Log cabin

“The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.” -William D. Howells. Those were just a few of the many wise words that author William D. Howells had said. William Dean Howells was the most influential 19th-20th century novelist, author, editor, literary critic, and playwright. He was an American realist, and was nicknamed, “The Dean of American Letters". Howells is well known for authoring stories, such as "Christmas Every Day", and novels like The Rise of Silas…

During Slavery African Americans created oral traditions, as well as practiced, and created their own idiosyncratic religious practices. Slave owners had tried to create an atmosphere where all slaves were not unique and had no individuality. However, due to the treatment by owners slaves created a religious and folk culture specific to their community that gave them hope and humanized them; through this they were even able to enable resistance to their masters. Masters tried to teach slaves…

One of the fringe benefits of being an English or History teacher is receiving the occasional jewel of a student blooper in an essay. I have pasted together the following "history" of the world from certifiably genuine student bloopers collected by teachers throughout the United States, from eight grade through college level. Read carefully, and you will learn a lot. The inhabitants of Egypt were called mummies. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is…

WHEN WINIFRED had at last recognized the young woman in the buckboard as Lorelei Hansmueller, she walked, ever so slowly and non-chalantly, over to where Winston sat in his wheel-chair and whispered softly in an urgent voice, “Win-ston!!” “I know my dear.” “Whatever are we to do? First there was Penelope and now here comes this one, again.” “What can we do my dear, but be gracious. She may have made friends among the young offic-ers at Fort Kearney. She was very popular, there, if I remember…

complainants. Sadly, Isabella died in 1917 and the McDougall 's homestead was sold the next year, 1918, to Frank Welsh for $1210. (It is still standing and in excellent repair on Hwy 518.) After selling the McDougall homestead, Murdoch moved into the old log cabin originally built by…

African american children were passive victims of the institution of slavery. Many of these chilodren were kidnapped from an african or born into slavery by no means of their own. They were often taught to treat fellow slaves as a family to make the inevitable separation of their family less traumatic. The children were brought to work in the fields at early ages. If they survived their infancy, which included being weaned at a younger age and being fed food of little nutritional value.…

The man decided to take a shorter path to the camp in hopes to get him to his friends faster. “They had come over across the divide from the Indian Creek country, while he had come the roundabout way to take a look at the possibilities of getting logs out in the spring” (London, 499). Instead of following the group, the man decided to take a way that would benefit him come spring. As the man continued on his journey, he came to the assumption that it might not have been a good idea. He had…

eHRAF Research Paper Criminal justice systems are the processes created by governments or ruling agencies to maintain order and punish crime within a society ("The Criminal Justice System"). One universal criminal justice system does not exist, instead, they vary from society to society. These systems are important because they help to uphold order, enforce norms and mores, and shape the values of a society. I have only researched the criminal justice system of the United States government,…

Introduction Modern homesteading, also known as the back-to-the-land movement or self sufficient living, is made up of a community of people seeking independence through small scale independent farming, food preservation, and crafting. The above-mentioned were the “modern worker, who dependent on wage or salary, lodged in city flat or closely built-up suburb and held to the daily grind by family demands or other complicating circumstances, has watched for a chance to escape the cramping…

the war, but instead he was killed in cold blood. Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 in Hardin County, Kentucky. A few months before Lincoln was born, his brother, Thomas, bought a farm that was near Elizabethtown. The farm had a log cabin on the property, which would later be the birthing site of the 16th president. When he was nine years old, Lincoln’s mother, Nancy,…