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Elizabeth Musico Mr. Phillip Jones American History 201 29 November 2016 The Reconstruction Era The reconstruction period, from 1865 to 1877, occurred right after the Civil War had ended and it was to rebuild, or remodel, the United States in hopes to become a much improved country. Although the military conflict had ended, reconstruction was in many ways still a war. This main struggle was opposed by radical northerners who desired to discipline the south and southerners who, to a great extent…

Content Summary The book, The Great Divorce, was written in 1945 by C.S. Lewis. Lewis wrote the book as a response to William Blake’s book, Marriage of Heaven and Hell. In many ways, it is a refutation of Blake’s book; there is no marriage of heaven and hell. The book begins in a sad, dark, desolate place. The reader is led to believe that this place is hell. The narrator takes the reader throughout the streets of this peculiar place. Eventually, he stumbles upon a bus station, along with many…

In the poem “Richard Cory” by Edwin Arlington Robinson, a man is viewed highly by the people on the streets. On one calm summer night Richard Cory went home and ended his life by shooting himself in the head. The tone of the poem is ironic. There are three types of irony, the three types of irony are verbal, situational, and dramatic. This poem expresses many examples of situational irony. Situational irony is when the reader expects something to happen but something totally different happens.…

Johnny Cade, a greaser and a hero, died yesterday at the age of 16. Johnny Cade was lost puppy that has been kicked too many times. His parents abuse him physically and verbally, he didn’t know what love and affection are. Unit Dally told him he was proud of him because he saved others. His father thrash him up and his mother was too selfish and didn’t care about him. Every times he comes out and in his house no one noticed him and he likes it when his old man hits him at least he knows he…

Make-A-Wish foundation The Make-A-Wish Foundation is a non-profit organization that grants wishes for children who have been diagnosed with life-threatening medical conditions. With a large amount of donors and fundraisers held by large franchises, they are able to create a dream come true for these children (Wish.org). The Make-A-Wish Foundation was founded in 1980 by Frank Shankwitz. Shankwitz was inspired to create the Make-A-Wish Foundation because a young boy named Chris Greicius had…

On July 16, 1861, the new Union volunteer army under Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell marched from Washington DC toward the Confederate army under Gen. Pierre G. T. Beauregard, drawn up behind Bull Run creek west of Centreville. Beauregard's men defended the strategic railroad junction at Manassas, just west of the creek. On July 17th, McDowell sent a small force across Bull Run at Blackburn's Ford to test the Confederate defenses. A brief skirmish ensured, with light casualties and little result.…

Joseph McCarthy was born in 1908 in Appleton, Wisconsin. He attended school until he was fourteen but dropped out in eighth grade to help on the family farm as well as raise chickens. At the age of twenty, he decided to go back to school and in one year went through ninth to twelfth grades to graduate. He graduated with honors yet he told people he had higher grades than he actually earned. (Morgan 2003) Ted Morgan in Legal Affairs noted that McCarthy’s high school grades were below 90 due to…

Harry S. Truman was born on May 8, 1884, in Lamar, Missouri, the oldest child of John Anderson Truman (1851–1914) and Martha Ellen Young Truman (1852–1947). His parents chose the name Harry after his mother's brother, Harrison "Harry" Young (1846–1916).[5] They chose "S" as his middle initial to please both of his grandfathers, Anderson Shipp Truman and Solomon Young. The "S" did not stand for anything in particular,[6][7] but was regularly written followed by a period. A brother, John Vivian…

these views contain both merits and flaws, the Christian worldview can be found in Shadowlands’ honesty about the nature of suffering and the hope of eternity and QED’s view that suffering and death are learning experiences. Shadowlands begins with C. S. Lewis giving a lecture on love, pain, and suffering. Lewis describes pain as “God’s megaphone to rouse a deaf world” (2). Because of free will, humans can be prone to become selfish and self-sufficient. According to Lewis, God uses suffering to…

Imagine a world where the people have no hope for the future. “The Hollow Men” was written by poet T.S. Eliot during the 1920s in London when World War I was taking place. “The Hollow Men” describes the world of godless despair without the promise of salvation. T.S. Eliot was born on September 26, 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri. He was educated at Harvard University then later attended school at Sorbonne in Paris, France. He later went on the marry an Englishwoman named Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot…