Jesse, By Robert Ford

That's how they thought they were supposed to live. Right after Jesse's family got started, he started robbing banks and trains. On December 7, 1869, the gang robbed the Gallatin, Missouri, bank. Jesse asked to change a $100 bill, and thinking that the banker was responsible for the death of Bloody Bill, shot the man in the heart. Local newspapers labeled the actions vicious and bloodthirsty and called for the gang’s capture. From that robbery to the end of their careers, members of the James Gang had a price on their heads, dead or alive. After breakfast on April 3, 1882, Jesse turned to straighten a picture on a wall of his home, and Bob shot Jesse in the back of the head. Jesse died instantly at age 34. People in Missouri were outraged at the method used to capture him and considered it a cowardly assassination. Within three months, Frank surrendered to Crittenden. The juries would not convict on the meager evidence, so Frank resumed a quiet life. Jesse Was a heck of a man, I would be just like him If I would not get in trouble over

In 1996, I was born into a chaotic world that my infant self had no indication as to what he was going to experience.As I now look back, it amazes me what has happened in just 19 years and is still hard to believe how I ended up where I am today. This is the crude and bizarre ride through I, Wyatt Bishop’s, 19 years in this extraordinary bubble we call Earth.

Many conspiracy theories say that the death of Jesse James was faked. The most accepted theory is that Jesse faked his death, fled to Oklahoma, took the name of Frank Dalton, and lived to be 103 years old. The world may never know.

As Lemony Snicket wrote in The Blank Book, “People don’t always get what they deserve in this world.” 1930s America was fraught with racism, especially in the southern states. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, a Negro man by the name of Tom Robinson was put on trial. Although he was not guilty, the jury convicted him because of the colour of his skin. During the trial, others showed injustice towards Tom and people that were on his side. As Tom’s lawyer, Atticus Finch was not admired by many of the white citizens of Maycomb, the town in which the novel takes place. Although Atticus and Jean Louise Finch (Scout) were white, they were still treated unjustly as a result of helping and supporting Tom Robinson. Scout, Atticus’

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee has been banned and/or challenged over thirty times since its publication in 1960. Effectively preventing many students from enjoying the novel and benefitting from its message. To ignore racism is no different than denying it ever existed. To Kill a Mockingbird is appropriate for mature adolescence/students and should not be banned from schools. Despite its sexual related content, or profanity, a valuable lesson remains that should be taught to students.

Jackson married Rachel Donelson in 1794. Rachel had been previously married to Lewis Robards on March 1, 1785. In 1790 she was living an unhappy marriage because of Lewis unreasonable jealousy and completely departed from him. She then moved back with her mother to Nashville, Tennessee where she had already met Andrew in November of 1788. They got married in 1791 but she discovered she wasn’t actually divorced so they got remarried in 1794. On December 22, 1828, two months before Jackson's presidential inauguration, Rachel died of a heart attack.

From this information, you can see that both James Madison and Andrew Jackson had very different and somewhat related family life. James Madison had adopted one child while Andrew Jackson had also adopted three children. You can tell that adoption was a common thing for many people during the late 1700s and 1800s. Jackson and Madison also had wives that had been separated from their husbands. Madison’s wife

After Andrew`s death Ruth asked her family if they can help her with her and her eight children but they ignored her and they didn’t want to have any connections with her. But in the same year she found another man name Hunter Jordan and fall in love with him and he help her and her children. In same year (1958) she got married with Hunter and had four children together. They taught their children that school and God will bring them a better future. Hunter became like a father to James so in the year 1972 when Jordan Hunter died James started to do drugs and drink beer. When his grades started to drop, Ruth moved him and the whole family to Wilmington, Delaware. In 1973 James was in Louisville and work. When he was there he meets a man name the chicken man. The chicken man sets James right by pointing out his failures in his life and told him to stay in school to have a better future than him. James goes back to school and took chicken man advised to do better and he graduated high school and went to Oberlin College and in 1979 he graduated Oberlin college. Ruth goes to college in 1989 and gets a degree in social work from Temple

Abraham Lincoln once stated in his House Divided speech, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” Lincoln believes that there is no such thing as a balance between free and slave states and that the two contradictory governments are bound to fall. That describes the conflict that occurs in the fictional novel, The Killer Angels, a civil war story between the Union and Confederate states fighting to achieve the government they yearn for.

Andrew Jackson gained redemption four years later in an election that was characterized to an uncommon degree with the aid of negative non-public assaults. Jackson and his wife had been accused of adultery on the basis that Rachel had no longer been legally divorced from her first husband whilst she married Jackson. shortly after his victory in 1828, the shy and pious Rachel died on the Hermitage; Jackson apparently believed the negative attacks had hastened her dying. The Jacksons did no longer have any kids but have been near their nephews and nieces, and one niece, Emily Donelson, might function Jackson's hostess in the White residence.

Just like parents, kids also have different perspective and as time goes on it changes. In the book the The Color of Water by James McBride, James has a hard time with his identity and how he sees himself, but his perspective of himself changes as the the book goes on. In the beginning of the book James is just a child, he's got lots of siblings and no dad, just one hard working mom. Unfortunately for James he doesn't get alot of one on one with his mom.

Young married Jean Childs Young ( June 7, 1954-September 16, 1994, her death) then he

On January 21, 1824 around midnight in Clarksburg, Virginia, now West Virginia, one of the South’s greatest Generals during the American Civil War was born. This was Thomas Johnathan Jackson, also known as Stonewall Jackson. He was the third born out of four siblings. His parents were Julia Beckwith Neale and Johnathan Jackson (Stonewall Jackson). Jackson’s childhood was very rough. When he was two, his father and older sister died of typhoid fever within the same year. The death of his father caused his mother to be widowed and left with little money and many debts. To support her, now three, children, she sewed and taught. Not only that, in order for her to fix the financial issues, she was forced to sell their property and home. In

Jackson grew up in a proud southern household and his family were natives of Virginia. His father was an attorney and they were relatively well off financially. In 1826, Jackson lost both a younger sister Elizabeth and his father to Typhoid Fever.(Robertson 7) Money became more scarce and Julia Jackson, his mother, began to sell the family 's possessions just to get by. They moved out of their previous home into a much smaller

American history teaches us that, going west has always been a regarded as progression. From the earliest settlers to the “new land” to the idea of Manifest Destiny, progressive movement and thinking has always traveled west. The west is always thought of as being more liberal more free. “True West” A compelling play written by Sam Shepard, developed characters that “struggle to define and assert their identities.” <1702> By using the idea of going west Shepard’s play’s “ present a picture of America torn between its idealistic values and the painful realties of frontier paved over for a parking lot, and cowboys enclosed in a move and television screen.”<1702> By comparing and contrasting the lead characters Austin and Lee, Shepard shows the reader that “going west” does not always mean a change in the right direction.