Yankee

George William Bagby, from a southern newspaper called the Southern Literary Messenger, wrote that many Confederates disliked the flag stating "Everybody wants a new Confederate flag," and "The present one is universally hated. It resembles the Yankee flag and that is enough to make it unutterably…

the Nicaraguan Revolution. The main sources for this investigation are Inside Nicaragua, Young People’s Dreams and Fears by Rita Golden Gelman, a woman who lived in Nicaragua and tells the story of the revolution from the youth’s point of view and Yankee Sandinistas: Interviews with North Americans Living & Working in the New Nicaragua…

The Great Life of Mickey Mantle Number 7. A baseball Hall of Fame number that will always be remembered in professional baseball. However, a number is just a number without the man who made it great. That man was Mickey Mantle. Born during the Great Depression, this did not define Mickey Mantle, who seemed destined to have a stunning career in baseball, but Mantle will also be remembered for his life outside sports and his legacy. Mickey Mantle grew up a normal boy in rural Oklahoma. He was…

(Faulkner, 3). There was also a lot of pressure as a southerner to marry a “Southern Gentleman.” When Homer Barron is introduced and is a love interest for Emily, she seemed to demand even more recognition as a Grierson, for she was seen with Barron, a Yankee, a day laborer, and that was not suited for a southern woman like Emily. Spinsterhood was also a big deal in the South in the nineteenth century. There was a certain pressure to get married young, and being single at the age of thirty was…

south had difficulty getting along. In document three, Hoole spoke to everyone he met, except for one man who was an abolitionist. In document one, a man from Kentucky who moves to the north to go to school talks about what he thinks is a Yankee. At the time a Yankee was in…

going to run across the Brooklyn botanic garden, along yankee stadium because there was a game that was about to start, then through Macombs Dam Park and he'll be gone. He heard the cop yell from the top of his lungs “Stop! Police!”. But this did not slow down Ramon, it only made him faster. Ramon thought he had lost him when going through the Botanic Garden but he was still after him. Ramon thought for sure that he is going to get away at Yankee Stadium. He was right. When he got to Macombs…

Lieutenant Greenhill needs backup after he was given information on Scar’s whereabouts. The nervous Yankee soldier is Lieutenant Greenhill, who is giving a message from Colonel Greenhill to Captain Clayton. Lieutenant Greenhill is then revealed to be Colonel Greenhill’s young son. Both Colonel and Lieutenant Greenhill are in the army and are Yankees. Even…

machinery. Many young unmarried women from Yankee farm families dominated the workforce that tended the spinning machines. The competition for jobs pushed women to work twelve hours per day with only one hour break. They were suffering from being under treated in the dominant white male society but they had to keep silent. Getting tired of being taken advantage of and have no right to speak up for themselves. In 1830’s a group of female workers at Yankee engaged in strikes, and petitioned the…

never went to the Hall-of-fame but that’s not what his fans remember him as. He was a young man that just wanted to make the lives of others better. He wanted to prove that it wasn’t just for the money and the fame (Bob Hersom). Murcer was the only Yankee player to ever play with both Mickey Mantle and Don Mattingly (“Bobby Murcer Obituary”). He was a five-time all-star in five straight seasons, from 1966-1971. It was an honorable time where people thought he could be the next Mickey Mantle.…

Never take the ability to control body and limb movement for granted, because everything can change in the blink of an eye. The only people that know this have suffered from a debilitating disease. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or ALS, is a very deadly disease that may be currently affecting 30,000 Americans by damaging motor control in the body. Lou Gehrig was an American legend. Very few baseball players were as good as he was, and even fewer were as humble. He believed in working hard and…