Memorial Hall

Do you fight for glory and to protect others or do you fight for yourself and for vengeance? Epic heroes, Beowulf and Achilles, are such people that fight for these principles/ ideals. Many people know about Beowulf and Achilles and their epic stories, but many people do not know how different they are. Beowulf fights for others and for glory, while Achilles fights for vengeance. Beowulf is an epic hero that many people know as the strongest man in the world, but many don’t know why he fights.…

Kyle Yatsonsky Mr. McShaffery U.S History 8 June 2015 Why the Atomic Bomb Should have been Dropped On August 6 and August 9 of 1945, perhaps the most controversial war decision in American history took place. This decision was deciding to drop the atomic bombs in Hiroshima, Japan on the sixth and Nagasaki, Japan on the ninth. Killing thousands of individuals instantaneously with Japan’s army in a weak state, many argue that the bombings were unnecessary. Despite these arguments, the dropping of…

opportunities to express ones thoughts and feelings in order to develop a sense of self and demonstrates how women have had their voices taken from them. Celie’s growth and the resulting parallel decline of male dominance are a central theme of the novel. Hall describes Nettie’s revelation that “Pa is not our pa” (150) as a “liberating power” (5), and a turning point in the novel. Celie’s letter to Nettie announcing the death of “the man us knowed as Pa” (Walker 206)…

the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Frost Fellowship to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, the Levinson Prize, the American Academy of Arts and Letters traveling fellowship, the Shelley Memorial Prize, and an invitation to give the Morris Gray reading at Harvard. She also received a Guggenheim Fellowship, grants from the Ford Foundation, honorary degrees, and held professorships at Colgate University and Boston University”…

“kept a secret”. In the TED Talk, Koyczan is subjected to bullying in the “battleground” of the “school hall”, as evident in the metaphor, “A kid who kept calling me ‘Yogi’, then pointed at my tummy and said, ‘Too many picnic basket’s”, illustrates the dehumanising treatment towards Koyczan, as he is ridiculed for his weight. The…

attraction in town. The mansion was completed in 1906. There are many National Historic places in Tarrytown; The Christ Episcopal Church, First Baptist Church of Tarrytown, Foster Memorial AME Zion Church, Washing Irving Elementary School, North Grove Street Historic District, Patriot’s Park, and Tarrytown Music Hall. There are two National Historic Landmarks in Tarrytown, which are Sunnyside and…

Dream’’ this speech was one of the most famous speeches he ever gave. Later in 1968, Dr. King’s wife, Mrs. Coretta Scott King, officially founded the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for nonviolent social change, which she dedicated to being a ‘’ Living Memorial’’ aimed at continuing Dr. King’s work on important social ills around the world. Martin Luther King was jailed 29 times According to the King Center, the civil rights leader went to jail nearly 30 times. He was arrested for acts of civil…

A mass of devastating events took place throughout World War II. One of the biggest was the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a mass genocide of European Jews, gypsies and homosexuals. The Holocaust took place over the course of twelve years. Although the exact number is not known and estimated eleven million people died as a result of the Holocaust, six million of those people being Jewish. The Holocaust started in 1933 when Hitler came to power in Germany. It ended in 1945 when the Nazis were…

Jersey the next morning where we would stay two nights. On the second day in New Jersey, we took a train from New Jersey to New York City. New York City was a really cool place to see with all the high-rises. We saw the Statue of Liberty, the 9/11 Memorial, the New World Trade Center, and Times Square. When we got back to New Jersey, we went to Harold’s Deli. The next day, we started to drive to Pittsburgh to see a Pirates game with the rest of my team. The Pirates lost 10 to 2, but I…

Joe DiMaggio was one of the greatest hitters and center fielders in all of baseball history. He set many records, including a 56 game hitting streak in 1941. DiMaggio won 9 World Series titles during the 13 years with the New York Yankees. DiMaggio came to America as the son of a poor Italian immigrants, but then later grew up to be a baseball legend. Joseph Paul DiMaggio was born on November 25, 1914. He was born in Martinez, California. Joe was the 8th child of Giuseppe and Rosalie DiMaggio.…