Fourteen Points

sweat streaks down your face and you can taste the salt and dirt. Knees hurting, and hands sore and you're younger than fourteen. Tthat is what the kids felt like during the time of Cchild Llabor. The end of Child labor influenced America for the better and made America come to the point that we are at now. Child labor was a change that we will never forget because now, in this point in time we don’t have child labor and that is for the best. Child Labor influenced America in many ways because…

War I, which ultimately destroyed the pre-war worlds confidence. Many of these attempts and creations of unity were carried down into policies that were written into a document called the Treaty of Versailles. This treaty was written based on 14 points that Woodrow Wilson deemed important to world peace and brought an end to WWI. Attempts at upholding this settlement failed over the span of 1920-1936 when the Great Depression hit and WWII began. Signed on June 28th 1919, the Treaty of…

writes the script, and as the reader reads it, you can clearly see and imagine what is going on in the story. In chapter fourteen, it opens up with Tom and his friends, Joe and Huck, waking up being in the middle of woods. Tom, is the first one to wake up and he realizes how much he likes it in the woods. He enjoys the peace and stillness of nature, at this point, he loved being in the woods alone with his friends. He thought “this is the perfect place to be pirates,” with the river…

be compelled to do the same; but first check out Vows. There are many things to appreciate in this fourteen minute short. From the set design of sleek, modern life to the beauty of the Hebrew language. While the subject matter is a heartbreaking one, it cannot be denied that it is wonderfully done. The use of the extreme close-up in the film is incredibly meaningful to the story. The entire point of that type of shot is to force the audience to pay attention. To feel and be captured by the…

facilities separation were equal for blacks and whites. Although the segregation between blacks and white already existed in restaurants, schools, and public places, in Plessy vs Ferguson, Supreme Court ruled that such segregation didn’t violated the fourteen amendment of the constitution. Although the case was later overruled by Brown vs. Board of Education, it was one of the worst Supreme Court decisions on that time. Supreme Court approved the legality of racial segregation under the name of…

The journal article that was written by Nelson and Hay explicitly reviews the results found from interviewing fourteen Indigenous students. These fourteen young Indigenous people showed that they have a strong will to succeed in school even though, they are still struggling not to conform the racial stereotypes that they have to face on a daily basis. The findings, in particular, point out that a welcoming and accepting school environment is the key to keeping Indigenous students interested in…

Letter of Introduction I am Joshua De Jesus Escobedo and I am a very compassionate fourteen year old kid that likes to work hard and help other people as part as my citizenship. My parents are from Mexico they are hardworking as well and I also have a little sister that is eight years old. I am attending E.O. Green Jr. High. The motto that I live by is to treat everybody with respect no matter what other people have done to me. To begin with, my personal goal in life is to become a scientist…

During the 1930s the world was at a turning point everything was changing and the road to war became clearer for all the parties that had a major stake during that era one example I would like to reference is on page 44 "the decade of the 1930s witnessed a long series of crises that marked the world 's gradual descent into war, not in East Asia and in Europe. these crises unfolded against a background of economic distress created by the Great Depression and the rise of political extremism that…

character that Homer depicts within the poem of The Odyssey, and one very interesting aspect of this character is his characterization of loyalty. Homer establishes loyalty as a strong and vital characteristic of Eumaeus through the passage in Book Fourteen in which the swineherd is introduced into the poem, approximately from lines 40 through 85. This portrayal of the theme of loyalty through the character of Eumaeus is a crucial aspect of The Odyssey, as this is the welcome that the skeptical…

Relationships Within Families in Romeo and Juliet Did you know, less than 2% of people marry their high school sweethearts or their “first love”? Well, in the book Romeo and Juliet love at first sight and “first loves” are a big part of the book. In the time of the 1500s, it was a regularity to have your children raised by a nurse and not by the child’s parents. Arranged types of marriage were another common nonchalant concept. In the book Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare, the author emphasizes…