Charlottesville

Food of All Nations is a grocery store that supplies imported and local domestic foods from all around Charlottesville and other countries. When exploring the store, I was intrigued with the various amounts of products that was stored in such a small store. Majority of the goods were sorted by the type of product near countries that it was similarly produced in ensuring that the customers are able to find what they are looking for. The store relates culturally to many ethnicities. After speaking…

Meriwether Lewis was born August 18, 1774. He was born near Charlottesville, Virginia, and was a neighbor of Thomas Jefferson. In 1794, Lewis joined the militia and with the rank of Ensign, was attached to a sub legion of General "Mad Anthony" Wayne. Who was commanded by Lieutenant William Clark. In sharing the experiences of the Northwest Campaign against the British and the Indians, Lewis and Clark fashioned the bonds of an enduring friendship. On March 6, 1801, Lewis, as a young Army Captain…

Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743 and passed away in July of 1826 at the age of 83 in his home located near Charlottesville, Virginia. He was a leading figure in America’s early development. Jefferson was a scholarly man which later would prove to be beneficial as he drafted the U.S. Declaration of Independence. He was also the nation’s first secretary of state, second vice president (1797-1801), and the third president (1801-1809). Jefferson also served in the Virginia legislature,…

I am part of a logistical convoy and see a crowd which has surrounded a single individual. They are beating and kicking the individual. The interpreter says from what he can hear the individual is a former government official. As much as I feel I should help the individual being attacked, I cannot risk stopping the convoy and putting my fellow Soldiers in danger for a civil disturbance. This could escalate into an international issue. Chapter 5, III.,E.,(3) of the Operational Law Handbook…

journalist / publisher, a politician, an educational reformer per excellence, a Methodist bishop, one of the sons of Joseph Ryerson and a father of two children. “Adolphus Egerton Ryerson was born on March 24, 1803 into a prominent loyalist family in Charlottesville, Norfolk County, in what is now southwestern Ontario” (Claude W.D,2002, para1) (https://library.ryerson.ca/asc/archives/ryerson-history/ryerson-bio/). Egerton was a passionate reader of the classics and he was on a deeply…

I found Barry Levinson’s Wag the Dog the most memorable because of how accurately it reflects recent events in the United States. As the film’s conflict stems from sexual allegations made against the president, it mirrors the women that have accused President Trump of sexual harassment and assault. As the allegations are now garnering the attention of public media, I am curious to see if it will be handled similarly to the film; will tensions with foreign policy be escalated with events like the…

Social issues are controversial topics that have spread like an epidemic disease yet unlike an epidemic disease they are not taken very seriously. They are covered up and made to seem like small blemishes. Innocent lives are taken every other day by individuals we search for when we are in need of help, yet all that society can do is try to brush it under the rug. Society allows a race to believe it is superior than other races and classifies the situation as a peaceful protest. Instead of…

Virginia Chapel on a cold December night. In front of me there is a tall metal stand with a set of bongos perched precariously atop. Behind me sits the entire crowd of the sold out Virginia Women’s Chorus Candlelight Concert. When I arrived in Charlottesville months earlier, I could have never expected to be here. I have just finished performing a piece with the chorus minutes earlier, when a member of the chorus steps forward and addresses the audience to explain and introduce the next piece.…

wrong. Those who felt strongly otherwise would later be known as a racist. Recent events are shaping how we are learning to deal with racism. Events such as K-state’s march on 11/14/17, kneeling in sports events during the national anthem, the Charlottesville march, and even public announcements about our own Air force prep schools. It is because of these events that I feel that it is necessary to teach people the evolution of racism in the U.S. starting from its first creation to modern times…

Britain had a few goals when it switched focus of the American Revolutionary War from focusing on the north to moving down south. The strategy was to defend the West Indies and capture the tobacco and rice growing areas in Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia. Another strategy was to raise for loyalist troops to help fight the Patriots. At the time this may have seemed like a good idea, but with the French becoming a more important role in the war Britain underestimated the Patriot French…