“To His Excellency General Washington.” Poetry for Students‚ Encyclopedia.com‚ www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/his-excellency-general-washington Accessed 14 Apr. 2017 The article begins by giving the reader some background information as to why the poem was written‚ and for whom it was written. It continues by delving into the biography of Phillis Wheatley. The poem‚ “To His Excellency George Washington‚” follows afterward‚ and is accompanied with a per line summary and explanation
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Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving is a short fictional story. It was set in the years before and after the Revolutionary War. Rip lived in a pleasant village at the bottom of New York’s Catskill Mountains. One day Rip decided that he needed to escape his wife’s nagging so he went up the mountain with his pet dog. They reach a hollow where there were bearded men playing the nine-pins. Rip doesn’t say anything but instead drinks some of their moonshine and falls into a slumber. When he wakes more
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was great turning point in our country. George Washington had been inaugurated in New York City as the first president of the United States. During his years of being president‚ he set an important precedent by setting the standard of 2 terms for a president when he stepped down in 1796. After being elected‚ the first Congress created 5 executive departments to help Washington carry out his duties‚ which was also known as the first Cabinet. Washington set a precedent by choosing very influential and
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Emily Dickinson and “Crossing the Bar” by Alfred‚ Lord Tennyson are similar in two ways. They are also different in one way. First‚ they are both referring to death. Secondly‚ they are showing death in the form of a journey. Finally‚ they are different in the way that “Because I could not stop for Death” is using personification for death. Where “Crossing the Bar” is using metaphors to describe death. Our first similarity is that both the poems are referring to death. In “Crossing the Bar” our reader
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George Washington Carver was born before the Civil War. His exact birth is unknown. He was born in the Kansas Territory near Diamond Grove‚ Missouri. In 1864‚ he was born into slavery from his mother and father. He was one of twelve children born from Giles and Mary. His parents were owned by a German American immigrant named Moses Carver. George’s father was killed a little bit before George was born. Moses and Susan Carver were small-scale farmers‚ they were successful. The only slaves‚ Moses
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political innovation‚ as times passed politics and views of politicians were swayed back and forth throughout the course of a 75-year period. The films Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and The Distinguished Gentlemen were made in two different eras but the center viewpoints both follows a political system. In the movie Mr. Smith goes to Washington illustrates the strengths as well as the dysfunction of the political system in the United States. At the same time show how the main character (Jeff Smith) who is
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U.S. Bank of Washington Problem The loan approval board has currently reviewed the loan application of the Redhook Ale Brewery in connection to the proposed issuance of an expansion loan for the amount of $6.5 million dollars. Redhook Ale has been a valued customer with no complaints but yet there are still some areas of concern in regards to this proposed application. U.S. Bank could possibly face losses on their investment in the end causing more liability. Currently the profit indices for
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real meaning and what the artist wanted to tell us through his art. One of these photographs is called American Gothic Washington‚ D. C.‚ shot by Gordon Parks in 1942. Gordon Parks was the first African-American photographer for Life and Vogue magazines and was a self-taught artist‚ and he shot this photo on his first day of work at the Farm Security Administration in Washington D.C.. This photo has been named after the famous 1930 painting by Grant Wood. The original painting was about a farmer
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George Washington Carver was an a agricultural chemist who played an important role in agricultural advancements in the U.S. He was the son of slaves‚ and was born around the year 1860‚ near Diamond Grove‚ Missouri. Carver was an outstanding student in high school‚ and later went on to Simpson College‚ in Iowa‚ in 1891. He graduated from the Iowa Agricultural College in 1894 with a B.S. degree‚ and taught agriculture and bacterial botany while working on his M.S. in agriculture‚ which he received
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Booker T. Washington was born a slave on April 5‚1856. Booker Taliaferro Washington’s life had very little promise early on in his life‚ and Franklin County‚ Virginia as in most states practice Civil War‚ the child of a slave becomes a slave. Booker at an early age started working at a plantation mill toting hundred pound sacks of grain‚he was also beaten on occasion for not performing as he was supposed to. Booker T. Washington also grew up during the Civil War.Although President Lincoln freed
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