West Orange

On February 11, 1847, one of the world’s greatest inventors was born. His name was Thomas Alva Edison. He was born in Milan, Ohio, and grew up in Port Huron, Michigan. Yes, he was very successful, yet he had almost no schooling. He only spent a few months in school before his schoolteacher mother taught him some at home. Although most of the time he would buy books, visit the library, and teach himself. He also, was in an accident that caused him to go deaf, or mostly deaf, about the time of his…

Thomas Edison Thomas Edison struggled in his early life. Edison lost his hearing at a very young age, due to the scarlet fever. He was not in public school only for 3 months because of his hearing loss. He missed out on a lot of things because he got deadly sick. His later life was much better than his childhood, he became an inventor and a businessman. He was one of the greatest businessman of America. Thomas Edison was born on February 11th, 1847 in Milan Ohio. child of Nancy Matthews…

Inventing Solutions Thomas Edison was born in Millan Ohio on February 11th, 1847. He did not learn to talk until he was almost 4 years old. While in primary school, Thomas often day dreamed and was commonly characterized as being mentally slow by his teachers. Because of those comments, young Edison’s mother took him out of school, and home schooled him. In 1854 his family moved to Port Huron Michigan. Growing up, Edison sold candy and newspapers on trains. He later on became a telegraph…

The novel A Clockwork Orange, written by Anthony Burgess, was originally published in 1962. It is a dystopian novel where the future is overrun with violence and crime. The main character, Alex, commits horrible crimes, such as rape and murder, with his group of friends. After breaking into a house, Alex is arrested and undergoes an experiment called Ludovico’s Technique while in jail. He can no longer make bad choices, and feels sick when he thinks about committing a crime. He is vulnerable,…

Chandler Bridges May 14, 2015 Agent Orange “One Significate Ghost" In war, the first prerogative is that you must be able to find the enemy. During the Vietnam war, the United States utilized a group of herbicides which became known as the “Rainbow Herbicides" (Murray 2005) These chemicals, prefixed with "agent" named for their color, were stored in 55 gallon metal barrels with a simple, color-coded strip to designate the contents, of all the "agents", Agent Orange was the most extensively…

Marcus Grabs, 17, in Newport Beach sometime between 6 and 10 p.m. Marcus, a German student on a backpacking tour of the United States, was sodomized, beaten and stabbed 77 times. His nude body was found the next day beside a road in Malibu, with an orange nylon cord loosely wrapped behind…

Burgess in his novel A Clockwork Orange. In the book, the reader can identify one main theme; the importance of free will. The reader is taken through the book by 15-year-old Alex whom along with his friends are described engaging in activities such as rape, violence, and theft until he is subjected to a form of conditioning that “cures” him of this violent nature. In 1971, director Stanley Kubrick adapted the novel into a film under the same title, A Clockwork Orange. Sharing the same theme as…

early 1800s, when ranchos (land grands) were offered to citizens of high standing. The downtown design was a grid iron pattern borrowed from the design of downtown Philadelphia . The city benefitted from the “second gold rush” of California; navel oranges were a cash crop in the area. The citrus industry assisted in the real estate boom. Riverside was incorporated in 1883, and street cars were used in downtown. The city is unique in two respects, it has prominent educational influence and…

Agent Orange Having spent 10 weeks in Vietnam, I felt a personal connection to Agent Orange as well as the effects it had on the country. This connection is what motivated my research and my desire to bring attention to the subject. Agent Orange was an herbicide used during the Vietnam War in the 1960s. It was used by the United States military who intended to gain an advantage in the war by spraying the chemical over the dense jungles of Vietnam. The military hoped that this would deprive the…

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