Don 't Be So High And Mighty

George Rogers Clark was a leader and hero to all of the Kentuckians he protected from both Indian and possible British attacks. After the Revolutionary War broke out, he decided to attack the British army at their forts in Kaskaskia, Vincennes, and Detroit. George Rogers Clark who had four brothers fighting in war wanted desperately to be a part of it. Clark later wrote, "It was at this period that I first though of paying some attention to

John Rogers was born sometime in 1689 in what would later be known as Frederick County, Virginia . His father, Roger, was 19 and his mother, Elizabeth, was 23 . He lived in the height of tobacco production in Virginia and lived through both the settlement of western Virginia and the French and Indian war. Although he didn’t participate personally in the military conflicts (mostly due to his age at the time) he had a firsthand view of how the war influenced the citizens of the colonies and how increasing numbers of colonists would displace the native population.

He asked him to gather information about plants, animals, and especially the people of the region- the indians. Lewis was very excited about the idea and agreed immediately. Lewis selected his old friend William Clark for his co-commander. Lewis’s invitation broke military protocol by proposing a dual command, but Lewis insisted that for the next two and a

Major Robert Rogers was born in Colonial Massachusetts in 1731 and later moved to rural New Hampshire with his family. It was here where he learned many traits that would make him successful later in life such as hunting, trapping and learning Indian tactics from past Indian attacks. During King George’s War (1744-1748), Robert Rogers served as a private in two scouting companies serving in Merrimack River Valley in New Hampshire (McNab, C. 2013). Later, during the French and Indian War 1754-1763), the then Major Rogers recruited nine companies of American colonists to fight for the British as Ranger units (Ranger Training Brigade, 2006). Additionally, Major Rogers was tasked to command a company of men charged with the task of raiding deep into

It wasn't long until he is favoured by the troops. He had a natural talent for the English language since he was raised in the residential school. He quickly drops his Cree accent and opted for a British one, blending in more with the soldiers. His sniping skills gained him fame and made him superior amongst the groups. He was sent to join the soldiers for a raid party by Corporal Thompson.

If anyone in A River Runs Through It had potential, it was Paul. He was a master at fly fishing and young at that. Reverend Maclean, Paul and Norman’s father, thought of Paul as a much greater fisherman than even himself when he said, “‘He is beautiful’”(Maclean 108). One of the reasons Paul’s death is so sad is because one feels like he would have been able to do so much more as he grew up. He was, after all, a talented individual. Paul was a great newspaper reporter, and he had a steady job in Helena. “When it came to choosing a profession, he became a reporter. On a Montana paper”(Maclean 7).With this job, he was able to keep the family updated on any current events they might have missed. Aside from all of Paul’s amazing traits that he possessed, he was a man of many flaws as

Guided by the ideas of patriotism and honor from their old schoolmaster Kantorek, Paul, and his classmates enlisted in the German Army (11-12). But after returning from battle, Paul explains,”… in our hearts we trusted them…. The first bombardment showed us our mistake, and under it the world as they had taught it to us broke in pieces,”(12-13). Through the first encounter of warfare, Paul learns that war was nothing he expected and that he was set on a path that would lead to destruction. As a part of the younger generation, Paul looked up to the authority figures of the older generation as his guidance to the future. But in contrast, the first death shattered his belief, and because of it, Paul believed that most of the older generation is incapable of teaching them. Consequentially, Paul must turn towards the younger generation and his survival instincts to concentrate on war as he enters a hopeless

For Paul and his fellow comrades to survive the gruesomeness of the front, Paul comments how “[e]very conceivable method of parade-ground soldiering is used to become hard, suspicious, pitiless vicious, tough”(26). The gruesome training shows how Paul is changing. His original young and happy self has ceased to exist as he reflects on the training imposed on him. Later on though, Paul

After rescuing students from the sinkhole, Paul responds to his actions with, “I’m still afraid of Erik... But today I wasn’t a coward, and that counts for something”(Bloor 86). Paul’s thoughts convey the idea that although he faced this horrible natural disaster nothing is more frightening than Erik to him. This fear, in the end, leads to confidence. When Paul musters up the courage to confront his fearsome brother, Paul is pondering his actions and what will be of him after.

“Endless testimonies . . . prove the mild and pacific temperament of the natives…. But our work was to exasperate, ravage, kill, mangle and destroy; small wonder, then, if they tried to kill one of us now and then…. The admiral, it is true, was blind as those who came after him, and he was so anxious to please the King that he committed irreparable crimes against the Indians…”

“When the weather was warm, and his father was in a particularly jovial frame of mind, the girls made lemonade, which was always brought out in a red glass pitcher, ornamented with forget-me-nots in blue enamel. This the girls thought very fine, and the neighbors always joked about the suspicious color of the pitcher.” (5). This quote shows how the neighbors and Paul’s sisters see him as compared to the family’s flowered pitcher. The pitcher is described as always the same and ornamented, like Paul with his strange attitude and well-dressed appearance. Also, Paul is seen in his sisters’ eyes as a fine person, while the neighbors see him as strange and unusual; something they can joke about. This gives the neighbor’s reason to suspicious and joke about not only the pitcher, but Paul too. This is not only how others perceived Paul’s life as, but also how Paul understood his own life to be: strange, but

The going is more difficult. Often a shell whistles across.” Paul had the possibility of being shot, or even worse, killed in his attempt to save his friend. In this dire time he put the needs of his injured friend before his own so that he could save him.

After being forced to leave his job as an usher at Carnegie Hall Paul gets a job working at Denny and Carson's office firm. He gets the money to go to New York City by taking the money he was supposed to deposit in the bank from Denny and Carson's deposit and pockets it. Paul arrives in New York and lives the luxurious life by buying fancy clothes and checking into a nice hotel. After eight days in New York his fun runs out when he discovers in the Pittsburgh papers that his father had reimbursed the firm and was coming to get him. "Paul had just come in to dress for dinner; he sank into a chair, weak to the knees, and clasped his head in his hands. It was worse than jail, even; the tepid waters of Cordelia Street were to close over him finally and forever" (Cather 11). After succeeding

At the beginning, Paul feels happy to join in the war because he thinks this is an

Paul was a young man. He was getting a teacher’s education. He was a good student and a wonderful sportsman. He lived with his mother, Mrs Burgess, in Belfast. She was quite unsociable and reserved. The first five years of his life Paul had spent in the North of England. He had very good relations with his father, Rees; they loved to spend time together. Later his family moved to Wortley. When they lived there, his father died because of a railway accident. Soon after