artist (Riordan). While Rick Riordan attended college at The University of Texas in Austin‚ he worked at a summer camp for three years as the music director. This summer camp inspired camp Half-Blood‚ a summer camp in his Percy Jackson series. Growing up in an artistic family had influenced him to write and play the guitar. Rick Riordan married and he lived with his wife in San Francisco for eight years‚ and then moved to San Antonio when they had their two kids‚ Haley and Patrick
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Jackson Pollock is an artist who is commonly acknowledged as someone who helped pave the path for contemporary artists. Pollock turned life and circumstance into a visual representation‚ giving way to ultimate expression and subjectivity. Jackson Pollock had many influences in his life: family (or lack thereof)‚ teachers‚ friends‚ and other artists who all contributed to his work in some way. These influences of Pollock were a cocktail that helped to produce some of the greatest examples of modern
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Lottery" by Shirley Jackson: Cruelty or Human Nature? Shirley Jackson‚ the author of the short story‚ "The Lottery"‚ is the daughter of Beatrice and George Jackson. Jackson was born on August 5th‚ in 1946. Some background on Jackson is that she graduated college with a Bachelors of Science Degree in Physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ("Shirley Ann Jackson") Jackson had many accomplishments in her lifetime. She received many awards‚ metals‚ and honors. Jackson was appointed to
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“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson was a dark short story that had a slight twist to it. It was based in a village were citizens had a certain tradition passed on from generation to generation that they obeyed. The symbol of the lottery was a black box filled with slips of paper‚ in which one of those slips contains a black spot that decides the fate of the person picked. The scapegoat of the story was a mother and wife named Tessie Hutchinson. A scapegoat can be an animal or person that is unjustly
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In the book‚The Lightning Thief‚ Percy Jackson‚a troubled kid who lives in New York with his mother Sally Jackson. Percy’s father left them when he was a baby and was lost at sea.He goes through crazy battles and adventures when he is accused of stealing Zeus’s master bolt and discovered his missing father is Poseidon‚which makes him a half-blood. Now‚ Percy and his friends are sent on a quest to get the lightning bolt back to Zeus before the summer solstice ends. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
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ASSIGNMENT SHEET - AP U.S. HISTORY Unit 4 – THE AGE OF JACKSON Chp. 13-15 & 17 (skip 16) 10/22 – 11/7 Organizing Principle - During the "Reign of Jackson‚" politics became more democratic‚ the power of the Presidency increased‚ America became more optimistic and expansionistic‚ and sectionalism supplanted nationalism. Topics: Jacksonian Democracy‚ 2nd American Party System‚ democratization‚ sectionalism‚ reform movements‚ Native Americans‚ Bank War‚ Nullification‚ American
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Quincy Adams‚ Henry Clay‚ and Andrew Jackson did not gain enough electoral votes to win. In accordance with the constitution‚ the election was settled in the House‚ and to the people’s dismay‚ Henry Clay helped John Quincy Adams gain enough votes to become President‚ in what what later known by the Democrats as the “corrupt bargain.” A war hero and aristocrat from the agrarian state of Tennessee who liked to chew tobacco and duel with pistols‚ Andrew Jackson was particularly livid about the results
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Andrew Jackson‚ who was in office from 1829-1837‚ was a president of many firsts as he was the first frontier president‚ first to have a “kitchen cabinet”‚ and first to use a pocket veto. Jackson was later succeeded by his vice president‚ Martin Van Buren. Van Buren‚ who was in office from 1837-1841‚ was known for his shrewd political skills. Both these men laid down the foundations for a stronger‚ more centralized national government with methods that garnered mixed responses. Andrew Jackson was a
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story written by Shirley Jackson in 1948‚ yet still‚ leaves a mark on any person who gets their hands on it today. The story starts out by setting an enjoyable atmosphere at the beginning of summer. The community gathers and the story almost fulfills the reader’s idea of a perfect town activity. However‚ the story has a sharp twist at the end that leaves the reader in shock. Jackson wrote the story to leave an impact and whom how quickly human nature can change. Shirley Jackson shows the duality of human
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of Olympus-The Lost Hero is the opening book to the series Heroes of Olympus‚ which is a sequel to the magnificent series of books‚ Percy Jackson. The Heroes of Olympus-The Lost Hero is the book‚ where the main character Percy Jackson‚ the son of the Greek sea god Poseidon‚ goes missing and the son of the Roman god Jupiter‚ Jason is introduced. In the Percy Jackson series and the Heroes of Olympus series‚ there are two camps called ‘Camp Half-Blood’ and ‘Camp Jupiter’. The campers of the two camps
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