Washington and Lee University

Pompeii was an ancient Roman town situated near modern Naples in the Campania region of Italy. Pompeii and nearby Herculaneum were destroyed in the Mt Vesuvius eruption that occurred just after lunch on the 24th August 79AD. Evidence for the destruction came from a letter by Pliny the Younger, who saw the eruption from a distance and described the incident. " There was daylight by this time, but they were still in darkness, blacker and denser than any ordinary night.." The graffiti ,buildings,…

He was heavily influenced by early stars like Little Richard, Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis. After high school, he joined the University of Minnesota in 1959, staying for three semesters before dropping out. During that time, he played solo at coffee houses under the name Bob Dylan. In 1962, he formally changed his last name from Zimmerman to Dylan. He moved…

everywhere. With so many amazing opportunities to learn, it only makes sense to protect that access to this information. This push for net neutrality does not only include public education, but universities as well. President of the American Library Association Barbara Stripling says “The implications for universities are profound in terms of restricting the ability to perform research, to share research, to collaborate, to provide our students with the best access to information and the best…

haven’t been seen since. But many theories have been made on what happened. Some say they drowned but some say they were swept into the Pacific Ocean. In order to know what happened, they need to know how it was done. Luckily this isn’t a mystery. Frank Lee Morris was sent to Alcatraz, and immediately started to study the layout. He met with John and Clarence Anglin and started to mastermind “The Great Escape”. They took life preserves and used glue to fuse them together. Then they started to…

Mina Mikhail 12/5/2015 English 4 Research Paper on Gun Control Guns Don’t Kill People, But People Kill People Us as americans we are a gun culture. in 2009 about 124 million people lived in households owned a total of 270 million guns. So that means that we are obsessed with guns. But the question now is: what do we know about guns? how many of us actually used one or seen a gun that being used? How many of us seen people pointing a gun at each other or seen someone actually killing other?…

and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (Historic World Leaders). He was born May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts (Historic World Leaders). He was married to Jacqueline Bouvier and had two kids with her (Historic World Leaders). He graduated from Harvard University in 1940 and joined the navy the following year (Historic World Leaders). AFter he lost so many relatives he became fatalistic, and felt “trapped and betrayed” (Historic World Leaders). He was very big in the Civil Rights movement, and also…

Some people will say superheroes give people hope, while others say these tales are entertaining. The Age of Superheroes came around during the Great Depression in America to give people hope. Stan Lee brought these superheroes to life in his comic books, and they still entertain people today. While Stan Lee created modern-day superheroes, tales of people with superpowers and unnatural talents have been told for centuries. Epics…

The Butler Movie Review The Butler is an American movie, which was directed by Lee Daniels. The story was written by Danny Strong, based on an African American butler’s real life story. Lee Daniels managed to put the civil rights movement into this movie and reflect the hierarchy position, racist situation, and the right of black people in the society. This movie was filming about the life of a sharecropper’s son, Cecil Gaines’ life. Cecil grown up in a cotton plantation with his father and…

December 15, 1930, on a farm that is still around today between Waterloo and Columbia, Illinois, Shirley Kolmer was welcomed into the world. Arthur and Carmelita had just given birth to their fourth child, Shirley. Shirley had 7 siblings, Mary Lou, 4; Lee Roy, who would be 3 in January; and Dorothy; who was almost 15 months old. Almost a year after Shirley was born, the Kolmer’s added a new baby girl into the family, named Elizabeth. Elizabeth would be followed John and James who died as…

Gun control can be defined as, “any action taken by the federal government or by state or local governments to regulate, through legislation, the sale, purchase, safety, and use of handguns and other types of firearms by individual citizens” (Lee). America has internally debated the issue of gun control for over a century. It continues to be an important and pressing issue today in the United States. There are no set standards for gun control. Each state varies in its laws. For example,…