The Next Line

In the Novel Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow we are given much historical insight on the changes affecting the United States during the late 1800s and early 1900s. These changes are not only shown through the context of the novel, but through the three families and individual characters represented in the book. Characters react to the changing environment around them in many different ways. Some changes affecting characters in good ways and some in not so good ways. Doctorow shows many social changes…

from the 4th corps began shelling the Confederate lines at 8:00 a.m.Cleburne’s confederates prepared for battle, their line stretched to the south of Dallas Road. Confederates amassed an imposing array of earthworks in front of Cleburne’s line. According to Lieutenant Colonel Fullerton the men were not ready for the assault at 8:00a.m. so the Union began their assault a hour later. As soon as Wagner’s men advanced past the protection of the Union lines they met deadly fire from Confederate…

The line spanned street after street, it seemed. I waited for what felt like hours, watching the line ahead dwindle as the Barnes and Nobles workers funnelled us into the store, prodding the line up three flights until we reached that lone table, stacked high with bright orange books whose spines and covers read, in black matte letters, THE GLIMMER by RICHARD DUKE. I’d already read it twice now, bought three copies and lined them on the bookshelf in my shitty little apartment living room neatly,…

carriage. This was called the Quadricycle. With this prototype, he continued to work on it until he created the first gasoline car ever made. This car was called the Model-T. Henry Ford was also the creator of mass production for instance, assembly lines. He was not only…

little over 3,000 U.S. dealerships. In 1947, Henry Ford the founder of Ford Motor Company, died four years after the death of his 49-year-old son Edsel who was president of his father’s company. Henry Ford II took over as president in 1945 and for the next three decades modernized Ford. Henry Ford started a revolution that changed the United States immensely, and also the world. He impacted the lives of so many and was humanity’s friend. He gave people jobs with good pay and good hours,…

The three key crisis of Israel that the prophetic literature reacts to are the Assyrian, Babylonia, and the Restoration Crisis. The Assyrian Crisis: The fall of the Northern Kingdom. This era consisted of the following factors that involve Assyria’s expansion into the region of Israel and Judah. This increase led to a complex series of alliances between the various kingdoms involved, as well as fighting-Syria Ephraimitic war. The war was Assyria attempts to expand, Syria and Israel allies for…

Though Israel did indicate a preliminary willingness to be it, they certainly failed as history records.” The Covenant came at Mt Sinai, very near Israel’s departure from Egypt, and makes for the beginning of a new era for God’s people. It marked the next stage in the fulfillment of the Abrahamic promises and has a theological context of worshiping God and a redemptive context of deliverance from Egypt. The Mosaic Covenant was clearly for Israel and resembled a format that Israel would be…

There are the elite runners who get interviewed as they cross the finish line. Their faces glistening with sweat and a medal hugging their neck. Then you have the people who dress up as a Tyrannosaurus Rex and chase people around tent city. You also have fans that come from bigger schools. Girls walk around wearing nothing more…

Do you think that it’s funny to joke about Iranian people and their stereotypes that they have? For an example, like Iranian people are terrorists and that they can’t be trusted with any sort of weapon or bomb like substance. But in reality , not all the Iranian people are terrorists and that it isn’t really true what people say about them . These are the types of things that many people think of when Iranian people are mentioned in conversations or in jokes. In a comedy show night by Maz…

the beautiful sunshine, which is denied to him by the concrete blocks and steel bars that confines him within the prison. Another day comes, and another day goes but he still remains in the prison and time begins to move slower with each passing day. Next it goes, “When I was just a baby my mama told me. Son, Always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns. But I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die When I hear that whistle blowing, I hang my head and cry..” This speaks of all…