This book, written by Kristiana Gregory, is about a thirteen year old girl from Pennsylvania, Hattie Campbell. On her birthday, she was given a diary by her mother and her Aunt June. In the first entry, she mentions her Uncle Milton’s death three days ago while fixing her family’s barn and his funeral the eve of her birthday. At the funeral, the coffin fell out of their cart and was washed into the nearby river. Her father tried to save it but was almost sucked into the paddles of a riverboat. As a sign of apology, the riverboat captain agreed to give Mr Campbell and his family free tickets on his riverboat to go anywhere they wanted. That night, he announced that the family would be heading to the untamed West, at that time occupied by the Indians who were known to be violent. Mrs Campbell was very angry and initiated a “cold war” with her husband. Two days later, she relents and agrees to head out West.…
Abigail Adams' insightful letter of advice did not only inspire her son, but the children of America. As the wife of 2nd president John Adams, her involvement politically was unavoidable, so she implanted the ideas of environmental and political proactivity via a well composed letter to her son. This letter's success cannot be based on its concept alone, but also by its employment of formal language and historical/biblical allusions to ascend her ethos into that of great American history.…
Thank you for informing us about Marie-Louise is unable to take up the role as Pathways Guide. Therefore, I have removed her as Pathways Guide in our system.…
I know it is hard to believe we (the colonists) would be on the verge of a revolution against our own homeland. My father has explained to me the reasons we deserve independence from God, the King, and the British people. There are many things going on in the colonies to lead us to our current thoughts. The British people have imposed many Acts upon us colonists.…
In a letter written to her son, Abigail Adams effectively uses irony, parallelism, and allusion to advise her son that he is the only person who defines his future and he must learn how to push past adversity when it arises in his path to his future.…
Dear Ms UN Secretary General, Imagine our planet as a spaceship. In preparation for a long, deep space voyage, the spaceship carries everything its astronauts need to survive. This spaceship provides you with all the necessities for life, just like planet Earth. There are no grocery stores, highways, burning industrial factories or gas stations on the spaceship. Most of the spaceship's systems are powered by the sun's radiation. Freshwater and clean air will be continuously recycled 24/7. Not only do you have to think about all the things you will need to survive, you have to consider the consequences of those things in terms of the wastes created and recycled. The crew are constantly engaged in managing the resources as carefully as possible.…
Imagine facing the horrors of a war at the young age of 19. In the real world as well as fictional novels, the Vietnam War was considered to be a war unlike any other. Many soldiers faced untold brutal challenges, and often wondered who the enemy really was. In many depicted pieces of literature such as Fallen Angels the fictional stories cannot begin to compare to the real traumatic ones. Research has shown that the traumatic circumstances have caused soldiers mental stress. Research shows the brutality that the soldiers of the Vietnam War went through, the novel Fallen Angels and the video series “Dear America: Letters Home” are very similar in this depiction, but also have slight differences.…
I began my journey in August under the leadership of the great General Washington after he received news that the French would join us in September. Although I was extraordinarily skeptical at first, I must admit that our former enemies have been vital to this war for independence. However, my dislike for them still holds somewhat true, being as they were always criticizing the not-as-well equipped Americans. It seems to me that they were not here to fight for our independence, but that they were here to simply see the British lose part of their empire. I’m grateful for their help, but it irks me knowing that they were not here for the right reasons.…
The powerful emotions triggered through watching this film can be acknowledged without question. What I found the most interesting was the use of real news footage from that time period that aired on major news networks, swaying people’s opinions about our justification for being in Vietnam. Being able to view that gave me a 1st hand look into soldiers’ opinions of the war as well as protests and how they differed then. The actors reading the leaders with pure emotion and feeling in order to accurately portray how much these soldiers put into these letters was remarkable because I felt as though I was experiencing that time period as if it were real and the soldiers were scrambling to write as I watched on. The stories they depicted throughout their words definitely provided for a flurry of reactions. I wanted to be happy for those men honored for combat, living through the horrors of hell, and seeing the relief on their faces when being honorably discharged and sent home. I was equally and oppositely somber, however, for those men’s lives stolen in combat, for those permanently crippled and bitter, to hear of the unspeakable horrors awaiting prisoners of war, as well as letters from optimistic soldiers killed in action shortly after. Another thing I found effectively executed by this film was the specific numbers given. They showed the variation in the number of soldiers deployed to Vietnam over the course of the war, as well as the rising KIA numbers and wounded in combat. A gruesome part of this war as well was the thick jungle that the soldiers had to navigate through blindly until ambushed by the Vietcong, and I thought the film did an excellent job of revealing that to the public. One of the most powerful moments of the film was when a soldier, grieving over his superior officer exclaimed that “he’ll be given a silver star, and somehow that is supposed to suffice for his life being…
