Lenape

The sunset was a beautiful orangey-blue color. As I walked through the hallways of Lenape High School, one last time, I was anxious for what was to come. As I entered the cafeteria to wait for the ceremonies to begin, all I saw was a sea of red and grey. The girls had on red caps and gowns; the guys had on grey. Everyone was chit chatting…

Cultural discrepancies always play a role when it comes to conflicts. For example, language act as a barrier when trying to get ideas across and are often at the root of all miscommunications. Excluding background differences, all people are human. They feel, they cry, they tend and they’re especially prone to mistakes and hypocrisy. In the novel, The Light in the Forest, by Conrad Richter, a white boy growing up in a Native American tribe is to determine where his true loyalties lie. The…

with True Son and they escaped by going to the river and stealing a traders boat. When they reached the Indian territory where they were safe, the camped out in the forest for about a month. One day, they decided to head back and go back to the Lenni lenape people(home) and see their family again. True Sons job to get back at the whites was to stop a settlers boat the was in the water and make them come closer so the Indians could shoot at them. When he went out to stop them and they started to…

landscape is seen through his use of vibrant colors and light. A child leads the beasts, which appear cuddly and toy-like on the right side of the painting. On the left side of the painting, you see William Penn and other Quakers meet with the Leni-Lenape Indian tribe to make a peace treaty. This theme is frequently seen in many of Hicks’s Peaceable Kingdom series of paintings. One of his most defining features within all of his earliest paintings in the series is the borders that were designed…

Chester County is where I have been raised all my life, it’s a wonderful area. It is located in southern Pennsylvania in the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area, about fifteen miles from Philadelphia. Specifically it is located at 40.0010 degrees N, 75.8069 degrees W. William Penn founded the county in 1682 making it one of his three original Pennsylvania colonies. It was named after Chester, England. The landscape is beautiful here, lots of rolling hills and valleys flourishing with wildlife and…

Introduction: On April 6, 1917, the United States entered the global conflict in Europe, but it’s Regular Army was not trained to conduct synchronized combined arms operations on the level of their Allies. The first display of large-scale, combined arms operations by the United States was the Battle of Cantigny on May 28th, 1918. Cantigny marked an important transition in the strategic organization of the American Military and set the stage for the United States to become active participants…

Through experience it has been learned that White people do not typically identify strongly with race nor are they typically impacted by it. Very few White people acknowledge white privilege or have felt white guilt. I am a White girl however who has experienced both. I was always very racially aware from a young age, I knew that people around the world lived very different lives, had drastically opposite beliefs, and had a particular way of viewing the world, all of this fascinated me and I…

Danny Durbin! ! Mrs. Wiest! ! English 132! ! 6 February 2015! ! School Shootings! ! In the 20th century, there were no chains, locks, or cameras in the schools. Back in those days, parents worried more about their children’s grades, rather than their safety. Kids never really thought about bringing guns to school or any matter of that nature. Now that it’s the 21st century, schools are required to have locks on their doors and install cameras for a student’s safety. Kids, these days, constantly…

West by St. Nicholas Avenue, running from 114th St. to 156 Street, and to the east by the East River”(Watson 3). Established in 1658 and originally a Dutch village, Harlem was named after the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands. Purchased from the Lenape tribe in 1658, the neighborhood was originally established as an upper middle class neighborhood for white Americans. The beauty of the neighborhood is recognized for its brownstone buildings and the significant architectural designs that date…

Gun control is a highly engaged debated topic and always has been. Many people feel banning guns and creating gun free zones is the answer to stopping mass shooting and people being killed daily. Except they’re wrong. According to Freedom Outpost, 92 percent of mass shooting have occurred in gun free zones. Why? The answer is simple, bad guys know good people do not have guns to protect themselves. One argument that reoccurs is not the gun that kills, but the people who kill with a gun. "The…