Chapter 18: Israel expresses his feeling about what the boat was named, and ask Paul for it to be changed to something better, because the boat name reminds him of imprisonment, which reminds Israel where he have been the last few times when he was captured by authorities. When thinking that he could not find a replacement of the name, he yelled out “Poor Richard”, and Paul agreed with it and stated that “In honor of him saying that ‘God helps them that help themselves,’ as Poor Richard says.” (Melville, 131) A while after, it was renamed Bon Homme Richard. They traveled near the Cheviot Hills, which is between England and Scotland. When arriving in Scotland, Israel was put in the Pisa of the Richard to watch out for any man that comes into Scotland. Israel explains that his adventure so far with John Paul Jones comes from …show more content…
Chapter 19: Back on the Bon Homme Richard, they encountered an enemy, the Serapis. In history, the Serapis and the Bon Homme Richard battle off the Flamborough Head were the first battle on the sea in the American Revolutionary War. On the Bon Homme Richard, they had 135 members on the ship, when the Serapis had 320 members on the ship. In addition, the Bon Homme Richard and a supply of weapons and gun, but the Serapis had only 50 guns, but the power of the gun are more powerful than anyone on the American boat had. The crew on the Bon Homme Richard was outnumbered by members and weapons in the battle but was underestimated by the Serapis of the power they have, although being a small crew. A few moments later, the Scarborough came in view, and they seem to favor more of the Serapis side, it did not make a
As the Spanish advanced again to take Fort Frederica, Oglethorpe was waiting. Slowly moving through the swampy lands on St. Simons the Spanish headed toward Fort Frederica with high confidence. Posting a regiment of Foot Soldiers and Darien’s Independent Company of Highlanders in a wooded area overlooking the marsh where Spanish soldiers would have to cross, Oglethorpe returned to Ft. Frederica (Swinson 137). Oglethorpe then left to retrieve more soldiers. When he returned, the battle was over. The troops had stood off the Spanish until they ran out of ammunition and retreated. Even though he arrived after the fighting, Oglethorpe became the victor (Coleman
The British chose to attack the Americans from the north by way of Isle aux Pois in the mouth of the Pearl River because this was the only only stable water they had found that ships could ride and anchor. When hearing that the british where coming this way, Lieutenant Thomas Ap Catesby Jones and his five gunboats went to try and Barackade the Rigolets trying to make sure they wouldn’t enter. His 185 men and 23 guns awaited the British. At 10:30 on December 14th 1814 three columns of British ships, 42 to 45, armed with 43 guns and 1,200 under the command of Captain Lockyer met the American blockade. Fierce fighting began and the British had finally captured the five American boats. Losses were 17 British and 6 Americans killed, 77 British and 35 Americans wounded. This gave Gerneral Andrew Jackson six days more to improve his defenses. The British at the very beginning of the war had demolished almost all of Jacksons sea power. Jackson only had the Carolina, Louisiana, and one gunboat left.
Before 1925 recordings were made with an acoustical horn that would capture the sound of the musicians in front of it and transferred the vibration to a cutting stylus. No electricity was used. This process was called the acoustical process. In 1925, microphones were introduced to transfer the acoustical energy to an electric signal, which fed the cutting stylus. This electrical process ameliorated recordings sound.
a. Railroads in the late nineteenth century helped America become the richest industrial nation on earth. The railroads increased commerce and integrated the American market as well as helped national brands to emerge such as Ivory soap and A&P grocery stores. They also introduced time zones to make shipping and passenger travel more standard. The railroad was the first modern publicly traded corporations, the companies were large and expanding across the country. Railroad companies had a large amount of employees. Capital was needed to build railroad tracks so stocks were sold to the public such as wealthy tycoons such as Vanderbilt and Carnegie. The Railroad system was also a symbol of the partnership between national government and industry. The railroad would have never been created without legislature, land grants passed out by congress. An example would be the Central Pacific Railroad it was backed by wealthy tycoons including Leland Stanford, the ex-governor of California who had useful political connections, and Collis P. Huntington, an adept lobbyist. Railroads gave land th...
On Sunday, February 9th the a cappella group, Chapter 6, performed at the Hoogland Center for the Arts for their twelfth anniversary concert. Chapter 6 is made up of six men who are all extremely vocally talented and many of them are from central Illinois so it was a significant concert for them. The group uses at six part harmony for all the songs and they have three tenors, one of which does almost constant falsetto; two baritones, who do a majority of the percussion sounds; and a bass who can be almost always counted on to be singing the steady bass line. Chapter 6 used a combination of well-known music and humor to appeal to the audience and entertain many different types of people with different interests.
Then the three men stay with the party and aide them in their journey to the British Fort. Once there, the two women’s father whom is the man in charge of the huge battle going on at that time. The French and English are at war. Colonists are urged to fight for Britain, and once they become part of the battle, they were not allowed to leave to defend their own homes.
