Nate let the paper curl up again and placed it into a drawer of the nightstand. He stood and put books back into the boxes. When he finished, he shoved them into his closet then carried the ones from the library downstairs, but kept the U through W encyclopedia. The note had to be about the Underground Railroad. It read like coded directions. Maybe learning more about the UGRR would help decipher the meaning. Too excited to sleep, Nate settled down with the U encyclopedia in a wing chair in
Abdul Macaalin Mr. Huggins US History 5th Hr November 21 2014 Nathan Bedford Forrest Slavery, it is so stupid to know that it actually existed, in America or in any parts of the world. Slavery is one of the most awful part of American History, an act of racial discrimination. Why is it racist? Well, it is simply because only dark skinned people were considered slaves. We all know it happened, but when and how did it ended? It ended after the civil war, when people started fighting that people in
in the war. One night, one of the guys named Nathan Bedford said, "Hey, you guys, let's go over to that Nigger's house and scare the vergesus out of him".1 This all happened in Pulasky, Tennessee in 1865. We all know how word gets around and in a few months the Ku Klux Klan was officially a racial organization. They did not have a name yet , but that was cleared up very easily. The Ku Klux Klan got their name from the Greek word kyklos, meaning circle and the English word
the time no one knew she was even pregnant. Her adoptive parents John and Gabrielle Sturmfels agreed with Peggy’s birth parents and vowed not to tell her about the adoption. To her birth parent’s wishes John and Gabrielle gave Peggy the best life a child could imagine, she was their little princess and they treated her like royalty. Peggy was sent to the best schools and graduated high school as valedictorian. After graduation John and Gabrielle had a huge surprise for Peggy; they were going to allow
portrayal of the family, Kingsolver explores how easily Chrisitanity can be abused. Nathan is obsessed with the traditional Judeo-Christian God, who he perceives as wrathful and judgmental: ‘If we suffered…it was proof that one of us had committed a failure of virtue.’ The emotive word ‘suffered’ shows the bitterness Christianity can cause, and the absolute word ‘proof’, the single-mindedness it can instil. Nathan has faith, but of the wrong sort – Kingsolver paints his religion as one based on
The American Revolution, think you know everything about? You don’t, as much as the soldiers that fought had a lot of courage, it was the members of the Culper spy Ring that had the most to do with the victory the Americans had over the British, in the American Revolution. It was ordinary citizens that saved the revolution and don’t get credit for it. Espionage, intelligence was the key to winning the revolution. With the help of spies, invisible ink, misinformation, codes, ordinary citizens, including
take down monuments which puts pressure on the rest of the United States to take a stand on the issue since they cannot have half of the states keep the monuments up while the other half takes them down. A senior correspondent at the Federalist named John Daniel Davidson, wrote an article called “Why we should keep the confederate monuments right where they are” to try an express his view point of the current situation that America seems to be in. Even though no one is right or wrong, John Davidson
melancholy and you can tell that it was written by someone in a very depressive state: 1 Lord, you are the God who saves me; day and night I cry out to you. 2 May my prayer come before you; turn your ear to my cry. 3 I am overwhelmed with troubles and my life draws near to death. 4 I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am like one without strength. 5 I am set apart with the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, who are cut off from your care. 6 You have put
1 - It was storming on a halloween night,the time being around 12 PM.Trick-or-treating was over but that wasn't what Nathan was out here for.He looks up at the biggest and oldest house which had a mountain paved to go up it,as he looked at the house a strike of lightning hit behind it as the rain and wind get stronger.He jumped back as he seen the lightning flash," so this is what is known as the house of regrets " he said to no one in particular.He began his walk up to the house as a black cat jumps
(Billitteri) A lot of people don’t realize what is actually going on in the world or even our own country and never care to read the newspaper or listen to the 5 o’ clock news. There may be issues with the community or through businesses but when it comes down to it there are bigger problems like 1% of the U.S. population makes 20% of the wealth in our country. On July 13th, 2011 the company, Adbusters’ Magazine sent out a call for 90,000 with hashtags, from the website Twitter, of “#OccupyWallStreet” and