The Longaberger Company (aka Longaberger Homestead) weaves high-quality baskets from its location in Frazeyburg, Ohio. What began as a hobby for the father, J.W. became a passionate enterprise for the son, Dave. As the elder Longaberger wove baskets, the younger Longaberger sold them to local markets in Ohio. Later, Dave employed consultants to sell the handcrafted baskets through home shows. Once people learned the history and saw the fine artisanship each basket contained, they became a must-have staple for every home.…
Club members always turned out in great numbers to ensure success. Available records indicate participation over 25 years. The club is indebted to merchants in the area and industries for consistent financial success. We thank the area’s citizens for their enthusiastic attendance.…
The year is 1890 in Bishee, Arizona. The air is dry and the wooden sign reading "Orient Saloon" is splintered and cracked. Stock promoters, road agents and con-men sit at a tension filled table, liable to erupt into a sudden shoot-out. Tony, the proprietor, keeping a close watchful eye on the singer, Nifty' Doyle, as Murphy, the dealer, puts down the losing card; a Queen of Spades. Mining stocks and life savings go to the lucky dealer in the black fedora. "A fine game!" said the players," (Pushkin 182). Again, never losing a beat, the dealer collects bets.…
Merriam Webster defines “Barrel Racing” as a rodeo event for women in which a mounted rider makes a series of sharp turns around three barrels in a cloverleaf pattern and the fastest time wins. Barrel Racing is predominately a women’s sport but outside the rodeo world there are many men that compete in this sport in local associations, play days and the National Barrel Horse Association (NBHA).…
It was spring 1862, and tensions were high between the Union and the Confederate Armies. The Union Commander Major General George B. McClellan schemed an adaptive plan to siege Richmond, Virginia from the Confederate Army. With a joint force of 120,000 plus Soldiers and over 42 artillery batteries, his forces would board battle ships and set sail up to Fort Monroe, tactical debark on arrival and attempt to take this valuable piece of Confederate stronghold. His plan was execute brilliantly with few instances or deaths, but these forces were halted for almost for a month because of the ongoing Siege of Yorktown. The Confederate Army gathered intelligence during the Union Halt and began to fortify positions along…
John Turner was a Canadian prime minister who was born on the 7th of June 1929, in Richmond, England to an English father and a Canadian mother, and still alive to this day at the age of 85. However, his father passed away when he was only three years old, so his mother decided to move to Canada with John. They first lived in Rossland, British Colombia. However, she worked her way up in the civil service until she got promoted, which required moving to Ottawa (CanadaHistory).…
1965, in an 8 room New York apartment on Riverside Drive lived a recently divorced man named Oscar Madison. Oscar held a poker game once a week in his apartment for his friends Felix Ungar, Murray, Speed, Roy, and Vinnie. The guys were starting to get a little worried when Felix, who never missed a night of poker in two years never showed for a game. While they were all discussing where he might be, Felix’s wife calls looking for him. See Felix left, after his wife told him she was filing for divorce the next day after 12 years of marriage. A short time later Felix shows up at the poker game and the guys are concerned he may try to commit suicide so they watch him like a hawk. Oscar invited Felix to move in since he had nowhere else to go and they could split the bills plus Oscar was lonely himself. The problem you see is that Oscar is a sloppy, carefree, and disorganized man, whereas Felix is a neat, detailed, and organized man. Day by day for the next three weeks, they start to drive each other crazy. Oscar convinces Felix that they go out on a date…
The name of the organization shall be the Capital University Student Athletic Training Club, herein after known as the organization.…
Paul revere ride is a very important event in history because it was when paul revere rode all around boston shouting. The Redcoats are coming, The Redcoats are coming.¨ We know of this amazing event in history because of the famous poem written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The poem was 14 paragraphs long. I think he also lit candles, if one candle was lit it meant the redcoats were coming by land and if two candle were lit it meant that the redcoats were coming by sea. The candles were how the patriots knew if the redcoats were attacking by sea or by land.…
As a parent it is a duty to teach your kids lots of thing, from learning to talk all the way to life lesson they will never forget. But have you ever thought of animals teaching you valuable things in life? For Eric horses have always been in his life and have taught him more that what he would have imagined. You have to remember a 1200 pound beast standing over 5 foot tall teaching a young man more than how to be a cowboy. They are giving Eric unspoken wisdom and knowledge.…
I did not think about the role of Fr. Pfleger as an image of a father for all children who has no father’s figure in the community, that is a good point. The case of John Turner, in Anderson book, is a good example of how those young men in those communities struggle “by the luck of an effective model, or a decent father,” and yet John in his extreme needs, approached to Anderson (an unknown person), looking for an advise of a man, “might I have word with you.” Because Fr. Pfleger lives in the communities for so long, he knows everyone and all the news in the community, he plays not only a role of a “father,” but also as someone with Godly authority. He is a prophetic leader who stands for African American communities in the name of God. Somehow…
Newquay is to many people what Marmite is to the food industry, inasmuch as you either love it or you hate it. I love it as I have at some point or another during the course of my life fallen in to two of the categories that are within my review title, the first being that I enjoy surfing and the second being that of course not so long ago I was an even littler person than what I am now.…
Stokely Carmichael was born June 29, 1941 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Carmichael lived with his two aunts and his grandmother and attended Tranquility Boys School until age 11. He then moved to the U.S and joined his parents in Harlem, New York and became the only black member of a street gang called the Morris Park Dukes. He said in an interview with Life he dated white girls and attended parties at Swank Park Avenue during this period in his life. After his family moved to the Bronx, he settled down. He discovered the lure of intellectual life. He was admitted to the Bronx High School…
In “The Rocking-Horse Winner” we are introduced to a woman who author D.H Lawrence states, “was beautiful, who started with all the advantages, yet she had no luck. She married for love, and the love turned to dust. She had bonny children, yet she felt they had been thrust upon her, and she could not love them.” When I dive into the psychology behind that statement, I come up with a thought that this beginning draws similarities to Lawrence’s own upbringing with his coal miner father and schoolteacher mother. Similarly the mother in “The Rocking-Horse Winner” is disenchanted with her marriage and the way her life has turned out. In Lawrence’s own childhood he had parents who were suspected of treason and very status minded. (559) When I look at the relationship in the opening of the story between mother and children it is one of feeling burdened and having been ill prepared for child rearing and mother hood. This family seems completely motivated and driven by social status and superficial impressions. It seems to me that the children were brought into the world not by want or out of love but by obligation and social standards. What was a woman back then who did not raise a family and keep a home?…
There are many different breeds of horses. To the outsider, my favorite breed, American Quarter Horses, and least favorite breed, Thoroughbreds, may appear similar. While they both are horses, they differ in history/origins, uses, and characteristics.…