...In my opinion, I don't think anyone should join the Pony Express. I think this because it is dangerous and it takes a long time. When the Pony Express was alive the people wanted orphans, not over eighteen years old, and wanted experienced riders. They wanted people who were willing to die daily. There were daring pony riders. I think that it would be crazy to join the Pony Express. It took 200 men to even make the job work. Each stop was 12 miles to change people and horses. Theres alot of dangers. In my opinion there are to many dangers. They mailed over 35,000 letters every twelve months. Sometimes they had to swim through icy waters, face dangers, and go through tough weather dangerous. Indians can attack you. There is also bad weather....
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...I was born in liberty city on 1992. I was raised by my mother while my dad was a cop. He was to hard into his work and barely came home. I also had an older brother that always studied. When I got older my mother had another child with a different man and that caused my mother and father to break up. My mother had it rough because she didnt know who the babys dad was and me and my brother didnt talk to her. After the birth of my step sister my brother was just about leave school and go into collage. He past his exams with 7 As and 2 Bs. My mother was very proud of him and he was very excited. After a few weeks of getting the collage he wanted and the packing he left. But on the way to the collage a local gang misread his car and thought it...
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...The Civil War was an bad fight between the South, which wanted slaves to still be a thing, and the North, which wanted to stop slavery. During the Civil War both the North and the South needed to work out what they both wanted to do. Though in the end North got what they wanted, which is a good thing, of course. The North and South and very different opinions on what to do. One of the ways we know this is from the documents given to us. A Confederate recruitment poster from 1862 shows that the South viewed blacks as workers. They didn't care about the African-Americans they just wanted them to be their slaves . The source "Wanted! 200 Negroes" tells us who the actual audience is and what they want to do. "I call upon the Planters...
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...My Brother Sam Is Dead As we all know Sam Meeker is a Patriot and his father “Life” Meeker is a Loyalist. There are many differences between the Patriots and the Loyalist. Patriots wanted American colonies to have independence from Britain, Loyalist on the other hand wanted to stay part of Britain and remain loyal to the king.In my brother Sam Is Dead Sam wants to fight against the Lobsterbacks but his dad thinks they should leave it be and be loyal to Britain and their king. Sam joins the rebel forces and it impacts the rest of his family who want to remain neutral and avoid war with England. When Sam joins the war his dad gets very mad at him and his family wishes he'd stay home. If I had to choose a side I think that I would agree with...
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... I can honestly say that most of the decisions that I have made over the years have been spur of the moment. I was never really that great at planning out any of my decisions that I made. Most of the spur of the moment decision that I have made turned out to be the right decisions at the time. One of my biggest decisions was joining the US Navy, which was a life changing decision. I did use most of the decision making process discussed in chapter 3 of the text book except for the first step. Generating alternative solutions is the second step of the process which involved me making two avenues to go down. One was joining the military and the second one would have been community college for nursing. If I could not join the military my alternative solution would have been community college. The third step of the decision making process is evaluating alternatives. Evaluating community college I would have had to take out student loans because I could not afford to pay for my tuition. That would have put me in debt before I even really started my life and that is not an avenue that I wanted to take. So I tried my hardest to qualify to enlist into the military if it was the last thing I did. The fourth step in the decision making process is to make the choice. The choice I was going to make was a no brainer. The only thing is that I had to bring my parents into the decision making process as well. I was only...
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...The friends I have made on the internet make me paranoid. Chatting with people online is much more different than chatting with people in real life. While behind a screen, I could never fully understand a person, physically and mentally. There was once a time when I thought I could, but then I got betrayed. That was when I realized that the internet can hide a backstabber behind the face of a trusting friend. During my 3rd grade in elementary school, I was a fan of an online video game called AdventureQuest Worlds. It was a game where one could go questing for epic armors and weapons, slay monsters and race to the max level, or just socialize with everyone else playing the game. One evening, after I finished my homework, I had decided to...
