...One of the important scenes in The Sword of Summer, by Rick Riordan, was when Magnus met Hel on the Bunker Hill. In this scene, the author allowed us to see who Magnus really was inside. Also, Rick Riordan showed us what Magnus valued and wanted the most. After the journey in Jotunheim, Magnus ended up on the Bunker Hill when Hel summoned Magnus with her power. As the daughter of Loki, the goddess of Death, Hel, was willing to help her dad to accomplish his evil goal of destroying everything. So on the Bunker Hill, Hel offered Magnus a reunion with his dead mother, Natalie Chase, in a fine chamber of Helheim (the World of the Deads). “I cannot return Natalie Chase to life, but I can unite you both in Helheim if you wish it. I can bind your...
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...Princeton just a few days later. Washington organized and perfectly executed two of the most significant victories of the war in the span of a week. McCullough's description of the American military situation at the beginning of the war showcases the determination and resilience of the American forces despite facing overwhelming odds. When the Continental Army was founded after the Battle of Bunker Hill (it was fought by militiamen), George Washington was named the commander in chief of the army. However, the state of the army was really, really bad. It didn’t even have a name. Washington had sixteen thousand men, but less than fourteen thousand of them were able to fight. More than fifteen hundred were sick, and another fifteen hundred were absent. Another problem was that the army didn’t even have a proper...
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...Washington's Wash down!!! George Washington went on a journey on the Delaware with all of his soldiers. He stayed with them at all times as they went across the Delaware overnight in the freezing cold. How would you like that? I think you already know how they felt, They had to break through very strong pieces of ice all night. Stick together in battle in battle stickers George Washington was always with his men. If his men were sleeping on the cold wet ground you would see Washington right next to them.Also If his men were fighting Washington would be fighting too.That is a true leader. Paris’s treaties There is one important agreement that we made with paris. We made a treaty with paris that said Great Britain left the U.S.as a independant nation. Also that they gave us some land, and finally that we gave...
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...rest of the flat plains which made it both an offensive, and defensive position. Apart from driving the Germans further back, this was another reason why the Allied forces wanted to capture Vimy Ridge in the first place. Finally, after many failed attempts and over 100,000 casualties, Canada was assigned to capture Vimy Ridge. Planning & Preparation In order for the Canadian corps to capture Vimy Ridge, lots of meticulous planning and training was done. The Canadians dug tunnels and bunkers underneath the ridge so that at the time of the attack, they could use them to transport troops secretly, store ammunition and sometimes even detonate areas. Likewise, they rehearsed the battle strategy countless times and finally, a week before the actual assault, the Canadians corps continuously shelled enemy bunkers and trenches to weaken their forces and to keep them from knowing when the attack would start. The Battle...
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...The American Revolutionary War Consider the words of Thomas Pain when he wrote “These are the times that try men’s souls: The summer solider and the sunshine patriot will, in the crisis, shrinks from the service of his country: but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.” The Independence war all started because of tyranny and major British taxation. The Boston Tea Party, the Battle of Bunker Hill, and the outcome of the war were just some the major stances colonists took to a take stand against Great Britain to make the 13 colonies independent. These are the words of a true patriot. He has risked his life to severe this country. He was one of many soldiers in the War of Independence. The Independence War...
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...Likening the red ants and the black ants to "the republicans (colonists) and the imperalists (the British)," Walden compares the battling insects to humans: For numbers and for carnage it was an Austerlitz or Dresden. Concord Fight! Two killed on the patriots' side, and Luther Blanchard wounded! Why here every ant was a Buttrick--"Fire! for God's sake fire!"--and thousands shared the fate of Davis and Hosmer (two colonists killed)....I have no doubt that it was a principle they fought for, as much as our ancestors, and not to avoid a three-penny tax on their tea; and the results of this battle will be as important and memorable to those whom it concerns as those of the Battle of Bunker Hill, at least. Clearly, Thoreau satires the importance that men have put upon going to war on "principle." Facetiously, he earlier compares the red ant who runs into battle to the the Spartan whose mother told their sons to return victorious or dead: "It was evident that their battle cry was "Conquer or die." Studying the red and black ants fighting for no other reason that they hate each other, or one has taxed the other, brings Walden's passage to the point/thesis of the futility of war as well as the terrible waste of life that it is. FUTILITY: I never learned which party was victorious, nor the cause of the war; but I felt for the rest of that day as if I had had my feelings excited and harrowed by witnessing the struglle, the ferocity and carnage, of a human battle before...
