James T. Kirk

Prior to the start of the Civil War, if you were born to a slave, you became one. This was the case for many children, including Booker T. Washington. Booker’s mother, Jane, was a cook for a plantation owner named James Burroughs; his father, however, was an unknown white man, most likely from a plantation somewhere else. At an early age, Booker started carrying 100 pound sacks of grain to the plantation’s mill. This was very difficult work for someone his age, and as a result he was often…

techniques. (Biography.com Editors). Ford Motor Company wasn’t his first car company. His first company was the Detroit Automobile Company. Henry Ford didn’t like the low quality and high prices of the cars. Henry officially produced the ‘Model T’. The Model T is also known as the 'Tin Lizzie'. Assembly Line Henry Ford’s invention of the assembly line created mass production. Meaning more cars in less time. The workers specialize in one particular area rather than all of them, causing the…

Content Summary The book, The Great Divorce, was written in 1945 by C.S. Lewis. Lewis wrote the book as a response to William Blake’s book, Marriage of Heaven and Hell. In many ways, it is a refutation of Blake’s book; there is no marriage of heaven and hell. The book begins in a sad, dark, desolate place. The reader is led to believe that this place is hell. The narrator takes the reader throughout the streets of this peculiar place. Eventually, he stumbles upon a bus station, along with many…

In the poem “Richard Cory” by Edwin Arlington Robinson, a man is viewed highly by the people on the streets. On one calm summer night Richard Cory went home and ended his life by shooting himself in the head. The tone of the poem is ironic. There are three types of irony, the three types of irony are verbal, situational, and dramatic. This poem expresses many examples of situational irony. Situational irony is when the reader expects something to happen but something totally different happens.…

If you go to China, you see Chinese people. If you go to Egypt, you see Egyptians. But, when you walk through the streets of Boston or Los Angeles, you see a mix of people with different ethnic backgrounds. At some point, their grandfather, or father, or even themselves immigrated here to live the “American Dream”. My story all starts with my grandfathers. My grandfather were born and raised in India they were not very wealthy, but they were considered well off in India. At the time, India…

Washington was one of the most influential African American figures during the late 19th century. He was born as a slave on a small farm in Virginia, and he was determined to educate himself, and after that make a change in the world. After getting an education through hard work, he was teaching at Hampton institute. Then, Washington founded an institute based on the Hampton model in 1881. The institute was called the Tuskegee institute and it was located in Alabama. His goal was to make…

How does ‘Secrets in the Fire’ show personal strength and courage? ‘Secrets in the Fire’ written by Henning Mankell and translated by Connie Stuksrud, is a story about a young girl named Sofia who goes through many struggles and shows how she can cope and deal with those situations. The book gives examples of personal strength and courage by having the characters be persistent, having Sofia cope with her struggles, having characters encourage the protagonists, etc. This will focus on the three…

Imagine a world where the people have no hope for the future. “The Hollow Men” was written by poet T.S. Eliot during the 1920s in London when World War I was taking place. “The Hollow Men” describes the world of godless despair without the promise of salvation. T.S. Eliot was born on September 26, 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri. He was educated at Harvard University then later attended school at Sorbonne in Paris, France. He later went on the marry an Englishwoman named Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot…

They Don’t Need No Man The role of women from the realism time period to the modernism time period changed dramatically. In the realism period, women still have not gotten any equal rights, including voting, being in politics, and even being in any workplace. This caused many women to go against their husband or any other man. The stories in the realism time period that portray this is “The Revolt of Mother” by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, and “A New England Nun” by Mary Eleanor Wilkins…

Henry Ford was the leader I decided to choose for this assignment because I find him very interesting and I love Fords. Henry Ford is the inventor of the Model T Ford and founder of Ford Motor Company. He was born on July 30, 1863, in Greenfield Township, Michigan. His only education was from working on the family farm. His occupation was an industrialist. Ford grew up living on working on the family farm and shortly after his mother died, he decided to leave the farm. When Ford was a young…