Macon

A famous person once said “You have given someone the gift of life, and someone else a child to love. Some kids would just rather live with their grandparents rather than their biological parents. Mondresz Booker is a Young man from Pike County (Concord Georgia). He was raised by his grandmother Esther Booker and Aunt Happy Johnson. When he turned 10 he moved to griffin Georgia with this biological mother. Then he started to hang around the wrong group of people on a daily basis that…

One of the most influential persons in American history is the one that kept America one nation: Abraham Lincoln. Truly, it is inspiring that one man born in a one-room cabin on the Kentucky frontier would someday be considered the greatest leader of the greatest nation in the world. Many today believe only members of the elite class can change the world, but the life of Lincoln begs to differ. A self-educated man, Lincoln received very little help in his career in politics. Being the first…

I just don’t understand why my old man keeps telling me his lectures over and over again. It’s not like I am a bad boy or anything like that. I just failed math, not such a big deal, you know what I mean. I just know if I go home my old man would lecture endlessly about my poor efforts in math. He would always say, “I had to leave school when I was thirteen, that’s a year younger than you are now. If I’d had half the chances you have, I’d...” All that stuff that I could care less about. I…

The Battle of Cannae Carthage was a city located on the Mediterranean Sea in Northern Africa. It was founded near the year 814 B.C. by Phoenician traders who had a long tradition of trade in the sea (Bradford 21-22). The city was built for trading. It contained two harbors, one for the public trading, with ships from all over the known world. The other port was used as a military harbor (Bradford 22). The city was first built for trading alone, but as the Carthaginians started to discover the…