The Jackie Robinson Movie encompasses Jackie’s life from when he was 6 to when he was 20. As a six year old Jackie would go down to the park and play baseball. Even with no gloves Jackie was the best fielder by far, one of the people helping said that Jackie should come back on a practice day and he did. That’s how Jackie’s baseball career started, but when he went to UClA there was no baseball, so he turned to other options he set the record at 25 feet he also played football and basketball. Out of UCLA, he went back to playing baseball and signed for the Montreal Royals. A scout for the Brooklyn Dodgers saw Jackie at one of his games and asked
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Book Review for The Good Earth
The book The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck is about a man who lives in China. Marries a slave from the house of Hwang called O-lan. She is a very hard worker even when she just had a baby and that happens a lot. After there was a flood that destroyed all the crops in his town which meant no food for anybody so they had to go to the south on a thing called fire wagon. When they were in the city they begged for money but Wang lung didn’t believe in begging so he pulled people around for money. One day there were people staging A rich man’s house and as they win one room Wang lung went into another room and found a man who gave him money to let him escape. So they went back to his hometown and lived in peace until he found the woman called Lotus and a prostitute house and bought her so now she was a concubine. As Lotus didn’t get taken care of as well as she should’ve been she got fat and unpretty but Wang got to richer and richer until he was able to buy the palace of Hwang. I would not recommend this book because he was really weird, he had 2 wives and one 12 year old concubine when he was 50, not only was he weird, but he started to spend money like it was going out of fashion. I would rate this book a 1/2 star because of the reasons that I stated before.
Dulce Et Decorum
Doused in the blood of friend and foe
Choked and drowned by poison gas
Seeing friends, falling dead at my feet
Lead whistling through the air while down in
the trenches we all swear
I am of the English breed fighting against German steed, while our sharpshooters fire at the Astrian-hungary officers
Those two shots started it all Gavrillo Princip, that wretched man; why he had to shoot why those two shots in Sarajevo.
Timeline: Industrial Revolution
James Watt
James Watt was born in Greenock on the 19th of January 1769. He learned Classics and mathematics, he also liked making models of things. In 1764 he worked on a Newcomen Steam engine and found out that he could make a lot of improvements. In 1769 he patented the separate condenser.
He was married to Margret Miller and the couple had 6 children. 9 years after they got married she died.
After this tragedy Watt decided to improve on the Newcomen engine, he realized that there was a lot of power being wasted. he made a separate condenser. He also attached rotary motion. This meant the engine could do different operations. He was not successful in making money so he went in partnership with Matthew Boulton and became a wealthy man.
In 1776 Watt married Ann MC Gregor and had two children.
Because of rotary motion, Steam Engines could power could power the cotton mills. This was why Watt was such an important person in the Industrial Revolution. Watt died on the 25 august 1819 and was buried in Birmingham. Finally in 1882 a unit of electrical power was named after him in honor of what he did.
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Industrial Revolution
Stephen Gardiner once said, “The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.” Why was it an extraordinary jump you may ask? This revolution changed how things were produced and how efficiently they were made.
History:
The Industrial Revolution began in England in the early 1700s. People wanted to find out how to make their lives easier. This came in the form of new inventions, large factories and an increase in population. From the 1500s on there was a huge increase in population. There weren’t enough farm jobs, therefore people moved to the city to work in factories. Farmers came up with better ways to farm, which made less jobs in the country.
Inventors & Inventions:
The Industrial Revolution inspired many inventions. One of the main inventions was the Steam Engine made by Thomas Nucamin in 1712. It pumped out water from mines, which made is easier to access coal and metals. Later, James Watt improved the Steam Engine in 1775 by creating a small, separate condensing cylinder. In 1844, Ellis Howe invented the sewing machine. Another famous inventor was Nikola Tesla – he created the Induction Electric Motor in 1888. A few years later, Eli Whitney would invent the Cotton Gin. This device easily pulled out cotton seeds – this made clothing production more efficient.
Everyday People:
When the Industrial Revolution started, factories opened and families were forced to make their children to go to work. Eighty percent of people were very poor and had no other choice. Factory owners often paid child workers very little. Factory owners would treat children workers horribly – constantly beating them and overworking them. Children were used because they could be easily replaced. Some work days would be 19 hour days. However, the Factory Act changed all of this in 1833. Some of the provisions were: children could not work on clothing until age 9, children ages 9 to 13 could only work 9 hours a day, children ages 13 to 18 could only work 12 hours a day and children under 11 had to go to school for 2 hours a day. There was very little time to relax. During this hard time, people turned to religion for comfort.
Role of Government:
In the beginning of the Industrial Revolution the government was not involved. For example life for people who worked at mills and factories often had terrible wages and working conditions. Laissez Faire had a major impact during this time. It means leave it alone free from any restrains such at taxation, labor laws, environmental laws, etc. Pretty much any owner of a factory could do anything he or she wanted, dump their coal, ash in the river, pay their employees in store credit, turn them into slaves, work them as much as 19 hours a day the government had less interference. Until Lord Ashly purposed a bill where children only had to work 10 hours a day. There was also the mines act, where no children or woman could operate winding gear if under 15. Last but not least, there was the fielders act, if you were under 18 and you lived far away from work you only had to work 10 hours a day.
Conclusion:
In conclusion, the Industrial Revolution effects how we live today. Although it put people out of business, it still has it’s silver lining. Many great inventions were made during this period. The world took a jump into industrial advancement.
Brazil: Road to Independence
The Three Estates
THE FIRST ESTATE
The first estate was the highest class.
THE SECOND ESTATE
The second estate was the Nobility, much like the first estate they did not pay taxes, except when there is a war. They lived of the taxes of the third estate and the money of the King. Also they lived off the money that the third estate paid the church to go to heaven.
THE THIRD ESTATE
The third estate probably deserved to go to heaven considering how much work they did. This estate was the poorest estate, made up of peasants and artisans. This estate did all of the work, and as I said before the first and second estates practically lived off of them
Thomas Hobbes
THOMAS HOBBES ESSAY
Thomas Hobbes was born 1588 in Wiltshire, England. His dad was a drunkard and fought with someone in front of his church. He fled in fear of being killed, leaving his three children to be raised by his brother.
When he was 15 Hobbes started studying travel and cartography at Oxford. Five years later he graduated and began tutoring Lord HardWick and went to Europe with their family.
In 1662 he published his first work, the translation of the Thucydides’ History of the Pellaponiesian war. He went to Paris and studied a way to argue using math. On his third trip he met Galileo and was influenced by the idea of motion and wrote a book in which he stated that you can explane many things using the law of motion. Then he tutored the Prince of Wales (later to become King of England). In 1651 he published his most famous piece of work, the Leviathan ,which drew the idea that if the government is not serving you well, then you can choose your own form of government. Hobbes had a lot of aguments with the government and professors. Following the restoration of 1660, Hobbes started work with the restored King, Charles the second, who gave him an allowance.
Hobbes was stopped from publishing in 1666 when it was criminalizing to be an atheist, so he returned to his classical studies and wrote an auto-biography. Then he translated Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad, before he died in 1697 leaving us with some very good books and a smart King.