December of 1777‚ George Washington decided to set up a winter camp at Valley Forge. The area was about eighteen miles northwest of Philadelphia making it a good place to stay and watch over the British troops. The men build huts large enough to house twelve soldiers at a time. Unfortunately‚ the men slept on the straw and mud floors while being exposed to the freezing weather. Health‚ housing and supplies were critical topics in the camp. The men enlisted only for either six or nine months at a time
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familiar because of the Little Chief test the year before at camp. It was a grueling test that I wanted to pass just as bad as I wanted to make this team. The test would start with waking up at midnight and having to start a fire and then maintaining the flame until seven in the morning. The next task was the run which always weeds out the boys from the men. Once you had finished the run all that was left was a 1500 word essay on what the camp meant to you and manual labor until five o’clock. Throughout
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Were Concentration Camps as Brutal as History States? In history people are taught about war‚ the great depression‚ and presidents‚ but what else do people learn about? People learn about the dark history of the nations past. One of the darkest times happened during the World War II‚ when Hitler began forming labor camps‚ which eventually turned into extermination camps‚ which is also known as‚ concentration camps. Concentration camps are not just brutal‚ they were darker than schools made them
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urban life‚ intense traffic‚ polluted air and endless problems‚ union with nature seemed to us the most worthwhile way to relax. It happened last year. We decided to go on a distant lake called Green lakes for three days. We loaded our van with a camp‚ stoves‚ blankets and lots of food item. In the summer‚ the forest looked beautiful. The trees were full of berries and mushrooms were everywhere. The unbelievable silence prevailed everywhere that was occasionally interrupted with only by birds or
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“Once More to the Lake” “Once More to the Lake” is about a father who takes his son to a camp he had visited often as a boy with his own father. While on this trip‚ the man often reminisces about how this camp has not changed a bit and that he often feels like he has gone back in time and is the boy he was when he first came‚ not the father he now is like when the speaker says “[…] or I would be saying something‚ and suddenly it would be not I but my father who was saying the words […]” (White
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leading the students. It hit me that if I continued seeking empowerment from myself to do this‚ I would fail miserably. God spoke to me and reminded me that worldly power will never be able to lead something heavenly. Consequently‚ the night before camp‚ I locked myself
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Indian Camp Analysis of Nick’s Father 	In Earnest Hemmingway’s story Indian Camp‚ from his first book In Our Time‚ there is a character named Henry refereed to in this story as Nick’s father. Nick’s father is a doctor. A closer look at Nick’s father reveals that he is quite a paradoxical figure. 	On one hand‚ Nick’s father appears to be a great father who is nurturing caring and wants only the best for his son. "Nick lay back with his fathers arms around him."
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The Dreaded Story of Dachau A concentration camp refers to a camp or closed area where people are detained under brutal conditions usually having no access to legal rights of arrest and imprisonment that would normally be accepted in a democracy. Concentration camps played a large part in the mass killing of Jews in Europe lead by Adolf Hitler. An example of a concentration camp is Dachau. During the World War II‚ Jews were separated into two groups the healthy and the unhealthy. The unhealthy
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The sotry’s plot is cate in the form of a journey‚in and out of an indian camp:divided into three parts.The first part is about Nick‚his father and Uncle George sent out to an Indian camp because a woman there has trouble in childbirth.Nick is curious eager to explore the world.The second part is about what happens there:Nick’s father is doing a caesarian operation and the husband is killing himself with a razor.This is the climax of the story;for just at that moment Nick sees the violence of both
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My significant event is about my sixth grade trip to the Woodlands. It was right before the school day started‚ and the sky was blue and clear. After everyone was accounted for‚ it was a brief bus ride up the road to the Woodlands. Although I was nervous about going‚ that all went away because it was a beautiful day to bask in the woods‚ and socialize. The first day we were there‚ we were initiated‚ and we had to create woodsey nicknames for ourselves. We all hung out together outside the Mess Hall
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