Merian C. Cooper

Hundreds of children talking all at once, that’s what morning at Illini Elementary School sounded like. And there I sat having no one to talk to. Until one day a new girl came through the school doors. She was as tall as a giant and had short black box braids. This girl sat down by all the other children in my grade. So many thoughts were going through my head at once I didn’t know what to do. I was so nervous to talk to her that I almost threw up! I didn’t want her to reject me like the other…

For generations, the sciences in Europe had been very limited and controlled by the Church. However, in the post-Renaissance era of the 17th-18th centuries, the sciences began to flourish in Europe. Many men in the universities of major cities in Europe began conducting experiments and developing theories and and coming up with conclusions. The men had a complete monopoly on scientific discovery during this time period. Eventually women wanted to break into the scientific field as well but were…

My project is on D.B. Cooper who is known for his famous airplane hijack. D.B. Cooper was getting on Airlines flight #305 in Portland bound for Seattle. While the plane was in the air he told a flight attendant that he had a bomb in his briefcase by opening his briefcase showing some exposed cables. He demanded 200k in cash (1.2 million in today’s value), four parachutes and food for the crew before releasing the passengers. The 200k he demanded were in twenty dollars bills, he tied the bag of…

with C. Let us compare and contrast two different object-oriented languages, C# and C++ (Craig, 2007). C# is…

“I’m going on an adventure!!”, this is what Bilbo described himself as he was running off into a new world from the Hobbit. The same can be said about an American. Though how does one simply be an American? This question can be taken in several ways, however one easy way to describe it is by experiencing it firsthand. By going on an adventure like never before, seeing the beauty of nature as you spring down the path, making friends along the way. That is what being an American is all about.…

in war - not for independence, but for land. Set in the wilderness of upper New York, James Fenimore Cooper's, The Last of the Mohicans, is one of the first great works of American literature solidifying Cooper as the first truly American author. ¨As a pioneer of literature, James Fenimore Cooper did not use a European background to attract readers as Washington Irving did; instead he created his own purely American style of literature. In his novel,[readers]can find real American figures, an…

Throughout history, there have been many robberies in America, but only one remains a mystery. The name Dan Cooper, also known as DB Cooper, is well known by many. This was the name of the passenger who skyjacked the Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 on November 24, 1971. Cooper threatened to blow up the plane if he was not given four parachutes and 200,000 dollar, so Northwest Airlines responded willingly. After landing in Seattle to get his demands, the plane refueled and took off again.…

James Fenimore Cooper’s narrative in “The Last of the Mohicans” relates a lot to the Romanticism period. It has a lot of the characteristics of American Romanticism. We can see that he is very disgusted with the monarchs of Europe as he says in the first chapter, on page 11, “But, emulating the patience and self-denial of the practiced native warriors, they learned to overcome every difficulty; and it would seem that, in time, there was no recess of the woods so dark, nor any secret place so…

Revolutions all across the globe had constituted to an era, which brought forth to some of the most influential artists and writers of the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century. In particular, the revolutions pertaining to America such as the Declaration of Independence, in 1776, gave many artists new subjects to consider such as contradicting political views, economic actualization and strong cultural and social diversity. When these feelings were brought forth into works of art, the…

James Fenimore Cooper has a past in the church. He was very active in his hometown church. Later in his life he took on leadership and clergy roles there. He donated a lot of money and supervised the redesigning of the church as his own expense. Also later in his life he was confirmed by the church. He was very publically involved in his home church, so for him to have written a book tying in Christian values is not surprising. Some writers who analyze Cooper’s work said he was the only major…