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was not green. It was actually the color of copper because that is what it is made of, yet through the years it has rusted into a green color called verdigris. There is no charge to enter the Statue of Liberty, however there is a cost to ride the ferry to the island.…

Lee. After many successful shows of leadership in the war, he was promoted to the rank of major. He was the colonel of the Virginia militia, and commanded at Harper's Ferry Virginia. In december of 1862, Jackson continued a victory at Fredericksburg, and then the famous flank march in Chanslerville May 2, 1863. The same night he was wounded in crossfire. General (Stonewall) Jackson got his name from the battle of bull…

Today we leave Fort Kearney to follow the Platte River until we reach the California Crossing. We will walk 170 miles and will take about 19 days to reach our destination. Yesterday Charles got food poisoning from eating raw meat. The Kenneth Flag family made us bacon to eat for breakfast. I thought it was odd to now just start giving us food when we're in the middle of nowhere but I didn't want to be rude and not take it. Charles was the first to eat the bacon and the first to get food…

homeland, “But that posed its own difficulty, as Germany was the enemy Russia was still fighting on the Eastern Front”. (Richardson 62). Nevertheless, Lenin continued to venture in a sealed train that “chugged on to Germany’s Baltic coast, from where a ferry and then more train journeys through Sweden and…

Born Frederick Augustus Bailey in Baltimore, Maryland 1818. Frederick struggled through childhood due to the slavery conditions at the time. In 1824, six year old Frederick Bailey moved from his home in Baltimore, Maryland to a plantation in the country called the Wye House. Just two years later, Frederick was sold off to another slave owner back in Baltimore where he was taught to read by his owner’s wife, Lucretia Auld. The learning process was a struggle do to Mr. Auld's harsh slave rules. 5…

Siddhartha Analysis Siddhartha is a truly complex story with a man who goes from a curious young man to an knowledgeable father. Siddhartha contains many emotions, ups and downs, and complex inner change. In many ways I can relate to Siddhartha and his journey. He reminds me of myself and the journey I went on that would cause me to learn new perspectives. The deep emotion and pain that is suffered represents many whose lives are affected by new experiences. The unique descriptions and…

The RAN performed a variety of operational tasks at sea, ashore and in the air. The primary roles that they played during the war was for the naval vessels to ferry troops to and from logistic base and to serve on the ‘gunline’ where they provided naval gunfire against ground targets to support the Australian and united states troops. Another job that was conducted by the RAN clearance drivers dispose of unexploded…

year of schooling at the Academy. Later, he was stationed at a cavalry outpost in Texas for 6 years until the War Department ordered him to take care of John Brown, a radical abolitionist, and his men who were trying to seize the arsenal at Harper’s Ferry,…

Through the birth of a young nation, sectionalist tensions among various issues sculpted and shaped the road to the Civil War. Factions between the North and the South arose due to a long-term conflict concerning the issue of slavery and competing ideas in several aspects of society. For the South, slavery shaped and impacted social, political, economical, and laboral facets of society. The South argued to obtain the right to slavery free from federal interference, while basing their argument on…

Mexican War At the end of the Mexican war in 1848, the United States gained an extreme amount of land. The land consisted of what is today California, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and Texas. The big issue was whether the states would be slave or free. Henry Clay created a plan in 1820 that would be used to decipher the way the land would be split. This was the Missouri Compromise of 1820. It set a line at 36-30 degrees North, which was the lower end of Missouri. The Treaty of…