Russel Ward

Guardianship is not the same as being adopted. My foster parents were never able to fully adopt me because my birth mother refused to give up her rights. Due to her actions, I was considered to be a ward of the state. When I tell people that I spent 16 years of my life as a ward of the state, they think I have been in prison since I was a little toddler. I cannot even fathom what they could possibly be thinking that a little five year old did to wind up in prison. I can usually tell by their facial expressions, and many times they are not welcoming expressions, that they think I am a convict. It is only after their initial thoughts that I am able to explain to them I am in fact not a criminal and am called a ward of the state because I became the financial responsibility of them. It is only because my birth mother refused to have responsibility over me, but never fully relinquished her rights as my mother, that I was labeled as such. After mentioning what a ward of the state is, I am usually questioned about what it means. Well, it generally means that my foster parents were my guardians, but I could not take their names. A name. Such a silly thing to want, but it was all that I wanted. I wanted to be one of them, not one of my…

which included her other adopted son who was four years older than me. When I would sneak upstairs to see my sister I was chased and beaten then thrown back into the basement. My foster mom would let me come to family events, and other places like church but as soon as we got home I was sent back to the basement without a thing in hand, I have no doubt in my mind that the only reason she did this is so that people would not become suspicious of what was really going on behind closed doors. These…

Modern warfare one is a first person shooter game but it was never called modern warfare. It was called Call of duty four modern warfare. This was the new game series modern warfare and the last call of duty but this call of duty was not based off of world war two. This game was based off the modern world. This was announced on April 12, 2007www.wikia.com 2001. The game was released on November 5, 2007. The call of duty 4 modern warfare game play was published by Activision and developed by…

Call of Duty began its saga with Call of Duty 1. The most famous one is Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Call of Duty 4 came out in November of 2007, and it was the most popular Call of Duty that ever existed. The design of this CoD was unbelievably amazing, the company who made it, Infinity ward, got millions, even billions of dollars for it. (www.eurogamer.net, 2014) The best thing people liked about Call of Duty 4 was the multiplayer, which allows you the ability to play online with players…

Tara Donovan is an American artist from Brooklyn, New York who creates sculptural installation art pieces out of everyday simple objects, such as plastic cups, paper plates, pencils, straws, and polyester film. Donovan transforms these ordinary everyday objects into large-scale installations which in some cases create a depiction of nature resembling landscape scenes including, mountains glaciers, icicles, rocks, and more. When Donovan was interviewed by Daniel Comiskey, he asked her, “Why use…

In Leave it to Beaver, Ward Cleaver; the father, is the dominant head of the household and carries multiple patriarchal roles. He is the sole provider for the family, making June his wife, inferior. This connects to Robert Rutherdale’s article on fatherhood and masculinity following the baby boom of the 1940s-1960s. Rutherdale argues that “while most baby boom fathers struggled to get a foothold in the vastly improved economy of the 1950s, their successes as wage earners became a central…

Description of Harriet Tubman: Biography: Harriet Tubman was born in March 1820 in Dorchester County, Maryland, U.S. As a young girl, Harriet Tubman was raised in terrible conditions, and was whipped constantly. At the age of six, she began to work as a slave. Harriet Tubman was a rebellious young girl, and for that she was whipped plenty of times and traded off to many people. As early as the age of twelve, she realized that being a slave just wasn’t right and this caused her to be seriously…

Do you know who Harriet Tubman is? She gave slaves freedom. She rescued her family, and many people she didn’t know. Most people know her for her work on the underground railroad. The Underground Railroad is a secret system of safe-houses created to help abolitionists. It made it easier to get the slaves safely to the north, where they were against slavery. Harriet was born in Dorchester County, Maryland in 1820. She was first named Araminta Harriet Ross. When she was younger she was tagged…

Ideal Meeting of an American History Reformer Harriet Beecher was born in Litchfield, Connecticut in 1811. In her area, she had never directly witnessed the cruelty of slavery, but the word of such horror was enough to move her deeply from a young age. Her family had a legacy of shaping their world. All ten Beecher children made their mark with accomplishments such as becoming ministers, pushing for women’s education and founding the National Women’s Suffrage Association. Being the younger…

Darwinism. In this essay, I will discuss where Darwinism started, what philosophers agreed or disagreed on his theory, and if I believe in human nature. Darwinism was created with the help of Alfred Russel Wallace. Alfred was a naturalist, biologist, and an explorer who enjoyed being outdoors and focusing on nature like Charles Darwin. With the help of Alfred, Darwin had a better understanding of how nature really looked like. He was one of the mentors that helped Darwin explore nature and how…