Tony Hawk: Ride

example, when he visited the area in which he was raised as an adult, he saw a hawk that reminded him of his father. Not only did this hawk remind him of his father, but he knew for a fact that it was his father in bird form. He says, “[m]y education may well be right; yet nothing I heard in school, nothing I’ve read, no lesson reached by logic has ever convinced me as utterly or stirred me as deeply as did that red-tailed hawk” (Sanders 7). Sanders has respect for the academic education that he…

Where the Black Hawk Soars was a piece written by Robert W. Smith, one of the most popular and respected composers in America. A recipient of a Bachelor's in Music Education from Troy State University and a Master's in Music from the University of Miami, Smith then has produced works for both concert band and orchestra that have been performed throughout the world. His greatest hits were his first two symphonies -The Divine Comedy and The Odyssey and have been used by North America, Europe,…

Black Hearts is a narrative written by Jim Fredrick that covers the happenings of, Bravo Company 1-502nd Infantry 101st Airborne Division who were deployed to Iraq in 2005. The failure of their leadership is covered throughout and accounts for mistakes ranging from the general officer all the way to the privates on the ground. At the highest level, LT general Ricardo Sanchez failed to understand and acknowledge the severity and delicacy of the situation that his command group was about to enter…

During this part of Black Hawk Down, the rangers and the D-Boys are still trying to get to the second crashed black hawk in Mogadishu, Somalia. They have lost their humvee convoy and are traveling on foot to the destination to try to get the survivors. They are being pinned down because of how many Somali militia soldiers there are and how they are all over the place. The Sammies are shooting in every direction at them and there is close to no cover for the running American soldiers. This…

Black Hawk Down was written by Mark Bowden and published in 1999. It is also a nonfiction book. This book is about a war between America and Samli. The book starts with soldiers going into a home or building they are trying to capture a specific person / people of the Samli force. The soldiers are also trying to clear out the buildings. They get shot at from outside by one of their own because he saw “ someone from the other side outside the window”. The D-boys complete their mission only to as…

that moment and who was actually there. Furthermore, as poems use figurative languages that exaggerate things, it is not a good resource. These lead up to the poem “Paul Revere’s Ride” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, which is a secondary source written as a third person point of view. Therefore, the poem “Paul Revere’s Ride” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is unreliable…

Paul Revere is worthy of having a famous poem written after him by playing an important role in the American Revolutionary war. First, Paul Revere was a member of the organization called, The Sons of Liberty. This organization had been established established to rebel against the British government. Of which it included several historical figures including Samuel Adams, John Adams, Benedict Arnold, and the Founding Father John Hancock. One of the most memorable events they caused was the Boston…

The events that occur off of informational texts have been proven either by someone who experienced the particular event or received information from a trusted source. In The Real Story of Revere's Ride the author included the true event with facts. For example in the text it states “ After delivering his message, Revere was joined by a second rider, William Dawes, who had been sent on the errand by a different route. Deciding on their own to continue…

never said that line at all. That well known line is included in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Paul Revere’s Ride” which is a poem that we usually learn in history class. But, despite the poem being based on Raul Revere’s deposition, there are many inaccuracies. So instead, the poem should be used in a Language Arts classroom and not a history classroom. The inaccuracies in “Paul Revere’s Ride” make it inappropriate for the history classroom. Despite the inaccuracies of the poem, there are also…

David Hackett Fischer’s book Paul Revere’s Ride, is the historical recollection of Paul’s midnight ride. The book revolves around mainly the actions and reactions of British parliament, British Troops stationed in America, and the colonists of America. Fischer describes, the trials of which General Thomas Gage endured while stationed in America, along with the constant struggle of keeping the peace in Boston. Through the first few chapters we learn about both Revere and Gage’s past, their…