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Alcohol in A New Home, Who’ll Follow? A New Home, Who’ll Follow? is a book set in the woods of lower Michigan. It includes many stories of Mary Clavers’ new, backwoods neighbors. Since she is moving from New York, she encounters many different situations, norms, views, and values that are very different from that which she was accustomed to in New York. One norm that she comes across in Michigan that is very different to New York is the use of alcohol. A New Home, Who’ll Follow? includes…

Producer, Mike Nichols provides us with a powerful look into the life of an American nuclear plant worker in the 1983 movie “Silkwood.” Starring Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell and Cher, “Silkwood” depicts the true story of Karen Silkwood, a chemical technician and union activist at Kerr-McGee nuclear facility in Crescent, Oklahoma. Knowing that the plant is three months behind in meeting a contract’s deadline, Silkwood suspects that their work is being compr0mised in order to meet the deadline.…

Morgan Bass Jasmin Bates-Lynch Daniel Briske GracieLynne Logan Alvion pendergrass Karl Marx: An Annotated Bibliography "Karl Marx Biography." Bio.com. Ed. Biography.com Editors. A&E Networks Television, 14 Nov. 2014. Web. 03 Oct. 2016. Karl Marx was a revolutionary socialist and german philosopher . He wrote The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital. Karl was born in Prussia, and he became a socialist journalist. He wrote Rheinische Zeitung, which got canceled by the government. Him and…

Annotated Works Cited CCA Bryand, Arthur “Samuel Pepys” Encyclopædia Britannica, February 15, 2007 aaaaaawww.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Pepys, accessed February 14, 2017 Encyclopaedia Britannica’s article about Samuel Pepys gives an account of Pepys’ life and career in detail. It describes his education at Magdalene College and then his marriage to Elizabeth Marchant de Saint-Michel. After this, it explains his lengthy career in naval administration, where he greatly increased England’s…

Did you know that Augustus Caesar was once named Octavius? Augustus Caesar was a very influential person in Rome, the world, and human civilization. I believe that he is one of the most influential people to live. During his reign he greatly affected the Roman empire. While emperor, he doubled the size of the empire and made Rome a great place to live in. Before he was an emperor, he was a soldier and was greatly affected by the people around him. As a soldier life was interesting and many…

In a world where facts are distorted, terror is courage, and anyone can create their own tale or story, is a place where people like Shakespeare, Rich and Randal are able to create verses that speak meaning. That is poetry. The poems, “When my love swears that she is made of truth” by William Shakespeare, “Storm warnings” by Adrienne Rich, and “Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randal utilizes literary devices to create tone in order to transmit the author’s purpose of ignorance, valor, and fear.…

Within Truman’s first few weeks of presidency, Truman attended the Potsdam Conference in 1945. The Potsdam conference was a conference where Stalin, Churchill, and Truman nicknamed the Big Three, met in Potsdam, Germany to negotiate the end of World War II (The Potsdam Conference). The Potsdam Conference was a significant event mainly because it gave the all of the leaders a chance to discuss their plans so that there was no confusion amongst the allies regarding post-war plans in Germany and…

Name: Boston Whitaker The Mandan people were a unique group of Native Americans who had an important role in history; they contributed to Lewis and Clark’s expedition. Their main roles in history were being hunters, farmers, and traders. The Mandan people had their own language, culture, roles, and trade. The Mandan people were native to North Dakota and their language was Siouan (Source D). The Mandan tribes did not understand other Native American languages including Hidatsa and Arikara, so…

Success Kid In the age of ever changing technology and media forms, one must be constantly searching for what makes new platforms different from the rest. Long ago, oral traditions dominated the way ideas were spread. Eventually, written records surged to dominate the way individuals communicate, which opened an avenue where people could interact with each other without being face to face. This phenomenon, while extremely beneficial, introduced the notion of the control of text. The author of…

Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica, 2007). Hadley’s Single-Cell theory failed to consider the Coriolis Effect which prevents air from traveling directly to the poles and could not explain the westerly winds in the mid-latitudes (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica, 2007). In the 1850’s research provides greater insight to the westerlies and polar easterlies,…