1944

‘’Let's go ladies,’’ yells the captain of the landing craft that Logan Thomas was on. It was June 6, 1944 at 6:30. There was a slight matalic smell and was quite cool from the water sprays. Logan was a part of the 2nd battalion. He is just out of high school, Logan was a tall, very muscular boy. He was a part of the football and wrestling team. But, even he felt the fear of landing on Omaha Beach. Logan looks up at his fellow troops and sees many young boys shaking in fear with their M1’s in…

Through all of her successes and downfalls, she still completed her number one goal in life, to become a very devoted and loving mother and grandmother. Growing up in a Catholic family, Margie was baptized at St. Rose Church by Father Cavanaugh around 1944. Her father grew up…

Suzy was an American girl who is blind to what was happening in the other countries. Leah is a german- born jew refugee who had escaped the tragedy that is the Holocaust. The literature that we are reading is a pair of diaries written by the girls. The reading is put together by Jane Yolen. The diaries show each of the girl's perspective. Suzy is a young girl who is curious about the lives of the refugees. She feels as though the children are aliens. There is one girl that seems to stand out…

Rear Window is based on a story from the February 1942 issue of Dime Detective Magazine called "It Had to be Murder", written by Cornell Woolrich (under the pseudonym William Irish). Alfred Hitchcock, who was a longtime fan of Woolrich's pulp thrillers, was taken by the piece, but his goal in adapting it for the screen was to unify the narrative. Jeff doesn't have a girlfriend in Woolrich's version - Hitchcock and screenwriter John Michael Hayes added that in. They also invented Jeff's job as a…

Alexander Bates Mr. Marr Bible 16 October 2015 The Pool of Siloam The pool of Siloam has a big part in Christianity. It is known for as a place where Jesus made many miracles. Whether he was healing the blind or curing leprosy, many events happened at this well. This place shows proof of Jesus’ presences. (John 9) The Pool of Siloam is a rare well. Instead of holding water, it is pushed up, allowing the water to continually refill. Since the well was…

Hermann Goering and the S.S. Hermann Goering was a scary man in his time but when he joined the S.S he got even more scarier.It explains that he could have had more power than Hitler. Hermann Goering was born in Rosenheim, Germany. He trained for a career in the military and send his commission in 2012. After the war Goering worked as a commercial pilot in Remmekon and Sweden. Hermann is about a man who could have had more power than Hitler. Hermann had a bad life in his time, but he won't…

Anne Frank was one of one million plus Jews that died in the Holocaust. Because Anne Frank was a Jew, she had to wear a Star of David(Gold,1). Anneliese Marie Frank was born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany(History.com Staff). Anne had a younger sister Margot(Anne Frank). Her parents were Edith and Otto(Anne Frank). Anne started a Newbrew school in 1935 in Amsterdam, Netherlands at the age of 6 (History.com Staff). She went to this school 2 times a week(Gold,1). Anne and her family…

Introduction September 17, 1944, Allied forces commenced the largest airborne operation, code name Operation Market-Garden, which took place in Holland in order to make way for Allied forces, both ground and air to advance through Holland into Germany. The scheme of the operation was an idea by Field Marshall Sir Bernard Montgomery, which he had convinced the Supreme Allied Commander, General Dwight Eisenhower in approving Operation Market-Garden, which called for a direct thrust towards the…

A couple years ago, the economy crashed and people were comparing it to a new depression. However, it was not even close compared to the catastrophe the Great Depression caused: Millions out of work, banks closed, Hoovervilles formed, savings lost, the stock market crashed, et cetera. The U.S. government did an effective job of handling the stock market crash and the depression that followed. The New Deal restored faith in the economy and helped families recover, the U.S.A’s entry into WWII…

Jackie Roosevelt Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia on the date of January 3, 1919. Breaking the color barrier, Jackie Robinson turned into the first ever African-American to play in Major League Baseball. The most youthful of five youngsters, Robinson was brought up in relative destitution by a single parent. He went to John Muir High School and after he attended Pasadena Junior College, where he showed his skills playing four sports: baseball, track, football, and basketball. In 1938 he was…