Henry Hugh Armstead

When can you know when a person can be trusted? In the Turn Of The Screw written by Henry James, the narrator otherwise known as the governess tells the story. But how reliable is the information she is giving us? Can she be trusted or is the information that she is giving the reader a lack of evidence. Although the narrator of this novel is not introduced formally. The person who is telling this story is the governess. Who also is in charge of taking care of two kids named Flora and Miles. The…

Looking Back: Caterpillar's First Motor Grader Caterpillar first became involved in the motor grader industry in 1926, when the Russell Grader Manufacturing Company of Minneapolis, Minnesota released a grader featuring a 2-ton Caterpillar crawler tractor. This grader – called No.4 Auto Patrol – which was rated at 27 horsepower, and had hand-operated blade controls – sold successfully. As a result of No.4 Auto Patrol's sales success, the Russell Grader Manufacturing Company developed another…

John Steinbeck’s The Red Pony, a collection of stories revolving around a young boy coming of age, and The Grapes of Wrath, a novel written about a family's journey from the aftermath of the Dust Bowl to their life in California, illustrates that a person’s character changes when one goes through adversities and grows from those obstacles. People don’t just experience hardships and forget about what happened. There is something that provokes feeling in them to cause a change in the way they may…

Losing yourself is a central concern of madness which was explored in King Lear where madness was a prominent theme. Antoinette similarly to King Lear faced with a loss of reason. At the end of the novel, Antoinette becomes totally unable to distinguish between reality and fantasy and realise who she is. She believes she has seen a ghost in the mirror which in reality was herself. The statement Antoinette makes while looking in the mirror: “I saw her – the ghost. The woman with streaming hair.…

Industrial Revolution was the greatest positive reform in American society. Some of the most well known people in history made a huge impact during the Industrial Revolution. For example Henry Ford created the assembly line which allowed automobiles to be produced quicker and made traveling cost a lot less and become more convenient. Another example is Thomas Edison who made electricity available to us. Although the Industrial Revolution helped other countries. It had the greatest impact in…

Automobiles in the 1920s In the 1920s people lived prosperously in the United States. The people of the 1920s partied, gambled, and built amazing cars. The United States won World War I and was in an economic boom. Most people were wasting money, but some people invested into young industries. One of these was the car industry. Companies such as Ford, Dodge, Rolls Royce, and Duesenberg built new technology for cars and more. Even though cars were being built in the 1890s and early 1900s, it was…

Armor and weaponry The U.S.S. Monitor was armed with two eleven inch Dahlgren smoothbores located in a 20 foot in diameter iron turret that could spin 360 degrees. The turret, which was covered in eight inches of iron plates was rotated by a vertical shaft that was connected to a 25 horsepower steam engine through a gear system. The rotation of the turret was controlled by one man under the deck. Over all the turret was nine feet high and weighed 120 tons. The cannons fired through oval gunports…

Henry Ford’s Impacts on Mobilization A major start of the automobile was Henry Ford. He always wanted to help make a way for the middle class to have some of the luxuries of the upper class. His way was the Ford car. One of Henry’s greatest quotes from the book Who Was Henry Ford stated “To do for the world more than the world does for you-that is success” (Michael Burgan 61). This was Henry’s overall goal in life and he thoroughly finished it by allowing people to become more mobile and…

beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.” Henry Ford is often referred to as the father of the automotive industry. Although that is not the truth, he did, however, change the industry forever for the better. With his invention of the Assembly line, it would change cars all over the world. Ford and his motor company were one of the most successful motor companies of the early nineteen hundreds. Henry Ford and his invention of the Assembly Line was something that…

including General Motors Technical Center, the United States Army Detroit Arsenal, home of the United States Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command and the Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC), St. Johns Macomb and Henry Ford Macomb Hospitals, Chrysler as well as the headquarters of Big Boy Restaurants…