Maine

First, Manifest Destiny was coined by newspaper editor, John O'Sullivan, and was effectively used to Justify many means of acquiring land in America after 1845. There are numerous examples as to how this was used, for instance, the Oregon treaty. Citizens began to migrate westward in search of new settlements, and many were found to be settling in places such as California, New Mexico, Oregon and Texas. Oregon at the time was owned by Great Britain, and when James K. Polk won the presidency in…

On this day in 1983, the Soviet Union releases a letter that Russian leader Yuri Andropov wrote to Samantha Smith, an American fifth-grader from Manchester, Maine, inviting her to visit his country. Andropov’s letter came in response to a note Smith had sent him in December 1982, asking if the Soviets were planning to start a nuclear war. At the time, the United States and Soviet Union were Cold War enemies. President Ronald Reagan, a passionate anti-communist, had dubbed the Soviet Union the…

Multiple Sclerosis is a very common disease in people around the world. For instance my beloved grandmother got diagnosed with it in 1958. She had primary progressive MS and it is known to be the worst type of MS out of the four different types. Right off, she started having symptoms such as double vision, problems driving, problems walking, tingling, and weakness in her legs along with getting infections easily. She lived at home and my grandfather hired a special nurse to stay with her all day…

Bill Ezzard has always loved reading and writing even to this day. From keeping journals while traveling, telling ghost stories around a campfire with his friends cheering him on, to an advanced fantasy novel manuscript similar to "The Hobbit." He always had a passion to write. Imitation is the best form of praise, a quote from Mr. Ezzard is one of the reasons why he wrote "The Magerian Power." The Magerian Power" was started when he was twelve and was a story much like The Hobbit by J.R.R…

Groups and agencies have many factors to consider when they are creating monuments to memorialize certain people and events within our history. These factors to consider when they are creating monuments to memorialize certain people and events within our history. These factors include but are not limited to the relevance of this person or event to history, finances, and the overall the controversy. There are historical sites still standing today that hold a special place in our country’s history…

if we wish to prevent its fall to obscurity. Foremost, whatever cause our memorial will commemorate, it must resound in the hearts of the people. Otherwise, it gets lost to the annals of history, as it did for H. Elroy Johnson, the subject of “The Maine Lobsterman.” Presented once in the 1939 New York World’s Fair, it moved from “museum to museum,” until it was ultimately left in a warehouse to degrade. (Source F) Its palpable insignificance makes this statue an ineffective monument. Similarly,…

The Missouri Compromise was created by Congress in 1819 in order to solve the sectional and political rivalries between the Northern and Southern states. Maine was added as a free state in the North and Missouri was added as a slave state in the South. As a result of this Compromise, there were 22 states in America, divided equally between the two regions. Congress’s intentions was that by each region having 11 states, there would be equal representation in the Senate from the North and South.…

Antebellum American society is considered to be the period before the civil war and after the War of 1812. Many things impacted the society such as: revivalism, temperance, health fads, new technologies, and public education. Temperance and health fads impacted the American society in many different ways. Antebellum society was impacted a great deal by temperance and health fads. The impact of temperance helped clean up alcoholism, health fads somewhat helped, and cleaning up alcoholism was the…

society’s biggest problems, people are working full time yet still sink into poverty Logos: Author has worked multiple different jobs in different locations but is not able to stay in all of them, takes ibuprofen to help with the pain ( pg. 33), when in Maine (salary being 200/250 for about 40 hrs a week [pg. 60] ) unable to…

root to rock, every step memorized. Not a boot print left behind. It was cold and nearly moonless, a fine night for a raid, so he hiked about an hour to the Pine Tree summer camp, a few dozen cabins spread along the shoreline of North Pond in central Maine. With an expert twist of a screwdriver, he popped open a door of the dining hall and slipped inside, scanning the pantry shelves with his penlight. Candy! Always good. Ten rolls of Smarties, stuffed in a pocket. Then, into his backpack, a bag…