Creative Writing: Siege of Yorktown It was four o’clock in the morning when my commanding officer awoke me and we were ordered to prepare to march. We had set up an extensive camp at Chatham in New York‚ we all believed that we would attack New York City. It turned out that we were marching on towards Yorktown. When we arrived at Yorktown the bay was full of French ships. Our army along with the French encircled Cornwallis. Cornwallis did not surrender‚ he waited for a larger British fleet
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The Street That Got Mislaid by Patrick Waddington Marc Girondin had worked in the filing section of the city hall’s engineering department for so long that the city was laid out in his mind like a map‚ full of names and places‚ intersecting streets and streets that led nowhere‚ blind alleys and winding lanes. In all Montreal no one possessed such knowledge; a dozen policemen and taxi drivers together could not rival him. That is not to say that he actually knew the streets whose names
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The Roman siege on Masada ended with a tragic decision by the leader of the Sicarii. Before we can cover the Siege itself‚ we need to first understand the parties involved and what brought the two groups to this tragic end. On one hand‚ we have the great Roman Empire and the 10th Legion known as the Legio X Fretensis. On the other hand‚ we have the Sicarii‚ a splinter group of the Hebrew Zealots. The Siege happens toward the end of the first Jewish revolt against Rome. The 10th Legion is charged
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame was Hugo’s first novel after a series of successful plays. It is set in 1482 in Paris‚ in and around the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris. The book tells the story of a poor Gypsy girl‚ La Esmeralda‚ and a misshapen bell-ringer‚ Quasimodo‚ who are both victimized by a corrupt priest (Claude Frollo). The book is largely a work of social criticism. In fifteenth century Paris‚ the townspeople are celebrating the festival of Epiphany where Quasimodo‚ the deformed bell ringer
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Extra Credit #2 The movie that I chose to write about is called Modern Meat and it is produced by frontline. The movie exposes the truth about the history of our meat and diseases. The movie explains how the united states meat industry was dramatically change in the early 19 50s to increase productivity as well as profit. This process would have continued if it wasn’t for the big outbreak that got the public’s attention. The outbreak that was an e coli outbreak occurred in 1993; this outbreak distributed
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Isabella Van Wagner is known for “Aint I a woman” speech given in Akron Ohio at the women’s rights convention given in 1851 on racial inequalities. There have been books written about her such as “Aint I a Woman” by bell hooks‚ Sojourner Truth: A life‚ a symbol by Neil Irvin Painter how she is represented as a woman that stood for Africana Womanism and she did not just stand up for women‚ and also men as well against the racial white supremacy‚ and her trails in slavery loosing a child due to forced
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Film Evaluation: Black Is… Black Ain’t The final film by Marlon Riggs‚ Black is…Black Ain’t‚ is concerned with the state of the African American community. This film essentially asks the question‚ what does it mean to be black? The director and producer‚ Marlon Riggs‚ guides viewers along an “an up-front examination of racism‚ sexism‚ and homophobia within the black community itself. Bringing together personal stories‚ interviews‚ music‚ history‚ and performance‚ Black Is...Black Ain’t asks African
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Got Milk? Advertisements are an efficient way to communicate with a wide variety of people to promote a certain message or product. The purpose of this is to encourage the audience of readers‚ viewers or listeners to take action on a certain product or idea. One of the advertisements that I have been seeing for a long time is the “got milk?” campaign. They’re a product oriented advertisement‚ therefore; they don’t advertise a specific brand of milk‚ for they’re goal is to sell milk itself. They
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The excerpt from “He Got Game” is relate to the animals complacent attitude as the commandments change and the way of doing things on the farm change for the worse by using complacency facts about each. “1 outta 1 million residents/being dissident” this is a piece from the excerpt of “He Got Game”. This relates to Animal Farm because there was so much being done on the farm that was wrong and no one did anything about it. Like when they knew the seven commandments have changed‚ they knew that the
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