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Audie Murphy Audie Murphy is the most decorated war soldier in WW2, he is known for heroic actions on the battlefield. Murphy is what every superior officer was looking for in one of their soldiers. His integrity was unmatched, he cared for the people around him more than himself, he took over pressure situations that would cause some to crumble. Joseph Campbell said that” the hero, setting forth from his common-day hut or castle, is lured, carried away, or else voluntarily proceeds, to the…

My existence has been a roller coaster of up 's and down 's, questions of whether I should be the intelligent and conservative daughter my mother expects me to be. As a result, for the longest time I 've wanted to please and live up to my family 's expectations. Even though, I get harshly reprimanded often. Which tends to depress and improve my studies depending on the situation, Eventually I had mustered enough courage and gathered weeks worth of information to back up my desire to go overseas…

On November 27th, 1955, a small church in Topeka, Kansas, held its first service. Those in the congregation had no idea that pastor Fred Waldron Phelps would become the leader of a notorious hate group. Westboro Baptist Church was not the place of love it seemed to be. East Side Baptist Church in Topeka appointed Fred Phelps as their associate pastor in 1954. In 1955, they made him the head pastor of their new plant, Westboro Baptist. By 1956, Phelps had broken away from East Side Baptist…

the hijackers had actually trained in flight schools in Arizona and Florida.Three of the four planes struck their targets, two struck the World Trade Center in Manhattan, and a third struck the Pentagon, home to the US Department of Defense, in Arlington County, Virginia. The fourth plane, United Airlines Flight 93, never reached its destination believed to be the United states Capitol building or the White House, Passengers and crew aboard United 93 learned of the other attacks while in the…

parents, and the broader community in a joint effort to improve the health of their communities. The HZSRP is open to all public, private, and charter schools in Dallas, Rockwall, Colin, and southern Denton counties. We are also excited to announce that the program is open to all schools in Arlington ISD (United Way)! However, there is a few other area that must be addressed and that is putting down the electronics, staying off the computer, putting down the cell phone, and relaxing a little…

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is one the partners responsible for the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. His actions killed three people and injured 260 other spectators who were watching runners cross the finish line on this mournfully historic day. Now almost two years later, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is giving his jury a hard decision between sentencing him to life in prison and sentencing him to death. The New York Times article entitled, “Question in Boston Bombing Trial: For Tsarnaev to Testify or Not,”…

the most two highest buildings, separated by about 18 minutes. Within two hours, both towers collapsed. A steering group of other hijacked planes crashed Tuesday in the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense at the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia. According to the report of the National Commission on…

In 1986, I was born in the state of South Carolina, in Florence County. I was raised in the small town of Lake City, South Carolina, which was established in the year of 1750. This town came into existence due to the fact it was on a road that ran between Kingstree to the south and Cheraw to the north. Later, there was a road placed between Georgetown and Camden adding to the cross of the older road, forming a crossroads. I have lived in Lake City, for majority of my life and as many others,…

The assassination of a President has only happened a few times, and the most suspicious one is the assassination of the 35th President John F. Kennedy. There have been more theories and speculations about this incident than almost any other incident in American history. But, one may wonder, what are the facts about this tragic event? The facts go as such… The president was on his way to lunch with prominent Dallas citizens on November 22, 1963. The route the motorcade would take was published…

They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston. The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in the mainland of British North America.…