It 's a nice day in July, the third, the day before all of the excitement. Families are out and about standing in lines wrapped around the store buying kerosene for their grills. Of course you can’t forget the Hotdogs, hamburgers, buns, jello, cake, icecream and popsicles. Any kind of food you could ever want and most in the color red white or blue. People are flocking to the firework stands to buy as many of the biggest and baddest fire works they have to offer. Kids spending there allowance on rockets, snakes, poppers, parachutes, and smoke bombs. Fourth of July is almost in full swing just a few more things before the big party. While all of these people are running around like ants in a frenzy swarming to the melted ice cream cone on the hot pavement. My aunt, uncle, and cousins are at their house preparing for the big party an annual fourth of july …show more content…
The car is in good shape just in need of a wash, wax, and a detail. Most of all though it needs a motor tune up and a new set of tires that don 't go flat in two days. That day they were working on the motor installing some new pumps and a new transmission that he had been given for christmas. My brother is helping him learning how to do things because he wants to be a mechanic someday. The boys are covered in gas and oil from head to toe but they are at least getting stuff done so we can drive the car to take my senior pictures in a few weeks. I remember dad telling me stories about driving that car he would tell me about how he had togo 10 miles per hour on his way home on the dirt road so he wouldn’t have to wash his car everyday. My favorite is when he was telling me about the old days when he would race his car against his buddies. The guys had the gas pump pulled off of the
The Second Continental Congress was an organization that started having meetings to make decisions on where to attack the British and how to defend themselves. This foundation was created because it was during the war in Lexington and Concord, so they needed someone to help make their decisions and help decide attack methods. The Congress representatives originally met during the Revolutionary War; their first meeting being on May 10, 1775. The representatives (a person or people sent to represent something) came from 12 of the original 13 colonies.
The American Revolution was a conflict that arose from growing tensions between Great Britain and the Thirteen North American colonies. It was a long bloody war and one of the most well-known, and because of that it has many interpretations, and these interpretations have made it a challenge to be able to come to a single understanding of the war. In this week’s readings, two different views on the same war are given. The American Yawp describes the American colonies point of view on the revolution while the History Lesson discusses how British wanted to control America but instead drove them to rebel and fight for their independence. The colonists saw the war for their independence as a revolution, but through British eyes, events and people were, not surprisingly, seen quite differently.
Frederick Douglass's "Fourth of July" Speech is the most famous speech delivered by the abolitionist and civil rights advocate Frederick Douglass. It attracted a crowd of between five hundred and six hundred. Douglass’s speech to the slaves on the Fourth of July served to show the slaves that there is nothing for them to celebrate. They were not free and the independence that the rest of the country celebrated did not apply to them.
What would happen if the American Revolution never happened? Would the colonists still be under control of Britain? Would the 13 colonies still be only colonies? How would the Native Americans lives be today? Was the American Revolution really revolutionary and did it bring radical change within the colonists lives and was more helpful than harmful? Although America gained freedom from defeating Britain in the Revolutionary War, it was more harmful than helpful because of treatment of the Native Americans, slaves, and the fact that government didn’t improve.
