How would you respond when faced with adversity, would you run from it or face it? In the book Fever 1793 Matilda Cook a fourteen year old girl was faced with many problems. For example, her mother got ill with yellow fever and she sent her away with her grandfather. As the wagon was heading out of the city, her grandfather had a coughing fit. Guards examine and prevent all of the ill people from coming into the countryside.…
For my student selected novel, I decided to read “Fever 1793” by Laurie Halse Anderson. This book was about the Yellow Fever epidemic that spreads just after the US won their independence during the American Revolution. With this time period comes many interesting and exciting events, themes, and technologies. One of the things that really stood out to me that is unique to this time period is their notification system. Throughout this book there are details about how where ever you were there were church bells ringing.…
Evan Olson Period: 6 Mr. Lone/ Mr.Paulin Book Report: Inside the Vicious Heart One quote I found that really grabbed my attention was, “It was though we had penetrated at last to the center of the black, to the very crawling inside of the vicious heart. I had found this interesting because it really sums up the entire book in a few lines. It shows how the American’s felt toward the Nazi’s and the horrible acts they did. It also explains how the Nazi’s were viewed as “heartless” or that they truly had “vicious hearts”.…
The first of the two sources to be examined here is Allen Guelzo's House Divided: Lincoln, Douglas, and the Political Landscape of 1858. This source takes a more technical examination of not just the speeches and overall influence of Lincoln during this time, but also on where politics stood around the middle of the nineteenth century. This allows the book to feel somewhat modern in that it has a comprehensive amount of knowledge on the subject while also feeling historical in the sense that it has a large number of personal reports and information that make the piece feel as if it were more authentic. Therefore, in order to better understand this source as well as the second source which will be examined later, it is necessary to take a closer look at it. To begin with, this source takes a more critical examination at the Lincoln-Douglas race from the perspective of the complex…
So I read the book, Johnny Tremain. This book is historically accurate in many different ways like the time period, events occurring in the book, people mentioned in the book , and even where it took place. And I will explain those four ideas to you in these next couple of paragraphs. So when this book starts out it starts following the revolutionary war.…
The Wes Moore story is interesting and represents a great example of the second habits of the heart, An appreciation of the value of "otherness. " I must admit, after the 9/11 tragedy I honestly had none or very little consideration for the “other”. Certainly a little shameful for not expressing or at least having an understanding of this habit of the heart, especially after watching the TED video of Phyllis Rodriguez and Aicha el-Wafi. I was also much younger then, with less experience and understanding of many of life's valuable lessons of understanding and appreciating the value of “otherness”. I had a time in my life where I felt like the “other”, there was a horrible tragedy with my brother who was involved in a vehicle accident which…
In the recent months Hamilton had slandered Burr in the paper under pseudonyms in the press which had lead to the dawn of July 11th. Burr, as acting vice president, had challenged Hamilton to a duel that Hamilton had begrudgingly accepted. Burr had made a promise to himself to aim at the sky; or delope. Hamilton did not. How could he throw away his shot with a loving wife and eight children at home.…
Frederick Douglass was more watched if he goes somewhere they think he has a book. When they were in a room or somewhere far they think they have a book, but all the things that ms. Ms,Auld thought Douglass was a little step farther but it could prevent him from getting him ell. This is Rising action: It's all the reasons of it turns into a climax and started a…
Book 3 of The Bell Trilogy World renowned forensic sleuth Dr. Elliott Sumner believes the nightmare is over when heads of board members are found and a serial killer is dead. But three in Cape Town resurrect a sinister plot to control a genetic mutation with profound implications. When the groundbreaking formula surfaces with a message from the dead geneticist, Elliott knows only he can take the anti-aging biologic to the world. Doubting such fantasy, and reluctant to engage in a hopeless battle against deadly minions, Elliott's worse fears are confirmed. In a desperate bid to survive, Elliott faces an impossible mission.…
Chapter III My Great Grandfather David Zynger (Mosses1, Jacob1) was born in 1892 in Yanover, Poland, he describes himself as a Russian Pole, immigrated to England in 1913, and he became a British citizen and his name changed to David2 Singer, he was a ladies Tailor He was in the British Army WWW1; his regiment was the 100 1st Russian Labour Corps, then 8th Labour Battalion, his name appears in the book “The British Jewry Book of Honor”. During the Second World War David sent parcels to his family in Poland, after the war he hired a lawyer to trace his family, it was led to believe that all his family escaped to the nearby forest and there joined the Partisans, later some were caught and shot by the Germans.…
In “Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science”, by David H. Freedman he talks about how people with Albanian names that have had their appendices removed in six Greek hospitals were probable three times as likely to be fine as the people with Greek names. Freedman says, that about 90 percent of issued medical info that doctors trust on is incorrect. He also says, that most studies from researchers are biased because they want certain results and that’s the only way they can get them. Freedman goes on saying that by negating a noticeable finding and putting a new catchy twist to it can cause people to read the research in the journal and become widely known. He says, that what tops the pages of medical journals are the researches that have questionable…
Bill O’Reilly is a conservative Fox News commentator and talk show host, along with being the author of Killing Lincoln. O’Reilly is also the host of the Fox News show, The O’Reilly Factor. His show has routinely been the highest rated cable news show since its inception in the late 1990s. Before O’Reilly wrote Killing Lincoln, he wrote bestsellers such as Culture Warrior, The No Spin Zone, The O’Reilly Factor, and Pinheads and Patriots. After the success of Killing Lincoln in 2011, O’Reilly decided to continue this theme of book by writing Killing Kennedy, Killing Jesus, Killing Patton, and Killing Reagan.…
Killing Lincoln: The shocking assassination that changed America forever, by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard is an astounding book based around the life of our former president, President Abraham Lincoln. The book is based in the nineteenth century, around the same time of the civil war. It gives great detail on the events that happened during his last few days alive. This book also focuses on the civil war and the generals in them such as Robert E. Lee. The first part of the book “Total War” goes into great detail about Robert E. Lee, his plans, and his thoughts.…
Kathleen Tan September 4, 2017 Ms. Mc Nierney Period 7 Survival of the Sickest by Dr. Sharon Moalem Big Idea 1: The process of evolution drives the diversity and unity of life. Passage 1: “In Europe, they used fermentation — and the resulting alcohol killed microbes, even when, as was often the case, it was mixed with water. On the other side of the world, people purified their water by boiling it and making tea. As a result, there was evolutionary pressure in Europe to have the ability to drink, break down, and detoxify alcohol, while the pressure in Asia was a lot less” (Moalem 60).…
Pain on November 25 By: Piper Bailey This is the worst time ever. I can not even remember the last time my head hurt like this. I’m awake all day, and I never get any rest. My life is hard, my job never ends,and my kids are always super hyper.…