Trenton

crossing the Delaware River can be used as an example of this. In December 1776, Washington’s army had taken several defeats. So, General Washington crossed the Delaware River with 5,400 troops to surprise a Hessian force celebrating Christmas in Trenton, New Jersey. This historical event is depicted in multiple literary works, such as the poem Washington Crossing the Delaware by David Shulman and Emanuel Leutze’s painting “Washington Crossing the Delaware.” Though they are both two different…

The Brooklyn police station received approximately 800 calls. The Trenton, New Jersey, police department also got many calls. The aftermath of Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds play on the radio led to many people calling the police station to find out what was going on. All of these calls, caused by fear, jammed the telephone…

George Washington was not a weak leader, he was quite the opposite. He was selfless, brave, also a humble leader. He was renowned as an excellent military strategist. He was the first to be appointed to the most admirable position. However the position was not an easy feat to maintain; nevertheless, a strong leader such as George Washington was well suited for the task. In the years of the Revolutionary War, George Washington who serviced as the Commander in Chief for the American Army; had…

Born on October 13, 1754, Molly Pitcher was one women who impacted the Revolutionary War. She was born in Trenton, New Jersey. Her real, maiden name was Mary Ludwig. While Mary Ludwig really existed, there is mystery surrounding the authenticity of her story. It is believed that other women’s stories were combined with Mary’s to make Molly Pitcher. Her claim to fame is bring buckets of water to the men fighting in the battle of Monmouth. While parts of her story are considered a legend, Mary…

Antonin Scalia was a U.S. Supreme Court Justice member born on March 11, 1936, in Trenton, New Jersey. He was appointed to the Court by President Ronald Reagan in 1986. Scalia was the judge for the Case Martin case in 2001. He is not reluctant to express his opinion, even at the threat of offending others. Scalia believed that the court should have never been involved. Scalia ultimately disagrees with the court’s ruling. Scalia stated that “If one assumes, however, that the PGA TOUR has some…

It was a time in American history that racial tensions were among the highest. Prevalent in the South, blacks were treated as inferior to whites, granted unequal opportunities, and deprived of basic liberties. The Civil Rights Movement demanded equality in the post-Civil War South infested with Jim Crow and Black Codes. It is through Gaines’ literary piece of A Lesson before Dying that attention is shed upon the social injustices in the judiciary system, educational system, and racial relations…

director of The New Jersey Office of Legislative Services. Since both of his parents worked within education, Justice Alito had a stronger drive than most other to become accomplished in eduction. Justice Alito attended high school in a suburb of Trenton, where he excelled at his studies allowing him to attend the Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. 1969, during his tenure at Princeton, Justice Alito was drafted to fight in the war of Vietnam, yet he…

In 1775 the Revolutionary War started. The main reason of this was that New England wanted to break away from England’s government. The British Commander Charles Cornwallis was the one to go to battle at York town against the American commander George Washington. On the way to York town, Cornwallis had to overcome many other battles that he won. In my opinion commander Charles Cornwallis, could easily have been the down fall of the American Revolution with all of his previous expedients and…

courageous army got to have their first bite at victory in March of 1776. After this in August of the same year the British attacked and forced Washington to lose 2,800 men so he ordered the rest of his army to retreat. Later on, on Christmas night in Trenton Washington forced the British to surrender and then a couple days later defeated them. This was not the end of the British, they refused to give up. On September 3, 1783 the Revolutionary Was had finally ended with the Americans finally…

During the Revolutionary Period, authors used a variety of literary devices and rhetorical devices to get their point across and influence their audiences to take action. They use the devices to get to the audience in a logical sense and an emotional sense. One author in particular, Thomas Paine, wrote the first of a series of essays entitled The American Crisis, Number 1. Washington had it ordered to be read to his troops. Thomas Paine’s purpose for writing this literary work was to motivate…