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...control the educational system, it can most likely control society a lot more easily. However, some of the nationalistic views that many of the main Nazis had were brought to them during World War I in the classroom. Many classrooms celebrated the military aspect of war and they celebrated and taught nationalism for Germany. Classrooms did not really do that until the war. It was after the loss in World War I that the attitudes perpetuated by the enormous let down where teachers helped with the Nazi effort and taught the essentials to the Nazi party. Teachers did not do much to fight the Nazi effort and even though not all of them directly participated in the Holocaust, they did breed a nation of young extreme German nationalists whose ideals perpetuated the event. Extreme nationalism was a very popular topic for classrooms during and after World War I, which played a contribution to some of the main Nazis during the Nazi era. A large percentage of the Nazi base was born between 1900 and 1908 including Martin Bormann (born 1900), Rudolf Hoss (born 1900), Heinrich Himmler (born 1900), Ernst von Salomon (born 1902), Werner Best (born 1903), Reinhard Heydrich (born 1906), and Baldur Schirach (born 1907) were all men who went through the German school systems during and after World War I (Anson 337). The teachers during this time taught a nationalist bias that gave these students an unrealistic...
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...in the Chinese Cultural Revolution was ineffective due to people living in fear, propaganda was highly effective because it convinced many of the youth to join the Red Guard as well as giving more power to Mao. One reason why propaganda was effective was because it convinced many of the youth to...
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...Assignment Situation: I wanted to join a sport in High school and I had played basketball from 5th grade through 8th grade but I was below average height to join the basketball team. I also wanted to join a sport because I had recently moved into the area and needed immediate friends and I knew a sport is the best way to do it. Also it would bolster my apps for college as its an extra curricular. Task: As I was at a disadvantage because of my height I knew I needed a skill or set of skills in order to differentiate me and make me useful enough to be placed on the team. Ultimately I decided to allocate large portions of that incoming summer in order to improve myself. Action : I began by identifying what I could to to improve my game. I decided to improve my athleticism, defense, and shooting. In order to improve my athleticism I began running 2 miles a day and I began a jump-training program called Air alert. Both of these actions greatly improved my athleticism. I was able to improve my defense by playing 3 times a week and choosing to guard different kinds of players. I also improved my shooting by putting in a lot of time shooting every day, spending an average of 1 hour a day shooting. Result : With all of the work I put in, not only was I able to make the team, I was able to secure a large portion of playing time on the freshman team. I learned the value of hard work, and how enough of it can pay off. In addition to simply making the team, I was also able to develop...
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...year and sophomore year I was very focused on my academics. I had a goal that I would try my best to get high grades and do my best to make it into the honor roll. My mind was clearly set that if I had A’s and B’s I would likely be accepted to a university. However, I really wasn’t involved in any extracurricular activities. As an older sister I had responsibilities at home and I never took the time to join any club or sports. I didn't want to do any extra-curricular activities because that meant I would be taking my free time away. I would often hear that some students would come home late and finish their homework late in the night. Some classmates...
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...Collins, Robert Billings, Brian Ammon, Carl Block and Alex Cooper I would say that Laurie Saunders is the main character, because it’s often in her perspective you see things. She’s also the one who doesn’t really believe that the wave is a good thing and that makes her different from the others. Amy Smith is Laurie's’ friend who is a little bit shy and kind of lives in Laurie’s shadow. She’s like the third wheel to Laurie and her boyfriend David, she seems to be interested in David’s friend but is to shy to do anything. Ben Ross is the teacher who introduced the Wave to the students. He seems to be a really good teacher that everyone likes and has a wife that loves him. When he wants to do something he dedicates his life to it. David Collins is a guy who plays football and is Laurie’s boyfriend. He seems to be a funny guy who wants to help his football team that sucks. So he introduces the Wave to the team and it seems to work pretty good. Robert Billings is a bullied guy that nobody likes. He is the one who gets most dedicated to the Wave because it makes him one of the gang because everyone is equal in the Wave. You haven’t heard so much about Brian Ammon, but he is David’s friend and plays in the football team together with David. Carl Block and Alex Cooper are best friends and works at the Grapevine with Laurie, the are funny guys who are more independent than others because the do not join the wave. Why did Mr Ross start his experiment? He started it...
