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Sheriff Ed Tom Bell experiences growing fatigue throughout No Country For Old Men that visibly ages him. In the beginning, Bell describes his career experience when he “sent one boy to the gaschamber at Huntsville…..One and only one” (3). The boy admitted to Bell “that he had been plannin to kill somebody for about as long as he could remember” and at nineteen killed his fourteen year old girlfriend (3). Bell wonders “if maybe he was some new kind” because “I thought I’d never seen a person like

Both his parents died at an early age so he lived with his uncle. When he was 13, Burr enrolled at the College of New Jersey. After graduating, he began going to Law School in Connecticut. His studies ended when the revolutionary war began. As a revolutionary war soldier, he joined an expedition to Quebec, were the opposing force was defeated. He then served under George

America is a hardworking country, and this is because of the people who have championed their work throughout time, either during the development of, or in the developed country. Two famous poems look at these two groups of people and the manner in which they have taken pride in their work. Walt Whitman’s “I hear America Singing” examines the workers of the developing America while “Praise Song for the Day,” by Elizabeth Alexander examines the manner in which modern-day Americans take pride in their

The artifact that expresses my view of America is the song, “God Bless the USA” written and sung by Lee Greenwood. Although written in the 1980s, this song rose to popularity after the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center. “God Bless the USA” is a motivating song that I believe reassured the American people and gave them hope after such a traumatic incident. The musical qualities of “God Bless the USA” help to construct Greenwood’s vision of America. The song begins with clear piano and guitar

Worst Team in the NBA The saying is, “The hips do not lie.” Well, neither do NBA statistics. Critics and fans are always arguing who the best or worst NBA teams are. Statistics are not biased, nor are they opinions. Rather, they change people’s opinions. During the 2014-15 NBA season the Philadelphia 76ers were statistically the worst team in the NBA, and they show no signs of changing that anytime soon. Also, throughout the history of the Philadelphia franchise, they have not been relatively good

The holiday, La Tomatina, is a tradition that has gone on for generations. Spain is the main country that celebrates it every year, but tens of thousands travel from all parts of the world to participate in it. La Tomatina means “tomato festival”, and is very self-explanatory from its definition. On the last Wednesday of August, people throw over-ripe tomatoes at one another the entire day, leaving people drenched in tomato carnage, but in utter happiness as well. In all, more than 100 metric-tons

Philadelphia is one of the largest, most unique cities in the United States. Of the 1.55 million people who live all over the city, about 300,000 live in a section of Philadelphia called the Northeast. Northeast Philadelphia is a perfect area to visit or live. Northeast Philadelphia has everything you could want for in a city: fun attractions, delicious food, and friendly people. If you decide to visit Northeast Philadelphia, there will be no empty spaces on the to-do list. There is never a

Born in Nevis, British West Indies on January 11, 1755, Alexander Hamilton was incredibly zealous and quickly rose through the ranks and helped change the young United States of America. Hamilton was the son of James Hamilton, a Scottish trader, and a French woman named Rachel Fawcett Lavine. When Hamilton was born Rachel Fawcett Lavine was married to John Michael Lavine; this made Hamilton an illegitimate child. Because he was Scottish and illegitimate, Alexander Hamilton was naturally at a disadvantage

Clark´s life Kenneth B. Clark was born on July 14th in 1914. He was born in the Canal Zone located in Panama. Kenneth Clark was the son of Arthur Clark, who was himself a Jamaican and Miriam Hanson Clark. He also had a younger sister named Beulah Clark. Arthur Clark took his family to Panama to obtain employment with the United Fruit company. However, Clark´s mother, Miriam Hanson desired more for her young family. Therefore, at a very young age (4 years old) Kenneth and his sister were brought

Charles Willson Peale taught all his family to paint — brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, nephews and nieces, even a few promising in-laws — so that two generations of Peale's busily recorded themselves and each other in portraits and miniatures. Charles Willson Peale (1741 – 1827), the patriarch, was painter, scientist, inventor, founder of museums and art societies; he founded the Philadelphia Museum or the Peale Museum in 1786; later the Peale's Baltimore Museum and Gallery of Fine Arts