Similarities Between Billy The Kid And Jesse James

Zerelda Cole was sixteen when she decided to marry a baptist minister named Robert James(“Jesse James Biography.Com” 4). He contributed to founding the William Jewell College in Liberty. The two soon moved to Clay County, Missouri from Kentucky to run a small farm(“Jesse James Biography.Com” 4). Jesse James was born on September 5, 1847(“Jesse James” 2). His older brother Alexander Franklin James was born on January 10, 1843. Jesse also had a sister named Susan born on November 25, 1849 and another half sister named Fannie Quantrill Samuel born on October 18, 1863(“Jesse James (1847 - 1882)” 1). The family had a 100 acre farm where they raised sheep and hemp(Carlynn Trout 3). Robert James left the family to join the Gold Rush but unfortunately died at the age of 26. Jesse was 3 at the time and never saw his father again(“Jesse James” 1). Zerelda remarried but quickly divorced Benjamin

Jesse James Lipford was born March 4, 1933, to Mrs. Mariah Lipford and the late Mr. James Lipford in Coldwater, Mississippi. There he grew up as a farmer. He began his formal education at Coldwater Elementary School. During these years he was stricken with polio, which prolonged his primary school days. Some said he would not walk, but he said, “I’m going to run,” and run he did.

Jesse decided that it was time to settle down so he moved back home and married his first cousin, Zerelda. This union brought them two children, Jesse and Mary James. Zerelda wanted Jesse to pursue a more normal life, but with a $10,000 reward on his head, Jesse and his family had to move to St. Louis where they lived in a house for $14 a month and Jesse went by the name Tom Howard.

James Earl Carter, Jr., also known as Jimmy Carter, was born on October 1, 1929.1 He was born in Plains, Georgia, where he lived until he was four. His father, James Earl Carter Sr., was a hardworking peanut farmer. He owned a small plot of land along with a warehouse and a store. (footnote b) Bessie Lillian Gordy,

Ulysses S. Grant       On April 27, 1822 a boy was born to Jesse Root Grant and Hannah Simpson Grant in the small town of Point Pleasant, Ohio. They named their son Hiram Ulysses Grant. In 1823 the family moved to a town nearby called Georgetown, Ohio, where Ulysses’ father owned a tannery and some farmland. Grant had two brothers and three sisters born in Georgetown.

vote in 1869. In the 1870’s Anthony campaigned vigorously for women’s right to vote, and

decade of the 1850s. You have the question ahead of time so you have plenty of time for

In contrast to the removed Johnny shown early on, after the realization that he endangered several children, he boldly rushed to assist. After killing Bob in self-defense, Johnny bolts with Ponyboy to an abandoned church in the countryside. However, after presumably dropping a lighted cigarette, the church ignites in a blaze of fumes. Realizing there are children in the flaming church, Johnny and Ponyboy dart to aid. During the calamity, Ponyboy realizes that, “Johnny had been right behind me all the way” as he slips through a broken window and into the fiery church and notes that, “Johnny wasn’t behaving at all like his old self...That was the only time I can think of when I saw him without that defeated, suspicious look in his eyes” (92).

James Earl Carter Jr. was born on October 1st, 1942 in Plains, Georgia. He was the first president to be born in an actual

During the 1690s

Jesse Owens was born on September 12, 1913, in Oakville, Alabama. Jesse’s father was a sharecropper which meant he was paid to farm other peoples’ land. Jesse had six siblings who picked cotton with him on a rich man’s farm in Alabama when they were young. At age nine the Owens family moved to Cleveland, Ohio. Jesse

Born on September 5, 1847 in Clay Country, Missouri James created a legacy of a vigilante righting the wrongs done unto his family and other Southern sympathizers by the Union soldiers during the Civil War.1 The James family was a Claiborne Fox Jackson supporter and Jesse’s brother fought at the Battle of Wilson’s

One July evening in 1881,

Many novels, despite having dissimilar plots, oftentimes contain similar story elements. Whether the similarity is the goal of the protagonist, or the motive of the antagonist, a similarity can be found between novels. And even with the similarities, differences occur, which allow for comparison and contrast. And thus it is with Billy Budd by Herman Melville and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The two books are different concerning plot and setting, but they have similarities in the effect of the setting on the characters, the conflict between the protagonists and antagonists, and the theme of human depravity.

1865. It was written for children and is a story of a twelve year old