Graded Assignment Unit Test‚ Part 2: Challenges and Turning Points Answer the questions in complete sentences. (7 points) 1. Both Paul in “The Rocking-Horse Winner” and Jerry in “Through the Tunnel” set a challenge for themselves. What is the challenge for each‚ and what motivates each toward his goals? How are the challenges similar and different? Answer: They both wanted something from their mothers. Jerry wanted attention from his mother and Paul wanted his mother to think that he was lucky
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TURNING POINTS IN THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS HISTORY 017 ONLINE BIRTH CHAPTER I • Around the year 1818‚ Frederick Douglass was born to a slave woman by the name of Harriet Bailey -- and possibly his first white master. "I come to this‚ from hearing my master say‚ some time during 1835‚ I was about seventeen years old" (13). FREDERICK AUGUSTUS WASHINGTON BAILEY • The first major event in Douglass’ life may have been his separation from his mother at a very young age. This action may have caused
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When my Great Grandfather was a much younger man‚ he was fortunate enough to be part of a very famous battle in the Revolutionary War. In fact many people say that it was one of the turning points of the war. He had the honor of serving under two of the greatest generals in the American Continental Army‚ General Thomas Gage and General Benedict Arnold. Let me tell you a story about the battle that changed his life… It was a cold and foggy night on October 7th‚ 1777 when the British army led
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Name Instructor Course Date Chinese History Assignment China 221 BCE - turning point The first Chinese Empire was formed from the unification of state of Qin with other Sates in China states in 221 BCE to establish a centralized organization of government. The founding of the Qin dynasty not only brought the unification of the China but also redefined China as a country. Before the Qin dynasty‚ China was under based on clan ties and lineage but transformed into a centralized government in 221
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The uncommonly known Bessemer process sparked a turning point in the 1850’s. A process designed to yield steel at a much faster rate allowed for a development in traditional structures‒bridges‚ buildings‚ and skyscrapers‒as well as advanced economic theory and practices and their relation to a successful business model. Revolutionaries such as Andrew Carnegie (a successful entrepreneur) and James Buchanan Eads (an engineer specializing in bridges) paved the way for practices and techniques still
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Renaissance is the term used to describe the period of European history that saw a renewed interest in the arts. The Renaissance began in 14th¬century Italy and spread to the rest of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. In this period‚ the fragmented feudal society of the Middle Ages‚ with its agricultural economy and church¬dominated intellectual and cultural life‚ was transformed into a society increasingly dominated by central political institutions‚ with an urban‚ commercial economy and lay
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What was Lincoln supposed to say after the war? Fifty thousand people died in a total of three days‚ and what on earth is he supposed to say? That he is sorry‚ that he doesn’t know why everything happened the way that it happened? Lincoln gave a speech‚ it was very short‚ and a lot of people didn’t even listen but what he said was; that the living can honor the wartime dead not with a speech‚ but rather to continuing to fight for the idea’s they gave their lives for. Lincoln’s Gettysburg address
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Revolutionary of Renaissance Art (briefly) Key dates: 1300s This movement began in Italy in the 14th century and the term‚ literally meaning rebirth‚ describes the revival of interest in the artistic achievements of the Classical world. Initially in a literary revival Renaissance was determined to move away from the religion-dominated Middle Ages and to turn its attention to the plight of the individual man in society. It was a time when individual expression and worldly experience became two of
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a turning point in the African American Civil Rights Movement because it was the first mass protest against Jim Crow and it is regarded as the movement that started the Modern Civil Rights
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truly global war‚ with combat taking place in some way or another on each of the worlds 5 populated continents. Over 15 million people died and a further 20 million+ were wounded in what became known as ‘The Great War’. The war itself was by no means one sided and is littered with numerous turning points where‚ had events occurred differently‚ the whole direction of the war‚ and the result‚ might have differed. It is my opinion that the Battle of the Somme is the most crucial turning point of WW1
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