On the night of September 1st 1939, the loud noise of air raid alarms awoke 19 year old Michael Furchester. Michael quickly ran outside with his mother and they saw airplanes swarm the smoke filled sky like bees around a hive. Michael and his mother froze In fear as they suddenly realized that they were in the middle of an enemy attack.Knowing they were in great danger they ran for cover to the other side of town. Michael and his mother took shelter in an old warehouse where other people gathered as well.
Inside the shelter the men women were separated. The next morning, all of the men including Michael boarded a train and they were sent to a military facility for training. After 2 months of training, Michael along with the other men were sent off to war. As they approached their base camp, Michael and the other soldiers were scared because the gunfire, the airplanes, and the bombs were very loud. Not long after arriving at base camp, the first cannon went off which was the signal for Michael and the other soldiers to charge. As thousands of enemy soldiers
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For 3 ½ months Michael laid on a hospital bed recovering from his injuries. On January 15th 1940, Michael was released from the hospital and was free to go home. As Michael stood outside the hospital main entrance and looked at the destruction that had occurred while he was in the hospital recovering, he was incomplete disbelief. Nothing was like it was before the night of the air raid that startled him and his mother from their sleep. Michael knew by looking around that there was no home to go back to. As he stood there with deep sadness and a sense of hopelessness, he caught a glimpse of a women across the way; it was his mother. Even though Michael had just spent 3 ½ months in the hospital recovering from a severe gunshot wound to his leg, he suddenly felt no pain as he ran as fast as he could towards his
Serving as the Pastor of Camp Creek Baptist Church, Randy Mellichamp makes time to spread God’s love and word to the football players of Buford High school.
William Fuld a great man of his time and the father of the Ouija board was a boy that grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. Born on July 24 1870, destined to be the third child of Jacob Fuld and Mary Abell, who eventually had ten children all together. Although it was not specified what his parents did, they were known to be great people. His father, Jacob Fuld had migrated from Germany with his parents and siblings in 1854. His Mother, Mary Abell was raised in York, Pennsylvania.
Larry Butikofer was born on April 7, 1938. Larry’s mother had a doctor, not a midwife when he was born in Monona, Iowa. The weekend he got home he had to stay with his mom all the time. When Larry got home he was not a very happy baby because he was always inside with his mom. He loved to be outside. Sometimes that would be Awesome and sometimes not because when it is nice he would want to be outside. Their family loved to be outside.
After witnessing the killing of a man on Kristallnacht, or Night of Broken Glass, the destruction of Jewish property and the arrest or killing of Jews throughout Germany, Michael, then 8, was stunned when his parents did nothing to help the man and made him walk away with their heads down. The reason was that Michael's parents had an important secret, they are spies for the Allies and must stay undercover.
My name is Bennie Fugate. I am a father of the boys 5, 2, and almost 1. I spent 10 years in the US Army and I have been to many different countries some real nice a couple not so much. I have a beautiful wife of almost 7 years and we also have 3 dogs. I currently work downtown Chicago as a veterans advocate for the Disabled American Veterans, (I help veterans with getting their benefits). I have been going to IWU since August, 2013. I plan to continue until I receive a masters in business.
It's hard to dispute that Scott Weiland was one of the signature voices of the 90s. During his long musical career, Weiland gained prominence not only due to his flamboyant behavior on the stage, but also due to being able to develop his vocal range in order to be able to give his songs that extra modicum of power.
Lincoln Steffens was born on April 6, 1866. He was a journalist for the New York Evening Post and known for investigating corruption in American cities. Lincoln graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1899> He then continued his studies of ethics, philosophy, and art history in Germany. After several years of education, he then became part of a movement in 1902 that was trying to make sense of the social and economic changes associated with industrialization, urbanization, and immigration. For most journalists, such as himself, muckraking became the way to combine American life with a belief in the need to reform. His goal was not only to expose but also promote change for this movement. Steffens concentrated first on urban
Chris Colfer's Success Have you ever heard of Chris Colfer before? He’s only 27 but he's already one of Times Magazine Top 100 influential people in the world. Colfer does deserve to be one of the most influential people though. Chris Colfer had a hard younger life because he would be bullied of how he was but even though he would get bullied as a kid, because of how he was it helped him get his starting role on Glee.
He attended public schools in Brooklyn, scoring a perfect 1600 on the SAT, and graduated as class valedictorian from James Madison High School, in 1967. Schumer competed for Madison High on the It's Academic television quiz show.[13] He attended Harvard College, where he became interested in politics and campaigned for Eugene McCarthy, in 1968.[14] After completing his undergraduate degree, he continued to Harvard Law School, earning his Juris Doctor with honors, in 1974. Schumer passed the New York state bar, in early 1975. However, he never practiced law, choosing instead a career in
Mark Edward Fischbach is one of the best YouTube leaders because he has helped not only himself but others. Throughout the years, he has created a following of 14.5 million people who have helped raise around $628,670 for various charities. He has even had fans write letters to him, saying that he helped them make it through tough times and has probably even prevented a couple suicides with his content. Mark has given a lot back to the community with the fanbase he has created.
The author, Robert Papp did a great job capturing the emotions the characters’ felt as they were preparing for a British attack. The conflict was presented accurately for this time period. The conflict between the town St. Michaels militia and the British. The conflict of gender roles was present in the story. The men were preparing for war as the women we preparing their families for evacuation. Finally, the story presented a resolution of hanging lanterns in trees around the town St. Michaels to confuse the British war ships launching cannon attacks on the town.
One of the soldiers grabs one of the men, before them and pushes them to the outside of a big pit. Filled with bodies piled on top of each other, the stench was horrific nothing Bruno had ever smelt before. One by one they were taken out of the group, it was now the two boys turn. Crying the two boys fell to the knees, a cold piece of metal pressed to Bruno head, confused to what is going on.
In the year 1882 a man by the name of Walter Flemmings found out the process of mitosis in great depth. A German zoologist Otto Bütschli might have discovered a process known as "mitosis", but wasn't able to reach the topic with rich vocabulary. Originally mitosis was discovered in frog, rabbit, and cat cornea cells and described briefly by the Polish histologist Wacław Mayzel in 1875, but Flemmings got the fame because of his explanation. This was discovered by Flemmings in Germany. Now most of you might not know what this is since it is fairly new. This is a process where body cells or somatic cells are produced and the end product is identical to one another. In other words mitosis is a part of the cell cycle when duplicated chromosomes
August 6th, 1945. It was just an ordinary day. I woke up early this morning to help a friend move some things. Everything was well until I saw the light. I plunged myself between two large rocks, no questions asked. When I was able to get a glackr of what has happened I saw nothing but destroyed homes and dust. I’ve never seen so much blood, it was unbearable. A lady and her injured boy came my way and I couldn't help but help them and take them to a shelter to get help. As I looked over the city, a thick black smoke filled the air. Then the thought hit me, what about my family? Immediately after I ran to search for my family. On the way to search for them I began to feel guilty. How could all these people be hurt, injured or even dead,
21 year old Nic Sheff with an extended history of drug use has finally been sober for a little over a year but that soon changes. In and out of rehab centers and 12 step programs Nic began experimenting with drugs at quite a young age beginning with alcohol at age 11 closely followed by Marijuana at age 12. As Nic becomes older the drugs become more lethal from heroin to crystal meth. One day in the city of San Francisco Nic runs into an old friend, Lauren. Lauren and Nic soon follow that meet with a drug dealer named Gack and pick up a gram of crystal meth. What follows is a chaotic swirl of events.