Trenton

Milan Martinique closed the U.S. History textbook. “I hate this class! None of this stuff makes sense to me and it’s not like anyone is ever going to talk about this again after June 17th anyway”, Milan Martinique groaned aloud. As Milan Martinique got up from the desk in her room, Milan Martinique turned towards the bed and fell forward onto on the bed. As Milan Martinique’s eyes got heavier and heavier, all she could mutter was “who cares about the American Revolution? It is not like it…

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION Washington Crossing the Delaware is an oil on canvas painting by Emmanuel Leutze. Leutze was a German - American artist who lived from 1816 until 1868; Washington Crossing the Delaware was created in 1851 (metmuseum.org). The painting is 12ft 5in. by 21ft. 3in and is in good condition; there does not appear to be any damage. Washington Crossing the Delaware is currently on display at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. It is displayed in a gallery with other…

There is a divine calling on Theologian’s Ken Archer’s life. Born in Ohio, his parents, Ken and Charlotte Archer were always very loving, supportive and encouraging of anything he wanted to do. He is very thankful towards them for all that they have done for him. At the age of nineteen, Dr. Ken Archer accepted the Pentecostal way of life, it is evident that God has a plan like no other on his life and has used him in many glorious ways. His in-laws, Revd Norman and Nancy Beetler, introduced him…

The war between Britain and the United States was not an easy battle to win as it had to took many lost to achieve victory.It took the United States many battles with the Brtish to get there independence. Both sides had fought hard and many people had died during the long bloody war. On May 10 1775, the Second Continental Congress that all thirteen colonies assembled was in Philadelphia. They had planned to meet a year ago during the First Continental Congress. During the Second Continental…

¨[June Etta Downey is] endowed with an unusually alert and discerning mind and with a maturity of judgement extremely infrequent in students her age.¨ Spoke former president of Yale University, James Rowland Angell, whom Downey had worked under for her doctorate degree. Her contributions to the Science of Psychology left her with many honors and achievements by the end of her life time. Not only did she contribute to the field of Psychology, but to the advancement of women in society. She made…

Congress Drafts George Washington The Second Continental Congress designated George Washington the leader of the army that was to besiege Boston (AP 132) “[Washington], as an aristocrat, he could be counted on by his peers to check “the excesses of the masses.” (AP 132) Bunker Hill and Hessian Hirelings From April 1775 to July 1776, the colonists were demonstrating their loyalty to the king by voicing their desire to fix all the problems, while concurrently raising armies and massacring redcoats…

continued through 1779 ["A History of the 2nd Battalion, New Jersey Volunteers," The On-Line Institute for Advanced Loyalist Studies, accessed 15 Nov 2017. http://www.royalprovincial.com/military/rhist/njv/2njvhist.htm.]. After the late 1776 Battles of Trenton and Princeton, New Jersey was cleared of British troops and reconciliation was offered to former Patriot soldiers. Soon both Tories and Whigs were severely persecuted by Hessians, causing Tories to question their loyalty to England and…

Juvenile Drinking Underage drinking has become problematic nation wide. Colleges, campus police and police in general, all around the United States, deal with underage drinkers on a daily basis. Many young drinkers are unaware of the outcome alcohol can do to their body in the outcome. Not only the physical harm that alcohol can do to their body but also the fluctuation in emotions, and the risk they have in ruining their lives with just one mistake of being drunk under the age of 21.…

colonists unwarranted, which time has told to be untrue. Other artists chose to show Americans heroically on the battlefield like in John Trumbull’s The Death of General Joseph Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill and George Washington at the Battle of Trenton. This kind of art stirred up patriotic sentiment towards revolutionaries and made support for independence…

After almost one-hundred and eighty days, the 2015-2016 school year is approaching an end. So far, I have concluded that middle school is basically like building a house. Before middle school started, in fifth grade, the house only had the boards and the main skeleton of the whole structure. All of the basics are learned in elementary school: learning how to read, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction, fractions, the founding of America,, etcetera, but by the time students reach sixth…