Jill Ireland

main idea of this story is about a disaster that struck Ireland overnight. Blight attacked the potato crops, turning them black and destroying the only real food of Ireland. The title of my book is Black Potatoes, and the author is Susan Campbell Bartoletti. History is the genre of the book. The pov of the book is third person. The story takes place in the country of Ireland. The time period of the famine is 1845-1850.”The weather in Ireland has always been fickle.” Fickle means that the…

“A Modest Proposal” and Elizabeth Warren in “The Vanishing Middle Class” argue about the flawed economic system of their respective countries one being the United States and the other Ireland. Swift argues how the poverty of the poor is dragging down the middle class and is ruining the beautiful country of Ireland as well. On the contrary Warren argues on how a strong middle class is needed in order to help out a lower class that is struggling. Because Swift notices that their needs to be a…

When asked “What is home?”, a variety of answers can be deemed correct. Home can be considered a place of residency, a family unit, a place where something flourishes, along with many other interpretations. Whatever one’s connotation of home is, it is almost always considered to be viewed in a positive light. This is because home is a place of comfort. When you are at what you consider home, there are no expectations, and it is no doubt a place of acceptance. It is a safe place, where one can…

The Donnelly’s were a family who emigrated from Ireland because of the Potato Famine. They immigrated to London, Canada. In Canada, they were not the most favourite family in their township. In their township which was called the Biddulph Township, there was a lot of violence which was shown by sheep killings, arson, fights and by murders. This shows that the township was not very peaceful and there was a lot of problems and violence. This was common for them. In the text it says that the…

We get home, we kick off our shoes, take off our socks, and unbutton our pants as we swan dive in our beds and put on the TV. Is it not the best feeling of getting home after a long day outside in the treacherous world? On the other hand, we get to work we tie our shoes, tuck in our shirts and begin dreaded paperwork the agony. Our private residence against our public work space. Even if we feel the same in both places, we have a lot more freedom in our home. From the color we paint our walls to…

There is more than one side to every story. When tragedy or calamity strikes, it affects people in different ways. Past events, loyalties, and moral viewpoints define how one sees a situation. Concerning the Easter 1916 uprising, Yeats seems to change his views of the people involved and explores his feelings in the poem “Easter 1916.” Yeats, at the start of the piece, seems to have a fairly low view of the rebels. He respects the nobility and bravery of what the revolutionaries did, but isn’t…

Analysis of "Who's Irish?" "Who's Irish?", is a story about the differences of Chinese's view and American's view of rising a child and a family. Main characters about the story are grandma, grandma's daughter; Natalie, grandma's son-in-law; John, and John's mother; Bess. The three issues about the story are disciplining of a child, what sons should do for their parents, and how a child should behave as a grandchild. In grandma's view, how to discipline a child is by spanking her or him.…

Old Immigrants: Ireland- They were different because they were one of the poorest people in Europe. They came to America to escape the hardships and start a new beginning, with the hopes of actually succeeding. They faced discrimination, nobody wanted them there because they were willing to work for lower wages. Most cities were too crowded for the people already living there. They had dark, cold, and not ventilated “living spaces” that were only 9 foot by 11 foot. They had no running water, it…

megan brown Death Valley “Campsite “ I shouted.We all ran as fast as we could and we raised ourselves off with hose water “it was nasty water. “Than I was thinking there might be food inside.I said to myself “ let's get in the trailer and see what there is” and than I got inside and took some tools.I tried to fix the car but did not work.A couple hours later they had bathed and ate. Soon after they arrived there I was helping bathe gina.Soon I and gina both have heard jenny screaming…

less than slaves. This lead to the Irish people were used for difficult labor in the south because people did not want to risk killing their slaves. The whites would say the slaves are worth too much to be risked, but if the Irish are killed nobody loses anything. "One Southerner explained explained the use of Irish labor on the grounds that: 'n-----s are worth too worth too much to be risked here: if the Paddies (Irish) are knocked overboard . . . nobody loses anything" (Document c: Historian,…