When we first opened the cover of the classic, Old Yeller by Fred Gipson, we learned about the life of Travis Coates. A 14-year old boy, that lives on a settlement in 1860, in Salt Licks, Texas. The story is about the events following when his father left for quite a while. A strange, yellow dog arrives at their barn, eating a supply of their meals. As they hunt together, they tie an unbreakable bond. The plotline paints the beautiful scenery and the unions that are present in this masterpiece of a book. Old Yeller should be deemed a classic because of it’s extremely deep detail. In every page it portrays life as hard, complicated, positive, and negative. Travis is always hunting animals for the family to live off of, farming for food, and
Mary Elizabeth Bowser was born the year of 1839 in Richmond, Virginia. Mary was born to slave owner John Van Lew who was a well-off hardware merchant. Mary and fellow slaves were freed by Elizabeth and her mother after the death of their master John Van Lew who died the year of 1843. Despite the fact that she was considered a free slave, she chose to stay an work for the Van Lew family as a free paid servant. She was sent to an African American Quaker school in Philadelphia by Elizabeth Van Lew, during the year of 1860 tension with the Civil War began to brew so she moved back to Richmond.
1956 in Decatur , Alabama . Now in day she is 59 years old . She was the first ever African-American women to fly into outer space . From a young age Mae always enjoyed reading books but especially the ones on astronomy . In 1973 , Mae graduated as an honor student from high school at the age of 17 . After going to Cornell University Medical School , she uptained her M.D. . Four years after uptaining her M.D. she gained the courage to apply for NASA's astronaut training program . There was an issue that occurred that ddelayed the process which means she had to reapply a year later and was fourtunatly chosen . Mae was the first ever African-American women to be accepted to the
I chose Florence Joyner because, she is an Olympic gold medalist, american sprinter, and she change the way of Track/Field. She has set and held records in the 100 meter and 200 meter events. Florence Joyner nickname “Flo Jo” as the fastest women on earth. She started trends and helped others.
Mae Carol Jemison was her name she was known for her being the very first African American women to ever aboard the spaceship Endeavour. She is the greatest African American Because when she was a little girl she looked up to her “DREAM” of becoming a real astronaut when she became older. Soon enough her dreams of becoming an astronaut happened…. Her family took to astronaut training where Mae would become the first African American Astronaut, when she went on her first mission with six
Mr. Willie Brown was borned March 20,1934 he is an American politician of the Democratic Party.
Important facts are missing from our history books. Mainly women are missing from our history books. The focus will be on three specific women, Margaret Sanger, Wu Zetian, and Murasaki Shikibu were the three magnificent women that contributed to history.
Old Yeller is a story of a boy with a lot of responsibilities and an ugly, stray, rascal dog who grow as one. I chose this book because the movie is one of my favorites and it is known as one of the best dog books of all time. I would definitely recommend this book for it's adventurous, sweetness, and loving the story line. This book tells of a boy who becomes the man of the house when his father left. After his father leaves, a dog shows up and was soon even though the boy named Travis didn't like him at first. As the story goes on, the strong and courageous dog protects the boy and his family, but can Travis protect Old Yeller?
This was one of my favorite books during my childhood days. The book is a classic, and Disney later made it into a motion picture. the story’’s climax develops quickly by telling stories and adventures of a boy named Travis and his old stray yellow dog named Yeller.At the introduction of the book Travis is plowing corn in the garden when an old yellow darts bye and causes the mule to jump. He chases the dog out of the garden and curses at him. Then a few days later the stray dog ate some of the deer meat that was very important for the family’’s survival. Travis was very angered and threatened to kill the mischievious yellow dog, but his younger brother, Arliss, would not allow this.
The word unwavering is defined as something that is firm, fixed, and unshakable. Wavering faith is not faith at all. True faith is firm and consistent. When I think of a woman with unwavering faith, I think of a fearless civil rights activist whose courage helped people gain the right to vote. Her name was Fannie Lou Hamer.
Jerrel Muse Jr is well rounded in all areas. When he was six he demonstrated strength in reading, writing, speaking, listening and math. Now that he is eight, his scores were average to above average in word word reading and spelling. On the verbal portion Jerrel Jr scores were all above the one standard deviation. He is also doing very well in math, he understanding the concepts very quickly is and working in a fourth grade math group in third grade. Jerrel now into soccer has a real knack for sports.
Jane (Laura) Addams was born to Sarah (Weber) Addams and John Huy Addams on September 16, 1860 in Cedarville, Illinois near Rockford and Wisconsin border. She was the eighth of nine children. From this union out of the nine children only three of the daughters and one son survived to see adulthood.
During the years between 1915 and 1970, some six million black southerners left their homelands in the South to move to the northern and western states looking for a better life.( The Reason why this i so significant to me is during this time period the great moving from one place to another was in effect and during this time period 6 million African Americans from the away from cities South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West from 1916 to 1970, affected a lot city based life in the United States. Driven from their homes by unsatisfactory money based opportunities and marsh separating people by race, religion, etc.ist laws, many blacks headed north, where they took advantage of the need for industrial workers that first rose up during
As I’m sure you know it’s important that every citizen undertake in their civic duty. From students attending school, to people voting, to those serving in the military. Without people voting and following the laws of the land, the country would devolve into anarchy.
Unity has always been the goal of America. However, as their land expanded their unification fractured. From 1800 to 1850, America was separated between slave supporters and slave abolitionists. As America moved west, the conflict between the two sides increased because of the issues regarding southern farming, slaves states, and contradicting new laws.
Great Old Ones The Great Old Ones are a group of cosmic beings created by 1920's horror author Howard Philips Lovecraft. They are primarily antagonists in his stories to the human protagonists, and usually are victorious since they are extremely powerful. This pantheon of god-like beings has been referenced in many pieces of media and literature, as they are the pinnacle of the cosmic and Lovecraftian horror subgenres.