Catoctin Mountain Park

In Chapter one, I discovered a commonly known New Year's tradition in my family actually originated from slavery. To emphasize, eating black-eyed peas and other related meals ensures a prosperous new year ahead in my family. However, black-eyed peas was in fact fed to enslaved africans to help them survive and sustain their fearsome voyage. Black-eyed peas symbolizes a form of luck. Correspondingly, I discovered the “Rice Culture” in the United States was based on the expertise from the people…

President Dwight Eisenhower reluctantly ordered the National Guard to protect them. The efforts to integrate Central High School made headlines around the world. In early December 1955, after the arrest of the seamstress and local NAACP secretary Rosa Parks for refusing to…

As the United States was entering the last half of the 1900s, it was apparent that Black citizens had to get involved in unorthodox measures and methods to gain equality. The Montgomery bus boycott was not only a direct challenge to segregation but also the first successful example of mass nonviolent resistance in the United States. The boycott symbolized African American rising frustration and impatience with the denial of their rights as American citizens. The boycott’s success meant the…

St. Louis is a really fun place to visit. It has a lot of different tourist attractions for all ages. I have lived in St. Louis my whole life, and I love it! Some of the most popular places in St. Louis are the Zoo and the Arch. I live in Kirkwood, a small, busy town with many activities for families. One exciting place in St. Louis is The St. Louis Zoo. The Zoo is a really fun place to visit and there are tons of animals to see and activities to do. I have been there several times and I think…

When life becomes too much or I just want to have fun and relax my number one place to go is the ball fields. The field is where I go, because it is where my heart belongs. The ball field’s best feature is its green inner diamond shape, with grainy, brown dirt surrounding it, and the always freshly cut, stripped green grass making up the outfield. You’ll be able to smell the fresh cut grass and the cool breeze constantly flowing by to keep you calm and relaxed while you’re playing. When you…

six kids running for their lives. The group is continually fighting their way through life. They have no idea who their parents are, what state or city they are from, or why they were even experimented on. The group of kids is hidden in a remote mountain home. Maximum Ride is the main character in this story she is fourteen years old and the oldest out of the flock. She is the ’mother’ of the group because she is looked up to. All the kids; Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, the Gasman, and Angel- where…

William Cullen Bryant wrote thanatopsis in 1811, the events within this time period severely impacted the writing of this poem because at the time there was a lot of very violent deaths going on throughout america. Around the time that thanatopsis was written there was an uprising of slaves who broke free from their owners and ran to freedom., about 400 ran but 66 were captured, killed and their heads mounted on stakes along the streets of the town to warn other slaves of their place. The…

Halloween is approaching and is the time of year when theme parks compete against each other for visitors by preparing their most famous attractions and scarifying them. Each theme park has a different theme to their attractions. They want to attract visitors to come for the holidays. Six Flags’ Fright Fest is filled eye-catching attractions. Visitors are able to experience their thriller rides with the lights off! Along with frightening other events like Territory Twisted, Demos Door, Tatsu in…

Rosa Parks and Harriet Tubman were two strong individuals who changed history for people fighting against slavery and segregation. Harriet Tubman was born into slavery and was sold as property but when she came of age she escaped but after she did she started thinking about how she’s now free and she wanted that for her family and other slaves, so she felt a duty to go back every time she went back she escaped with slaves who wanted to be free. Rosa parks was born in the time period of…

Coney Island, now often unnoticed by the public, was not only created for amusement but to make a major social change that had recently occurred easier. The famous amusement parks heyday coincided with a critical period in American History, when the nation came of age as an urban-industrial society. This new age came with major cultural, economic, and social changes that its citizens were having a hard time adjusting. Genteel reformers decided to attempt to control the growing population to…