Wool

I remember Dad finding his hammer in the mud by our fence. He believed I dropped it in the snow. “Hammers don't grow legs and walk,” he said, and hands that built decks also tossed me around like a scrap two-by-four. He had me clean it with steel wool and WD 40. As he inspected my work, he spoke of one Thanksgiving in 1938. His college band played at a Lion’s football game. It was so cold the reed in his mouthpiece split, and he worried his lips would crack and bleed. Once, he opened his case,…

Agriculture, the science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool and other products. When people think of Agriculture they probably think about animals, fields, tractors and cowboys. Most people tend to dislike or even hate Ag or say “Ag isn't even important, why do you even like it?” Ag has always been a huge part of my life ever since I was little. I grew up surrounded by animals and plants and I am…

March toward the Thunder Rykhus 3 In my choice novel March toward the Thunder by Joseph Bruchac, a boy named Louis Nolette who is an Abenaki Indian from Canada that joins the Fighting 69th Irish brigade known for being strong in battle. Louis at the age of 15, joins the Union army in 1864, a few years before the end of the American Civil War. He joins the war for two reasons the first one is that he agrees with them in the fact that slavery is not a right thing to do, he thinks that it is…

population of England grew steadily, but the food supply did not increase proportionately. Agricultural land was taken over by grazing sheep. This condition severely limited the food supply, thus driving up the price of food. Raising sheep and manufacturing wool for cloth were the primary types of employment. But, with England's rising population there were not enough jobs to go around. Beggars roamed the countryside looking for food or…

colonists did by resorting to riots and protesting they started to organize boycotts, which seemed to be working but then the merchants signed a non- importation agreement and instead of boycotting then started spinning bees, in which you spin yarn and wool to make fabric. The daughters of liberty accomplished things too, though some being that when they started to refuse to buy any British goods they made their own homemade goods and clothes, instead of cloth and tea, they dried raspberry…

In the United States, animals are abandoned, beaten, and fighting for their survival every day. Forced to live in unhygienic conditions with no water or food, they don't have very much hope as they live out their days lacking the empathy or consideration that they deserve. Some are discovered and rescued, given the opportunity to experience how magnificent their lives can be; others aren't so fortunate. In order to change as country, we must stick up for these mistreated animal’s rights…

Women who served during World War II contributed greatly as pilots, nurses, and in the home front. During 1942 the United States had built many planes in the war factories each month for the war, in addition, these military planes happened to be needed to be delivered to air bases, but the U.S. was short in supply of pilots, however, in 1943, there had been a call out to women to do the flying, in place of the men. There were twenty five thousand women who’d applied, but only 1,100 got chosen as…

this essay readers will learn all about the Medici and how they gained their wealth and power, along with how they were beneficial to Florence. The Medici were very beneficial to Florence, in my opinion. The Medici family started out as bankers and wool merchants. Both businesses were very successful, making quite a bit of money, causing the family to become wealthy. The Medici were first brought to power by Giovanni de Medici in Florence, by opening the Medici bank. They are most known for…

When John was five years old the family moved to northern Ohio because the area is known for anti-slavery. When John grows up he moved up northern states taking his family everywhere he goes he worked several times as a farmer and wool merchant but he wasn’t wealthy. John filed for Bankruptcy in his 40’s but shortage of money didn’t stop what he believed in. He gave land to the wanted slaves, John and his wife decided to care for black children as their own. The League of Gileadites…

correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause. “Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool. If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land” (KJV,…