Giovanni Salazar Mrs. Spencer Government 10-30-13 U.S Flag Report Our flag originated from that of The East India Company, a powerful trading enterprise, whose flag happened to have 13 red and white horizontal stripes with a blue rectangle in its upper left-hand corner. The Origin of our flag when the first official national flag, also known as the Stars and Stripes, was approved by the Continental Congress on June 14, 1777. The blue canton contained 13 stars, representing the original 13 colonies, but the layout varied. Although nobody knows for sure who designed the flag, it may have been Continental Congress member Francis Hopkinson. When George Washington took command of the U.S. Continental Army under an elm tree in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the United States flag was used.
I really enjoyed watching this movie, I watched it once when I was little but didn’t remember most of it. Saving Private Ryan doesn’t just tell a story about world war two. It goes into peoples live’s and there families and the things they did to fight for our country. Saving Private Ryan helps me appreciate all the people that fought/fight in the armed forces. I would refer this movie to anyone and everyone of
Red symbolizes Hardiness and Valor, White symbolizes Purity and Innocence and Blue represents Vigilance, Perseverance and Justice. History of the Flag The origin of the stars and stripes design is inadequately documented. The story credits Betsy Ross for sewing the first flag from a pencil sketch handed to her by George Washington, although no evidence for this exists. The design of the flag has been modified 26 times officially, since 1777. The 50-star flag we have today was ordered by President Eisenhower on August 21, 1959.
I did take the bullwhip out a few weeks before I started on Indy III and loosened up a bit." —Harrison Ford Whipmaker David Morgan is credited with making the bullwhips used in the Indiana Jones Films. "While the story gave great scope for the use of the whip, it never became a distraction. Rather it became a recognized part of the Indiana Jones character and an ongoing factor maintaining the suspense of the story. The superb use of the whip in developing the story lines in these movies undoubtedly contributed to their success.” —David Morgan (pg.
In May 1787, fifty-five white male delegates from 12 states assembled at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia. This assembly was called the Constitutional Convention and it was held to amend the Articles of Confederation. The delegates ended up writing an entirely new Constitution to create a stronger central government. The Compromises were created to make a better Constitution. They impacted the structure and function of our national government.
This movie has a great story line that is based on a true story that really went on not too long ago. This movie has very good acting that makes you really feel like you are inside the movie and shows you what really went on in the story. Some of the actors who really play a great part are Dwayne ‘’The Rock’’ Johnson and Xzibit who both play major roles as the coaches of the football team. Some other of the actors who really play a part in this movie are Michael Pagan, Jake Yorker, Setu Tase, and many other actors that all play important parts in the movie. The story of the movie is mainly about a kid named Willie Weathers a gang banger that gets in trouble by making some wrong decisions and ends up in the correctional prison where the main part of the movie begins.
“Arkansas’ Flag Is Fifty Years Old” by Walter L. Brown in Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Volume 22 (Spring 1963): 3-6. Mr. Brown’s article is about how the Arkansas state flag came to be. This article describes the people, ideas, and designs behind the flag’s creation. The Daughters of the American Revolution were surprised to find that Arkansas didn’t have a state flag. The main reason for the necessity of a flag was the Daughters of the American Revolution wanted a flag to present to the battleship U.SS.
Burn my Flag, Symbolic Speech Protected Kevin Halstead HIS 301 March 20 2013 Bretton Barber Burn my Flag, Symbolic Speech Protected It is a rectangular piece of material, usually cloth or nylon; its colors are red, white, and blue. It is adorned with 50 stars to represent its 50 states. It has 13 stripes, seven are red, and six are white. These stripes represent the original colonies where the country was born. It even has its own code or federal law on its use and destruction when it is no longer deemed serviceable.
It is not really known for certain who made the United states flag, or who made the first flag. A New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress, Francis Hopkinson, demanded that he had designed it. It is said that “most scholars accept this claim,” but a popular story says that Betsy Ross, a seamstress who made flags during the American Revolution War, made the first U.S. flag. However, most scholars do not believe that this story is true. The flag today compose of thirteen horizontal stripes, seven red with 6 white stripes alternating.
The Act of May 18, 1908, made it mandatory on all coins except on the one cent coin and five cent coin. In 1955, Congress ordered the motto “In God We Trust”, which had appeared on U.S. coins, to be added to all of the paper currency designs as well. The new motto was first used on paper money in 1957 .Even with all the new laws about placing in god we trust on u.s currency “E Pluribus Unum” remained the U.S. motto. “E Pluribus Unum” was a secular phrase meaning “One from many” or “One from many parts.” In 1956, the nation was suffering through the cold war. In reaction to this factor, the 84th Congress passed a resolution to replace the existing motto with "In God we Trust.