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...Cassius is one of the main, more important conspirators in Julius Caesar. He tends to take charge when it comes to the orders and he basically lead the over all plan for the killing of Julius Caesar. Two of the main character traits Cassius possesses are that he is very manipulative and persuasive. He hates the way Rome treats Caesar in the way of a god, just like many of the other conspirators. He complains about Caesar’s power quite often. In Act I Scene II, lines 146-148, Cassius says: “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.” Here he is saying that it’s Rome’s fault for worshiping such a man like Caesar, and that men control their own fate, so it’s up to them to take Caesar down. Cassius...
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...decision that I have made which took awhile to decide would be enlisting in the military. I had this idea rolling around in the back of my head, and I knew my family didn’t have money for college. I had no job experience and since the rest of my family had been or was already in the military that was the path I wanted to take. This decision was a hard one to make, since I knew I would be away from my family for long periods of time. I knew I would join the military a couple of months before my graduation. I had not told my parents my decision, because I wanted to be sure that was what I wanted to really do. Not only was it a tough decision deciding to join the military, but it was even more tough picking what branch I wanted to enlist in. My older brother and sister were in the Army and my dad was in the Navy. The Airforce was not challenging enough, so that’s why I chose to go into the Marine Corps. About three months before my graduation I ran into a recruiter for the Marine Corps at my school. I told him I wanted a challenge and I wanted to discipline myself, the recruiter told me the Marine Corps was perfect for me. So that’s when I made up my mind, that this was what I was going to do for sure. I signed the papers to enlist and swore into the military about a month after I graduated. Not only was this decision tough on me, but it was tough on my mother as well. She was not ready to let me go into a world that was new to me. It was hard seeing my mother cry when I left...
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...April 22, 2013 PJ Rosch When I was a child I always looked up asking questions to the skies and hope it would answer me back, what would my life when I grow up? What will I be in the future? Though the skies didn’t answer me back I would always answer myself with, a good future that awaits me. Whatever life has stored for me I know I will do my best to make the most of it. As a child I was very playful and energetic. The only thing that I wanted was more time to play and play. There was a point I was mimicking what different people on TV have been doing, and I realized I am starting to dream what I want to be. There were a lot of different people that inspired me because of their job as actor’s professional athletes etc. I revered the athletes most that is why I wanted to be like them, always outside practicing different sports. I could see myself someday playing a professional sport and taking care of my family. So I started to dream big and working hard to become that professional athlete. A turn of fate changed everything for me when my brother passed away in my last year of high school, then I decided to join the Marine Corps because that is always something that my brother wanted to do when he got older. Once I graduated High school I did whatever it took to join the Marines and I excelled and became one of the top Marines in my job field. When my brother passed away I always think about how much he applied himself to everything he did and now I live with that type of passion...
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...entering high school as a freshman; I started my first day in high school, I realized how there were different types of clicks through out the school. I then became aware of how my friends from middle school had already be friend with one of the clicks, so called “crew or gang”. I began to realized, becoming part of this crew will help me get through high school. My friends explained told me how becoming part of this gang is somewhat of a family. When beginning my day in high school, I notice how they were many gangs on campus; which were all threatening. One gang member approached me and said, “You bang homes”. This meant what gang or crew are you from. My reaction was terrifying, which then after this incident I wanted to approach my friend; I felt as I needed help, he began to persuade me into joining the gang. He told me how I needed to have a talk with the head of the gang; he told me how if I were to join this gang I had to be “down and hard”, which meant to be ready to due anything for the gang. Which I then told him “yeah, don’t worry I’m down for anything”. The following day, I was then pressured in by my friend to join in with my new family members. They wanted me to enter in the restroom as they followed behind; once I was in the rest room I immediately had 3 guys on me. I realized how I was now part of this gang; I felt as if I was untouchable that know one can bully me. As school slowing began to end, my friend wanted me to go in search for the guy who...
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