Jedediah Smith 1799-1831 Jedediah Smith was a mountain man. His mother was Sally Smith. His dad was Jedediah Strong Smith. He was killed by Native Americans on the 27th of May 1831. He lived in Wyoming.…
An associated convict that was imprisoned for the sexual abuse of his children. A young daughter who is aged 6, and two young males the ages of seven and eight. This information that was given, was then implanted in Ferguson’s mind. This type of environment and company that he was subjected to would have been one of the basic concepts that were observational…
The Confederates shot from the Wilderness at the Union soldiers. The trees and underbrush made moving hard because of the difficulty the troops faced to move in an orderly fashion and was extremely rough on the cavalry and artillery. Right after 5 am the Union second corps, led by Winfield Scott Hancock, drove back the Confederates nearly a mile. James Longstreet arrived to aid the Confederates helping the fighting to be even more intense than the first day of the battle. Unfortunately for James and many others, the smoke from the canons and guns along with the early morning fog, made it almost impossible to see.…
The Scottsboro trials were one of the most blatantly obvious examples of racially corrupted systems in the 1930’s. Nine boys were convicted, not on evidence, but on the color of their skin. There were many appeals and retrials, but for these boys, honest justice was served too little too late. The boys faced a corrupt system made up of unfair trials, several appeals, two completely different judges, and they were not pardoned until eight of the nine were dead forty-six years later.…
Being Accused "A lot of people have accused Elvis of stealing the black man's Music, when in fact, almost every black solo entertainer copied his stage mannerisms from Elvis¨- Jackie Wilson. When one gets accused of something they get frustrated which is what happens to Tommy. In Paul Bishops short story, “The framing game,” the protagonist, Tommy, struggles with being pressured into stealing shoes, and getting framed for it. Tommy gets to school, one day, Tommy gets pulled into the principal's office and gets kicked off the basketball team for “stealing” the Air Jordan's.…
T.C. Boyle’s Greasy Lake T.C. Boyle’s Greasy Lake is a short fiction that focuses on three young men in the 1960s. A time when the narrator says, it was good to be bad, when young people cultivated decadence like a taste. The three young privileged men take a night out on the town at Greasy Lake, when they can drink, smoke, listen to music, and howl at the moon. This story can be seen as a representation of Boyle’s teenage years as he refers to himself as a sort of pampered punk.…
Just a few lots to the west of the two Jennings’ farm was the Pelham branch of the Quaker’s the oldest such branch in Canada. The Friends, as they call their members settled in the Niagara region in 1786 many from New Jersey in Sussex County, the same county in which Hannah was born. As Quaker’s they disavowed anything to do with violence and hence took no active part in the Revolutionary War. This stance of neutrality had members suffer double taxation and the loss of some civil rights – and not just during the war, for many sanctions continued after the war as well. Many Friends could see the advantage of moving north and, not only did so many do so, the Quakers helped many British fugitives leave New Jersey or Pennsylvania for Niagara.…
On a warm starry night, I was out at a softball game of my dad’s at the Eureka Lake. I was with friends, we were messing around. Little did we know what was going to be hit upon us. I was at my dad’s softball game and my friends were there too. Their dad was on the other team.…
Jackson Jackson is a homeless Spokane Indian who roams the streets of Seattle, Washington. After dropping out of college and suffering from a mental disability, Jackson “squared” refers to his homelessness as the one effective thing he has managed to do with his life. While priding himself on his well established relationships and knowledge of the city’s freebies he points out the importance of remaining trustworthy, one characteristic which is particularly important to Jackson. Jackson satirically introduces the issue of homelessness that has statistically affected too many Indians like himself and adds, “we’re common and boring, and you walk right on by us… but we have dreams and families”.…
History is full of events that often have a major impact on the future and become a stepping stone for further generations. Such events have the ability to sweep the floors upon which we walk all over or hover over one like a blanket, in which one is forced to embrace. Be that as it may, one can carry this incident in victory or great shame making the biggest difference in life. The notorious Scottsboro Case is the incident where nine African American teenagers were accused of rape by white women in Alabama resulting in a widespread public anger, ignited universal racism and prejudice. Famous authors often use such events to express what they see throughout communities and the world, in which they live in, and present their opinions on the…
The book Ordinary Injustice How America Holds Court is a novel written by attorney and journalist Amy Bach about the American legal system, and how it was become flawed. In four chapters, she discusses many different cases where injustice and corruption has occurred in the United States legal system all over the country. I chose to focus on a chapter titled “A Troy Champion” which is the second chapter in the novel written about a beloved city council president, and former judge, named Henry R. Bauer from the city of Troy who is not as just as everyone has come to believe. Bach begins the chapter by discussing how popular Bauer had become. “To walk the streets with Bauer was to accompany a celebrity” (Bach, 77) she says.…
“Simply because we were licked a hundred before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.” (101) says Atticus Finch, the main character in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Atticus defends Tom Robinson, a black man, accused of attacking a white woman. Set in Jim Crow Alabama, Atticus is making a decision many people in Maycomb do not understand- taking a stand for a black man. Even though Atticus knows he does not have a chance at winning Tom’s case, because of his character, it makes sense for him to defend Tom Robinson because, Atticus does what is right, he lives by the “Golden Rule”, and he wants to set a good example to Jem and Scout.…
Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, explores the role of heroes in unjust societies. The community of Maycomb, Alabama, the novel’s setting, is unjust, with inherent prejudice against many in the society. However, the character of Atticus Finch shows great heroism and fights the injustice that is prevalent throughout Maycomb, chiefly by electing to defend Tom Robinson, a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman. Atticus Finch deserves distinction as the greatest moral hero of all time. He demonstrates heroism by his willingness to oppose tradition and institutionalized racism.…
In “Greasy Lake” T. Coraghessan Boyle tells a story of a late night with three boys. The narrator, Digby, and Jeff headed out to Greasy Lake after a long night of going in and out of every bar in town. The narrator, who remains nameless, tells the story. The narration of this story gives the reader a certain insight to the story. In Boyle’s “Greasy Lake”, the first person narration provides insight for the reader to experience things as the narrator does.…
1. At school, Miss Caroline is upset that Scout has learned to read, and asks her not to have her father teach her anymore. Scout encounters an issue that only feeds to her disinterest of school. In this event, Scout’s confusion on what she has done wrong displays her innocence as a child. It was not her intention to be ahead in reading, instead it was something that she found came to her naturally.…