Born in 1902 in Knoxville, Adelaide, Lance Hill was a motor mechanic, manufacturer and designer of the rotary clothesline, a popular household device of the 1950’s. Growing up in Adelaide, he was the second oldest child of Alfred William Hill and Lillian Ethal. As he grew up, he helped out with the family business of a bacon and meat canary, where he obtained thereafter, a steam engineer’s certificate, refrigeration and general engineering skills and later opened his own motor garage at Prospect, where he met his wife Cynthia Harriett Mary, a saleswoman. Afterwards, he enlisted into the Military in 1942, where he continued work in mechanics, instructing the motorbike dispatch riders and other mechanics. Discharged in 1945, his wife asked him to fix the laundry line as it was obstructing the citrus tree and constantly slipping off. Having lived in a geographically isolated area, he had learnt at an early age how to make or adapt what he had to…
Jones’ William Clark… chapter 3 starts with George Rogers Clark (GRC) declining Jefferson’s offer to lead a military excursion westward, suggesting that a few men could sufficiently do the job. Jones then writes of the Clark family’s belated travels across the Appalachians and down the dangerous Monongahela and Ohio rivers before landing outside Louisville and building a farm. He then writes about more problems with Indians, prompting GRC to lead an unsuccessful military campaign after a forced peace treaty was disregarded by non-invested tribes. William Clark is also written about: his joining of and exploits in the Kentucky militia, his journalizing of these exploits and the areas they took him, his self-taught education and naturalistic writings, and his commissioning as a lieutenant in the newly reformed, post-St. Clair’s Defeat US Army. Clark’s early duties as a lieutenant, Jones writes, involved ferrying soldiers and supplies around western outposts and forts, and even to the Chickasaw Indian tribe once. Within a few years, Clark became quartermaster of one of the four Sub-Legions of the US Army, joining the campaign into northern Indian lands that culminated in the Battle of Fallen Timbers, the final and deciding battle in the Northwest Indian War. Jones then recounts General Anthony Wayne’s successful…
Molly Petree did not kill Jacky Jarvis. Many people swore that she did. Jacky was shot, but not by Molly. I believe that Jacky’s Brother John Howard Wiletts aka BJ killed Jacky. Molly loved Jacky too much to ever hurt him unless he asked her to. Molly was a beautiful, educated, and talented young woman. Molly fell in love with Jacky because to her he was her demon lover. Jacky was a simple country boy. He played in a gospel group. The group was called The Rag Mountain Ramblers on Saturday and the Angel Band on Sunday. Jacky loved Molly with all of his heart. John aka BJ was Jacky’s Cousin. They couldn’t have been any closer, they was born only a few days apart. BJ likes to protect the people up on Bobcat. He likes to make nightly rounds to check on everything. BJ was also in love with Molly Petree. Molly didn’t know that BJ was in love with her. She was in love with Jacky. All of these reasons and many more support that BJ killed his own brother Jacky Jarvis.…
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1. Describe what happened to Amir and Hassan on their way to go and play by the tree.…
Uneven Roads Chapter 8 opens up with how difficult it would be to see a racial or ethnic group make any type of progress without identifying themselves as a group and aligning themselves together in order to achieve their shared interests. In other words, people gravitate towards certain group identities based on their race, ethnicity or gender. A very interesting point highlighted in the book and provided by political psychologists and sociologists, Henri Tajfel, John Turner, and Michael Hogg is that “social identity” or “group identity” are essential “to building a sense of community”. People are either automatically put into groups by external forces because of how they look, who they might identify with, etc. or they have personal attachments…
She also takes great pride in her cleanliness. The girls in her troop, knowing that she is so shy, lay the hearing of the racial slur on her because they know that she will not speak up. And they’re right; Daphne is overcome by Arnetta’s dominant personality and does not say anything because all she wants to do is fit in. Once the girls leave the washroom, Daphne stays behind in her discomfort, knowing that what she did was not exactly right. To take her mind off of the troop’s anger and prejudice toward the other group, Daphne stays behind and cleans the washroom because it is the one thing that can make her feel good about herself. Daphne remains passive about the situation and does not want to get involved in the fight. Unlike Daphne, Laurel is very independent and likes to stand apart from the others. She is very thoughtful and will stand up for what she believes in. In the story, when her Brownie troop believes that troop 909 made a racial comment, Laurel is the only girl who does not believe it. She is the only girl in the entire group to give it a second…
