Zebulon Reed Brockway's Accomplishments

In Gregory Orr’s essay, “Return to Hayneville”, published by The Virginia Quarterly Review, Orr revisited the place of his abduction by armed vigilantes in Alabama as a Civil Rights worker in 1965. Even though the events of this essay take place in 1965, for Orr it started with the death of his younger brother in a hunting accident when Orr was twelve. Holding the gun that killed his younger brother, Orr believed that if his life began at twelve with his brother’s death, then his end, “determined by the trajectory of that harsh beginning, could easily have taken place six years later” (125, 1). Orr

Dewayne Boyer Sr., son of Annie Griffin and William was born on April 12, 1963 in Baltimore, Maryland at City Hospital. Dewayne affectionately known as Wookie, departed this life on June 22, 2016 suddenly.

     The book, John Adams, by David McCullough, is a powerfully written biography of one of our nation’s greatest heroes. This biography explores Adams’ life in great depth, unveiling a side to his life unbeknownst to those who have never studied his life in great detail. Through diary entries, letters, and various other documents, the reader grasps a sense of what Adams’ day to day life was like, and is also able to grasp the enormity of his lifetime accomplishments.

During revolutionary America, Benjamin Franklin, Olaudah Equiano, and Phillis Wheatley all wrote autobiographical works that framed their identities and explored new ideas taking form through the Great Awakening and Enlightenment. Equiano and Wheatley wrote in support of abolition and used their works to exemplify that, while Franklin focused on the “American dream” and how he was able to achieve it. Despite these differences, all three were quick to mention religion in America and the Christian hypocrisy associated with it.

Growing up in Minnesota, David Triemert has lived much of his life on the wild side and has challenged the status quo every step of the way. Proud to share his stories of having been jailed three times for exposing local government corruption, he now serves as an activist for political prisoners and the wrongfully accused. All this, while running a construction business and educating himself on both Common and Commercial law.

Have you ever been too filled with hate and pride to see the obvious truth right in front of you? The year was 1935 in the small town of Maycomb Alabama. During this time an important trial would be taking place. The trial of Tom Robinson, an African and American who had been promptly accused of rape by the one man who had seen the incident. Bob Ewell a despised person throughout the community and the father of the victim, Mayella Ewell, Bob’s abused, lonely, unhappy daughter. Though one can pity Mayella because of her overbearing father, one cannot pardon her for her shameful indictment of Tom Robinson.

Bridget “Biddy” Mason was born a slave in Mississippi in 1818; she achieved success that enabled her to support her extended family for many generations despite the fact that she was illiterate. In a landmark case she sued her master for her freedom, saved her earnings, invested in real estate, she became a well known philanthropist, in Los Angeles. After becoming a free Mason worked in Los Angeles as a nurse and midwife, one of her employers was the noted John Strother Griffin, saving carefully, she was one of the first African Americans to purchase land in the city, as a businesswoman she amassed a small fortune of nearly $300,000, which she shared generously with charities. Biddy also fed and sheltered the poor, and visited prisoners. She was instrumental in founding a travel aid center and an elementary school for black children.

Many historians and American alike tend to encircle the Founding Fathers of this nation in a shield of untouchable morality. With Thomas Jefferson, there is a particularly strong need for him to be seen as a man of outstanding character. However, Jefferson’s personally life has long been plagued with stories of controversy, particularly his intimate life involving one of his slaves, Sarah, or Sally, Hemings. By examining the relationships of Thomas Jefferson, with strong attention to the Hemings family, it becomes clear that his intimate life is one of America’s greatest historical scandals.

I learned how Ida B. Wells-Barnett started her life. Born as a slave, orphaned at 16, she became a teacher to support her surviving brothers and sisters. With the difficult circumstances brought upon her, it took an amazing amount of determination for her to fight for black civil rights and women’s rights in the 19th century. In a more civilized age, it’s harder to witness the courage she represented for the disadvantaged.

In chapter 1, Visions of Progress reveals this vision of well known governor DeWitt Clinton who plans to build the Erie Canal both had representation of growing commitment in the North to the culture of improvement” (pg.25). Individuals the Sheriff identify as

On the date of November the 10'Th of 1791, Robert Hayne was born in a rice plantation in Carolina. At a young age, he had study the laws and had been admitted into the bar of justice before he was even 21. Around 1814, he had been elected as a Republican to assist the lower house of the Legislature group in South Carolina, 4 years later he then became a speaker for that group. After he had been serving as a state attorney general for about 2 years, he had been finally elected into the U.S. Senate around 1822, with the help (and financial backing) of John C. Calhoun.

III. Alcatraz served as the federal government’s response to post-prohibition America. Both the institution and the men

Benjamin Franklin and Henry David Thoreau have been thought of as two powerful philosophers in history. Both men were alive centuries ago, but their unique ways of life and ideas still exist in some of history’s most admirable figures. Each man had a judgment that went beyond the era they existed in, but is still obvious in today’s culture. Even though both men are credited for their wise principles, their beliefs do not always coincide with one another. However, one thing they do have in common is that they both revolutionized America through their thoughts, actions, and distinctive opinions on how to improve the world around them.

Although Tom Buchannan doesn’t represent Franklin’s version of hard work, his college friend, Nick Carraway does. Nick is not lazy nor relies on family wealth. He comes to New York to learn about the bond business and work hard to earn money himself rather than depend on his family’s wealth. In addition, Carraway is one of those people who have “ a sense of the fundamental decencies” (Fitzgerald 2). Overall, unlike Tom, Carraway exhibits respect and admiration for others regardless of their social status.

Richard Edward Connell was born on October 17, 1893 in Poughkeepsie, NY, to Richard Edward Connell Sr. and Marrie Miller Connell. His father was a political adviser to Franklin Delano Roosevelt during Roosevelt’s 1910 campaign for the New York State Senate. Connell had an older sister Mary and two younger sisters, Catherine and Anne. His father started out running a newspaper before becoming a representative of the sixty-ninth United States congress. Richard began writing at the very young age of ten. He began by writing reviews of baseball games for his fathers newspaper. By the age of sixteen he became the editor of the Poughkeesie News-Press. When his father left for Washington to become a US