Siege of Yorktown

Poem is a piece of writing which express feelings, emotions and ideas using descriptive figurative languages. However, poems are not dependable as a secondary source and if it is written about 100 years later than when the event actually happened. Likewise, the poem cannot be trustworthy if it contains different facts from the primary source written by the person who experienced that moment and who was actually there. Furthermore, as poems use figurative languages that exaggerate things, it is…

1. Title: Zlata’s Diary 2. Setting/Time Period(s): 1991-1993 3. Write a paragraph summary of the story. Zlata Filipovic is a young pre-teen living in Bosnia. She is an average girl that loves to play the piano, listens to MTV, and plays with her friends in her nearby park. All of that changes on March 1st 1992 when the Bosnian war breaks out in Zlata's home country. As a young girl, she never expected the war to reach her hometown of Sarajevo. When it did, she learnt the lesson of war-…

The Oklahoma City bombing was a terrorist attack that was carried out by Timothy McVeigh along with two co-conspirators. Timothy McVeigh was born on April 23, 1968, in Pendleton, New York. McVeigh lived with both his parents until their divorce in 1978, after their divorce he mainly lived with his father during his school years. McVeigh 's nickname was "Noodle", he was a scrawny, nonathletic loner which left him a target for neighborhood bullies (Linder 2006). He began to develop an interest in…

Perhaps one of the deadliest attacks on American soil prior to September 2001 is the Bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The main perpetrator was Timothy James McVeigh. McVeigh was later tired and executed for this act of domestic terrorism. McVeigh planned to incite a revolution against the Federual Government resulted in 168 people losing their lives. Who was Timothy McVeigh and what lead up to the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building. Timothy…

“Bad things will happen, and I have learned to accept that, but if bad things didn’t happen to us, if we didn’t have those moments of weakness, we wouldn’t be able to enjoy the good nearly as much,” said Rebecca Denny in 2011 (Truesdell). On April 19, 1995, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was bombed by Anti-Government militant Timothy McVeigh and Co-Conspirator Terry Nichols. The Oklahoma City Bombing was known as the most threatening terrorist attacks to happen in the…

"fall" faster. the word 'Trebuchet' derived from the Old French word 'Trebucher' meaning to throw over and was also known (along with many other english siege weapons) as the Ingenium from the Latin word ingenium meaning ingenious device! it incorporates mathematical equations that took centuries to perfect and was truly the most devastating siege engine of its time. The concept…

The documentary Oklahoma City was about the 1995 Oklahoma City truck bombing conducted mostly alone, by a white anti-government Christian terrorist name Timothy Mcveigh. This documentary shows all of the people and events that lead up to this one man carrying out the attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building, taking 168 lives and injuring 680 more. It shows how multiple out of state racist movements, government missions, and people arrests influenced a few people to do something so…

The Bombing of Oklahoma City was one of the horrific acts of a serial killer in American history that occurred on a sunny morning in April 1995. Timothy James McVeigh was born on April 23, 1968, from his parents Bill and Mickey McVeigh who was permanently separated. Timothy McVeigh joined the U.S. Army in May 1988 where he met Terry Nichols in basic training in Georgia. Later in their Army career, they both served at Ft Riley, Kansas. In 1989 Terry Nichols received honorable discharged from the…

Oklahoma City Bombing: April 19, 1995 The morning of April 19th, 1995 changed the United States forever. On that morning, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was attacked and destroyed by a homegrown terrorist. This event shook the US and forced the country to start thinking in terms of potential terror events, specifically ones carried out by US citizens. Two years earlier the World Trade Center was attacked by outsiders and caused America to begin to think about foreign…

What makes a criminal? What makes someone intentionally want to cause harm to other people? The type of environment a person grows up in could dictate whether or not they become a criminal. If a person grows up in a home where criminal behavior is normal, and they become desensitized to that type of behavior, they may grow up believing there is no harm in it. If you look at a criminal’s background, they normally don’t come from a happy home. Drug addicted parents, and police constantly showing…