Essay on Francis Marion

Most knew him as a leader. At the center of a revolution he made his mark. The start of a change began slowly. Those around the world learned of the controversy. His accomplishment led to the presidency of a certain college.

He was a person who went to great lengths to show his help, however he was not secretive about it. He wrote a newspaper call the Tocsin of Liberty, in which he not only published the first names of the people he helped to freedom, but also the names of their slave masters. Because of this many slave owners had arrest warrants written for his imprisonment (Able Brown).

George Washington Carver was born in Diamond Grove, Missouri during the spring of 1864 or 1865. Like many slaves, he was uncertain of his birth date. His mother, Mary, was a slave who belonged to Moses and Susan Carver. As an infant, slave raiders kidnapped his mother. The childless carvers reared George and his older brother, James.

In the beginnings of Francis Marion’s life, he was raised much like most other children during the 1700s. Getting his first taste of the planter’s life on his family plantation in Berkeley County, South Carolina. His father Gabriel Marion married his mother Esther Cordes in 1715, both of which were first cousins. Esther Marion gave birth to six children Francis was the youngest of all the Marion children. The family lived on their Berkeley Plantation

He is looked upon in a heroic way for fighting the justice system and showing courage, strength and ability to resist laws through making his own lifestyle, with separate beliefs, attitudes and values. He was a friend of the poor, kind to women and children, and an enemy of the rich. He was forced into crime by the harsh harassments of the authorities. He said to have died bravely against the more powerful forces of the law. He has grown to be an admired infamous figure for the way he stood up to authority and his larrikin ways.

children to raise. He was not getting enough attention as he wanted at home, he got his

He was also the only one who can match Robert E. Lee’s success so he was the man to do the job. Robert E. Lee was also going against him because he was part of the Confederacy. He was also very determined to crush

and houses. He also tried farming with apparent success. The rest of the Booth family soon

Davy Crockett, American frontiersman and politician, became a folk hero during his own lifetime. Crockett grew up on the frontier and later used his knowledge of it in his political campaigns. Although he is known chiefly as a hunter and a soldier, Crockett also worked for land for settlers, relief for people in debt, and an expanded banking system for Tennessee.

and a leader of the civil rights movement in the United States. He helped found

He was internationally recognized as an uncompromising abolitionist, indefatigable worker for justice and equal opportunity, and an unyielding defender of women's rights. He became a trusted advisor to Abraham Lincoln, United States Marshal for the District of Columbia, Recorder of Deeds for Washington, D.C., and Minister-General to the Republic of Haiti”.

As he grew older he began to want to see the world away from his small hometown, so in 1828, when he was just nineteen years old he went down the Mississippi River to New Orleans on a produce flatboat. With no other way to get home , he made the eight hundred mile journey on foot. When he got home, his dad decided to move because of health reasons. There he held many jobs such as co-owner of a store in Salem Illinois, a mill operator, and then studied law and opened his own law office.

America’s greatest hero because of his involvement in saving the Union and the emancipator of

Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain's classic novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, tells the story of a teenaged misfit who finds himself floating on a raft down the Mississippi River with an escaping slave, Jim. In the course of their perilous journey, Huck and Jim meet adventure, danger, and a cast of characters who are sometimes menacing and often hilarious.

* He got back together with his highschool sweetheart and he tried to provide a better life for his children. He wanted to built his own business and to be his own boss. But uneducated wife bothered him to discipline his children. The emotion of his vision forced him to overcome these challanges and