Joseph Jacob "Joe" Foss, born in April of 1915, and died in January of 2003, was apart of the United States Marine Corps. Major and the leading Marine fighter ace in World War II. Joe received the Medal of Honor in recognition of his role in air combat during the Guadalcanal Campaign. In the postwar years, he was an Air National Guard brigadier general, the 20th governor of South Dakota, president of the National Rifle Association, the first commissioner of the American Football League, and a television broadcaster.…
Tinker v. Des Moines case Complete Citation Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503 (1969) Parties Involved in the Case John F. Tinker, fifteen years old, his younger sister Mary Beth Tinker, thirteen years old, and their friend Christopher Eckhardt, sixteen years old. Date and Place Where the Case Was Tried This case was contended on November 12, 1968. The court was chosen February 24, 1969.…
The two story's "Drumbeats and Bullets" and " The Drummer Boy of Shiloh" are very different and very similar in lots of ways. The Battle of Shiloh was a battle that took place during the Civil War. These two story's "Drumbeats and Bullets" and "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh" really are totally opposites of how they are written but still very similar. Some of the differences in the two stories "Drumbeats and Bullets" and "The Drummer of Shiloh". One of them is that the story "The Drummer of Shiloh" is in first person point of view well the other story is just going over the outline of drummer boys and how they started to disappeared during middle of the Cilvil War.…
An officer who made a difference in his community, and one that abused and mistreated his power. “Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.” (General James Mattis, A.K.A Gen Mad Dog Mattis) Between Mark Fuhrman and James Zadroga the stories of their past will fall between each officer. One tried making life better for everyone, and one failed the system. James Zadroga is a very influential police officer.…
Imagine, it’s the year of 1932, on a hot summer day and it is over 90 degrees. Picture the muggy feeling, with sunscreen and sweat piled on. Iowa weather, being Iowa weather. Of course something to help cool down is a necessity right now but, where is there to go?…
Map of the United States. A long long time ago, in a land where people treated each other very mean, there lived three heroes who dreamed of changing the badness. Their names were Eli, Willy, and Dave. These great men grew up to be writers who inspired many people to join their cause, and also support people who already believed in their cause.…
He co-wrote over half the songs, and for the first time even co-produced. The record had…
Feagin and Barnett discussed various reasons in this article on why desegregated schooling is important for all children. In this article Feagin and Barnett mentioned that students of color show more positive effects on academics when going to school of predominantly white students. They also mentioned that white students as well achieved better success when not in a predominantly white school. Feagin and Barnett talk about how desegregated schools for colored people is very beneficial because they can gain more information about jobs and they get open to more opportunities also they can learn how to deal with racist white people in many environments. Desegregation has given colored people more opportunities.…
John McEwen was born on the 29th of March 1900 at Chiltern, Victoria, to David McEwen and Amy Porter. Sadly, when John was 18 months old his mum passed away and later when he was seven his dad also passed away. John and his younger sister went to live with their grandmother in Wangaratta and then moved to Dandenong. John went to school at Wangaratta State School, then dropped out of school when he was 13, to help at home and then soon after started going to night school. John graduated from night school and joined the crown solicitor’s office in Melbourne when he was 16 (in 1916).…
Imagine this, you find out that your younger sibling has been diagnosed with cancer and you feel hopeless. You feel like there is no one there for you. You feel like you’ve been abandoned and start pushing people away because you’re upset and scared. In the novel, Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie, Steven’s relationships with people who care about him, change in different ways because of what is going on at home.…
Carl Sagan was a well-known astronomer who studied extraterrestrial intelligence advocated for nuclear disarmament. Growing up Sagan developed a passion for astronomy (Moore). Michael Shermer received his B.A. in psychology and his M.A. in experimental psychology. He taught a course for Ph.D. students on Evolution, Economics, and the Brain. He was head of one of America’s leading skeptic organizations (Shermer).…
September 11, 2001 was a day that shook America to its core, but to me, it had little meaning. Though, it probably should have. My dad is a pilot for United Airlines and he was piloting a flight on this dreadful day. As if it wasn’t bad enough that he was in the air, he was in the same airspace as the hijackers that took over the first plane to hit the towers.…
In life, two people can start out the same, but end up in completely different places. They could have a similar background, get raised the same way, and even have a similar lifestyle. But they don’t always end up in the same place. For the author, Wes Moore, he discovered someone with the same name, same upbringing, etc. whose life was completely different from his.…
Bruce Montgomery, or Edmund Crispin, pursued successful careers in both music and writing. Edmund Crispin’s date of birth is October second, 1921. The hometown of Mr. Crispin is Buckinghamshire, England. In his early years, he focused on education; as a result, he thought of himself as a literary and intellectual elitist. Because he did not enjoy sports, Mr. Crispin wrote and performed music.…
From the beginning of the movie where Fletcher watches Andrew in practice and invites him to join his jazz band to the end where Andrew plays one of the best solos of Whiplash, the film is focused mainly on the confrontation between a driven student and a demanding perfectionist instructor, who both share the same dream but have different ways of achieving it. Terence Fletcher doesn’t hesitate to use his own technique of racial, religious, and gay slurs, throwing chairs, and playing degrading psychological game to “motivate” his students and Andrew Neyman doesn’t hesitate to back down and use it to push himself beyond physical and psychological limits. In the last scene of the movie where Andrew is playing the song Whiplash and plays it in…