Andersonville also was known, as Camp Sumter is one of the national historic sites in Georgia that was constructed to act as a memorial to all the American prisoners captured during the civil war. According to the historical research, the building of the site began some months before the US civil war ended in the year 1864. The purpose of this structure was mainly to hold the prisoners who would be captured by the Confederate soldiers (Cangemi, Joseph, and Cash, 26). As the number of the prisoners in Richmond were continuously increasing, the federal officials realized that they needed to relocate the prisoners to a more secure place with better food provisions. Thus, they chose Andersonville in Georgia as their ideal site for the military prison construction Concerning the structure, the campsite was bounded by the chopped pine of logs that had different heights that varied from 15 feet to 17 feet.…
Samuel Maverick is a man of business, land stewarding, with a heavy coat of honor. Samuel Maverick’s birth was in Pendleton, South Carolina, on July 23, 1803. Being that Samuel had the occupation of a land baron, he tended his land well, moreover showing great care for his purchases. By building up his land, he was able to gather a large sum of money to become successful. A cherished, complete, accomplished Texan, Samuel Augustus Maverick led a successful business as a landlord over his 67 year-long life.…
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By the time Frederick made six years old, his grandmother could no longer harboring the facts from him. His grandmother had told Frederick that they were going for a long walk, when she was actually walking him into slavery (8, 1). They walked many days and finally ended up at a very beautiful large house that was actually the Lloyd Plantation. There were other children playing outside and his grandmother told Frederick that three of the children were his brothers and sisters. She let Frederick go and play with them (8, 1).…
Cheech Marin, a comedian actor and activist, said, “You have to want to be Chicano to be Chicano.” What Cheech Marin means by this is that being Chicano is something Chicanos feel and think instead of letting others give them that title. Chicanos have many things to be proud of. Their Aztec ancestors were intelligent people who built an impressive city on water. The Aztec creation myth made all Aztecs royalty.…
Julius Erving is considered to be one of the great individual basketball players of all time. It’s not just his incredible play that makes him special, he symbolizes many things about the start of the golden age of basketball. He symbolizes the divide between the ABA, or streetball, and the NBA. He symbolizes determination and perseverance not just for waiting 7 years for his first NBA title, but for pushing through the deaths of his brother and later his son. Finally he symbolizes a role model no matter what race you were.…
Ethan Arribillaga Collins is a thirteen year boy, born on March 27, 2002. Ethan’s middle name, Arribillaga, was given to him by his mom. That was her maiden name. Growing up with two brothers Troy, and Aron, Ethan must have had an exceptional childhood. Knowing Ethan, he really enjoys going to Memorial games with friends and just having fun.…
David Einhorn (1809 – 1879) 1861-1866 Senior Rabbi at Keneseth Israel David Einhorn was born in Diespeck, Germany November 10, 1809. At the age of 17, he earned his Rabbinic ordination from the Rabbinic school of Fürth in Bavaria, Germany; the center for Jewish learning at this time. He continued his studies at the Universities of Erlangen, Munich and Würzburg. He later held the position of Chief Rabbi of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (in Northern Germany). In 1852, he was called to lead the Reform congregation in Pesth, Hungary.…
Elfuclana has a unique and interesting history compared to other countries. It is located 132 miles east of the coast of Ellis Island. The founding of this country all began with the Revolution of the Elves, also called The Elfolutionary War. It dates back to December 24th, 2076. It was the day before Christmas in 2076.…
Truganini was born on Bruny Island in 1812, 9 years after the British settlement, she was part of the Nuenonne people. By the time Truganini had learnt how to find food, Nuenonne had become a dangerous place. She had witnessed violence, rape and brutalities inflicted on her people. In the 1820s the Black War was beginning, it was a time of violence between the British colonists and Aboriginal Australians in Tasmania.…
Ninety percent of feed grain production is due to dramatically changed corn (techrepublic). Industrial livestock benefits from this feed grown by farmers in the midwest over eighty million acres (techrepublic). Corn is also produced as the main ingredient in some foods we use everyday such as sweeteners and corn oil (techrepublic). Crop yield monitors invented in 1990 through technology has caused the production of corn to dramatically increase in the last twenty-five years (techrepublic).…
Africville is a prominent black community on the southern shore of Bedford Basin, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It had four hundred residents, most escaped from slavery in America and saw Halifax as a better place to live than in slavery. The African Canadians knew that the white people had a better life than them since white people could have any job they want, they earned good pay, they were hired for jobs easily, lived with better health care, and their kids would have the best education, they received good households, all white people were treated equally, and white people`s life expectancy was longer than black peoples. In this situation, Africville was a place where all black people could be together, but be excluded from the other…
Hatred of women, destruction of society, and anger towards his mother, is what Moravagine is about. Having been imprisoned from birth, but well taken care of, the only thing missing in his life was love. His mother dying in childbirth, left him empty and without any intimate attachments. Moravagine, after being freed from an asylum, grew to harbor an anger so great that he murdered young women wherever he went. He hated society and was intent on destroying life.…
Lev Vygotsky was born in Russia. He was psychologist and gives many theories related to human psychology and social development. He also gives the theory of Vygotsky Circle. His main work was related to development of cognitive function in children in the social environment. He gives importance to social behaviors in our daily life.…
Victor Moscoso (born 1936 in Oleiros, Galicia, Spain) is a Galician-American artist who applied an academic perspective to the psychedelic era. He was also best known for creating psychedelic rock posters, advertisements, and underground comix in San Francisco during the 1960s and 1970s. Later, Moscoso attended Yale with Josef Albers, whose theories on the use of color became a strong affection in Moscoso’s later designs. The designer had migrated west to the San Francisco Art Institute where he would receive his MFA and ultimately be a lithography professor. By the fall of 1966, Moscoso was one of the first designers who was aware of the impressive impact and the enduring legacy that the art of that era would…