Thirteenth floor

Celia, A Slave By Melton A McLaurin Critiqued In the Introduction McLaurin uses court records, correspondences and newspaper accounts to share Celia’s story. His argument is “The lives of lesser historical figures better illustrate certain aspects of the major issue of a particular period” (such the morality of slavery) than to the lives of those who through significant achievements achieve national prominence.” Introduction xi In chapter one Beginning McLaurin uses the eighteenth federal…

Anne was born June 12, 1929 of course she was not born into the War with Nazis after her family, better yet she didn't know anything about them until the year of 1942. Anne Frank is only one of the Jews there were many, but she is the most famous Jew from this time. Anne stayed with seven others in the secret annex for more than two years. I think Anne Frank is a hero because she a patient, strong, and unselfish young lady. I think she helped the world understand what she went through during…

My Not So Regular Friday They always say Friday the thirteenth brings you bad luck, but my horror story begins with Friday the fourteenth. After school on a regular Friday I made a quick stop at my dad’s house to drop off his stuff from my fundraiser. But only for all his friends to tell me he had just went out for a ride. He took his friend’s motorcycle out to see what was wrong with it. He was always the one someone would go to if they had bike trouble. I didn’t feel like waiting for him…

display created by college student, Scott Tyler (who more frequently goes by Dredd Scott), created political uproar across the nation. The display included a framed picture of flag draped caskets, hung above a podium with a guestbook. Laying on the floor- an American flag. When Tyler’s display became public at the Chicago Institute of Arts, people immediately began to protest…

Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 in Kentucky in a one room cabin with dirt floors and no glass windows. He went from the Wilderness to the White House capturing the American Dream on the way. He was a self-made man and was self-educated with less than a year of formal schooling. Lincoln was named after his Grandfather Abraham after the move to Kentucky in 1782. Lincoln was the son of a dirt farmer and his early life was poor and simple. He lived in the cabin he was born in until he…

Describe the role the arts, crafts and material play in the Indian Summer, in Van der Nüll's essay and in the excerpt from The Stones of the Abby. The Stones of the Abbey: With its physicality expressed through clay, the site of the St. Clotilda monastery, reflects the inner anxiety and instability of the humans populating the abbey. The monk, and narrator, journaling the Stones of the Abbey, describes how the materials – their imperfection and irregularity – serve a challenge to be overcome,…

form the individual nature of some person or thing, one such feature or trait. Compassion is a part of my character because it defines who I am as a person. I currently work at Baptist South as a Certified Nursing Assistant on a stroke and cardiac floor. Most of the patients we get can either number one not move because of a stroke, or number two are already on their death beds just waiting to go to Hospice. They’re scared and so are their families, questions are endless and it’s back breaking…

senators rose on the floor of the US Senate calling for a national monument modeling after the iconic photo. The California State Legislature petitioned the Federal Government to build a memorial monument that would long live the memory of Iwo Jima. A guy by the name of Felix…

In 1892 she began investigating the conditions in Chicago sweatshops and in the tenements. “There was no floor in this room, and the people were living on the bare earth, which was damp and littered with every sort of rubbish. In another case seven persons were at work in a room 12 by 15 feet in dimensions and with but two windows.” If Kelley had her way, the…

This marks entrance to the European painting galleries. This collection is comprised of European Old Master paintings that date from the thirteenth to nineteenth centuries. This time span covers the years leading up to the Renaissance, the cultural revolution itself, and what happens afterwards. The painting “Triumph of Marius” being at the very top of the staircase might be symbolic of how…