Formative: Students will write a letter to one of the three founding fathers. They will have to infer what they have learned from other lessons to write about the constitution and our founding fathers. Students will be applying what they have learned about the constitution into real life with working on their writing and typing a letter to one of these men.…
In the essay”Mail” which was originally appeared in the American Scholar, written by Anne Fadiman, Fadiman reflects on the history of communication, from the Victorian mail system to modern electronic mail. She opened her essay with a portrait of her father, writer Clifton Fadiman, waiting for his day to really start with the arrival of the daily post. From there, she examines British postal history in nineteenth century. At her father times, mail was delivered from 10 to 12 times a day and everybody has not any others communication tools, except mail. Sending mail was a very expensive business and only made worse by the fact that the recipient and not the sender was forced to pay for it, thus putting the expense out of one's hand. Eventually, the system was completely overhauled and the so-called "penny post" was introduced in the essay. Moreover, when the recipient was forced to pay for the letter and often pay dearly, there was added pressure by an additional charge for long distance between the sender and the addressee. The hope was that revenue would increase by reducing the price and thereby increasing the volume handled. In fact, it succeeded and shifted the burden of payment from the addressee to the sender. Linking the continuous history of the postal service, Anne Fadiman looks at a new phenomenon that has become familiar to millions: Electronic mail. She recounts her own struggles with e-mail and concludes that this tool can provide human beings the level of service they need. In this essay, I find that the author has approached the subject from a personal perspective and makes the essay rich in familiar nature. She used an agreeable style and tone that was neither too formal nor too informal. Her essay are written over a long period and took longer in the gestation, giving it a depth and consistency across the topic she want to mainly talk…
I write this letter to you to inform you I have left the city without notifying you. I am writing to you from the New World. When I was asked to join this voyage I didn’t hesitate in saying yes. I am writing to you from my house in front of a farm plot of my own. In the past few days we have gotten in some battles with the native people of this strange land. Apart from that, the life I live here is much better than the one you live ‘’papa’’. I don’t have to work my ass off to earn just enough to buy a miserable piece of bread. Here I plant my own food and live of the good land there is. I would encourage you to leave behind that miserable life you have back in the Old World, and catch a boat here to the New World. You will notice a change in your pockets, and most of all, you will be able to breathe with all the space there is over here.…
I haven’t seen you in awhile and I am not sure if I will ever again. I want you to know my loving sister that I am joining the rebellion against Britain. King George III and the Parliament have been wrongfully abusing their power; us colonists are tired of their exploitation and resent being treated as lower beings. Alice I hope you will understand what I am trying to say in this letter; that I am fighting for justice, do not think that I am throwing my life away, I hope that you will respect what I am fighting for. The colonist and I are above tyranny, we hope to make a more fair and just government and live in a country that I am proud to say I helped make.…
I am writing to you, to express my opinion on the Declaration of Independence. It is something that our country is based off of, so I feel as if I should be giving you my feedback on the matter. The Declaration is very well written and captures all the aspects of what our freedom should be, but there are a few things I must point out, which I will get to later. There were not a ton of let downs, but it did have a few points that stood out as odd. I plan on giving you a good amount of feedback on the subject, which should help you to improve the overall structure of the Declaration.…
Part one: The author imagines himself an Englishman who has come to settle in America (in 1783). Through the eyes of this English settler, the author describes what he would see upon coming to America and how different it would be from Europe. Unlike in Europe, America has a far smaller gap between rich and poor and titles, based on class and honor, (such as prince, duke or lord) are non-existent. For the most part the people living in America are farmers and live in comfortable but modest houses. It is clear from the author’s words that he thinks America is great place to live.…