George B. McClellan

Depression is the best way to describe Valley Forge. Unhopeful is the best way to describe the soldiers there. Valley Forge is depressing, and the soldiers there are gloomy. I have fought my time in the war, and there is still no improvement on either side.The Members of Congress have created and signed the Declaration of Independence. If we lose the war they have basically signed their death. Britain will hunt them and all the remaining, living soldiers and kill them. I need to chose whether to…

The Boston Massacre was a huge riot in Boston, Massachusetts due to resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed five colonists. During this bloody event unlike every man in Boston, John Adams choose to represent the Soldiers because he believed everyone deserved a fair trial. By doing this John Adams is a man of great integrity, courage, and leadership. As John Adams stated, "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever…

Religion was traditionally very important in England and throughout Europe. However people did not always have the choice of religion because of the influence of the reigning monarchy. That was one reason why people left their homeland and took the long dangerous journey to the new land of America. This was the land where they felt free to practice the religion of choice. However, the American colonists were concerned about the expansion of Roman Catholic territory down to the Ohio river as…

In my essay I will look at how the theme of disruption from a higher power appears in The Tower of Babel (GHM 4.4) but also appears in The United States Government. In The Tower of Babel (GHM 4.4) people after the flood had one language and settled in Shinar. They further decided to build a city with a tower that went up into the heavens. Yahweh (the Hebrew name of god) saw the city and tower and expressed concern for the powerful unity of the people under one language. So Yahweh scattered the…

Empire. How would these colonies so small and powerless even find the moral to fight the greatest empire on the world? Although there are many answers to this simple question, one of the main answers would be leadership from George Washington. In this essay I will cover how George Washington and his leadership abilities was able to form the army that would defeat the British Empire, and eventually create the most powerful superpower in the world, and also how his leadership helped…

they had the characteristics that people of america look up to. For some presidents they had skills, loyalty, honesty, team spirit, faith and more. By these characteristics some presidents achieve their goals like George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln. George Washington was born in 1732 and died in 1799 and between that time he was a General in the military, father of the country and the first president of the United States. When he was the president of america…

Imagine a perfect society, where people that live in the world benefit from society, a utopia. The author of both Fahrenheit 451 and Harrison Bergeron explain what a world would be like if we had a perfect world, but also what would dramatically change if we did. Both societies in the books, Fahrenheit 451 and Harrison Bergeron, have shown that their world's censorship can be the most dangerous thing they can hide. Along with that, technology can have a big effect on how much power the…

During the creation of the Continental Army, he nominated George Washington to be the commander-in-chief during the war. During May ofo 1776, the Congress passed Adam’s resolution stating that each colony should have their own independent government, leading to the creation of the Declaration of Independence just…

Nikola Tesla was a phenomenal engineer and inventor, who may have had some mental issues but never let that prevent him from doing amazing things. My interest in Nikola Tesla comes from his work including electric power. As an electrical engineer I am obviously interested in electricity myself. When he was nineteen years of age he started studying electrical engineering at Polytechnic Institute at Graz in Austria. There he was an excellent student. In June of 1884, Tesla traveled to New York…

Would you stand up for the people you were representing? Isaac Murphy showed great courage by sticking with his beliefs and beliefs of the people he stood for. Murphy changed history. Isaac Murphy, famous Arkansan, impacted the state of Arkansas by voting against secession and becoming the governor of Arkansas during the union governor of Arkansas during the end of the war and after the war. Murphy's childhood set him up to become a well respected adult. Murphy's childhood was fairly normal. He…