Even though Jim Lewis was in World War 2, he led an average American life. He raised four kids in the Piedmont of North Carolina, with the values of love and respect. He influenced others through his hard work, dedication to his country, and his loyalty to his family. He voluntarily joined World War 2 and was a part of the Automobile Industry for 20+ years. Through this historical biography, you will learn about his life in the war, involvement of the crash in the S.S. Uruguay, and the car industry of the 1950’s-60’s. Jim Lewis was born on March 3rd, 1910 in McKinney, Texas. He was the middle child of three, with Jim and Laura Lewis as his parents . He was in the Texas National Guard, before he volunteered to go into World War 2, at the age of 35. He was too old to be drafted, but after Pearl Harbor, he felt the need to serve his country the best he could. Lewis married Catherine Harkey after the war, and had four children. He worked for City Chevrolet for most of his life after the war as a car mechanic and later a security guard. After Catherine died, he was remarried for a few years until he died of testicular cancer, leaving behind all four children, nine grandchildren, and four great grandchildren . Growing up in McKinney, Texas, Lewis did many odd jobs before he was in the Texas National Guard. He was a bread truck driver for a bakery and worked on cars, to name a few . The life in Texas at the time of Lewis’ high school years was about economic expansion, with petroleum being the basic regional builder in the south west. Oil made the region’s economy different, where as it used to depend on agriculture and timber. But oil fueled the growing automobile industry, with every 4.3 Texans having a car by 1929. By 1930, Texas... ... middle of paper ... ...bliography Fox, Carol. Interview by author. Tape recording. WCU, March 3, 2014. Dreyer, Rachael . "Automotive History." Automotive History. http://bentley.umich.edu/research/guides/automotive/ (accessed April 29, 2014). "Everyday Life During World War II." Calisphere -. http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/themed_collections/subtopic5h.html (accessed April 30, 2014). "S.S. Uruguay - Memories & Photos - Page 2." S.S. Uruguay - Memories & Photos - Page 2. http://www.moore-mccormack.com/SS-Uruguay-1938/SS-Uruguay-Photos-2.htm (accessed April 30, 2014). "TEXAS IN THE 1920S." BROWN, NORMAN D.. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/npt01 (accessed April 30, 2014). "Your story begins with theirs.." Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History Records at Ancestry.com. http://www.ancestry.com/ (accessed April 28, 2014). 1940 US Census
John L. Lewis was born in the town of Lucas, Iowa on February 12th, 1880. His parents are immigrants from Wales. When John was fifteen, he started working as a miner in Illinois. Between 1898 and 1907, John was voted to be a local representative to the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) in the year 1906. Lewis also tried farming, construction work, and owning a small business, before joining the labor movement in 1907. The United Mine Workers of America , aka the UMWA, later elected John as branch secretary. In 1909, he served as president of the Panama local of the United Mine Workers of America. In 1910, he would be elected as an Illinois representative on UMW's state legislature. He took a national position in the American Federation of Labor (AFL), as an organizer, in 1911. Lewis departed from the mines in the year 1911, to become an organizer for the American Federation of Labor. In 1916, Lewis was the UMWA president and appointed chief arithmetician for the union. In the year 1919, three years after his election, he became the president of the largest trade union in America in 1920. He held this position until 1960, when he retired.
In contrast to this small town were the advancing views of America. The twenties continued to roar towards modernism. “Breakthroughs in technology, the increase in material wealth, and the beginning of an empire seemingly heralded the upward march of civilization, with America on the forefront” (Dumenil 6). In all directions, it was clear that America was moving forward. Transportation was a prime example of this advancement. Innovator Henry Ford introduced his “ Ford Miracle” to the public (Dumenil 6). Economies and the social values also began to advance. “Dubious get-rich-quick schemes and fads…contributed to a tone of feverish frivolity” (Dumenil 7). People began to lead fast paced lives with the desire to become rich, quickly.
“Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and get to work.” - H.L Hunt. Spindletop was the first big oil strike in 1901, it gave a new shape to the state’s future. In fact, during World War II,Texas produced twice as much oil than Nazi Germany and Japan did combined. Oil didn’t change Texas overnight. You trusted me to find out What story should be told? After reading the documents that you gave me I decided I would do school funds,minorities in West Texas , and divorce rates.
In 1801 President Thomas Jefferson asked Meriwether Lewis to act as his private secretary. Meriwether Lewis was a skilled frontiersman and an amateur scientist. Around 1804 Thomas Jefferson made Meriwether Lewis another offer, he asked him if he would led an expedition into the lands west of the Mississippi. Lewis asked one of his closet friend, William Clark, if he would join Lewis in this expedition; William Clark agreed to be his co-captain. Meriwether Lewis was an extraordinary man for the things he's accomplished as a frontiersman, amateur scientist, an intellectual and a explorer.
John L. Lewis was born on the 2nd of February in 1880 in Lucas, Iowa and he’s was born in to a family of immigrant welch parents which worked in coal mining and trade unionism. By the age of 15 John began working in coal mining and 2 years later he married his wife Myrta Bell, she influenced him to read many things which would later come in to his aid in his public speeches as flowery phrases, Shakespearean quotations, and mixed metaphors. He soon move to souther...
In this paper I will highlight one of the governors of Texas. Dolph Briscoe was the governor of Texas from 1973 to 1979. Not only was he a governor, he was also one of the largest individual land owners in Texas history. This in a state known for huge ranches. His philanthropy has provided support to a wide range of educational, medical, scientific, and cultural institutions. In this paper I hope to provide a little insight in to how much this man has impacted the evolution of Texas.
