Canton

originated in 1870,when Betdyś grandson, william J. and years later the legend appeared in a book an the flag, of the Betsy Ross Memorial Association was formed. At the outset of the Revolution, the regiments of the 13 original states, and the a blue canton containing 50 stars, representing the 50 states of the Union. The flag was adopted on 14,1777, replacing a variety of the revolutionary flag. By 1776 by George washington 1732-99 in proclaiming the organization.…

from Lothian or Orkney, both are regions of Scotland. Nickel describes that, “In French literary and pictorial sources of the thirteenth an fourteenth centuries Sir Gawain is bearing a white shield with and red canton.” (Nickel, 2). This early heraldic symbol of the white shield and red canton usually relates to earlier stories of the Gawain character when he was known as Gwalchmai in earlier Welsh legend such as Culwch and Olwen, but has it closer association to Chrétien de Troyes’s description…

inflicting. Indigenous peoples are the intergenerational survivors of a holocaust where nobody escaped unscathed. In 1889, the United States Congress forcibly placed native peoples, primarily the elderly, into the Hiawatha Insane Asylum for Indians of Canton, South Dakota. The asylum promised to heal, rehabilitate, and eventually release them, but in reality, this disciplinary action was part of an ongoing cultural genocide that sought to destroy the racialized ‘Other,’ that cast slow suffering…

Courage. Doing what you seem to think is impossible or frightening. It is the enabler that pushes you to do something out of your comfort zone. They say you never get a second chance to make a first impression. At my unique high school, home to over 6000 students, making a first impression is easier said then done. What really pushed me forward when I started freshmen year was stepping out of my comfort zone. Trusting my capabilities and having courage was something I was never known to do…

The election of 1896 signified the end of political standoffs. This was the last election in which a candidate tried to win the White House with mostly agrarian votes. This election was pivotal because it helped urbanize the country and it was the first election after the Depression of 1893. Presidential candidates Robert McKinley, who was a Republican and in favor of industrializing the United States, and William Jennings Bryan, who was a Democrat, tried to win the election by campaigning all…

Jim Thorpe Did you know that Jim Thorpe is one of the greatest all round athletes in history? First I will tell you about his early life, next I will tell you about his adult life and finally I will tell you about his accomplishments. I hope you enjoy it. This paragraph is mostly about Jim Thorpe’s early life. Jim Thorpe was born on May 28, 1888 in Bellemonta, Oklahoma. He was the son of Hiran P. Thorpe, of Irish and Sac-Fox Indian descent, and Charlotte View, of Potowatomi and Kickapoo…

to “color the world” of Revere High School. Paige showed me an online site that gave ideas for volunteering projects and fundraising opportunities easy for high schoolers to implement. Featuring programs for the American Red Cross, the local Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank, and institutions from foreign regions, the suggested ideas seemed generally bland. Having studied Spanish together for three years, the Pulsera Project stuck out to both Paige and me. As we looked into the benefits of the…

impact this had on China was huge! It not only weakened a large percentage of the population, it also began to affect the military and silver began to flow from China (Perdue). China had to do something to fight back and sent official Lin Zexu to Canton “clean up” the problem. Lin tried, by rounding up addicts and forcing them off the habit, and punishing domestic drug dealers. ("The Opium War and Foreign Encroachment.") But when Lin Zexu tried to take and burn warehouses, the British fought…

most part of letter he tries to guilt the Queen into agreeing to stop the opium trade. In the paragraph he pointed finger on the British system for not examining the ships with care for smuggled goods as he wrote "heard that the ships coming to the Canton have all had regulations promulgated and given to them in which it is stated that it is not permitted to carry contraband…

The first being the gulls that came upon the crew,” Canton flannel gulls flew near and fear…. for the wrath of the sea was no more to them than it was to covey of prairie chickens a thousand miles inland.” These gulls did not have the same difficulty as the men in the dingey, they even give the men a hard…