The Boxcar Children

As a student, Bellows loved to get himself into trouble. He would take his energy and mischievous personality and get into fights with other children. He soon realized that, instead of fighting to get his adrenaline kicks, he could put this energy into athletics. He excelled in most sports, but was specifically talented at baseball (Adams, n.d. para. 2). His love for conflicting and energetic

I was pleasantly surprised on how much I enjoyed visiting the Centennial Village historical site in Greeley. I happened to visit this museum on the perfect day because there were children from different schools dressed up and “living” how the people in Northern Colorado lived more than 100 years ago. With the children all dressed up like people used to dress, and doing the chores that they used to take on really made it the feel like I was back in time. I got to experience dozens of historical sites

Black children were educated in separate schools. Black barbers couldn't wait on white female clients, and white female nurses couldn't attend to black male patients. Not every law applied in every state, but the Jim Crow laws were demoralizing and far reaching

near California, they hear warning rumors of a depleted job market. One migrant tells Pa that more than twice more people show up than needed for work and that his own children have starved to death. Soon after they reached their destination, they lose three members of the family. Grandma dies, Noah, the oldest of the Joad children, and Connie, the husband of pregnant Rose of Sharon, abandon the family. As Joads come to California, they observe overcrowded camps that are full of starving migrants

Elie Wiesel has said that all his works are “commentary” on Night, his one work that deals directly with the Holocaust. His novels are odysseys of a soul fragmented by the Holocaust, in quest of tranquillity, an attempt to move away from the night, reaching the shores of day. The key to understanding Wiesel, then, is his memoir in the form of a novella, Night. It is a slim volume that records his childhood memories of his hometown and his experiences in the concentration camp. It also contains the

The Great Depression in Canada The Great Depression may very well have been one of the most significant eras in Canadian history. It has taught us many lessons about the present and predicting the future. The ‘dirty’ thirties, as it was referred to, was a time of hardship and poverty for most. Imagine what it would be like if we had to endure the same magnitude of recession? You wouldn’t have your phone or your computer. Maybe you would be living with all of your relatives in one house? Or you would

The children in the Holocaust were more significant than most would think, because they are just children right? Well I disagree, I have been doing research about the children of the Holocaust and people should know a little about what happened to them… The Nazis occupied Europe and one of the first things they did was gather up all the kids they could find. Some were luckily taken away from where the Nazis were looking for the children , and some were hidden because that’s how they would keep the

they announce they will be leaving for a California in search of work. And seeing how there's no work around their hometown in Oklahoma because of the dust storms and droughts, they pack up the truck, load it full with Grandpa and Grandma, two young children, the older sister and her husband, the teenaged brother and the uncle, Tom and Jim, and of course old Ma and Pa. They then go on a lengthy epic of a journey traveling from Oklahoma to California coming across strange characters and desperate ones

Two children walking home from a play late at night. They could barely see each other so how could they see the man who was following them or even the one who killed that man. Stealthy, suspicious, violent, and even crazy. These are all traits are thought to have been carried by this cold hearted killer, and they all point to one man. Boo Radley. Even the name sends shivers down the spines of the residents of Maycomb. In the small town of Maycomb, Alabama, Scout and Jem finch were walking walking

“Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way.” 36 years ago, PETA started the animal rights movement. During the Silver Spring monkeys case, a member of PETA began working in the lab. This is when the mistreatment of the monkeys was brought to the public, and PETA achieved the first U.S supreme court victory for animals used in experiments. Since then, the animal rights movement has been growing. Animals rights have become such a controversial