Mr. Horbeck: A Short Story

A slave, Betty Abernathy’s, account of plantation life, “We lived up in Perry County. The white folk had a nice big house an’ they was a number of poor little cabins fo’ us folks. Our’s was a one room, built of logs, an’ had a puncheon floor. ‘Ole ‘Massa’ had a number of slaves but we didden have no school, ‘ner church an’ mighty little merry-makin’. Mos’ly we went barefooted the yeah ‘round.”

“Quick! Come quick! Someone has killed father!” these are the words that Lizzie Borden yelled at the house maid after she found her father dead. Still, no one knows what happened in 1892.

There is a 16 year old boy named Adam. Him and his friend todd are in the library and the power goes out. They think it is a normal power outage but they realize that their phones arent working. Because of the power outage they get to go home from school. They go outside and see that the cars arent working.

Ben and Jimmy vs. The Holocaust Ben and I were playing in the forest trying to find a way to survive the Holocaust. I was always trying to figure out a way to help Ben’s family because he was always thinking about them and doing risky stuff to help them. Ben sneaks into the ghetto to give food and supplies to help his family survive in the camp. It is very hard for two young teenagers to survive a war without any parents there to help you and with no money or shelter. Ben and I always do what we can with our strength and intelligence to survive the Holocaust, and try to at least get shelter for enough food for us.

He was mugged walking home from the second shift by some men looking for drug money.” She tucked her middle finger into her palm. “It was the first funeral my children ever went to. My youngest was five. He didn’t understand why Uncle Pete couldn’t get up.

Wood begins with a preface that speaks of an African American graveyard. Wood’s brings up the graveyard to make his reader’s acknowledge slavery was very real here in the United States, and the people who were enslaved were from all different background and were in fact intrinsic and unique

Through Douglass’s writing, the reader learns of how slavery takes its toll, not just on the slaves, but on everyone involved. Even the purest soul is destroyed, both the slave and the slave

The Putnam’s daughter’s eyes are open, unlike Betty’s , her eyes are closed like she is asleep. After visiting Betty Mrs.Putnam started blaming others for her children’s death. She continues contentious saying her children were killed from witchcraft. She doesn’t think of any other reason why her children died. “They were murdered, Mr.Parris!

When engineers are building a bridge, they have to meticulously look over every single detail, from the beams that will support the road to the pillars that will hold the structure up. They scrutinize and analyze every single aspect of the bridge repeatedly because if they make a single mistake, place a support pillar an inch from where it is supposed to be, the entire structure will fail. Likewise, in Kathleen M. Brown’s article “The Anxious World of the Slaveowning Patriarch,” the delicate relationships between Virginia’s elite planters and their dependents is closely examined and analyzed, showing the order in which the elite white planter was on top demanding subordination and obedience from all their dependents. Brown argues that due

With this, Douglass is addressing the topic of slavery and whether to abolish it or not. And goes about telling the hardships he went through.

In the Late Convention of Colored Men, the freedmen described the white men who assumed control of the government immediately following the Civil War as white traitors. The reason they described the white men as white traitors is because though they granted the slaves with freedom for their help during the war, they were left alone by themselves after the Civil War. In addition, the freedmen mentions that though they were a big help for the winning the Civil War, they were treated unfairly, and that even their enemies-southern rebels-were treated better than them, where they were released free, but the freedmen were left by themselves with no care. This freedom for the slaves are worse than slavery, because they were left to make a living by

Highlighting Practical Female Problems in Society Some Like It Hot, directed by Billy Wilder, does an effective job at teaching lessons about gender and appreciation of the opposite gender by highlighting the fact that men sexualize women in society and by disproving preconceived notions about the female sex. Since Some Like It Hot aired 1959, some may think the movie is irrelevant; However, common gender issues Wilder touched on are still relevant today and need to be touched on to help eliminate gender stereotypes. Some Like It

PAGE 2 In the Narrative Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass, he uses this text to explain his purpose in “throwing light on the American slave system”, or show it for what it really is, as well as show his position on how he strongly believes slavery is an issue that needs to be addressed and how it differs from those who defended slavery, with experiences from his own life to support his argument. Douglass uses experience from his early days as a young slave to throw light on the aspect of physical abuse. According to his narrative, Douglass states, “Master, however, was not a humane slaveholder.

In contrast to romanticism, realism writings of the 1800s showed society as it really was. Two authors, Brett Harte who wrote “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” and Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” both expressed the idea that people need people. These authors relayed this societal message through external and internal conflict. The societal message that people need people was expressed through external conflict in Brett Harte’s “The Outcasts of Poker Flat”.

After she was killed, her parents had begun to wonder where Betty went. The police