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Katlyn Wlodyga Dr. Ritter HIS 1111 THAA 25 September, 2016 Inventing George Washington To this day, George Washington remains one of the most influential figures in the history of our country. He has been revered throughout time and continues to inspire people even today. In Inventing George Washington, Edward Lengel explores the myths that have been created surrounding who Washington was as a person; myths that were created in order to carry our country through rough times in history. Lengel…

“U.S Model Percussion Pistol 1842” Henry Aston Middleton, Conn. The pistol was manufactured by Henry Aston and Ira Johnson of Middleton, Connecticut. The U.S model 1842 percussion pistol was a single shot percussion pistol used in the Civil war and also in the war against Mexico in 1847 to 1848. Henry Aston was an immigrant from the United States from England in 1819. Henry Aston founded his own company in 1843. The gun also saw considerable use on the Oregon Trail. Henry Aston…

In many works, books, movies, and other aspects of entertainment, the hero’s journey is not uncommon to the typical reader or moviegoer. The hero’s journey is one of the oldest tools to compose a piece of literature or work, however, it hardly ever fails to strike the audience as entertaining whether it be about a fictional or nonfictional occurrence. The journey to contain evil, both mythologically and realistically, requires sacrifice and courage in the face of fear, demonstrated in The House…

Annotations Birkett, Dea. "Cruel? No, Elephants Love the Circus—And I Should Know, Says Dea Birkett, I Used to Ride Them in the Big Top." Animal Rights. Ed. Noah Berlatsky. Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2015. Current Controversies. Rpt. from "Cruel? No, Elephants Love The Circus—And I Should Know, Says Dea Birkett, I Used to Ride Them in the Big Top." Daily…

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As a result of his curiosity about the universe, Howard Phillips Lovecraft also philosophized that the existence of the supernatural is a possibility because the infinite cosmos has yet to be explored in its entirety. The monsters and otherworldly beings that Lovecraft writes of are not gory and do not evoke feelings of shock, but they are more so are disturbing in the fact that they remain inexplicable. Through his own mythology, he developed a fictional universe of supernatural beings that…

Flying acrobats, trained animals, strange oddities: all attributes of an astounding circus, yet where did these acts begin and what dark truths hide behind the breathtaking circus acts? Phineas Taylor Barnum spent his life remaking himself from a poor country boy into the city’s showman (Mansky). After moving to New York City, P.T. Barnum successfully opened the Barnum American Museum (“P.T. Barnum Biography”). He worked during a time where blue laws were prominent in the United States,…

The Gilded Age was a time period in American history when the economy exploded with railroads and big businesses with the help of: Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan. These three were some powerful individuals that helped the economy shoot up. Carnegie helped with steel, Rockefeller with oil, and Morgan with banking. They all were captains of industry in their own way and they all played a big role in revolutionizing the way things currently function. Although some of their…

Samuel P. Huntington writes his book the Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the New World in five parts. The book is about civilizations development in values, ideologies, religion, and culture. In part one Huntington creates a post war civilization map where the world is separated into nine civilizations. The first is the western civilization that consist of north america and europe. The second Latin America which was central and south america. Third African which was only the…

Inauguration is a formal custom in which Americans gather to mark the start of their chief executive. For first term presidents, it is custom since 1789 to provide the people with an inaugural address, in which gratitude, motives, and visions are commenced. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, also known as the 35th president, served from January 1962 till his assassination in 1963. Other than the fact that Kennedy marked as another president in our history books, it is taken into consideration, his…