John Beckett mentions that the Glorious Revolution has been considered a historical event related to the political issues. The main target of this historical event was to create a commercial freedom in Europe. After this revolution was done, trade relations in Europe went up, and the Bill of Rights was also created in 1689. Today, the Bill of Rights is shown and known that it was the first building stone for the British constitution because it limited the monarchic power. During the eighteenth century, the period of the Age of Enlightenment is considered between 1713 and 1789 because Anthony Pagden states that Europe was like a republic of states, and it was like a union acting together and talking with one voice. The Age of Enlightenment
How did the country move on after so much death and suffering? I don’t believe after such horrid events causing so much death you can truly move on however, as a country efforts to date have and are being made to locate and bury those who were lost in the Civil war. This definitely I’m sure brought, much closure to the families who are missing pieces of their history, pieces who they are and the family they come from. Memorial Day was founded around the Civil War and each year we remember those who paid the ultimate price to sacrifice their lives for a fight for freedom and equality. It’s very saddening to look back on history and see how many lives were lost in a war that began for something that one would think would be easy as human beings
Lorde, Audre. “The Fourth of July.” Models for Writers. 7th ed. Ed. Alfred Rosa and
In Audre Lorde’s bildungsroman essay “The Fourth of July” (1997), she recalls her family’s trip to the nation’s capital that represented the end of her childhood ignorance by being exposed to the harsh reality of racialization in the mid 1900s. Lorde explains that her parents are to blame for shaping her skewed perception of America by shamefully dismissing frequent acts of racism. Utilizing copious examples of her family being negatively affected by racism, Lorde expresses her anger towards her parents’ refusal to address the blatant, humiliating acts of discrimination in order to emphasize her confusion as to why objecting to racism is a taboo. Lorde’s use of a transformational tone of excitement to anger, and dramatic irony allows those
In the short story, “Fourth of July”, Audre Lord transmits the main message of how one should resist and retaliate when afflicted to prejudice. Lorde displays the message of prejudice early in the story when she describes the complications Phyllis had trying to get to Washington D.C. with her high school senior class, just because she is a different skin color as the others. Lorde writes “Phyllis’s high school senior class trip had been to Washington, but the nuns had given her back her deposit in private, explaining to her that the class, all of whom were white, except Phyllis, would be staying in a hotel where Phyllis ‘Would not be happy,’ meaning, Daddy explained to her, also in private, that they did not rent rooms to Negroes. ‘We will
n Frederick Douglass’ What to the Slave is the 4th of July, he presents a simple yet morally complex argument. In his letter, Douglass states that it is hypocritical for a country to celebrate its freedom and separation from another country, yet still have slavery alive and well in the United States. Morally, this issue is a pretty straightforward argument and the very definition of hypocritical. Douglass also touches upon his belief that all men and women are equal, as stated in the constitution, yet slaves are subhuman. Another topic touched on is the contributing factors that perpetuate the constant and unjust nature of how slaves are treated, such as religion, agricultural, and over all demeanor towards slaves.
In World War II their were a lot of battles. There were a lot of city’s bombed. How would you feel if you were in World War II ? I would be running from the Japanese and the Natiz . Also I would probably die or hide in a road gutter . The question is what would you do if you were in World War II ?
When you first arrive to the parade, you’re greeted by thousands of people all lining up as if it were a concert for the next raging star of America. Neighbors open their windows to release a ray of sunshine as people scream and shout from atop the roofs. All the buildings are decorated as if buckets of paint were dumped from the sky. Confetti and rockets pour down from the clouds like rain does in the middle of monsoon season. A new era of vehicles emerges from the center
I tried to re-enact our gatherings around the bonfire. Making our delicious S’more waffles with out my friends but it was not the same. No, one to start a conversation with and no laughter, tears, or joy was brought up from making S’more waffles. I would drive to the beach where we held our bonfire and sit in the car to watch, younger kids and their friends taken their place around the bonfire pit. They have replaced my friends and I spot. These kids have started creating their own memories through food. What they do not know is that these our the nights they will remember the
Imagine a nation full of safety, happiness, and prosperity around every corner, a type of utopia. Picture the typical neighborhood cookout; with friends and family celebrating and sharing a special occasion or holiday together. It starts with a family walking into a backyard, they see luscious green grass and trees, groups of friends and kids running around having fun. Then instantly the aroma of cooked hamburgers and hotdogs mixed together flood their nostrils and mouths. This is paired with the sound of laughter, conversations, yelling kids, and the wind rustling through the trees. The feeling and flavor a juicy burgers, hotdogs, fruit, and vegetables. These all come together to make a joyful afternoon event that should be happening all
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any” - Alice Walker. I grew up in a world where everyone is afraid to speak up for the simple matter that they might be wrong. Where everyone is afraid to have a voice because we are taught we didn’t have one: that we aren’t resilient enough to make a change. Yet, I knew that although I was shy, I wanted a world where my voice could speak up for those that couldn’t speak up for themselves.