Greyhound

On November 19, 1978, the nation and the world woke to the news of the tragedy of Jonestown, learning of the carnage of the suicide and murder of over 900 people in the jungle of Guyana. What happened has been painstakingly studied however the how and the why continue to be the subject of discussion more than thirty years later. The death tapes captured much of what transpired on November 18, 1978. Jones was heard to say,” “Die with a degree of dignity. Lay down your life with dignity; don’t lay…

Throughout the early 1900s, Germany had been through many difficulties and instabilities in both the economy and the government, and found it challenging to deal with these issues. The Parliament, known as the Reichstag, was made up of 40 parties, one of them being a small, right winged group called the German Workers party. In 1919, a man named Adolf Hitler joined this party, and from then on, he managed to get his way to power in 1933, overthrow the Weimar Government and become chancellor of…

In William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth we see a heavily diverse group of characters that surround the protagonist Macbeth throughout the entire play. These characters symbolize the people that we will have to deal with in our everyday lives. The characters that we will come across our lives are Macbeth, Macduff, Banquo, and Lady Macbeth. Macbeth is an example of a man whose life took a drastic change by some sort of event, Macduff was the well-rounded man of the play, Banquo is the one person…

From 2002 until 2007, the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) produced a popular reality television show in which a team of surgeons, dentists, personal trainers, make-up artists, hair stylists, and fashion advisors worked to alter a person’s looks in an attempt to transform the person’s life and ultimately make his or her dreams come true. The show was called Extreme Makeover. Miguel de Cervantes’s novel Don Quixote is the story of an extreme makeover gone wrong. Though Alonso Quixano tries to…

I want young men and women who can suffer pain. A young German must be as swift as a greyhound, as tough as leather, and as hard as Krupp 's steel" (Trueman) because he wants soldiers, not children. Doerr takes this vision and incorporates it into All the Light We Cannot See. Children do not learn properly. The government teaches children…

South across the country. James Farmer created this campaign because he wanted “to create a crisis so that the federal government would be compelled to enforce the law” (Holmes). Freedom riders traveled from Washington D.C. to Mississippi on mainly Greyhound buses. They were on their way to face what awaited them down…

kills animals, leaves them emotionally different, and more than likely leave them with future problems. Death Any kind of animal abuse can and sometimes leads to the animal dying. According to the article 11 Facts about Animal Abuse, “Thousands of greyhounds die each year—some in the name of “selective breeding”—before they ever touch a racetrack. Many dogs do not make it to the nominal “retirement” age of 4 or 5” Proving that being overworked it a type of abuse, not getting enough nutrients…

growl looking out the window. Then we heard the sound of glass breaking in our back yard. She began to bark ferociously. My husband got up and ran to the back door, with our retriever right by his side. He opened the door and she darted out like a Greyhound out of a racing gate, barking the whole way. He quickly turned on the light and saw someone jumping the fence, narrowly avoiding the powerful jaws of our family guardian. This person had broken our garage window and was attempting to enter…

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” has become a very well used quote in the hockey world, all because of one person who came up with it. This former Canadian professional hockey player was born up north in Brantford, Ontario. He was welcomed to the world by Walter and Phyllis Gretzky.(“Gretzky’s ” 1) Little did they know he would be a legend one day.This man is Wayne Gretzky. The roots of Wayne Gretzky’s hockey career may seem unusual but they helped him grow up to be the athlete he is…

A tall man waves vigorously at the Cessna plane taking off at the Turner County airport. It’s not a wave good-bye. Well, then again it sort of is a way good-bye. You can’t see the big man’s eyes because he’s got sunglasses on as he watches the plane soar off. But, you know what those shades are hiding. The tall man in sunglasses is watching a lifelong dream happen as the plane disappears from sight. The airplane trip, piloted by Jay Leatherwood, is a ride sponsored by the Ashburn Pilot’s…