The Great Gatsby Dialectical Journal Chapter 1-6 Chapter 1 1. “Whenever you feel like criticising any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had" (1). 2. "The Carraways were something of a clan and we have a tradition that we're descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch, but the actual founder of my line was my grandfather's brother who came here in fifty-one, sent a substitute to the Civil War, and started a wholesale hardware business that my father carries on today." 3.
The legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen is a well known historical story in my household because I have a Great Great Uncle that was a Tuskegee Airman. The movie Red Tails is an action filled storyline about a squadron of African American pilots serving their country despite segregation in our US Military during World War II. The film director Anthony Hemingway will have you sitting on the edge of your seat throughout the movie intensely drawn in and leaving you wanting more at the end of the movie. You have a great sense of an un-ended storyline when the credits roll. The movie Red Tails is a 20th Century Fox Film production, Executive Produced by George Lucus and Lucasfilms, staring Terrence Howard as Colonel A.J.
The black stars brought back a memory of their father, Amos Jones, nothing in the kitchen has changed since the day of their father’s funeral. Lewis was terrified with thieves and antique dealers, so he keep the shotgun up beside the grandfather clock. There was a picture of themselves at the age of six it was the best memory of them another great pleasure was a snapshort of their great nephew , Kevin also the age of
CRAZY HORSE By larry Mcmurtry Crazy Horse is an American Indian hero. He believed in traditional ways and ended up dying for his people. Crazy was born in 1840 in Rapid City South Dakota. Crazy Horse’s appearance was different from most of his tribal members. He was tall with brown, curly hair, and very light tan skin.
Names like Billy the Kid and Jesse James were legendary in their own time. Billy was born Henry McCarty on November 23, 1859. He was a "cherubic juvenile desperado, who boasted that he had killed twenty-one men, not counting Indians and Mexicans" (Current 505). William H. Bonney, Henry McCarty, William Henry McCarty, and Henry Antrim were all names he used (O'Connor, 1960: 22-23). Known as the second most famous "bad guy" in the folklore of American outlaws (Surge 12-14), he fit in with the men around him who defied the law.
Landale Brown English 14 (D04) Essay #1 Prompt: “What do you see that represent home when reading the story?” Throughout the story "Every Little Hurricane" and "Because My Father Always Said He Was The Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play The Star Spangled Banner At Woodstock" Alexis explore the nature of home through happiness and scant. growing up on the reservation was a matter of survival for Victor and his family, for victor it was the bad times that make the good times feels good, victor witness it all he was accustomed to life on the reservation, he was accustomed to alcoholic family member, fighting, not having enough food to eat or having proper health care, thus for many this would bring anger and discomfort however for victor
The Ipperwash crisis was not just that fateful night about sixteen years ago, rather it was a certain point that stood out on a time line of struggles between the Stony Point natives and the Government. The man who died that night had an older brother named Sam George, and he perseverance like none other, as he pressed for the ancient land to be returned before Iperwash crisis, he tried to negotiate leading up to and after the crisis, and he filed a lawsuit against the Mike Harris Provincial Government. In 1943, Clifford George of Stony Point came home to nothing, and after "sleeping in a ditch" (Ch. 2) for the night he found out the populace had been moved within a day to rival Kettle Point reserve, a short distance away, as the Government, under the War Measures Act, was creating the a military base there, but promised land back. The Stony Pointers refused the offers but the Canadian Government appropriated them.
Chief Pontiac Chief Pontiac was a respected and well known Ottawa Chief; he was a noble fighter and chief. Pontiac was well known for starting his own rebellion and fighting against the British, stating that they were “Dogs dressed in red who have come to rob us.” Pontiac also had a large role in the signing of the Treaty of Paris. Pontiac lived in the Maumee or Detroit River Valleys historians are not one hundred percent sure but have narrowed it down, he was born in the year seventeen twenty his parents were Miami Indians while as he decided to turn towards the Ottawa lifestyle. In seventeen forty seven Pontiac became the tribe’s war leader and allied with New Frances war leader Nicholas Orontony and stuck with them through all the French
“The rights and responsibilities of the Tuskegee Airmen of WW2” Process Paper Junior Exhibit Board Matthew Moran (500 Word) The Tuskegee airmen of world war two, an African American group in the United States Army Air Force are primarily known for their creation of the 332nd fighter group and the 477th bombardment group. However that’s not all they are remembered for. The first of the Tuskegee airmen changed the United States military as we know it. Previously they were not allowed to fly in the military as they were rarely in the military period. These men who gave their lives to serve our country faced racial discrimination.
Billy The Kid The number one outlaw in the American Old West by popular demand Legend say he killed twenty one men before his twenty first birthday but according to Time Life Book The Wild West when it comes to the gun fighting legends the truth is much less sensational and romantic than fiction I personal think that mot of these events was blown out of purportion The twenty One men that was suppose to have been killed by The Kid cannot be confirmed Legend say it was only four that fell to the thunder of The Kids gun It was only natural that the people and journalist would hype up or add on