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It’s February of 1778 at Valley Forge where General Washington has camped to watch the British who have quartered in Philadelphia. Food is scarce, and the cabins are filled with smoke due to bad ventilation. All of us soldiers are suffering from the cold and hunger. Many are ready to quit, or not re-enlist, because they can’t handle the harsh weather and conditions. Some have just simply deserted the camp and have never returned. Limbs are torn off of every day, and the smallpox is getting…

Incredibly talented and extremely humble, a champion of champions and a winner of hearts... Yes today we are talking about the tennis maestro, Roger Federer. Roger was born on 9th august,1981 in Basel, Switzerland. He was a born prodigy and started showing his interest in sports from a very young age. He was naturally talented and very hardworking, as a result of which, he became the national junior champion in Switzerland, at an age of 14. In 1998, shortly before he turned pro, Federer won the…

Hans Christian Anderson’s short story “The Little Match Seller”, or “The Little Match Girl”, offers a look into the harsh realities of what life was like for children living in extreme poverty. The main character of the story undergoes a tremendous amount of grief throughout the story because of her low financial status and her inability to escape the harsh winter she is exposed to. Anderson’s use of setting, conflict, and figurative language develops the themes of suffering and loss by…

This podcast discusses the London Match Girl Strike in 1888, in response to the poor working conditions at Bryant and May match company. These girls, ladies, and women were considered the lowest of the low in East London, the part of the country that was synonymous with poverty and crime. In the Victorian era, women were expected to do as they were told and not make a fuss over their situations. They were supposed to focus their lives on finding a husband and having kids instead of working.…

gives details and insight into Manning’s complex relationship with his father, and forces the reader to relate it to their own experiences. The essay begins with Manning and his father, hands locked together, in the middle of an intense arm wrestling match. However, even though Manning fought to defeat his father in the battle, he was easily overpowered by him and his hand was forced to the carpet. Upset over his loss, Manning was, “Too bitter to smile,” (Manning 138), while his father simply…

Manny Pacquiao, Duterte’s perfect match in drug war By Dung Phan Far away from the boxing ring in the United States where Manny Pacquiao had his first fight, to the stage in the Philippines where Duterte first delivered his inauguration speech, there was one unifying thread between sheer momentum: their popularity. Pacquiao, known as "the destroyer" or "Fist of Nation" embodied the country's struggles and triumphs, becoming the public face of the Philippines. Duterte, nicknamed as "the…

twice as long as the average guy on the team to learn a new move or drill. I was an anti-prodigy. Because of this, matches were brutal. Most of the time I was pinned in the first minute. Match over. I didn’t survive the first round in a single match until the second half of the season. I didn’t win a match until even later. When I finally did, though, it was an indescribable…

Daniel Mendoza’s final boxing match with Richard Humphries took place in September of 1790 in the town of Doncaster. While all the sources and Mendoza’s memoir agree that Mendoza won the match, the accounts differ on many of the specifics. One difference between Mendoza’s account and the newspaper articles was the exact odds that were in Mendoza’s favor at the beginning of the match. Mendoza stated that they were five to one. A report in the World claimed they were seven to four, while the…

The ethical approach that closely matches my ethical decision-making is the universal approach “do unto others as you would have done unto everyone and yourself,” I accept it as an impartial non consequence based approach that can be applied everywhere at all times, unlike the other major ethics approach of utilitarianism that favors happiness of the majority and disregards individual rights for the greater good of the organization such as bribing of government officials. Our laws are written…

being told about it. Many authors made sure that their work would accurately represent the region they were talking about to ensure their credibility. In Joel Chandler Harris’s short stories “The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story” and “Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match at Last,” Harris uses dialect as a way to accurately represent the African American culture he is talking about. Instead of…