The expansion of agriculture and railroads helped form Texas’s present economy. The invention of the steam engine not only allowed people to move across the country in 7 days, instead of 6 months, but it also allowed crops and livestock to be carried to markets and places where they would be sold anywhere in the country. They could be moved to another farm in Texas as well. Since it’s such a large state, railroads were a necessity for travel, and general transportation. The railroad-building boom lasted 40 years. The production of cotton in Texas introduced some of the first slave-based cotton farms, and was the dominant crop for a very long time. After this event, Texas’s economy was forever changed.
On 06/09/18, at approximately 1:32pm, I Deputy Warden N. Christian with Franklin County Animal Care and Control (FCACC) was dispatched to 599 Stanley Ave, on a dangerous or vicious investigations(dog owner's address). I arrived on scene at approximately 1:48pm. I walked to the above stated location, there was a group of four unknown male individuals. I asked if my complainant Kathy Lewis and or victim Lia Lewis was available. A unknown male just pointed next door (597 Stanley Ave). I went to that location and met with dog owner Melissa Phillips. I explained to Ms. Phillips that we received a complaint in regards to a dog biting someone. Ms. Phillips, initially denied that anything occurred. Ms. Phillips provided me with a hypnotically story of " if someone was in her backyard and her dog was on a leash and got bit, could she be held responsible. I advised Ms. Phillips it depends on the circumstances. I advised Ms. Phillips its hard for me to determine who's at fault since I am still looking to speak to complainant/victim.
Henry Ford, the man who revolutionized the car industry forever, founded his company under the beliefs that a car wasn’t a high-speed toy for the rich but instead a sturdy vehicle for everyday family needs, like driving to work, getting groceries or driving to church. However, Henry ford did much more than just this feat. He also tried to make peace in WWI before America had joined the war. In addition, Ford made the radical new five dollars a day payment. However, Ford also had his lows. At an early age, his mother died. His first two companies had also been failures. Against many of his closest friends protests, he published an anti-semitic (Jewish) newspaper. Ford had a very interesting and unique life and he changed the automotive industry forever.
1883 at old Tascosa in the Texas Panhandle. The strike was the effect of the policies that were beginning to show up in Texas ranching at the time. Small ranchers we’re becoming less and less numerous as the larger ranchers squashed competition through underhanded methods. This book takes place in a time when America was growing and experiencing many changes, especially with regards to businesses.
In his early life, there were many factors that began to influence his desire to write. Lewis was born on November 29, 1898. His father, Albert Lewis, was a solicitor. . His mother, Flora August Lewis, was a clergyman’s daughter. Both of his parents loved literature, therefore his home was always filled with books. He grew up in Belfast, located in Northern Ireland. Lewis was raised by his father, after his mother died from cancer when he was a child. Lewis loved animals, and began to develop a great appreciation of nature. Even though he was a child, he began questioning the world and its limits. One of the influences that formed his imagination was the countryside and landscape in Ireland. In 1918, Lewis was sent to boarding school in Watford, England. He did not have a very pleasant experience in school, and often struggled with grammar. However, this changed once he began to be privately tutored. Lewis received a scholarship to Oxford in 1916. Lewis fell in loved with Oxford. He admired the beautiful architecture, culture, and education. On June 8, 1917, Lewis enlisted in the British army. As he got older, Lewis became...
John Robert Lewis was born on February 21, 1940 in Troy, Alabama. The son of a sharecropping family, he resided on the family farm. Subject to the regular Jim Crow mindset of the South, he attend a segregated public school in Pike County, Alabama. Early on, he was influenced by civil rights role models such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. His family on the other hand, believed that there was no use trying to change the culture of the South, and advised him to stay out of trouble. He attended Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, and graduated from the American Baptist Theological Seminary which adds stories that he told of preaching to chickens for practice. Preaching to chickens aside, Lewis’ interest in the Civil Rights Movement continued to push him.
John Lewis states that the country needs new laws to be put in place. Lewis uses an anaphora “We need a bill” that portrays his mistrust and doubts towards the way the legislation is run at the time. Lewis immediately states a wrong that the legislation has made when he states “We must have legislation that will protect the Mississippi sharecropper who is put off of his farm because he dares to register to vote.” (para 4). The statement describes an example of how the laws that are set in place have no real intention of protecting the people of color in any way, shape or form. The phrase portrays why the people of color have been marching in the first place, the government has no intention to help them with the horrible conditions they have
The writings of C.S Lewis influenced the readers of the globe, we tend to square measure here to get his personal origins and influences that formed his literature.
Even though this might seem bad, it really wasn’t. When people left their domestic jobs (ex. Cleaning up the house, washing dishes, etc.) they went into the oil field, in turn these ‘minorities’ took these open domestic jobs and used them to get wealthier. An excellent object comes from Willse Lee Mckinney who said; “The thing that caused me to stop here in 1949, … I could make one dollar per hour for domestic work: cleaning house, washing, and ironing. So if I worked ten hours that day. I had ten dollars. Ten dollars per week was a good wage back in East Texas. So I thought, “Well this is it. I’ll stay here and make me a little money and go back to school…” This could mean that now minorities would start to rise up from what they would be thought of as a sort of scapegoat in the 19th