Valley Forge

Current Family Stressors and Risk Factors Currently, my two sisters and I are going through a challenging period in which we are experiencing very poor communication. Not much effort is being made to resolve issues which have torn us apart. Our mother died 20 years ago from cervical cancer. In the wake of her death, all three of us have experienced various levels of addiction and alcoholism. Of the three of us, I am the only one who has attempted to recover, and I am grateful to say that I…

compilation of his own essays on contemporary visual arts. This article was written for MIT Press Journal’s Grey Room No. 23. “Grey Room brings together scholarly and theoretical articles from the fields of architecture, art, media, and politics to forge a cross-disciplinary discourse uniquely relevant to contemporary concerns.”("MIT Press Journals - Grey Room"). Huyssen focuses in this piece on the sanitization of ruin, questioning whether or not “authentic” ruins can exist in a contemporary…

Woodstock The 1960’s marked a huge turning point in American history. Music continued to become more and more influential in everyday life. By the mid 1960’s, young Americans began to feel progressively more frustrated by the society they were being brought up in. The youth had to witness women be suppressed and discredited strictly based on gender. Many women revolted against the traditional housewife position that men felt the need to impose on their wives. The youth had to watch colored men…

Salinger grew up in a Jewish family, who 's father, sol Salinger sold kosher cheese as a living. Salinger didn 't fit in at his local school so his parents enrolled him at Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, Pennsylvania where he began to write stories under his covers at night. His writing continued as he got older and he began to submit several stories to the New Yorker paper which were all unfortunately rejected. In…

raised in Manhattan and was the second of two children of Sol and Miriam Salinger. His father was a prosperous Jewish merchant and his mother was Scots-Irish. Like Holden, he was expelled from several private preparatory schools before going to Valley Forge Military School and graduated two years later. However, there is little known about Salinger’s upbringing other than he grew up in a wealthy family. Some of Salinger’s works other than The Catcher in the Rye include Nine Stories (1953), Raise…

The novel “The other Wes Moore,” written by Wes Moore, is a story involving two men with the same name, who grow up to live two totally opposite lives. Both boys grew up fatherless, in poverty, and living in bad neighborhoods. For the most part, their upbringings were extremely similar with minor differences, but at a point in their lives they went on to live on opposite sides of the spectrum. Wes, the author, grew up most of his life without a father because he died, but he lived with his…

The story that this author presents how two boys with same names, same ages, multiples similarities that can have the same opportunity in life move in different paths. The story is been develop in Baltimore and describes on different perspective, the life of those two young which one is an excellent professional and the other is now serving time for life. The writer was a prominent college student who receives multiples award, ready to move to England to attend Oxford Hopkins University on a…

The History and Importance of the Army’s Non Commissioned Officer. It is no small wonder for the Non-Commissioned Officer to be known as the backbone of the United States Army, a phrase coined by Rudyard Kipling. As we know the Non-Commissioned Army in todays military is but a mere remnant of what the NCO original was. The Non-Commissioned Officer existed during the European Hundred Years’ War, who at the time, were almost all upper ranks of European society, surprisingly. At the time, though,…

The American spies of the Revolutionary War, also known as the Culper Spy Ring, changed the course of history, helped save America and shaped the future of military intelligence as it is known today. In the summer of 1776, the future of America’s colonies was unclear, would America continue to be under British rule or gain independence. The first artillery fire was in Boston, but fear and mistrust were spreading throughout all thirteen colonies. After the continental army defeated the Regulars…

“It’s All Greek to Me” In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein alludes to the story of Prometheus as they are both creators that go against God, that only lead to their own destruction. In the story of the wise Prometheus, he was the creator of mankind and taught them art. In Frankenstein, Victor was the creator of a monster when it says on page 51, “Nor could I consider the magnitude and complexity of my plan as any argument of its impracticality. It was with these feelings that I…