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.…
When Jerry West was a boy, he was kept out of sports do to his small stature. He mostly spent all of his free time shooting basketball at a hoop that is nailed to his neighbors storage shed. That is the place where he started to perfect his shooting style and skills. Later on Jerry West finally worked his way onto East Bank high school’s varsity basketball team, he spent his junior year mostly on the bench. He was the first high schooler in West Virginia to score 900 in a single season.…
She was Dutch woman of German-Jewish origin and was youngest child of Mr. and Mrs. Frank. In her work of the written diary, she is unambiguously precocious, charming and intelligent, and retained her cheerfulness and even during most testing and difficult of circumstances. Over the course of two years, she is transformed from spoiled and naive girl of thirteen into thoughtful and self-aware woman of fifteen. She did not have sufficient political acumen and knowledge, but becomes inquisitive to the length of asking the reasons and logic about anti-Semitism. While whole point of war does not make any sense to her at all.…
Johnny Bright was born on June 11, 1930 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He was raised by his mother in a working class neighborhood, and was the second oldest of five children. Him and his four brother were all very involved in sports growing up. Johnny attended Central High School in Fort Wayne. While he was there he lettered in basketball, football and track, also he twice led his basketball team to final four appearances in the state championship and led the football team to the City title in 1945.…
This paper will inform you all about Bill Robinson and his carrer. Bill Robinson as known as “Bojangles” was a huge iconic African- American tap dancer and actor during the Harlem Renisance. Bojangles was best known for his Broadway performances and film roles.…
Valley Forge Essay- Would you stay or QUIT? I would have wanted to quit because of all the diseases that were occurring and I wouldn't have wanted to be the one to either get sick next or die next so i'm not taking any risks. I mean would you. But with constitution on our side we could have more supplies like clothes, gunpowder, food etc.…
A junior football star that is a running back named Jimmy Weddle that is on the top high school team in California named the San Francisco titan high school. Jimmy Weddle is mostly known for his short height at 5'9, how ripped he is and how nice of a guy and friend he is to people. Jimmy is always worried about his family since they support him all around in life mainly in football and that's why he's in the spot he is right now. He also is always thinking about what he has to do for school, his friends, and one of the most important things to his football. Jimmy Weddle always has a swagger to him and a chip on his shoulder, but not in a bad way because he's always helping friends, family and his community out.…
Born Frederick Augustus Bailey in Baltimore, Maryland 1818. Frederick struggled through childhood due to the slavery conditions at the time. In 1824, six year old Frederick Bailey moved from his home in Baltimore, Maryland to a plantation in the country called the Wye House. Just two years later, Frederick was sold off to another slave owner back in Baltimore where he was taught to read by his owner’s wife, Lucretia Auld. The learning process was a struggle do to Mr. Auld's harsh slave rules.…
A Work In Progress Bella Winter was born on March 3rd, 2001. She was born and lived her early life in a small town outside of San Francisco, California, called Pleasanton. Soon after, she moved to South Carolina, and finally Florida, where she currently resides. This is her journey so far.…
This place is like a ticking time bomb, with soldiers dying everyday. I am torn by this and I just cannot help but think about when my day might come. If I wait I'll just be like the rest and distressed. It is the middle of the Revolutionary war in 1777. George Washington and his army are staying at a winter camp called Valley Forge in Pennsylvania.…
To begin with, Weeksville is a neighborhood that resided in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights, Brooklyn in 1838, but was originally located on Native American trial. It was named after a man called James Weeks who purchased some land. James Weeks were once a slave but was freed because slavery had ended in 1827 due to the fact gradual emancipation in New York on July 4th, 1827. This land was settled by African Americans after slavery abolished in New York in 1827 and grew during and after the civil war. I will introduce the history, present and source of Weeksville because it is a community of self-determined people.…
- In 11th and 12th century squire were servants of lower social class but in the later years sons of noble families would become squires. -Boys of noble birth would were eligible to become a knight -If their parents want them to become a knight they would be sent to a nobleman’s household to be a page. -Here they learn how to behave and learn how to ride a horse -When they turn 14 they become an apprentice to a knight who they serve as a squire. -Here they are taught how to handle weapons and sometimes go into battle with the knight to assist them.…
Weegee was not known by that name until later on in his life through series of jobs. His birth name was Usher Fellig, and he was the second of seven children. He was born on 1899 in the former Austrian province of Galicia, which is now a part of Ukraine. His family was poor, so that made his work ethic better since he understood you need money to live. His work ethic was proven to be strong throughout his life until his death in 1968.…
Fannie Flagg Fannie Flagg has lived an extraordinary life. She has wonderful parents and has had met great people who have helped her become the great person she is today. Flagg has only been married once but has been other relationships as well that have helped shape her stories into what they are today. Flagg has had a great acting and writing career. Flagg’s story is inspirational because even though she has had many obstacles, she fought her way around them.…
“That was good….. BUT NOT GREAT”, Luke my High School Drum Major yelled at a bunch of out of breath exhausted students. We had just ran a mile with the only thought of finally getting the approval of Luke. The past weekend we had attended a local competition. We failed that night in the eyes of our instructors for not placing 1st.…