Charley's Analysis

The article, “Creating the System: Railroads and the Modern Corporation”, informs us all about the development of the transcontinental railroad and how it helped drive the nation west and also transformed western North America into a economy that had many opportunities. The railroads have always interested me when it comes to this period of time. What I learned from the reading that I didn’t know before was that the Western railroads were primary carriers of grain, other agricultural produce, livestock, coal, lumber and minerals. Also seeing the prices that the farmers shipped their products for, and what they paid for the freights rates was very interesting. Overall, if the railroads wouldn’t have been built in a time when there was so little

The main character in the book Listen by Stephanie S. Tolan, Is a twelve year old girl named Charley who is recovering from a car wreck when a wild dog starts hanging around her house and she volenters to take him in and tame him to be her dog. Charley becomes determained to tame him which makes her brave, adventorous, and caring.

The research in this paper will come from three basic sources. The first source is over the internet. Using the key words Underground, Railroad and Ohio, articles and books will be found. The library will be the second source. Again the key words, Underground, Railroad and Ohio will be used to find and books and newspapers containing valuable information. A local specialist by the name of Mr. Henry Burke will be the third source for this paper. He will provide newspaper articles and stories that he discovered during his research. Interviews with him will also provide valuable insights into the knowledge he has gained throughout his research.

“If any act symbolized the taming of the Northwest frontier, it was the driving of the final spike to complete the nation’s first transcontinental railroad.”1 The first railroad west of the Mississippi River was opened on December 23, 1852. Five miles long, the track ran from St. Louis to Cheltanham, Missouri. Twenty-five years prior, there were no railroads in the United States; twenty-five years later, railroads joined the east and west coasts from New York to San Francisco.2

On the 27th of June, Martha Ballard treated Isaac Hardin’s son for Scarlet Fever where she spent most of the day. On the 28th, Hannah Cool came over, as did she on the 2nd and 4th of July, at a time when Martha was still watching over young Hardin. On the 3rd of July, Martha took note of the boy again in her diary and by the 6th, Hannah had developed a sore throat. She remained unwell until the 10th, during which time her sister visited and by the 25th was dead. But the Hardin’s might not have been the sole cause of the spread of disease, with Martha as a middleman. As an assistant to Martha, she often went around the town, which on the 2nd included seeing the Sewal’s who were

As hardworking women living of the prairie, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters can relate to Mrs. Wright’s situation. They know personally that long days of doing laundry, cooking, and cleaning can become very tiresome (Hedges 91). They realize that living on the prairie can force a woman to be confined to her own house for weeks at a time, and because Mrs. Wright never had children, the grueling loneliness that she suffered must have been excruciating. Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters both experience the constant patronization and sexual discrimination that most women in the early twentieth century lived with. They empathize with the difficulties of Mrs. Wright’s life and almost immediately a bond is formed with a woman they do not even know.

The Transcontinental Railroad was one of the most ambitious engineering projects, economic stimulants, and efficient methods of transportation in the early United States. If completed, the United States would be truly be united from east to west. The purpose of this paper is to examine how the Transcontinental Railroad helped develop new opportunities for many aspects of American life.

Much has changed since the days of the Tallulah Falls Railroad, the sound of locomotive's whistles no longer fill the valleys. Children who used to wave at the train are now all grown with children and grandchildren of their very own. The people and the communities that the railroad served have forgotten about the “ole TF”. Many of the younger generations have no idea that the TF is the only reason that their towns exist today. People have put the railroad in the back of their minds and live their lives as if it never existed.

By 1891 Benjamin had moved along with his daughter Julie Ann and her husband Donald McDonald, Robert, with his youngest son, William H. was living with a young family of 3, Ned Wyld, Margaret and young daughter Mary. Even Benjamin’s ex-step daughter Nancy Burns had moved to the westernmost end of the road to Haines Lake.

On evening of Sunday June 9, 1912 at the Moore residence the Moore family attended service at the Presbyterian church where their children participated in the Children’s Day Program. The service ended at around 9:30 p.m. and the Moores and Stillinger sisters walked to the Moore’s house at around 10 p.m. The sisters had returned to the Moore residence because they asked their parents the Stillinger 's if they could spend the night. Once they all arrived at the residence they ended their festive evening with some cookies and milk followed by everybody at the residence going to sleep.

From the age of stage to the end of the steamboat era, the Valley would be a tourist stop for famous writers and poets; Noll mentions Sidney Lanier, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and William Cullen Bryant as timely visitors. The natural landscape provided a draw for those from the North and in Europe. There was also a material attraction, not just for smuggling during the American Civil War but also for the cypress that made for excellent lumber. The latter would come to an end during the Second World War. Tourism from nearby Palatka via steamboat would find its own end around the time of the First World War. As Noll concludes his article, the Ocklawaha would only come back into “national consciousness,” no longer “bypassed as irrelevant,” in the 20th century over “Barge canal

She was married to Charles, better known as Charlo for eighteen years and has four children, Nicola aged eighteen, John Paul aged sixteen, Leanne aged twelve and Jack aged five and is thirty nine years of age herself. Her fifth child died during pregnancy, no thanks to the brutal attacks she experienced. She has become a widow, and before her husband’s death, was separated from him. Her father died of cancer. She has three sisters, one of which is dead and three brothers. Her mother is alive and well.

The Bergson family has three years of prosperous conditions. After their lives were going wonderfully, “then came the hard time that brought everyone on the divide to the brink of despair; three years of drought and failure, the last struggle of a wild soil against the encroaching plowshare” (Cather 31). The family managed well, being under the guidance of Alexandra, despite Mr. Bergson not

Erik Erickson was born on June 15, 1902 in Frankfurt, Germany to a Jewish mother named, Karla. His journey of life began with misperception as to who his real father was; this is something that he died not knowing the actual facts. He was rumored to be the illegitimate child of an extramarital affair. Although he searched until the day of his death he never identified or met his biological father. “At this point I realized that his lifelong quest to find his father would remain unfilled" (Friedman, 2000). He was given his mother’s first husband name, Salomonsen, however this was only a brief marriage and ended long before Erikson was conceived. After his birth, Erickson and his mother lived in Europe his first 3 years of life. During that time Erikson and his mother formed a bond that lasted him a lifetime. When Erikson was the age of 3 his mother remarried. His mother married Erikson’s pediatrician Dr. Theodore Homburger. Dr. Homburger did eventually adopt Erikson and he was given the last name, Homburger. Once they were married they continued to build a family welcoming three daughter’s: Elna, Ruth, and Ellen. Growing up in a home with his family proved to be a challenge for Erikson because he never felt as though he was really part of this family.

While writing my missing chapter I wanted to resolve some remaining conflicts and give more depth in the story. I personally enjoy an ending where everything gets resolved, I attempted to do just that.