Eleanor thinks that if she were to show, “Too much” of her personality to the other characters then she will be judged for who she really is. Throughout Eleanor’s time in the Hill House, Eleanor has an internal conflict as to how she should act around her new, “Friends”, which provokes her to act purely on emotions. During the first day that Eleanor and the rest of the people invited are at Hill House, Eleanor is seen to be building relationships with the rest of the characters and even begins to unravel her true self to them. However, Eleanor wakes up the second day and begins to get abused by her own thoughts, wondering if, “[She] made a fool of herself... “ or, if they were, “Laughing at [her]” (Jackson 68). Eleanor’s thoughts attacked her so much that she made the executive decision to reduce the amount of things she tells her companions, even goes to the extreme in saying that, “Today I will be more reserved, less openly grateful to them for having me” (Jackson 68). Eleanor is worrisome of the image she leaves to other people so when she contemplates the first day of her stay she immediately puts herself down by stating that she, “Must have--seemed foolishly, childishly contented, almost happy” (Jackson 68); thus, reassuring the fact that she is traumatized of expressing herself too much to others around…
Hilly Holbrook, who was one of Skeeter’s best friends, provides her with motivation after strongly imposing segregation with her bathroom sanitation initiative. Aibileen Clark, the Leefolt’s maid, and Minny Jackson, Celia’s maid, are two maids that are affected by Hilly’s bathroom sanitation initiative. Minny was once Hilly’s maid but was fired and now is Miss Celia’s maid. With the help of Aibileen’s determination, she convinces Minny to help with the stories too and eventually get other maids to join in. After their book is published, it becomes very popular and controversial quickly. Thanks to the book’s success, Skeeter is then offered a position up in New York. She accepts it and offers Aibileen her job as the columnist for the Miss Murna piece. This opens up doors and creates new opportunities for the black race in Mississippi.…
social norms. There is a constant conflict between white and blacks all over because it was way back when civil rights movement. The civil rights movement is a movement to secure for African Americans equal access to and opportunities for the basic privileges and rights of U.S. citizenship. Their working in the homes of white people taking care of their children and cooking and also cleaning. Miss Skeeter experiences conflict with her mother and boyfriend because she’s the only white women who treats African American’s equal. Her boyfriend thinks that they’re treated fine and they should be lucky enough that they have the job they have right now; Skeeter didn’t like that so she broke up with him. Skeeter and her mother had conflicts because her mom thinks young lady’s like herself should be home and married and taking care of their children but Skeeter doesn’t care about that stuff because she want to work and she doesn’t care about how she looks. When Skeeter’s mom found out that she broke up with her boyfriend she was really upset because Charlotte she believes that social standing is really…
In the book written by Edwin Abbott titled, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, Abbott creates a fictional, two-dimensional world, which he calls Flatland, that is inhabited by two-dimensional beings described as polygons. Abbott sets the scene in the first part of the book, titled “This World”, by describing the society, physical environment, and the various ways that the Flatlanders interpret and understand their surroundings. His fictional creation has many concepts that are parallel to those of Earth, including the four cardinal directions, the concept of gravity, and the presence of light.…
so she has the hard attitude. some people may not agree with her theories on how to be a good person but i believe most of the things she says because you can only rely on yourself to do what you want be what you want you can't trust anybody because there only let you down. one of her quotes say “The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.”…
The mountains of endless boundaries transcended the earth to the heavens as the water and sun created its tangibility. Dispositions of light allowed an elaborate portrayal of the perfect environment. Albert Bierstadt, a German-born, American artist, had the ability to convey such beauties of nature and its landscape through his paintings. In 1863, through a premier in the "New York Sanity Fair", his painting, "The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak", provided a different outlook on the American West. As a region styled artist, Bierstadt utilized oil-based paint on canvas in such a way that permitted his audience to not only see nature, but to feel it as well.…
In The Way to Rainy Mountain, the author. N. Scott Momaday, delivered the history of his ancestors, the Kiowa tribe. Ever since the death of his grandmother, he was motivated to dig deeper into the Kiowa culture as he returned to his grandmother’s grave and commenced on a journey to Rainy Mountain. The piece provides short stories and myths in regards to Kiowa’s history. The author begins by illustrating the settlement of the Kiowa tribe where “a single knoll rises out of the plain in Oklahoma, north and west of the Wichita Range. For my people, the Kiowas, it is an old landmark, and they gave it the name Rainy Mountain” (283 Momaday). Throughout the short passage, Momaday used traditional Kiowa’s myths to guide the readers and reflect Kiowa’s culture.…
Toward the end of the story, the author appears to admit that racial dissimilarities are part of our life. Having her growing up in Atlanta south side, the author depicts her sensibility toward prejudice through Laurel. Throughout the story, Packer uses sarcasm to attest her feelings toward discrimination. Sarcasm in a sense that the Brownie young girls meant to be innocent but because of their financial hardship and family difficulties prevented them to becoming one. As the truth reveals, Laurel understands about the difficulty of life, empathy, the harshness of racism and her own…