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Choo-Choo Hotel: Check out one of the largest model train displays in the U.S. at the Choo-Choo Hotel in Chattanooga where you can even sleep in a Victorian railroad car! The model is 174 feet long and 33 feet wide with enormous detail including 1200 cars and 3000 feet of track. If you love miniatures, it’s worth the stop even if you don’t spend the night there! Rock City: Just south of Chattanooga, about 10-15 minutes off of I24, is Rock City. Be ready to spend at least a couple hours, so only…

A major event in United States history, that shaped the way our country is today, was the American Civil War (1861-1865). Some of the people that played a huge role in the war include, Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, and President Abraham Lincoln. The Civil War was a fight between the Union army (the North) and the Confederate army (the South) about whether or not slavery should be practiced in the United States. Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman played key roles in the…

Introduction David Halberstam was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a New York Times bestselling author. His works include countless newspaper and magazine articles, and more than twenty books on topics ranging from war and foreign policy to the auto industry and sports. Although he is best known for these nonfiction contributions, Halberstam started his book writing career with a novel. The times in which he wrote were wrought by controversy, and Halberstam’s writings fit the times. A…

Oprah’s father brought her on a visit back to Milwaukee to see her mother. She spent the summer there and again, her mother was often absent. When her father returned to take her back to Nashville, Oprah surprisingly said she would rather stay with her mother. She wanted to please her. Living with her mother again, she deeply wished for love and affection. Since her mother was often at work, she left her children with a babysitter, which was Oprah’s older cousin. Her male relatives and the…

Like a piece of history, William Shakespeare maintains his significance through to the end of time. William Shakespeare is relevant in classrooms today and should not be taken out of the curriculum; ultimately, english students need to be aware of William Shakespeare's influence on the history of their language. Firstly, Shakespeare's plays have the ability to appeal to a wide range of people in any given environment. Samuel Johnson, an English writer, poet, essayist, and literary critic,…

unpredictable temperament of an angry child, the animal would send anyone with half of a brain straight in the other direction. As it zigzagged its way towards where I sat, I felt no inclination to back away. The reason for this was simple: I was in Nashville mourning the death of my father. Or at least it felt like that at the time. I was actually sitting on a rock 50 miles outside of Billings, Montana, reading a tattered paperback that I had bought for five dollars at a gas station near…

By allowing it, prostitutes are required to get regular exams to check for STD’s and AIDS. This decreases the amount of diseases that get spread around much like the legalization in Nashville in 1863. If prostitution was legalized, hundreds of millions of dollars would be available to the state and federal governments because of taxes on the sales. Along with the increased amount of money the government would have, law enforcement would…

John Lewis was born in Troy,Alabama,on February 21, 1940. John had a great childhood. In 1957 John Lewis left Alabama to go and attend the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee and he learned about nonviolent protests against racial segregation. He was arrested during these demonstrations and his mom was very upset with him for it. Even though his mother was upset he was determined on the Civil Rights and went to participate in the Freedom Riders in 1961. The…

Over the course of the last 10 years, I have worked in low economic areas to provide an education for today’s youth. As a college senior, I worked at a community center in inner city Nashville. I then progressed to a charter school, and I currently teach Physical Education at a title one school. The culmination of these experiences shaped my views on how a student’s learning environment, educational and athletic exposure, can affect the student’s success. Through my teaching experience, I have…

Pauline Cushman’s birth name was Harriet Wood. She was born June 10, 1833 in New Orleans. After her father lost his merchant business her family moved to Michigan. She had six brothers, and she hunted, tracked animals and canoed better or as well as them. Pauline was a struggling actress but one night while she was performing in Louisville, Kentucky, she had been dared by a Confederate troop to interrupt the show to toast to Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy, she said “Here’s to Jefferson…