Louisville

text and heart wrenching characters that there is a chance we find a piece of ourselves within them. Born in Kentucky, you can see her southern roots deeply depicted in her work. It is no surprise that her first play Getting Out, takes place in Louisville and does an beautiful job of depicting the struggles of trying to recreate your life (Marsha Norman Collected Works). The story revolves around Arlene who has just recently gotten out of prison and is trying to start life fresh, but finds the…

KFC has quite a renowned reputation for their delicious fried chicken, and has received a lot of acknowledgement for their unique recipe. However, there is so much that you don’t know about the fast food chain that even Colonel Sanders won’t tell you! As always, we are here to give you the real scoop on everything there is to know about KFC. We can tell you now that this is all true, but when you see these facts, you still might not believe them! Be sure to come back for our part two and part…

Bates 1 Matthew Bates Teacher: Mr. Marr Class: Bible 20 October 2015 The Pool of Siloam The Pool of Siloam was stumbled upon in 1880. Two boys were wading in a tunnel when they found an ancient looking pool of water. These boys probably did not realize how significant this well was to Biblical history. The tunnel that ran to this pool went through 1,749 feet of bed rock under the City of David (Achtemeier, Paul 952). This was stunning engineering for this time period. The pool of Siloam is…

Dian Fossey was born in one of the worst eras in history, a time when the rich where beggars and the poor were starving. In 1932 during the depression Dian Fossey was born, her mother Kitty was a fashion model and her father George was an insurance agent. Her father loved to be out in nature and hated his job and eventually started drinking; his wife was not pleased and soon filed a divorce. Soon Diana's mother met a new husband, his name was Richard. Unlike Diana birth father, George, Richard…

Thomas Edison is another man who has overcome physical difficulties in his lifetime. He was born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio, and had six siblings. At a young age, Tom suffered from Scarlet Fever, and had frequent ear infections that left him with bad hearing. In 1854, the Edisons moved to Port Huron in Michigan. Tom attended a school there for about three months. Tom being hyperactive resulted in his teacher saying he was difficult. He was then home schooled by his mother who was a…

dreams of playing professionally are ended, or hopefully, just postponed. Kevin Ware was a player at the University of Louisville. I was watching the game as they were playing against Duke University in the NCAA tournament. He went through a freak injury where he fractured his shinbone against them. This injury caused him to lose his scholarship at the University of Louisville, and start his collegiate career at a mid-major university. Out of high school, Ware was good enough play…

with the idea of being with Daisy – her pure and angelic presence seems unrivaled. When Jordan talks to Nick about the start of Gatsby and Daisy’s love, she says that, “She was just eighteen… and by far the most popular of all the young girls in Louisville. She dressed in white, and had a little white roadster, and all day long the telephone rang in her house” (74). The numerous associations of Daisy with the color white exhibits her as a character that is pure and unstained when in reality…

Throughout the history of Europe there have been many wars. They range from the Hundred Years’ war to the Napoleonic wars. Although both wars were devastating they did not compare to World War 1. By 1914 Europe was divided into two rival camps. One alliance, the Triple Entente, included Great Britain, France and Russia. The other side, the Triple Alliance included Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. As the countries stayed true to their beliefs to support one another countries there was serious…

During the early 1920s in New York City and Long Island, these two areas were known as the “West Egg” and the “East Egg”. This was the time of the Roaring Twenties when the economy was prospering. The 1920s were also a time of the modernist era. In Fitzgerald’s book, the Great Gatsby, Social breakdown is one of those characteristics of modernism. Social Breakdown is when the society and the social life of people are declining. An example of this in the story is two characters who are married…

A single story is a one sided point of view of something or someone. Single stories have the power to tell false interpretations of the actual story. In a TED talk, Chimamanda’s roommate was surprised on how well she knew English. Her roommate was shocked to learn that Nigeria 's official language was English. She had also assumed that because she had come from Africa, she did not know how to operate a stove. Chimamanda then described how her roommate had felt sorry for her even before she met…