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...============================================================================== Company of Heroes Single Player Campaign Walkthrough 09/22/06 Author: LoneEagle013 Copyright 2006 LoneEagle013 All trademarks and copyrights contained in this document are owned by their respective trademark and copyright holders. ============================================================================== ============================================================================== VERSION HISTORY ============================================================================== 09/21/06 - Created basic format. Finished Mission 15 walkthrough. 09/22/06 - Finished Missions 01, 02, 03, 04, 05. 09/23/06 - Finished Missions 06, 07, 08, 09, 10. 09/24/06 - Finished Missions 11, 12, 13, 14. ============================================================================== INTRODUCTION ============================================================================== 01. This is a quick, general guidelines to approach the single player missions. 02. The difficulty setting for this strategy guide is normal mode, so what is covered here may not apply on harder settings. 03. For the most part I will leave the approach to the objectives loosely, mainly because there is more than one way to approach an objective. I like it how I can replay the mission with completely different way of doing things and each time they are equally impressive. 04. I...
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...already has. Slaves were also a big reason why America has won its wars. During the French and Indian War, slave owners were at first hesitant to give slaves firearm because they can turn on them. But their owners enlisted their slaves and the U.S. were successful in the war. They defended the French Louisiana from the Indians attack and were successful, but slaves were only used when needed. Slaves were also used in the American Revolution. They had an important role too, their jobs included the Battle at Fort Ticonderoga, Battle at Bunker Hill, and helped rowed George Washington across Delaware. A big reason why for their very motivated work ethic was because they can win their freedom by participating in the war or some slaves just decided to run away. These slaves were very important to American History because without the slaves, America wouldn’t have won the American Revolution and gain our Independence. The Constitution of 1787 didn’t end slavery because of mixed feelings. It stated that slaves only count as 3/5 of a person, free states could not protect slaves, and slavery could not be abolished. Slavery would continue to take place in America until the end of the Civil War. All in All, slaves were a big part of American History. They were there at the beginning helping us colonize Jamestown. Then revolted against their owners causing major problems and creating stricter rights for slaves. But the slaves were a big reason why American won their wars because without the...
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...Because February is Black History month I will be doing my research paper on the lives four blacks and what effect they had on American History. I will start out by asking the question, why most American history books don’t cover in written the history of individual black’s involvement in shaping of American in greater detail. The Two topics I will be covering are the Revolutionary War and The Civil War as far what blacks’ involvement. The first three paragraphs of this research paper will cover the events and history of three African Americans whose importance was not greatly covered during the Revolutionary War section of this book. I also am writing researching Mary Elizabeth Bowser, a free black woman. I will discuss what she during...
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...Nancy Hart Become a Spy Nancy Hart was the one most important woman in Revolutionary War. She was a venturesome and patriotic act. She spied on the British. Nancy Hart held the British Officers at gunpoint. She was a strong woman most patriotic that British have ever seen. She was a great spy for the Revolutionary War, and disguised herself as a man to go into the British Camps and collect vital information. Nancy Hart was born in North Carolina. Nancy Hart was the daughter of James and Elizabeth Hart. Nancy was 6’tall, red hair, and fiercely. She had one old sister. She moved to the back part of Georgia. She was Georgia’s most admired female participant in the Revolutionary War. Georgia’s most acclaimed female participant during the Revolutionary War (1775-83). The Revolutionary was started in 1775 over a disagreement over how the Great Britain was treating the colonies and the colonists thought they should be treated. The American Felt like they should had all the control of the Englishman. The Britain thought they should use colonies want to crown and parliament. There are two groups, the Tories and the Whigs. The Whigs dislike Great Britain and was with boycotting. The Tories believe only wanted the king wanted. The Whigs and Tories dislike each other, that why Nancy Hart trying...
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...The French and the Native Americans banded together to fight against the British and this is why it’s called The French and Indian War. This war is the least important because it happened years before the taxes started this whole thing. The revolution would’ve never happened if the taxes weren’t placed. Taxes were placed because that’s what every country does to its citizens. Countries aren’t run on rainbows and unicorns. In this case saying the French and Indian war was the least important of the ones I picked would be valid. It was a war that also happen more than 250 years ago that most people don’t know about. The French and Indian War was one of the indirect causes of the Revolutionary War because, as I mentioned, it occurred a long time ago and it also didn’t affect the revolution in an instant. The French and Indian War was a long-term cause and is not ultimately the most...
