Galesburg

“Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and the sunlit blossom of that flower” (Carl Sandburg). This is a quote by Carl Sandburg. Carl Sandburg is a famous American Poet. Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois on January 6th, 1878 (Penelope Niven). Sandburg’s parents are August and Clara Sandburg who were immigrants from Sweden (Penelope Niven). Sandburg and his family were extremely poor (Academy of American Poets). At the age of 13, Sandburg quit…

with the city focusing initially on properties where high lead levels have been detected in tap water or where a child has been diagnosed with lead poisoning.” Racial structures of power are certainly at play here since the amount of lead pipes in Galesburg, a predominantly white community, doesn’t even compare to the “…roughly 385,000 lead service lines [that] remain in Chicago…” (Chicago Tribune)—a city that is home to a large minority population. Moreover, the fact that negative side effects…

Throughout this poem you will learn where some of the greatest wars in history were. (carl sandburg) It will make wonder and think about the past and why the wars ever even happened. The speaker in this poem is the grass. “Grass” was published in 1918 right after the end of the great war, Sandburg takes the issue of war head-on. (infoplease.com) Sandburg worked his way through school, where he attracted the attention of professor phillip green wright, who not only encouraged sandburg's’…

places that need help. I volunteered almost every monday and friday then an entire week. It was actually really easy to go in every time and get pounds upon pounds of fresh and tasty food put into bins and take them to shelters and areas all around Galesburg. However, there were…

admiration for the nation’s people. Many people compare his work to the works of Walt Whitman and Robert Frost because all their writings show a great deal of parallel interest in Americana (Watts). Carl Sandburg was born on January 6, 1878, in Galesburg, Illinois. His parents were two Swedish immigrants named August and Clara. He went to school at Lombard College, but he had to drop out because he was forced to fight in the Spanish-American war. Before Sandburg left Lombard, one of his…

Hello everyone, and welcome to the 2017 World's Most Beautiful Majorette Pageant. I am Chloe Mae Page your 2016 Junior World's Most Beautiful Majorette, I am also a Junior at Galesburg-Augusta High School. It's been said it takes a village to raise a child, and I am so happy that the WTA family has helped me grow so much these past twelve years. WTA has taught me to be a better twirler and a better person. I don't know what I would do without baton or my friends from it. First, I would like to…

discovered her through Poetry Out Loud when I decided to read her poem All Hallows’ Eve. She was born on August 25,1910 and died not to long ago on January 31,2012. She somehow was about to live up to the age of 101. She was born and raised in Galesburg, Illinois. Unfortunately there isn't much information on her family and childhood. She attended Knox College for about 2 years before she went to Chicago and then to New York during that time she was a commercial artist. In 1946 she married an…

Hope is more than a word and more than an idea. It is a state of being that is not limited to one person. It is undefinable because it fits in so many categories. Barack Obama uses hope as a main idea for his 2004 Keynote Address speech for the democratic party. This speech is thought to be one of his greatest speeches and even inspired him to write a book called The Audacity of Hope. Throughout The 2004 Keynote Address, Barack Obama uses multiple devices to sway voters to chose John Kerry as…

Lincoln and Douglas Debates The Lincoln and Douglas debates of 1858 were seven debates between Abraham Lincoln who was a republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois. Stephen Douglas who was a senator in the Democratic Party candidate. During the time United State Senators were elected by state legislatures. They were trying to win control of the Illinois legislature. They decided to hold one debate in each of the nine congressional districts of Illinois. The first debate was…

The second debate was in Freeport, Illinois on August 27, 1858. The third debate was in Jonesboro, Illinois on September 15, 1858. The fourth debate was in Charleston, Illinois on September 18, 1858. The fifth debate was in Galesburg, Illinois on October 7, 1858. The sixth debate was in Quincy, Illinois on October 13,…