaning often instructive (Agnes 17).”

The earthquake was not the only hazard to damage the area of Lost River Ranger. Hazards such as rockfalls and landslides. As a result of water fountain and sand boils fluctuated and raised the water table making

The palace that held thousands of people was destroyed by the fire. An estimated 30,000-60,000 people were killed. People arguing about whether this was an act of God or if it was a natural disaster. (Scientific America).The famous Enlightenment author, Voltaire, wrote about and mocked the theory that everything happens for the best; in his story of Candide. Voltaire proved that he wrote the story of Candide in influence to the Lisbon Earthquake by writing a complete chapter about it. The chapter, Chapter five it gives in detail what they felt, what they saw and gives us the two different types of theories. As you read the story. you can visualize what they saw and feel the emotion through how it is written. You can see the two types of people when Pangloss said “ What can be sufficient reason of this phenomenon?” to which Candide replies “The Last Judgement is here.” This quote is important because it shows a change in Candide. Throughout the story Candide is considered to be an optimist. This one line shows that he is genuinely concerned for

he Great Chicago fire was a tragic. We never knew what actual happened we just have theory’s. We think we know what happened but what we do know was why it was so fierce.

“For nearly two decades before a sudden bridge collapse in Minnesota killed 13 people and injured 145 others in 2007, officials at multiple levels of government knew the I-35 Mississippi River Bridge was “structurally deficient.””(LaFrance). Instead of ignoring the problem the city could have fixed the issue and prevented the collapse of the bridge. It was easier for the city to act like the problem was not serious. But eventually, the situation got to the point where it was inevitable that the bridge would collapse. It would have been tough to close the bridge off and rebuild but it would have prevented any other deaths caused by the bridge. It’s easy to ignore the problem but by being aware one is able to prevent the

Natural disasters cause a lot of damage to the economies in Latin America when they happen. The damage can last for months, years or even decades. Natural disasters are hard for everyone, but it is even harder for Latin American countries to recover

While some people might say that stem cell research is immoral and unethical, others believe that it is a magical solution for almost any problem, thus leading to a very controversial issue. Scientists have been searching for years for ways to eradicate incurable diseases and perform other medical procedures that yesterday's technology would not fix. With the rapidly arising, positive research on stem cell technology, the potential that exists to restore any deficiency is in the same way, likely to destroy humanity. America is suffering from its inability to choose who holds precedence over this issue. Too many of us find it impossible to reach a basis for which our differing opinions can be shared and formed into a universal and