Trenton

However, the Americans were not done. Believing that he would soon win the war, General Howe stationed his troops in Trenton and Princeton for the winter, leaving them mortally exposed. This would give the Americans the advantage of a lifetime. On December 24, 1776, General George Washington led his army across the Delaware River and surprise attacked the British army at Trenton, where the British surrendered. After avoiding British retaliation, Washington attacked the British forces at…

I believe the best way to describe a typical TCNJ student is in one word - talented. Throughout my multiple visits at the college it’s never surprising to find someone on the lawn painting at a level to impress Monet or hear something amazing play coming from the windows of Mayo Hall. Out of all the schools in New Jersey my heart remains set on TCNJ because it’s an institution with a personality. There is a perfect balance of academics and opportunity that many schools are striving to achieve.…

realized we were just going to pick up my aunt. When she got in in the car, we started going on the right path to Six Flags, or so it seemed. When we were on our way to Six Flags it had to have been 30 minutes or so, I realized that we had taken the Trenton exit. I pointed out to my mom that we might have taken the wrong exit. She then me a long and vicious stare and went back to watching her Korean soap opera on her phone. Realizing I wasn't going to get an answer, I went back to playing…

Service is no stranger to terrorism in the work place. Unfortunately, the Postal Service delivered “five letters between September 17 to 18, 2001 to ABC, NBC, CBS, the New York Post and American Median, the publisher of the National Enquirer, from a Trenton, N.J. postmark (Sinclair Broadcasting Group, July, 11, 2015).” Many people lost their lives through the delivery of five letters, which included contents of anthrax. On October 21, 2001 the Postal Service lost two of their own employees…

The video “American Crisis” begins by showing a battle in Manhattan, NY in September of 1776 with the rebel army in retreat. The British are overwhelming the Americans and pursuing them up Manhattan Island. Fort Washington is the last bastion of hope on New York Island but it will fall too. Nathaniel Greene had promised George Washington that he could hold the fort and against other recommendations, Washington decided to let him try. The British, however, let loose the Hessians and the fort…

“A Beautiful Mind” was the title of Sylvia Nasar’s biography (and eventual award-winning movie) of the famous mathematician John Nash. But despite his “Beautiful Mind” that eventually won him a Nobel Prize in 1994, Nash has been tormented by Schizophrenia since the late 1950’s. As one of the most famous people to be suffering from this disorder, Along with depression, Schizophrenia is one of two disorders that have been found across our planet, in every culture. Schizophrenia is characterized…

Every individual has a different social location; it may include their education, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and much more. Our social location can help us understand our position in society, how we may be classified, and the ways we are included or excluded. It can also help us understand ways we are privileged individuals or oppressed individuals. With these social locations we are placed with a certain social and political world that puts us with others. We form certain…

them through positivity.” From the new member at State Leadership Camp, “He has an unwavering smile. It’s an unyielding emanating happiness and kindness. Its with him I want to be friends.” From the school custodian, “From what I see working here, Trenton is a dedicated worker. He’s a bee busy at work to support his hive - those with which he surrounds himself and the students and staff who elected him who he represents. For weeks he’s rising hours before dawn to be here early. In first…

Once Adams joined the army, he was sent to Fort Dix outside of Trenton, New Jersey. He expected racial attitudes to be much more relaxed than those in Memphis. There were no “Whites Only” signs in Trenton so Adams decided to walk into a diner for lunch. He sat down at a table and no one came to serve him. People in the diner gave him odd looks and eventually he realized that he was not supposed to be there. This made Adams “realize there was no difference between North and South, except that…

immigrants entered this country. From 1891 to 1900, 393,516. In the last 10-years (1904-1914), 976,263 Jews immigrated, which represented 62.5 per cent of the total Jewish immigration for this period. The yearly variations of the total Jewish immigration correspond closely to the Russian Jewish emigration movement. In 1899, the Romanian and the Austria-Hungary movements swelled the number. The year 1906, marked the high-water mark of Jewish immigration: 153,748 immigrants, practically…