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...attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns. I was witness to events of a less peaceful character. One day when I went out to my wood-pile, or rather my pile of stumps, I observed two large ants, the one red, the other much larger, nearly half an inch long, and black, fiercely contending with one another. Having once got hold they never let go, but struggled and wrestled and rolled on the chips incessantly. Looking farther, I was surprised to find that the chips were covered with such combatants, that it was not a duellum, but a bellum, a war between two races of ants, the red always pitted against the black, and frequently two red ones to one black. The legions of these Myrmidons covered all the hills and vales in my wood-yard, and the ground was already strewn with the dead and dying, both red and black. It was the only battle which I have ever witnessed, the only battle-field I ever trod while the battle was raging; internecine war; the red republicans on the one hand, and the black imperialists on the other. On every side they were engaged in deadly combat, yet without any noise that I could hear, and human soldiers never fought so resolutely. I watched a couple that were fast locked in each other's embraces, in a little sunny valley amid the chips, now at noonday prepared to fight till the sun went down, or life went out. The smaller red champion had fastened himself like a vice to his adversary's front, and through all the tumblings...
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...The iDeal Reader Henry David Thoreau, ‘‘The Battle of the Ants’’ © The McGraw−Hill Companies, 2000 Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), transcendentalist essayist, naturalist, editor, and social critic, was born David Henry Thoreau in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau graduated from Harvard University and taught briefly at a school in Concord but resigned rather than be expected to strike his students. He ran his own school from 1838 to 1841, teaching Latin, Greek, and science. In 1938 Thoreau also began lecturing, which he continued intermittently, often emphasizing his strong opposition to slavery, but his message was not always well received. Thoreau began his lifelong friendship with Ralph Waldo Emerson when he tutored Emerson’s brother William in 1843 on Staten Island, boarding with Emerson and his wife. He helped Emerson edit the Transcendentalist magazine The Dial. Thoreau kept a journal at Emerson’s urging, which aided him in his writing. He took a canoe trip with his brother John during the first two weeks of September 1839, which experience he transformed into a volume of poems and essays entitled A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers (1849). While he published 1000 copies himself, only about 300 sold. On July 4, 1845 Thoreau moved into a cabin on the shores of Walden Pond, on land belonging to Emerson, about two miles from Concord, and lived there alone for over two years. Thoreau condensed this outdoor life as if it were a single year in his...
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...From Empire to Independence Colonies became more important for the British mainland economy Colonies experienced agricultural and commercial growth but remained diverse in composition and outlook o Generally adverse to cooperative efforts The Heritage of War Most Americans submitted willingly to the English government due to their alliance in French and Indian War o However, American nationalism was building Brutalities of English soldiers heightened sense of separate identity English soldiers were inept at frontier fighting; initial respect for them was lost English disrupted the colonies’ illegal but necessary molasses trade with the French West Indies Writs of assistance (unspecific search warrants) and naval patrols Boston merchants hired James Otis to fight writs of assistance; he lost but revealed that writs of assistance were like slavery Why was revenue needed? o Management and defense of new global possessions o Payment of war debt o Expansion of colonial administration and defense British Politics Nearly every politician was a Whig: a name given to those who had opposed James II, led the Glorious Revolution of 1688, and secured Protestant succession o Champions of individual liberty and parliamentary supremacy o Whiggism drifted into complacency: dominant group of landowners became concerned with personal wealth George III wanted to limit Whigs so ousted William Pitt as prime minister and established “king’s friends” o Government became...
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...the book one can understand that the authors main objective of the book is to get across to the viewers understand on how the American’s came together to create the Declaration of Independence. As a reader, one can see that the author’s main focus is on the Continental Congress and the declaration, and how the delegates had come together to create it. Sure he mentions some battles like, the Battle of Bunker Hill,“ the first formal battle of the revolution, the British suffered their heaviest losses in what would become a long bloody war,” (The American Revolution p . 54). However, wood then goes on to talk about the continental congress and how, “the congress created the continental army, appointed George Washington of Virginia as commander, issued paper money for the support of colonial troops, and formed a committee to negotiate with foreign countries,” (The American Revolution p. 55). Even here Wood’s generalizes the details instead of giving an explanation on why each event happened. It seems he wrote this book assuming the audience has a background of the minor yet important details of the American Revolution. Furthermore, the book could have been organized better; the author seems to be jumping all over the place with order of events. The author named a chapter “Revolution”, where are the battles explained in this chapter, they are not. So, if Wood could be more specific or relabel parts of the book, it would be organized in a manner that an audience could easily read...
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