The Great Unknown

at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is to honor my grandpa who served in the Navy during the Korean and Vietnam War. This would be a great way to honor and thank him for his service. A reason why I would want to be able to lay the wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is because of my grandpa. It would be great to be able to lay the wreath because it would be a great way to thank him for serving the country when it was a choice to fight and not mandatory. It would also be great to lay the…

heroes, and givers. At Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, lies the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier which represents those soldiers who fought and sacrificed many things, but were never found or identified. These soldiers deserve to be remembered, honored, and respected for everything that they did for their country. I believe that the students, who get the privilege of laying the wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, should feel proud and honored to be carrying out such a task. I strongly…

quitting his job at our school, so he planned a very good trip for our 8th grade class. We would be doing a few extra things on our trip than past years, one thing extra was a wreath laying at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers. Laying the wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers is a great honor, and four…

of the Augurs (main & right wall, Monterozzi necropolis, Tarquinia 520 BCE) depicts an elaborate ritual ceremony in which funerary games took place in honor of the dead. The entirety of this tomb consists of four walls, however, the artist(s) is unknown. The city of Tarquinia is one of the most powerful and prominent Etruscan centers known for its many fresco painted chamber tombs.0 An augur is a roman priest, however the Etruscan augur is an official who closely watches the game taking place in…

share thought provoking ideas of exploring the solar system, extraterrestrials and other fantasies. These young people went on to change the world by inspiring one another to let their dreams run free. The film goes on to tell about some of these great men who contributed to the creation of science fictions writings and films. Forrest J. Ackerman is the fist man talked about in the video. He made his first contact with the Los Angeles Science Fiction League around 1935 to 1936. Ackerman is…

Alexander of Macedon is know as “Alexander The Great,” because of his military intelligence and diplomatic skills in handling the people in the places he conquered. His skills later influenced other conquerors such as, Hannibal the Carthaginian, the Romans Pompey and Caesar, and Napoleon. Alexander grew up watching his father make Macedon into a great military power, and he learned from that. Alexander III of Macedon became king when his father, Philip II of Macedon, was assassinated in 336…

In the eyes of every American gleamed confidence, they saw the shuttle hurtling through the air, and they saw the likes of men take their first steps into the unknown. Man was not swayed, for they feared nothing, and no challenge was too great. Yet, how can we fear the unknown? Almost no one in the general public knew of the huge possibility for mission failure. The public was not aware that, “All involved knew that the risks of an accident on any flight to the moon…

A great author once said ‘a good library will never be too neat or too dusty, because someone will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them’. Does our library live up to this expectation? No. Why? Because of the lack of variety. The books in our library intended for our age are filled with the same boring, cliche magic and dragons. Books like We Were Liars should in the section for us. The characters, the plot, the themes and the life lessons of We Were…

Men is a book written by John Steinbeck about two men who are living during The Great Depression in the 1930s in Salinas Valley, California. The Pearl, also written by John Steinbeck is about a small family who are living during the Great Depression in the 1930s like the two men in Of Mice and Men, and it takes place in a small, Mexican village. John Steinbeck is an author of many books that take place during the Great Depression and often shows the hardships the people during the 1930s faced.…

It’s 2008 and the world is in a financial pickle. A tremendous crisis is occurring and the repair is unknown; this was one of the most despicable recessions since the Great Depression that occurred in 1929. The causes of the Great Depression was the stock market crashed, issues in the farm sector because of overproduction, banks going out of business because loans were distributed and never was reimbursed , volatile economy, facile credit given to anyone, real estate ruptured, and unemployment.…