Edmund the Martyr

Closing Mount Everest: Would you do it? Many people have argued about this topic for years. The debates are strong; with one side wanting to shut it down for people’s safety, while others want it to remain open to the public, for entertainment purposes. This argument leads to the question; Is participating in extreme sports such as mountaineering worth risking one’s life? The answer is yes. In the first place, many people want a sense of adventure in their lives, and sometimes can only get it…

The Famous Murder Trial’s Killer Discovered Lizzie Borden’s trial was one of the mysterious and famous murder trials in 1900’s. This murder trial took place in the Borden’s house on 4th of August, 1892 in the city called Fall River, Massachusetts. The Borden’s house incorporated Andrew Borden and his second wife, Abby, his two daughters Lizzie and Emma, and a housemaid Bridget Sullivan. However, the main suspect was revealed to be Lizzie Borden in the trial; therefore, she was arrested for her…

Andrew and Abby Borden were just a pair of middle class people who lived a happy life until they were murdered in cold blood. Who would kill two old people who were known and loved by the public? What did anyone possibly have against them. The Lizzie Borden murder case is a mischievous murder that still hasn’t been solved. We had to solve the murder. DId Lizzie commit the murder of her parents or was she telling the truth? Lizzie Borden did kill her parents. She had a motive and a reason why she…

Lizzie Borden, Is she guilty? Lizzie Borden took an axe gave her mother forty whacks, but did she really? Lizzie Borden should have been known as guilty to the U.S. justice system for the murders of her parents. Massachusetts, August 4th 1892 was the tragic day that someone murdered Abby and Andrew Borden. This case was dismissed because of lack of evidence. There is still controversy about how Lizzie should’ve been guilty there is no other suspects, but somehow she got around it.…

you prombley will become famous or you be very happy to reach a goal. 2 cons are you have a higher chance to die and the weather is really bad. First , 1 pros is you might become famous. The author states "It’s been over 60 years since Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest." Another pro is that you have this goal set to climb Mount Everest and you would get to cross it off. The author states "Since that time, many other…

Lizzie Borden was one of the famous murdered cases in the United States. On August 4, 1892 she was accused of committing a double parricide. Lizzie Borden grew up in Fall Rivers, Massachusetts. Her father Andrew Borden was a very hardworking respected man in the community. He was wealthy and had a few luxuries. At the age 2, Lizzie’s mother died of uterine congestion and spine disease. When Lizzie mother passed, he remarried to Abby Borden. Abby Borden was Lizzie’s stepmother. She was…

Chapter one when I ment Thomas Edison,I was wearing a lab coat.Thomas asked,”why I was wearing a lab coat.”I said”Because I like to invent things and make inventions.Thomas said”So do I!”I had to go home,so then I told my parents about who I ment and that we have a lot in common.So the next day I went to Thomas’s house.We were plainning to build a lab.Thomas went and got the blue prints as I was getting the wood,lights and tools. Chapter two When Thomas and I were looking at the blueprints,are…

Edmund Burke saw the French Revolution as a vicious and destructive change to a legitimate and traditional form of government. He was disgusted and outraged by the actions of the French and in response, Burke wrote the Reflections on the Revolution in France, in 1790, as a warning to England’s citizens of the dangers of starting a similar movement. Enjoying a successful career as a politician for the Whigs, Burke’s strong conservative writings defined some of the party’s important right wing…

The result of a conflict should never be war. In light of the American Revolution, one can see why both Collier and Collier agreed that war is futile. Devastating outcomes arise from conflict, including: strained relationships, family rifts, and divided citizens. Additionally, the brutality and death in war is overwhelming. Nonetheless, a war can be arbitrary to both sides of a battle. Collier and Collier, authors of My Brother Sam is Dead, portray the fruitlessness of war by displaying the…

A monument is a place or thing that denotes the persistency of a cloud of symbolic significance over an event that occurred in the past. The Prison Ship Martyrs Monument was erected on the 14th of November 1908 by the sculptor Adolph Alexander Weinman and the architect Stanford White. It is an affable monument located in Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn, New York that commemorates the lives of 11,500 Americans who were imprisoned by the British during the American Revolution and died egregiously…