The person whom I interviewed was Bethel Hart, my grandmother. She is about 65-years-old and has lived in Winchester, Tennessee for all of her life. When I asked Granny Hart if she would mind getting interviewed she said that I should interview someone else because she wouldn’t remember anything. I told her that was the exact reason I was interviewing her. Last time when I interviewed Granddad Arnold he remembered too much and I had to do allot of writing. I didn’t feel like writing that much this time.
Read more...On December 1, 1983, an amazing event happened; an event that would someday affect the outcome of this world. This event, or rather a miracle, was me, Michael Wayne Arnold.
I was born to two loving parents, Joy and Ken, in the Republic of Panama. My parents were living there because my father was in the US Army and we were stationed there. After I was born we stayed in Panama for about another six months. In the summer of 1984 my mother, father, and I were racing into a plane so that we could get out of a tropical paradise gone bad. A few hours and airports later we were at or new home, Fort Benning, Georgia. We would live at Fort Benning for about a year and two months. During this time I would learn to talk, walk, eat with utensils, and many other things that new babies learn. From Fort Benning we moved to Fort Cambell, Kentucky. For Cambell is where my younger brother Matthew was born on November 14, 1986. From this dat on my life would be completely changed. I was no longer an only child; I would have to learn what it means to be a big brother. After about three years of living in Kentucky we moved to my mother’s hometown of Winchester, Tennessee. We moved to Winchester for two reasons. The first reason was that my mother was pregnant with the third and last addition to the Arnold family. Secondly, my father was going to California to learn a different language, Dutch, so that he could become a foreign area officer. On September 17, 1988, a month after my dad left, Jason was born. After about only nine months we moved once again; ironically, we moved back to Fort Benning, Georgia where it all began some eight years earlier. Fort Benning is where I would start something that would take a lifetime to complete, my education.
Read more...In the last few years people in the United States have been hearing a lot about airbags. A few years ago some news sources said that airbags were safe only for a small percentage of the population. Other news sources said that airbags were safe for a large percent of the population and that they should be required in all new vehicles sold in this country. In 1997, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced that it would allow some car-drivers to “disconnect” their airbags as long as they meet the certain criteria to buy the shutoff switch (air bag 1). This decision caused a lot of controversy between the car dealers and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (car dealers 1,2). The American people, caught in the middle of this, didn’t know what to do. However; through extensive research anyone can find the correct answer to the airbag deactivation switch question: Airbags are a useful and safe means of protecting people in head-on collisions as long as they are used carefully and properly.
Read more...William Edward Burghardt Du Boise was born in Mass. On Feb 23, 1868. He was a graduate from Fisk University in 1888. He received his doctorate at Harvard University in 1890. He became an educator and taught at such universities as Wilberforce, and Atlanta. He was a professor of Greek, Latin, Economics and History. His education carried over to writing. He was director of publications of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and founding editor of its magazine CRISIS. Of negro descent, he was written widely on the Negro in the United States. His books include: The Souls of Black Folk, John Brown, Darkwater, Black Reconstruction, Dusk of Dawn, Color and Democracy, The World and Africa, and In Battle for Peace.
George Orwell, a British writer, was born in Motihari, India in 1903. In India he served with the Indian Imperial Police. In 1927 he went to England in poor health and lived there for several years in poverty. Because of his experiences during these years he wrote his first book Down and out in Paris and London published in 1933. In 1936 George joined the Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War. Out of all the books Mr. Orwell has written Animal Farm is probably the most recognized. George Orwell died in 1950, but he left behind him a legacy of many great books we can all enjoy today.
The first Africans in America landed at Jamestown, VA in 1619. There were about 20 or so. These Africans had been on a ship bound for the Indies when the ship was robbed. The thieves carried their hostages to the shores of America and traded them for food. They became Indentured Servants to the people that accepted them in exchange for the food. They were servants for a few years then given their freedom. This freedom lasted for about 40 years. Then toward the end of this time laws were formed that made most blacks slaves.
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