Jesse James : The Greatest Rebel And Outlaw

I am from the South and we won the First Battle of Bull Run. The North thought it would be an easy war and would be able to run through us. We sure taught them that we would not go down without a fight. General Stonewall Jackson held bravely on the front line when General Barnard Bee told his men to take heart and look at Jackson standing like a Stonewall to earn Jackson his nickname Stonewall Jackson. The battle ended with 3,000 Union casualties, compared with 1,750 for the Confederates. Also, it made Lincoln remove McDowell from command and replace him with George B. McClellan. On the our side, accusations flew between Johnston, Beauregard and President Jefferson Davis over who was to blame for the failure to pursue and crush the enemy after

Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors by Stephen Ambrose is a novel about the lives of two american warriors. These two warriors were defined by the circumstances in their life which in turn, made them be on opposing sides of the war. I liked this book better than the trail of tears, probably because I love the writing style of Ambrose. Both of these men have a lot in common, but as we read the book, we discover that that this was simply a natural side effect of their roles as warriors.

Zaevion Dobson is the true definition of what it means to sacrifice your life. The 15-year-old jumped on top of three young women to shield them from gun bullets. According to CNN.com, bullets were fired by gang members. Zaevion was a football player and a mentor to his peers. His coach, Rob Black said that he was liked by teachers and students at Fulton High School.

Fredrick Douglass was born Fredrick Augustus Washington Bailey, as a slave in Talbot County, Maryland in 1818 and later became a prolific abolitionist in the human rights movement. According to civilwar.org, Douglass was sent as slave to Baltimore, Maryland to serve the families of Hugh and Ms. Lucretia Auld. While under Ms. Auld’s care, Ms. Auld taught Douglass the alphabet, and how to read plus write. In 1838, after escaping slavery at the age of 20, Douglass traveled to New Bedford, Massachusetts where he met Mr. William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips, two well-known slavery abolitionists. Garrison and Phillips encouraged Douglass to write and publish Douglass’s story about his life. Douglass then published his narrative titled “The

Ulysses S. Grant was born in Pleasant Point, Ohio on April 27, 1822. He was originally named Hiram Ulysses Grant. His dad was Jesse Root Grant and his mom was Hannah Simpson Grant. Jesse Root Grant was a tanner and a farmer. Grant grew up in Georgetown, Ohio and had an uneventful childhood. However, he was a successful horseman in his youth. At the age of 17, his father signed him up for the US Military Academy at West Point. His name was accidentally signed up as Ulysses S. Grant so he immediately changed his name to that because he did not want to be rejected from the school. He earned average grades at the military school but he excelled in math, geology, and horsemanship. He graduated in 1843 and was going to rethink continuing to work

Jesse was born on September 12th, 1913 in Oakville, Alabama and given the name James Cleveland Owens. He was the last of 10 children by Henry and Mary Emma Owens. Jesse’s parents were sharecroppers and provided for their large family off of a small income, so when their daughter, Lilly, wrote to them from Cleveland about new jobs, they took the opportunity and moved to the east side of Cleveland.

“I had hope, however; I had been wounded seven times during the war, and once before in this same lung; and I did not believe I was going to die.” A fearless man with the courage to elude fellow companions, to commit thievery, and escape death so many times. Jesse James was a fearless man that had been affected by the Civil War. His contributions to a certain group made them the most feared groups over a couple years. This paper will cover his early life, contributions to the civil war, crime, personal life with his death, and how Robin Hood and James are alike/different.

Jesse James was an outlaw that was well-known for his outrageous raids and robberies in the 19th century. His crimes mostly took place in Missouri so it impacted them the most. His notorious acts had made people fearful of what he would do next so they did not invest in Missouri. Jesse James gruesome acts impacted Missouri by suppressing economic growth. The American outlaw who was known as a Robin Hood was far from it and truly impacted the lives of many.

Famous celebrities are loved and adored by people in society, but many of the celebrities we loved are now recognized as tragic heroes. Tragic heroes that started off amazing and ended up with a downfall like death, prison sentence or troublemaking due to alcohol and drugs. One of these well known celebrities are O.J. Simpson is considered a tragic hero. The talented football sensation Orenthal J. Simpson is a tragic hero because he was known to be violent and made bad choices, leading to accusations of murder.

Fredrick Douglass (1818-1945), both a fugitive slave and a free man, was one of the most courageous and influential leaders of the abolitionist movement. His narrative, published in 1845, illustrates his childhood and early manhood experiences as a salve, as well as his escape to the North and find of freedom. Within his narrative entitled “The Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass,” Douglass argues that in order to achieve physical freedom, a slave must seek knowledge and an education.

January 24, 1848, James W. Marshall discovered gold in California it attracted 300,000 prospectors when gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma California. Many of the Gold seekers

This “Ice Giant” sure stands for its name as the 7th farthest planet from the Sun and its cold atmosphere brought about by the gases found here, hydrogen, helium and a little bit of methane. Uranus falls under the gas giant category along with neighbors Neptune and Saturn. This planet is composed of rock materials and various ices and is very similar to the cores of Saturn and Jupiter. Since the thick, blue-colored atmosphere covers the planet itself, scientists suggest that under the atmosphere is a hot, slushy ocean of water, ammonia, and methane thousands of mile deep right to a small, rocky core. Its blue color comes from the absorption of red light from the Sun by methane in the upper atmosphere but reflects blue light from the Sun back into space.

“Heroes and victims are the product of the mood they were in when opportunity came or when circumstances were at their worst” said Orson Scott Card. In every movie or television show has a hero and victim but which one is going to have the fans and watchers vote? A hero is a person who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities. As an anti-heroic is one who doesn 't act like a typical hero but often is a little villainous. Heroes are from many different cultures for example superman and batman. Chuck Bass is an anti-heroic main character, from the novel and television show Gossip Girls, where he is noted for his financial ambition, hedonism, and personal style. Bass is a huge

He was “beaten to his knees, exiled, visioning a world where none is lonely, none hunted,” . Douglass’s moral character is what makes him fight for what is right. He was lead to conquer his hardships and change the country for the better. Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass both encountered many tough challenges and did whatever they could to help the country; which makes them heroic. Different from Lincoln and Douglass, the antagonist from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets gives several examples of what a hero should never do on any account.

On November 18, 1978, followers of Jim Jones shot and killed United States Congressman Leo J. Ryan and four others traveling with him on a fact finding trip to Guyana. Ryan was there to investigate complaints about the community called "Jonestown," which was largely inhabited by his former California constituents.