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Ernie Pyle
1064 Words - 4 Pages.... his father, “He never said a great deal to me all his
life, and yet I feel we have been very good friends, he never
gave me much advice or told me to do this or that, or not to.”
Marie Pyle filled the role of family leader. She enjoyed tasks
at hand: raising chickens and produce, caring for her family
and serving the neighbors. Pyle describes her, “She thrived on
action, she would rather milk than sew; rather plow than bake”
(Tobin 6).
Through school Pyle loved to write. During high school he
was reporter, then editor, then editor in chief for his high
school newspaper. When he graduated high school, he too was
caught up in the “patriotic fever” of the n ....
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Oregon Trail
351 Words - 2 Pages.... Ronde River valley, crossed the Blue Mountains and followed the Umatilla River to the Columbia River. Shorter and more direct routes were developed along some parts of the trail, but they were often more difficult.
Originally, like many other main routes in the United States, sections of the had been used by the Native Americans and trappers. As early as 1742, part of the trail in Wyoming had been blazed by the Canadian explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye; the Lewis and Clark Expedition, between 1804 and 1806, made more of it known. The German-American fur trader and financier John Jacob Astor, in establishing his trading posts, dispatched a pa ....
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First And Second Reconstructio
4441 Words - 17 Pages.... their gains washed away. I
propose to examine why they failed in realizing their goals. My thesis
is that failure to incorporate economic justice for Blacks in both
movements led to the failure of the First and Second Reconstruction.
The First Reconstruction came after the Civil War and lasted
till 1877. The political, social, and economic conditions after the
Civil War defined the goals of the First Reconstruction. At this time
the Congress was divided politically on issues that grew out of the
Civil War: Black equality, rebuilding the South, readmitting Southern
states to Union, and deciding who would control government.1 Socially,
the ....
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The Atomic Bomb Flashed Above Hiroshima
820 Words - 3 Pages.... who lived in the section called Nobori-Cho got her three children,
a ten year old boy,Toshio, an eight year old girl yoke, and a five year old
girl, Mohawk out of bed and dressed them and walked with them to the
Military area known as the East Parade Ground. There she unrolled some mats
and the children laid down on them. They slept until about two, when they
were awakened by the roar of the planes going over Hiroshima. As soon as
the planes had passed, mars.Nakamura started back with her children. They
reached home a little after two-thirty and she immediately turned on the
radio, which was broadcasting a fresh warning. She put the children in
their bedrolls on the ....
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Life In Ancient Greece 2
429 Words - 2 Pages.... but generally no other relatives. Fathers were responsible for supporting the family by work or by investments in land and commerce. Mothers were responsible for managing the household's supplies and overseeing the slaves, who fetched water in jugs from public fountains, cooked, cleaned, and looked after babies. Light came from olive oil lamps, heat from smoky charcoal braziers. Furniture was simple and sparse, usually consisting of wooden chairs, tables, and beds.
Food was simple too; they grew olives, grapes, figs, and some grains, like wheat and barley, and kept goats to provide milk and cheese. Bakeries sold fresh bread daily, and small stands offered snacks. Most people ....
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Hercules His 12 Quests
1861 Words - 7 Pages.... madness he slew his wife and children. But he was cured by Minerva and saved by her from shedding more blood. In payment for his crime, for which he had really not been responsible, he was made the servant of his cousin, King Eurystheus of Argos, whose commands he was compelled to obey. (Juno's hand was in this, too.) Eurystheus thought up twelve tasks that seemed clearly impossible of fu~llment.
The Nemean Lion. Eurystheus first ordered Hercules to kill the Nemean lion, a terrible beast that had defied all would-be captors. The combat between Hercules and the lion was brutal and cruel. .Seeing that his club and arrows were of no avail in the battle, Hercules grasped the l ....
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Columbine Whose Fault Is It
1115 Words - 5 Pages.... they were a group of outcasts, who were often teased and harassed by the "jocks" (the social elite of the high school). Eric Harris had a web page that detailed how to make pipe bombs and told of how he wanted to place bombs over the entire town, not caring if he lived or died. Harris and Klebold were said, by friends, to pass time by playing extremely violent videogames, including Doom II. Both had previous criminal records for breaking into a van and stealing electrical equipment.
Many things can be attributed to this massacre. This nation has many aspects contributing to the early loss of children's innocence, which in turn cause adolescents to develop earlier and whic ....
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Constantine The Great
659 Words - 3 Pages.... until 324.Constantine in his early life was a solar henotheist, believing that the Roman sun god, Sol, was the visible manifestation of an invisible "Highest God" who was the principle behind the universe. This god was thought to be the companion of the Roman emperor. Constantine's faith in this god is evident from his claim of having had a vision of the sun god in 310 while in a grove of Apollo in Gaul. In 312, on the eve of a battle against Maxentius, his rival in Italy, Constantine is reported to have dreamed that Christ appeared to him and told him to inscribe the first two letters of his name XP in Greek on the shields of his troops. The next day he is said to have seen ....
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