Wagon

the front door, but they did not let go of quickly as general. in place, they stopped outside and a great number of persons began to grow and watch. Within minutes, about 150 people had came together out-side. By the time the first go round on watch wagon arrived…

The idea of comprehending the past allows people to prevent their ignorants. As a society, the lack of knowledge has led to mockery by peers with a better understand of their own past. Although some phrases/words are used today do not belittle or offend people as before, does not mean there are no circumstances where that could not be the case. Discriminative racial background origins appear in frequently used phrases/words such as “Call a spade a spade”, had no reference of discrimination until…

“A visionary, poet, playwright, and theatrical reformer,” that’s what Bertolt Brecht was known for. Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, better known as Bertolot Brecht, was born on February 10th, 1898 in Augsburg, Germany. Brecht was born to a Protestant mother and a Catholic father. While his father worked in a paper mill, his mother made sure that he learned that bible, something that would have a lifelong effect on his writing. The break out of World War I occurred when he was only 16, he became…

chores once they woke up (Rau 4-32). The captain of the wagon train would send men to hunt, to be prepared for supper time (Rau 4-32). They would start their journey again at seven in the morning (Rau 4-32). After a few hours traveling, the wagons would take a break at around noon giving time to repair wagons and make lunch (Rau 4-32). At around six in the afternoon the train would stop for the day and plan for the night (Rau 4-32). Every single wagon would connect to each other in a huge circle…

funny like that, but this cow Daffodil here was the biggest thing on four legs this side of the Rockies. He’d strut her round the camp bettin’ every man with something heavy she’d haul it like a ox. Oh he’d fasten a lil wagon to her load up all manner a things on that there wagon an’ watch her take off with it. Smith bet him one time she couldn’t carry two a his anvils,…

“World War Two in Europe was over” (274). This quote from Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, is from last few pages of the book, which are particularly enlightening as to what Vonnegut’s opinion about war is, because of how he uses his experience from World War II. Using imagery and diction, Vonnegut shows that when explaining war, there is not much to say about it that’s intelligent and makes sense. Diction is used by the author in that his word choice shows why war is hard to describe.…

1846 Donner , Tamsen (his third wife) and his five daughters, later, his brother, Jacob Donner, Elizabeth ( Jacob Donner’s wife) and their seven child also joined. James Reed was the leader of this party. So altogether they rode covered wagon trains. Now these wagons made up of twenty vehicles and 100 people They left Independence, Missouri, in May 1846. The party followed the Oregon Trail until they reached Fort Bridger. There,…

a chimney from a burned down house. When we left to go to Fort Laramie a bolder fell on one of the wheels of our wagon. I was so lucky that it didn't fall on the wagon or we would have to spend days fixing it. It only took us an hour to put the new wheel. Glad we had a spare. We finally got to Fort Laramie. This place was used as an Indian trading place. Here we could repair our wagon and purchase supplies. We purchased more food here. They also had a post office where I wrote to my parents.…

they got to their new home. They sold their cows, and said goodbye to family and set off in a house drawn wagon out to the west. The father directed the horse, the mother sat next to him with the baby, and the two daughters sat in the back of the wagon, where they also slept. The journey was long, and they faced the elements of Mother Nature around the clock. They followed other faint wagon tracks until they got to a split in the road…

Westward Expansion During the early 19th century, the Louisiana Purchase was made between Napoleon and President Thomas Jefferson. The Louisiana Purchase, was a land purchase for fifteen million dollars, that doubled the size of America. Due to Americans lacking knowledge of the land, President Jefferson, sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on an expedition to explore the territory, better known as the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The foundings made of the land by the explorers encouraged…