A Boot and a Shoe

Facing the continuing decline of their population Native Americans called upon neighboring missionaries to aid them. This turning away from traditions was an added challenge to medicine men and traditional culture. Native Americans understood that European medicine came with the expectation of an earnest study of Christianity. Missionaries initially welcomed the desperate natives who were willing to study whichever religion in exchange for medical aid. In Oregon, the Whitman massacre is one…

Saint’s machine could sew leather for boots, it used a single thread that formed a chain stitch, sewing, and embroidery technique that makes a series of looped stitches form a chain-like pattern. Meanwhile, in 1830, Barthelemy Thimonnier patented the first actual sewing machine making eighty…

Fishing with Coconuts It was 0215 on the twelfth day of February and our Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyer was cruising the Indian Ocean. I was in the middle of a watch, patrolling the main deck. Feeling the effects of sleep deprivation and being nowhere close to the end of my watch, the night started to become routine. As I had done numerous times before, I swung open the hatch to the weather deck and began to step out and into the pitch-dark night. By an unfortuitous…

cheap labor and were used to fill the high demand of the indoctrination period. Men 16 to 20 comprised over half the work force, they worked in textile mills, rubber factories, and agricultural tool factories. 40% of the female work force for boot and shoe factories were 16 to 20 as well. Adolescence worked in large group in coal mines, canning factories, and seafood processing plants. They worked 10 to 14 hour days 6 days a week which, was the same as an adult would work. The children were…

There are many sports out there to play. They all have their history and every person has their own sport they like the most. One of these sports is soccer, and people might be surprised to know that it has the most viewers of any other sport. Soccer has grown to be the most popular sport in the world, and many things about the game of soccer have evolved, including the ball, shoes, and the rules of the game. Have you ever asked yourself where did soccer come from? Soccer has been around for…

Chapter One Thornewood Hall There are two types of people in Whodunit Hill: the sincere and the shady. So when Miss Sims, a checker at the Root & Shoot greengrocer thought she saw a ghost in front of Thornewood Hall I didn’t know what to believe. But I figured her claim had to be considered. Anyway, that was what got me into this pickle in the first place. By pickle, I mean the fact that I’m staring at the ghoul as it flashes blue in a tangled sea of tattered sheers. The drapes dropped to the…

PIXIE DOBBS STUDENT NO 220135729 THEA321 ASSIGNMNET 2 MAJOR SCRIPT AND EXEGESIS MERGING SHADOWS Merging Shadows Characters: TOM: A man in his twenties LIESEL: A woman in her twenties OLD WOMAN: An old woman SCENE 1: TOM and LEISEL sit DCS in chairs placed back-to-back, side on to audience under spotlights one for each character. A large rectangular table is placed DSOP covered in laundry. An OLD WOMAN with a rotary telephone on a small table sits DSL in a rocking chair…

At this time of day, only an hour or two after the sun has rose, the farm has a meditative quality. The sound of the school buses that drive by, transporting children to the middle and high school down the road, harmonize with the sound of Pete’s boots crunching on the frosted grass. Once in awhile, Pete takes a deep breath, filling his lungs with the pine-scented air, holding it in, taking all he can from it, then exhaling a visible cloud of air into the bitter morning…

To implement or promote change within a society is difficult considering that the majority of people would have to agree with the reforms. Therefore, Charles Dickens composed the novel Great Expectations in a way that every person received a different message from the it, since there was an immense disparity between the social classes. The upper class holds an apocryphal sense of elation within their money. While, the content, jovial lower class prosper through their affectionate relationships…

“Can’t we stop for a moment? Hide in a shop maybe?” Jack panted as three teenagers slowed to a quick walk down a Berlin street. David and Hannah hurried along behind Jack while scolding him for such and absurd idea. They couldn’t stop until they reached safety. Running from a gestapo was difficult work and it would be too long before they could find a safe house or forest to duck into. They were Jews which somehow made them criminals in their world of 1940 Germany. Another threat was the…