John Carpenter

“I am an Arab...I have a title without a name.” These lines from the first stanzas of Identity Card written by Mahmoud Darwish outline the struggle many face when trying to immigrate into another country. Whether they be carpenters or engineers, all have to suffer the stereotype of their homeland, and it becomes their identity. Written in 1964, Identity Card reflects the injustice Darwish feels to being reduced to no more than his country name. The issue of basing an identity on one’s homeland is

Sophia Jefferson Mr. Carpenter AP US History 12.14.15 Alien and Sedition Acts DBQ The 1780’s and 1790’s were a time of growing contentions in America, and were capped off with the creation of the Alien and Sedition acts. The Alien and Sedition acts included four laws that made it extremely difficult to be an immigrant in the United States. These laws allowed the president to deport any immigrant he deemed dangerous or suspicious, allowed the government to remove immigrants in time of war and also

The Changing Nature of Family Life in Contemporary Society From first attempts to transfer Horror fiction from the page to the silver screen, there have been moral panics in response to the horror genre. In 1973, "The Exorcist" (directed by William Friedkin, US, 1973) provoked outrage, and sections of the movie had to be removed in response to worldwide complaints and panic as to the overtly sexual and violent nature of it's content, not to mention accusations of religious

In Edgar Lee Masters's poem "Minerva Jones," the things I learned from this individual is that unfortunate happenings occurred in Minerva Jones's life. Minerva Jones was the town's poetess who was "Hooted at, jeered at by the Yahoos of the street for my heavy body, cock-eye, and rolling walk". Minerva Jones was not the best looking person to look at, but rather a fat, crossed-eyed woman with a crippled walk. The people of the town made fun of her, judging and taunting her for her ugly looks and unwomanly

Did you know that John Quincy Adams is the most fit president because he walked three miles every day ? These facts are really interesting! To learn about John Quincy Adams. During his childhood these are some important events that happened. A little boy was born on July 11, 1767 in Braintree, Massachusetts. This little boy’s name is John Quincy Adams. When John was 10, he went with his father to France on a mission and acted as his father’s secretary. Also, from a hilltop near the family farm

On November 8, 1960 John F. Kennedy defeated Nixon and was elected to become President of the United States of America, making him the thirty fifth, first Catholic, and youngest president ever elected in U.S. history. Kennedy started the Space Race against the Soviet Union the Peace Corps and was also involved and ended the Cuban Missile Crisis. John F. Kennedy is the elected official in the U.S. federal government that I admire the most even though his presidency nearly passed the first thousands

John Paul Jones was born in the year of 1772 in Scotland. When John Paul Jones first started his career when he was at the age of 13. When John Paul Jones reached the age of 21 he was a captain of a ship sailing between West Indies and the British ports. When John Paul Jones joined the continental navy during the American Revolution he had great success in international waters. While John Paul Jones was the commander of a heavily armed vessel call the Bonhomme Richard, John Paul Jones gave one of

their first child. Spence family emigrated from Scotland in the mid 1600s to America were he became a prosperous planter and carpenter (biography.com). James mom, Elizabeth Monroe, tutored him at home to start off his education. For work James really just worked at home with his father in his early years. Working with his dad, James learned how to plant and be a carpenter and all the typical duties of working on a farm. James was not very good at working a farm. He was more of an educated man. When

My research paper is based around the assassination of the 16th president of the United States of America, Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln was assassinated in April 1865, as the suspected final days of the Civil War were drawing near. The assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was a well known actor as well as a Confederate sympathizer. Booth strongly apposed the abolishment of slavery which is what Abraham Lincoln was fighting to end. The goal of my essay is to further explore the details of Lincoln’s assassination

James Monroe wasn’t born to live an ordinary life, but an extraordinary one. He was born April 28, 1758, in his parents house in a forest area of Westmoreland County, Virginia. His father Spence Monroe (1727-1774) worked as a planter and carpenter. James’s mother Elizabeth Jones (1730-1774) married his father in 1752 and they both had several children together. James grew up with his siblings by the same teachings of his mother. His parents died when he was a teenager. When he became of age, he