Musket

The Narative Of The Life Of Fredrick Douglass In the book The Narrative Life of Fredrick Douglass, He gives us facts about the hardship’s he faced as a slave in the 1800’s. He was born a slave because his mother was a Negro slave. As he grew up he was sold to many masters and very mistreated, just like many of the other slaves. There were two different slave systems. Some of them were considered urban slavery and others were rural slavery. In that part of history for the people of color to…

The introduction of Christianity impacted greatly of Māori Society. Pre-European Māori religious beliefs and practices did not orientate with the western values and so missionaries such as Samuel Marsden sought to use the introduction of Christianity as a tool to align Māori with the rest of the expanding European world (Walker 1990:85). Retrospectively, we can understand how the core beliefs of Māori differed from those of Christianity, however it was in the initial failings of Europeans to…

Albert Einstein once said: “The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil but because of those who look on and do nothing.” The Civil War started because of differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states. The war was fought from 1861-1865, and it was the bloodiest 4 years in U.S. history. It started when the Confederates bombarded the Union soldiers at Fort Sumter.…

what is culture? Culture is me Remembering when the downy hair on the back of him, the throbbing pulse of his purr as you scratch his body, the squishy feeling in a paper towel as I had to pick up his morning hair on my bed as he goes lays down for his morning nap. What am I talking about, hold on let’s go to the beginning of all this? Dig Doge as the bell goes three more times like it does every day I don’t think anyone really likes the bell, as I walk in the locker room after a long day of p.e…

The Battle of the Alamo The battle of the Alamo occurred during a period when the Republic of Texas faced a bleak and uncertain future known as the Texas Revolution. American colonists were allowed to settle in Texas at the time under the New Mexican emperor Agustin de Iturbide. On 23, 1836, General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna began the 13 day siege of the Alamo. A moment in history that turned a ruined Spanish mission in downtown San Antonio, into a shrine. There were several events leading…

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave is written by one of the best known abolitionists to this day. The resonance of his story has been heard throughout the United States since its publishing date in 1845. Looking at the cover, the average American may presume that he or she already knows the daily occurrences on slave plantations, but this firsthand account sheds light on what has not always been talked about in the average American classroom. Douglass gives the…

Many people came to the New World looking for new possibilities, freedom, and a place to settle and become an established, respectable land. Starting in the early 1600’s, the Virginia Company wanted a settlement in America. The Chesapeake colonies, including Virginia and Maryland first established the town of Jamestown. “Jamestown was intended to become the core of a long-term settlement effort, creating new wealth for the London investors and recreating English society in North America”…

Beal Bondly. At this trespass, Mr. Bondly took offence, and with his musket came down to the shore, and blew its deadly contents into the poor old man” . Often times, when a slave disobeyed orders or a command, they were sometimes tortured and left on display for other slaves to see. Circumstances for slaves were very immoral…

Aristotle by my side, I unhurriedly walked towards Napoleon. He was only a small distance away. Once I neared him, I saw that he was wearing his traditional French military uniform in navy blue and red. But he was left unarmed; there were no swords or muskets by his side. Napoleon looked very anemic, so I asked him, “What’s wrong?” Napoleon jerked his head upward, as if noticing me for the first time. He had a wild look in his eyes. “My head. My mind. It has been plagued with multiple images of…

Although he learned cobbling skills well enough, the world as seen by the sailors was too much a lure for the 13 year old the Fulstow lad. He knew of dangers however, as it was common for seaman to descend on Fulstow, press-ganging men into the navy. Fulstow was a prime target due to its proximity to Great Grimsby and known toughness of its men. He knew also that, in choosing to runaway from his master shoemaker, Robinson would become a wanted apprentice. There would be a public announcement…