Militant Abolitionist John Brown followed his father’s example of having devotion to his religion and a hard work ethic. Named for his grandfather who died in the revolutionary war, strong and lengthy John Brown loved to play physical sports like wrestling. One of the most important things to John Brown was the Christian book of worship otherwise known as the bible. Brown’s father not only taught John how to be a man, but he also passed down his belief in Calvinism which John took extremely serious
belief that slavery was unjust, abolitionist John Brown fought to end it. Fighting fire with fire, John Brown attacked all that stood in the path to freedom. Arcane to most, in Pottawatomie Creek, Brown murdered five pro-slavery men and fled as a fugitive. However, Brown is most historically known for the raid on Harper's Ferry. Gathering ammunition, Brown and his followers seized Harper’s Ferry armory and held it off in hopes of slaves joining in the effort. Sadly for Brown, no slaves participated
are each professional assassins who work for different agencies. The couple is assigned to eliminate the same target, but the assignment goes downhill when Jane realizes the other assassin is her husband John. As a result, each agency ordered them to eliminate each other. However, Jane and John realize they cannot kill each other and reconnect. Since they fail to kill each other, their agencies offer a monetary reward to have the Smiths eliminated. The couple fights to save themselves as they fend
The sixties were filled with turmoil, war, protests, and political murder, but it was also a time of love, peace and great music. The social issues of the times were reflected in music of all genres. In rock and roll many artists expressed their opposition to the Vietnam War while Soul Music reflected the struggle of African American’s fight for Civil Rights and equality. Folk music often times had a message of love and peace and offered a utopian outlook. Yet all of these genres of music contributed
thinking this, I see a glowing potato in the midst of the farm’s vast crumbly dirt brown field. With the sunset glowing, the potato looks like a gold bar in the midst of gloomy feces. I divert from my path and step towards this illuminating potato to pick it up. I touch this potato and suddenly get a peculiar sense, so remote to me that it ends chills up my spine. I feel power, and this reminds me of a time when I was a youngster and heard an
Dean Winchester was born on January 24, 1979 in Lawrence, Kanas to John and Mary Winchester making him four years older than his younger brother, Sam. After their mother was killed on November 2, 1983 by the demon Azazel, John stumbled onto the supernatural world after investigating Mary’s death. Since then, John became a hunter himself and vowed to keep hunting until he found Azazel and avenged Mary. Due to John’s hunting activities, the Winchesters constantly moved around the country, living in
People of the Civil War 1. John Wilkes Booth Primarily “known as the man who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln”, John Wilkes Booth, also a renowned actor on stage, conspired to capture Abraham Lincoln with his associates (History.com). Instead of going as he had planned, John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln point-blank in the head on April 14, 1865 instead. This homicidal event took place during Lincoln’s attendance to Ford’s Theatre to watch a play with his wife. As an event that caused mass uproar
Jane Elliott was born on May 27, 1933 in Riceville, Iowa. She was an American third-grade schoolteacher who made an everlasting impact in anti-racism and civil rights. How could a third grade schoolteacher make an everlasting impact in something that has haunted the United States and people of color for ages? Well, she wasn’t only a third-grade schoolteacher. She was an activist, an educator, and a visionary. After the death of Martin Luther King Jr., she felt an obligation and purpose to teach people
The Maccabees are an important part of the rich history of the Jews. It was a time of persecution and rebellion. The heroes from this period are a family known as the Maccabees. The books speak about the rough times the Jews had to experience to finally be free. Every aspect about these books is fundamental for the Hebrew Scriptures, such as their history, who wrote them, where they were written, what they were written about, when they were written, and the Maccabees’ importance. The Maccabees
(or queen) and country (Brown and Ferree 6). William Acton, a doctor at the time, reasoned in his text Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs, in Childhood, Youth, Adult Age, and Advanced Life, Considered in the Physiological, Social, and Moral Relations that "the majority of women (happily for them) are not very much troubled with sexual feeling of any kind. What men are habitually, women are only exceptionally" (112). The fear of these exceptional women was present in Victorian literature