Monticello

I am writing on behalf of the 8th Grade Class at Monticello Trails Middle School to ask you to please create a “Good Night Kansas” book. It’s not just my school and I who want this, but the whole state of Kansas want a book made for us. My class did some looking around to see what other books were in the series, and we realized that Kansas is 46 out of 50 states that don’t have a book made for them. We realize you don’t accept submissions, but we just want to show that Kansas isn’t an eccentric…

7-1: Milestone Four: Rough Draft Thomas Jefferson was both a philosopher and a politician. It could be argued that he was one of the best political minds of the eighteenth century. His genius was, “Broadly put, philosophers think: politicians maneuver. Jefferson’s genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously.” He had struggles in his lifetime, was curious and had knowledge on almost every subject, having read 6,487 books, that were just in his home library. Yet,…

December 17, 1949 in Monticello, Arkansas my grandpa Darrell Andrew Donaldson was born to Oren and Lucille Donaldson. He was the middle child of three children. He, his parents, and his grandparents all lived under the same roof. This continued until his grandmother’s death in 1955. After his grandmother’s death his father Oren inherited on hundred and sixty acres of farmland. The date of the original purchase of the farm is unknown. Oren farmed cotton and raised cattle on the side. In 1954…

In this book there was three major sources of conflict. Slavery, debt, and Thomas Jefferson. Slavery was an issue for many of the characters in this story. Considering most of the characters were slaves, the slavery issue received a lot of harsh feelings. Beverly, Harriet, Maddy, and Eston would one day be free on their twenty-first birthday. There was some issues along Mulberry Row when it came to this. It seemed unfair to all of the other slaves. Not only this, but slavery was just a horrible…

Thomas Jefferson the third president of the United States was born in 1743 in Shadwell, Virginia. He joined the institution of William and Mary but received no formal training in architecture. Fundamentally self-taught, Jefferson accumulated a remarkable collection architecture and art that comprised several reproductions of Palladio’s Quattro Libri. Eventually, Jefferson developed a concentrated obligation of Palladio’s architectural notions based on their link to early Romans (Howard, 2003).…

eagerness of finding the identity of American architecture, domestic architecture emerged from “non-designed” to professionally designed work. Two major ones were Roman Revival verses Gothic Revival. Led by Thomas Jefferson (Figure 1) and his own estate Monticello,…

comes to mind is about Thomas Jefferson and his relationship with his enslaved lover Sally Hemings. As we take a closer look into the life of Thomas Jefferson, let’s consider these questions, what was life like for the other enslaved families at Monticello? How were blacks viewed within the English culture? And last, but not least, was it considered rape when Jefferson had sexual relations with his fourteen year old slave? When we read about Jefferson, the name Sally Hemings is not too far…

important because it reminds us of how he helped build our country. The Thomas Jefferson Memorial was built to honor one of our founding fathers and the author of the Declaration of Independence. The Jefferson Memorial was built around the Pantheon and Monticello, Jefferson’s home. There were four architects for this monument. The first architect was John Russel Pope, the most famous of the four, who also helped design the National Archives and many more buildings…

A memorable day in my life was when I came to Job Corps. I didn’t even go to sleep that day because I was excited to see the campus I was going to spend months on. I played some last games of “Destiny” with my little brother before I left. I didn’t eat any breakfast because I was so nervous going to Job Corps. My little brother and I left the home to go to the Port Authority to wait until I leave. The people I was waiting for came late so I started to panic because I didn’t know if I was in the…

citizens’ lives. The U.S. purchased the Louisiana Territory and Lewis and Clark explored the vast new acquisition. Although Jefferson promoted individual liberty, he was also a slave owner. After leaving office, he retired to his Virginia plantation, Monticello, and helped found the University of Virginia. He died on July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.…