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DANIEL COOK was born in Sliddery on the 28th of October. In early some early records, he is called Donald, due to the interchangeability of the two names in 19th century Scotland. He came to Troon with his family between 1824 and 1830 and began a life at sea in 1833 when he was ap-prenticed at the age of 11. As seems to have been the case with his older brother, John[C.1.2.1], Daniel’s father had high hopes for the future of his second-eldest. “When a father apprentices his son to a trade,”…

Dr. Seuss once said, “A person is a person, no matter how small”. Abortion is a topic of debate across the world, and almost everyone has very strong feelings about it one way or the other. This topic raises hard to answer questions such as: when does life begin? At conception? At birth? Somewhere in between? It’s a difficult question to answer, but many have tried to define a line. Although a fetus does have some rights, I believe the fetus and embryo should have nearly complete protection and…

Political leadership guided the North and South landscape, but the military leadership guided the battlefield. The Civil War was a modern war compared to the Napoleonic wars and for the South; Lee is seen by some scholars as a leader out of touch with modern warfare while other generals such as those from the Union were waging a modern style of warfare. In the article, An Old-Fashioned Soldier in a Modern War?: Robert E. Lee as Confederate General, Gary Gallagher takes a historiographical…

Amy Beatrice Wilson Carmichael was born on December 16, 1867 to a wealthy family in Millisle, County Down, Ireland. She describes her childhood surroundings as "a little old world village of white washed cottages on the shore of the Irish Sea". She was born to Presbyterian parents, David and Catherine Carmichael and the oldest of seven children. The Carmichaels raised their children to honor the Lord in words and actions. When Amy was three years old she prayed that God would change her eye…

they did. Did it work? Hell no. Because the clans were not united. The British always infiltrated in some way. What were introduced to Ireland in the 1970s were crime syndicates and Godfathers...street wars on the streets of Derry, Limerick, Belfast, and Dublin. In America you have the mafias; here we have the same thing, nothing more. Does that put things into proper perspective some?” The question was a hypothetical one. Storm walked to the edge of the table. “That Josef Kramer is a…

transferred to the production of fine muslin cotton cloth; and in combination with higher wages due to a higher sale price. Consequently, the industry expanded with pervasive speed through North Down, the Lagan Valley and parts of Antrim. The census of Belfast looms, in 1791, revealed there were 522 looms employed for cotton production, contrast with 129 for linen. By 1807, there were 629 cotton looms, and only four in the service of linen production. By the end of the eighteenth-century, the…

Robert McLiam Wilson was born February 24, 1964 in Belfast, Ireland. He published his first book called, Ripley Bogle, when he was 26, and Ripley Bogle is one of his most famous works. This novel won the the Hughes Prize, Rooney Prize, and the Irish Book Award. In the article “Sticks and Stones: The Irish Identity,” he is talks about himself and his real life experience and what he went through during that time. While racial prejudice and discrimination against people of color are universally…

Entertainment on the River Thames River Thames is the lifeline for the tourism industry apart from the river it has been utilised in variety of ways by the visitors who are first timers to the London city. Cruises, small boat trips , the artistic riverside pubs and restaurants, theatres , museum and the art galleries basically flank the River Thames. The guided tour to the River Thames has a bit of everything from the lavishness of the cruise to the simplicity of a boat ride, if one feels of…

the people. With few cities and a capital on the eastern end of the island, quite far from other areas, Ken Loach does the work of decentralizing the Irish narrative from Dublin or Northern Ireland’s Belfast (as opposed to Hunger, Some Mother’s Son with their lead characters of Bobby Sands in Belfast, another city). Instead, Ken Loach navigates the telling of an Irish story through a more socialist lens instead of a straight nationalist narrative. Even so, the film ends up heavily sympathizing…

Eveline is afraid of what lay beyond the inside of her house and the change that comes with it. When Eveline looks out her window at the beginning of the story, she takes note of some houses that were newly built. The narrator writes, “Then a man from Belfast bought the field and built houses in it--not like their little brown houses… The children of the avenue used to play together in that field…”(Joyce). The way the sentence is written makes Eveline seem resentful towards her changing…