Huntsville

classes that they can recognize. In The Report on the Scottsborro case the author goes into each of the two girl’s lives. The first girl that she explores is Ruby Bates. “As has been said, it is from the most economically of the mill workers of Huntsville that the two girls in the Scottsborro case come” (333-334). This quote shows that the girls come from the lowest class of citizens but because the author is only getting the girls social class it doesn’t give the reader a very good idea of…

pointing towards the guilty verdict. On March 25, 1931 nine black boys were riding a freight train from Chattanooga to Hunstville. Among those boys were four young whites and two white women, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates. They were coming back to Huntsville after unsuccessful job searches in Chattanooga. After the train crossed the Alabama border a stone throwing fight had erupted between the white and black boys.…

Chief Satanta nickname was (White bear) Satanta by Matthew Potucek Famous speech “All of the people south of the Arkansas River belongs to the Kiowas and Comanches and I don't want to give any of it away. I love the land and the buffalo, and will not part with any. I have heard that you intend to settle us on a reservation near the mountains. I don't want to settle there. I love to rome over the wide prairie, and when I do it I feel free and happy; but when we…

Andrea Barrios Hist 1301.1m1 5/31/2016 Sam Houston and the American Southwest In Sam Houston and the American Southwest, written by Randolph B. Campbell and edited by Mark C. Canes, the main focus is on Sam Houston’s many accomplishments and failures. The purpose Randolph Campbell has is to inform general and scholarly readers on who Sam Houston was as a warrior, politician, and leader. Sam Houston was a governor of two states, President of the Republic of Texas, and for thirteen years a…

McCarthy set the theme to violence right out of the gate with the very first sentence “I sent one boy to the gas chamber at Huntsville.” [McCarthy 3]. McCarthy wants to get his point across of the struggle between good and evil. In Foster’s How to Read Literature like a Professor he says “ It’s nearly impossible to generalize about the meanings of violence, except that there are…

The Narrows There’s not much to talk about in regards to this little place, but there is a lot to say. From the small, dusty gravel parking lot, to the limited lake shore not 60 feet away, and the 3 or 4 miniature, 1-bedroom cabins in between, there isn’t a lot to look at. The memories though, packed into that cramped space stretch wider, when placed back to back, than the joined length of the smiles on my family’s faces when in that place, but not by much. The Narrows is a conglomerate of…

Future Business Leaders of America/Phi Beta Lambda (FBLA/PBL) is a nonprofit education association for students to prepare themselves for careers in business and business-related fields. It was first created back in 1937 by Dr. Hamden L. Forkner of Columbia University as a concept. Its first school chapter was chartered in Johnson City, Tennessee in February 3, 1942. The first PBL school chapter was chartered in Iowa in 1958. Today, it is the largest business student organization in the world.…

neighbors lining the streets to watch the commotion. The fire deemed a triple homicide and father of three, Cameron Todd Willingham, became the prime suspect. After countless appeals and testimonies, inmate number 999401 was lethally injected in the huntsville penitentiary on February 17th 2004. Though after the execution was final,…

of a liquid accelerant due to specific burn patterns, laboratory tests and points of origin. Wilmington maintained his innocence for years and filed countless appeals but unfortunately in 2004, he was executed at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville. In 2009, the Texas Forensic Science Commission panel reevaluated the case and determined that state and local arson investigators used…

Introduction The changes in technology from WWI to WWII had a major impact on the war. Everything from education to material to new inventions played a role in the war as well as modern day inventions and items that we still use today granted with some upgrading. WWI we had the industrializing of steal and the formation of production lines with greatly helped the war effort of WWI but would see this even more in WWII. Germany advances in rockets During WWII Nazi-Germany was also making…