Concord

On Saturday January 28th, 2017 I had the pleasure of sitting down and talking with a close family friend of mine. Edward, or Ed as we call him is 76 years old and was born in Concord New Hampshire. Since then he has moved to Bradford New Hampshire, where he lives with his wife, Lorraine. I selected to meet and talk with Ed because I knew he would have a great deal of stories, information, and personal experiences with the types of media that were widely used when he was just a kid. Ed was open…

When one thinks of the main cause of the colonies fight for independence they normally think of an oppressed, yet united, people living under a dictatorship; having to pay outrageous taxes only to receive nothing in return. However, the truth behind the rebellion and path to independence is far more of a complicated matter. Starting in 1763 when George Grenville, newly elected Prime Minister of Great Britain, looked to the colonies for financial repair, which lead to the Stamp Act of 1765 in…

Thomas Gage was a British general who successfully commanded all British forces in North America, but failed to slow the rising colonial rebellion as military governor of Massachusetts at the outbreak of the American Revolution. Instead of putting an end to conflict, Gage’s policies rapidly increased it. Gage's actions were the most immediate causes of the Revolutionary War. Resistance turned violent at the Boston Tea Party, where Gage was very influential in constructing Parliament’s…

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Michael Donovan. A common theme these four authors display is self-reliance. Self-Reliance is the act of recognizing your own thoughts and emotions In Emerson’s works Nature, Self-Reliance, and Concord hymn, he uses different environments for the characters to become aware of themselves. Thoreau’s works, Civil Disobedience and Walden, he relates a person’s thoughts to the thoughts and ideas of law and society. In Donovan’s poem “It’s All-On-Me”…

The American Revolution 1754-1781 From 1650 – 1763: Salutary neglect (a brief period of leniency in the implementation of parliament laws by the British government to the American colonies) before and during the French and Indian War, allowing for a growing independence and sense of Nationalism among the Americans who had started to exhibit this through their establishment of “representative legislatures and democratic town meetings”. From 1754 – 1763: A war was fought between the French and…

are not afraid to use it at any given moment. In document C James Byrnes talks about how the soul purpose of the American military was to drop the atomic bomb in hopes of impressing Russia and make sure that they did not invade Nagasaki and once concord stay…

Paul Revere was born in the winter of 1734 in Boston Massachusetts(“Revere, Paul”). When Paul Revere was 15 him and his friends started a bell ring club. Paul and his friends would ring door bells every time a boat came to the harbor. Then in 1754 his father past away (Sutcliffe). Paul took over his dad's silversmith shop. Next in the summer of 1757 Paul got married to Sarah Orne and had kids (Sutcliffe). Paul still worked at the silversmith shop to support his family. Paul was very talented…

In the “Mapping the Nation” seminar presented by Lisa Kasmer, many different aspects of mapping in relation to British imperialism were discussed. Another way Britain showed their assumed superiority over other nations was through mapping. One example Kasmer discussed was the mapping of India. This map was just one of the many in King George’s topographical map collection. Since the British made the made, only their territories were identified through the color red, shading, and titles, etc. In…

Administrative Interview of Mark Hageman Mark Hageman is new to Concord Christian School. He has been hired as the CCS high school principal in the summer of 2015. Coming form a public school in Texas, Mr. Hageman’s main priority this year is to establish an anti-bullying policy. The principal mentions that even though there is no serious bullying present at CCS, he would like to create a set of regulations and procedures so that the students will feel comfortable to address bullying or…

where Basset is leading songs and dances (from Retour to Homs) and where Bin and her sister are sitting near the fire with their Grandma (from Treeless Mountain). I select these two scenes because they demonstrate the confident and friendship or concord relationship between the Abdul Basset and the crowd, also between Bin, her sister and their Grandma. Even if they are in different context, the cinematography and the editing done allows spectators to see similarity between these two scenes and…