Fort Riley

Jackie Robinson was born January 31st, 1919. He has four siblings, one sister and 3 brothers. Jackie Robinson married Rachel Robinson in 1946. Jackie was born in Cairo, Georgia. Jackie became the first black player in the major leagues. Jackie signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Jackie’s last appearance at a baseball game was October 10, 1956. He has 137 home runs and his batting average is .311. Jackie was born into a poor family. He was the youngest of the five. Jackie went to John Muir High…

Jackie Robinson: First Black Baseball All-Star Thesis statement -- Jackie Robinson’s childhood was tough, but he was very athletic. He was good at many different sports. I learned about his baseball success and the segregation he went through. He changed the lives of others and encouraged many other colored people to join the Major Leagues like he did. Jackie Robinson was born on January 31, 1919 in Cairo Georgia. Early life for Jackie was tough, at 6 months old his dad left and never came…

from a world of harms” (Shakespeare, 25-28). Lucrece’s morally upright character shone in the light of the sun since she only gave of herself exclusively to her husband; when the night fell however, evil stained the clean soul that Lucrece possesses. Forts can hide purity away from the world, but they can also entrap it as stated by the McAllisters: “Lucrece…

Saturday morning we got our luggage and left for Chicago. Once we got to the suburbs of Chicago the traffic and weather was getting bad we moved one block in like 20 minutes. It took us another hour to get to the O'Hare airport we paid for our bags and got food and starbucks and went to our gate. We got on the plane and the take off was pretty bad the wind got really bad and it was bumpy. The flight was about 4 hours. The plane landed in Portland, Oregon around 8:30 west coast time. We went to…

Determined to Separate I grew up in a loving nuclear family, until I was about sixteen years old and my parents decided to separate. I used sports and extracurricular activities to cope with my parents no longer being together. My grades never dropped. I started getting acceptance letters from several different universities. I got accepted into the school where my boyfriend of two years at the time attended. I did not choice to follow him instead I decided to attend the universality of…

enrolled in a two-year business college at Bryant & Stratton, but soon dropped out. When McVeigh dropped out of college he worked at Burger King and then later as an Armed Security Guard. Timothy joined the Army in 1988 and was sent to basic training in Fort Benning, Georgia where he met Terry Nichols. “He was called up for combat in 1991 during the Persian Gulf War, where he…

number of orphans in the province. There are records noting that at the Ford motor company more than 1,000 workers called in sick with the flu. In San Quentin prison, 500, of 1,900 prisoners became ill. On March 4th the flu came to camp Funston (now Fort Riley) in Kansas, a training camp for 20,000 recruits. The Spanish flu affected the war effort. Commanders were complaining that the disease is hindering their ability to fight. businesses were forced to shut down because so many employees were…

journeys that the soldiers of the unit of 2-16 short for the Second Battalion, Sixteenth Infantry Regiment of the Fourth Infantry Brigade Combat Team, First Infantry Division went through (Finkel, 2009, p. 9). This particular unit started off in Fort Riley, Kansas and then they were assigned to a mission in Western Iraq for 12 months to provide safekeeping for supply convoys, run by Infantry Officer Ralph Kauzlarich. As the stories start off, his life and struggles are the highlights of the…

Baseball career. Only a few months before breaking baseballs color barrier, he was playing pro basketball for the Los Angeles Red Devils. Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Robinson was drafted into the army and assigned to a cavalry unit at Fort Riley, Kansas. In one famous incident in Syracuse, New York, a rival player threw a black cat on the field and chided, “Hey Jackie, there’s your cousin.” After hitting a double and later scoring, Robinson responded, “I guess my cousin’s pretty…

Isabella Discua 4/18/16 Period 2 . Influenza Catastrophe From 1918-1919, a deadly, contagious disease, known as the influenza pandemic was spreading at an incredibly fast rate worldwide. There are several names for the flu such as “Spanish Flu”, “Three-Day-Fever”, and “The Flu.” It was first recognized in Europe, the US, and parts of Asia before spreading worldwide. Many of the victims exposed to the disease were young and the adults were healthy. There were no effective medicine to cure or…