Chapter 34 is about a study among "57 college age women at a university and these women lives both on and off campus, mostly white ages between 18-25 years of age" (Chapter 34, pg. 410-411). Chapter 34 mentions how, "Drug use and eating disorders among college women are high because of sudden transition change from high-school to college along with pressure with courses, dating and peer expectations that contribute to eating disorders and drug use among college women" (Chapter 34, pg. 410-411). Within this study, the chapter mentions how "these women would use either street drugs or pharmaceuticals for weight control" (Chapter 34, pg. 411). This chapter also mentions how "these women often hid the fact that they were uses drugs and their eating
What I find interesting in chapter 14 is the diagnosis and treatment section. The reason I find this section interesting is because I think it's amazing how new technology is introduce to the medical profession constantly to help with patients care. This allow health profession to diagnose illnesses and to treat them more effectively. For example, we can diagnose the size and location of a tumor cancer through PET or CT scan. Then there's 3-D ultrasonography that create 3-D images of various organs and structures. There's also surgery techniques that allow incisions of a 1/2 inch or less, which reduced postoperative pain, hospital stays, costs, and enable patients to return to normal function much more rapidly. This make me feel happy because
Waiting impatiently for the arrival of the Allegro Middleseton the Upper Chadwell Green Monitoring Unit counted every wheel-turn between start and finish of its journey, a journey that took the massive double engined, battery-powered shining blue train through the rain directly towards, and beyond the huge railway configuration situated between smokestacks 2 and 3. Upper Chadwell Green Monitoring Unit also checked on the whereabouts of Coal Train 6476.
Chapter 14 Segment 1: Art is everything that a person can create is an art. Possible music, dance and cooking. Everything that has to do with creativity means art. "When we talk about cultures or art in general, art does not have a place or a homeland. It is an art in general, which means that anyone who likes to hear any piece of music, whether Western, Arab or Asian, loves to hear it, it is not necessary that he understands the language or understands the tradition. Art is a sense, and as they say: Art has no homeland.
Sedaris describes an experience when his dad promised to buy the family a beach house but soon broke the commitment. The broken promise brought problems for both his present and future family life. The story starts off in a dry cleaning store, where both David and his mom are standing behind a woman who is talking about “one of her homes” (Sedaris 1) in the garden tour. The Sedaris family dreamed owning more than one house like this woman. So when Sedaris’ dad makes the suggestion to “skip the middleman and buy a place” (Sedaris 3) in their dream vacation spot, Emerald Island, the family became very enthusiastic. Their excitement neglects the fact that his dad is known for making promises that he can never deliver. Ignoring this trait in their father, Sedaris’ family manages to become so excited about the potential beach house they start to suggest names for it, such as The Nut Hut, The Tar Heel and The Shell Station. Sedaris offers up the name Ship Shape, since the house is shaped like a
They watched from the hay-loft as the clouds of dust spit out a small white sports car. Watched in amazement as the white car – ball skidded down the hill. . . The disaster, a tornado with four wheels, music blaring, sped towards them. Questioned why? Then, they heard music associated with the Fourth of July’s firework's Grande finale. What did it mean? They waited and watched. Like most Mid-westerners, they willed and prayed the impending disaster away. They were grounded, transfixed by the chain of events – unbelievable acrobatics performed by the midget car. Would a clown exit the car at the end of the show? Entertaining until the outhouse exploded and caught the porch on fire.
Liszt was a pianist who played a piece one time and then he “began to transpose simple passages into octaves and thirds, trills into sixths and to add phrases on his own until, in Brorodin’s words, what emerged ‘was not the same piece but an improvisation of it’” (Perenyi 205).
Damn the squirrelly woman cur, for she escaped me yet again by leaping between the standing rigging. She jumped o’er the taffrail into the sea and be it of her own accord. No one pushed her and I could not reach her, hard as I may. My captain lunged in his effort to save her. A second shot fired off from their deck guns very near his head. “Man overboard,” he shouted and stood to his feet. I gave thanks to God that he be not scathed, that the shot had gone right by him. Our harquebusiers laid dead the threat and I helped him to look for her. But she was nowhere; we could not find her. Dismayed, he would have jumped to save her had I not stayed his hand. I would not let him do such a thing. He is John Cain, Captain of the Edward Bonaventure, not the saviour of drab hearts. Let her die in such a way. Let us leave her to the water’s depths, a more merciful plight than death by the Gallows’
Willard’s crew was comprised of mostly young men who had no idea what they were doing. “Come on all of you big strong me,” writes Joseph McDonald, “Uncle Sam needs your help again”(Class handouts, McDonald). This would describe the men that were with Willard. None of them knew where they were headed or why they were leaving, all they knew was they were serving their country. Marlow’s crew knew that they were trying to figure out what happened to the ivory supply. Marlow had a crew full of mostly natives. Their respective ships were different too. While Marlow cruised on a French steamer, Willard was on a boat provided by the military. Both men had a unique surrounding that helped each respective tale.