Wonders of the World

and the economic downfall and rise of the US intrigued me to unravel further into detail. During this 75 year period, two World Wars occurred. World War 2 impacted the US the most as events like the Attack on Pearl Harbor tipped the US entering in the war. If I could travel back in time to experience WW2, I would experience it not as a soldier, but as a citizen. I always wonder how daily lives were carried out during the war and how children handled the tough times of war. Economic conflicts…

Though it has an exciting climax and detailed events, the ending was confusing because the book ended in the second year of world war two. I really wanted to know what is going to happen to Sophie and her family because if you know very little about world war two you would want to know when did the Allies free France. In other books, authors tell you about the whole years of world war two with important details. In this book, I think there are some parts that the author could have gotten rid of…

The Great Pyramid is one of the most significant structures in the ancient world. It is the oldest seven wonder of the world and it never ceases to amaze the people that visit it. The Pyramid is said to miraculously heal those that visit it from various ailments. There are also many other reasons people are drawn to the Pyramid, some like historians, have to for work. Some are just your regular joe who is enamored with the astonishing mystery and beauty of it. Whatever the reasons for…

program also requires independence in order to be successful, so it is a perfect learning experience for me. Second, I find the courses very interesting, such as the Hitler and Nazi course, and the Family and justice course. I have been interested in World War two, Hitler, and concentration camps ever since I read the book Night, by Elie Wiesel. Night inspired me because it reveals all the horrors and tragedies of the Holocaust. When you read about the furnaces and the Gas chambers…

Ford, 1 Alex Ford Mrs.Finkenbinder 6th period LA 4/26/2017 Walt Disney Lights, camera, action! Have you ever gone to the movies to see one of your favorite animated Disney movies? Have you ever gone to one of the Disney parks? Well if you have you may know the man Walt Disney! Today I will tell you a lot about his life before and after he created Disney! As Walt Disney lived his life he was born in Hermosa, Chicago, IL. His family sell the farm and move to Kansas City.…

a laboratory testing these interactions. To become one of these scientist, you must be educated in several areas of science and math. Yes, I said math, but specifically calculus. Some wonder what exactly a pharmaceutical scientist is. They are scientists that specifically deal with the design,…

Climate change strikes his mind as he begins to wonder where the snow and hills went. (83) “Why don't we have snow, and sleds, and hills?... But what happened to those things? Snow, and the rest of it.” He begins to wonder where all this stuff has gone and why he is isolated from it. (101) “Did you know there really were elephants? Live ones?” His sister Lily is the first victim of…

Alexandria was one of the most prominent Hellenistic cities that embraced Hellenistic culture. Established and named by Alexander the Great himself, Alexandria is what has become “a Greek polis with citizenship limited to Greeks and Macedonians”(451, Ancient Greece). However, during the reign of the Ptolemaic dynasty, Alexandria has been transformed into a flourishing Hellenistic city with new innovations. In order to preserve both Greek and Egyptian elements, Greek and Egyptian roots are…

Power to Hitler In all of history, there are few crimes known by the majority of the world. One of these crimes took place in the years between 1933 and 1945. A man named Adolf Hitler organized the majority of the Holocaust, arguably the largest genocide in history. In order to have a large enough impact to commit a crime so large he had to obtain immense power. Hitler was a very strong leader with a natural knack for public speaking. Although irresponsibly used, he found himself with a great…

poising could have caused the Salem witchcraft trials because most symptoms resembled ergot poising and the environment in New England had the perfect conditions for ergot to survive. In his historical piece on the witch trials called the Wonders of the Invisible World, Cotton Mather said “... I report matters not as an advocate, but as an historian” (330). Mather, a devout Puritan, believed truly that the devil was testing the people of Salem and although a believer of witchcraft, in some ways…