Savannah

I respectfully request consideration be given to my statement below and that the Administrative Reprimand be filed at the local level and not in my Official Military Personnel File. 2. On 20 February 2016, at or around 2300 I drove to downtown Savannah, GA and walked to a bar. My initial plan was to call a taxi, or a friend when I left. I consumed several mixed drinks containing liquor. The bar closed around 0230, at which point I left and called 3 of my soldiers to check on them. One of my…

What were the causes? The American Revolution was a political rebellion that started in 1765, and ended in 1783. Things started when colonist from the Thirteen American Colonies refused to submit to the authority of King George III, and the Parliament of Great Britain. This act of defiance led to the foundation that ultimately led to the independent of the United States. In 1765, members of the American colonial society, representatives of the colonist, who would meet and discuss…

Mary Flannery O’Connor was a born on March 25, 1925 into a Catholic family that lived in Savannah Georgia. Flannery lost her father to lupus erythematosus. Mary did not have a father figures to answer or to guild her to a good man. The short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” was a story showed the reader that how women are miss led. Flannery in tells how women did not have much say so when it comes down to decision making. “O’Connor a Christian writer, and indeed the Christian concept of free…

There are many heroes in the novel Fearless. Adam Brown was one of them. Adam was a brave and hard-headed man. Adam never gave up. Adam Brown was someone that will never be forgotten. He made many impacts on people’s life. Adam Brown was from Hot Springs, Arkansas. He went to school at Lake Hamilton High School and graduated with honors. (Blehm, 36.) Adam attended Arkansas Tech University and played football there. Adam began to realize that he was not as good on the football field in college,…

If there were no written documents of our African history, could we tell the story of back then, according to how we as a people live today? As African American people the answer is no because as African American people, we need to understand where we came from, so we can understand where we are going. In the article “Beyond the Written Document: Looking for Africa in African American Culture,” explains how important history is and all of the information it can provide. With historians in the…

The First Battle of Bull Run The first battle of bull run took place on July 21, 1861 near Manassas, Virginia. The leader of the union troops, General McDowell, encountered confederate troops near Bull Run Creek, led by P.G.T. Beauregard and Joseph Eggelston Johnston. McDowell spent two days trying to get around them. Union troops crossed Bull Run Creek and managed to drive back all of the confederate forces except one battalion, led by Thomas Jackson. He earned his nickname when one soldier…

Mary Flannery O’Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia on March 25, 1925. She attended Georgia State College for Women, and then went to the University of Iowa, where she joined the writers’ workshop. O’Connor published her first story in 1952. In 1955, she published her first collection of stories entitled A Good Man Is Hard To Find. She died on August 3, 1964. O’Connor’s other stories include “The Life You Save May Be Your Own,” “A Circle in the Fire,” “The Comforts of Home,” “Greenleaf,”…

This novel starts out on the Butler’s plantation in Savannah, Georgia. The owner of this large plantation was simply known as Master. Master had a great deal of debt from having gambling problems. His wife, Mrs. Butler, was a very nice lady who loved all of the slaves very much. She got attached to one in particular, and her name was Emma. Emma was a loyal slave who took care of the whole Butler family which included Francis and Sarah Butler. Sarah loved Emma with all her heart and never took…

“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.” This is German-born poet Rainer Maria Riike, quote on society’s lack of appreciation for nature. Nobel Prize winner V.S. Naipaul is a Trinidadian author who won the award for literature in the year 2001, he was born Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul in Chaguanas in the year 1932. As a teenager he attended the Queen’s Royal College in Port…

Elephants are the largest land animals in the world that are strong and gentle. Thousands of years ago, large like animals called American mastodons and woolly mammoths roamed the Earth. These ancient relatives of the elephants are now extinct. Between 26 and 12 million years ago there were about 350 distinct species of elephants now only two species remain. Those two species are African (Loxodonta africana) and Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus). (Allen, W. R. Philosophical Transactions of the…