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Tiananmen Square Protest 1989 People protest for a reason, there is a problem with something and they want a change, they want to be heard. They can last for a long time, days, months and years until they get what they want. During protest things can get out of hand and people become violent and that’s where everything gets too far. Today protesting isn’t as bad as it was before, we try to result to agreements and there aren’t as many deaths as there were as before. In 1989 Tiananmen Square was…

Student Council will hold an indoor version of the national walkout on March 14 in the Fitzkee Center at Red Lion Area Senior High School. Student and administrator planners of event scheduled the walkout will last 17 minutes, 1 minute for every life that was lost at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Red Lion is taking a different approach from other schools nationwide making the walk-out a walk-in. They fear that there could be an attack on those who leave the building,…

Nat Turner’s rebellion was a factor of the civil war. He was an enslaved African American who led a rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia.Nat Turner led a violent insurrection.He and his slave followers killed over 50 white men. Even though this was a very horrible event Nat Turner didn’t like how African were treated he led this just because of slavery. 1 Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in 1831 in Southampton County, Virginia during the 1800’s. Nat…

Weeks flew by seeming to go too soon. In those weeks I practiced hard, very hard. I was sure Erin was too, but I’ve been very self absorbed with my own work ethic sometimes I forget Erin was even there. It sounds impossible she’s loud and crazy and funny but she’s been less lively the past few weeks for the same reason I was. Nationals. We had a week left until nationals when, every night I went home and tried to sleep I would have terrible dreams about something very bad happening during the…

On April 9th, 1964, Claudia Johnson– who was at the time the First Lady of the United States– gave a speech on the first anniversary of the Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial. In Johnson’s tribute speech, she employed Roosevelt's anecdotes and rhetorical questions to inspire people to stand up and help the individual. Johnson commences her speech with Roosevelt's anecdotes to inspire luncheon attendees to stand up and help the individual. Knowing of Roosevelt's unspoken actions, Johnson stated, “Saw a…

Behind the Attic Wall by Sylvia Cassedy is a novel told in third person point of view about a bratty, misunderstood orphan protagonist named Maggie who had been hopping from home to home, then goes through the conflict of living with her two overly prim and proper great-aunt antagonists Aunt Lillian and Aunt Harriet, setting being is a beautiful home in late 1800 England. Uncle Morris, a side character, is who took her to their residency and seemed to disappear right after that task. It made me…

Marcia Fudge, Ohio’s representative, enters the podium to discuss the war on poverty on its 50th anniversary which was introduced by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. “The war on poverty has turned into the war on the poor.” Fudge goes onto discuss the beneficial programs former President Johnson created in response to the poverty rates in the United States. According to Marcia Fudge, poverty rates have fallen from 26 percent to 16 percent from 1967 to 2012. However, congress has recently…

The history is one part of the Appalachian Trail. It is now the 100th anniversary for the Appalachian Trail. “Regional planner Benton MacKaye goes public with his proposal for “An Appalachian Trail: A Project in Regional Planning. ” .One of the reasons the Appalachian Trail was constructed. Was so they could save some of the wilderness and plant life from being destroyed by mankind and other things. People that have worked at the Appalachian Trail have constantly been trying to find a way to…

career of filmmaking because he was an alcoholic who spat hateful anti-Semitic remarks to a Jewish officer who was arresting him and that he still had a lot to offer to Hollywood as a filmmaker. That is the reason to why on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of The Passion of the Christ, people who worked in Hollywood proposed that it was time to forgive Mel Gibson and to give the guy another chance. When a reporter asked Gibson if he actually blames the Jews for starting all the wars, he said…

John Quincy Adams John Quincy Adams is the 6th president of the United States. Adams served from 1825 – 1829 as president and served one term. He was a part of the Democratic - Republican Party, which was basically the opposite of the Federalist Party (which was weird because he was a part of the Federalist Party until 1808). DR opposed the constitution and supported a strong state government and a bill of rights to protect citizens. His vice president was named John Calhoun who later became a…