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I read the book called the Wednesday wars by Gary D. Schmidt. The book is about a boy named Holling Hoodhood who is in seventh grade and his teacher, Mrs. Baker. The story takes place mainly in school or at Holling’s home. The first main event is when Holling finds out he is the only one that doesn't leave school early on Wednesdays because of Hebrew school or catechism. Also, when Holling let the rats go, it caused a lot of trouble through the story.
Chanmi Oh Mr. Villeneuve APUSH p. 3 Seven Days Battle After the Battle of Bull Run, Union General George B. McClellan insisted that his men, the Union Army of the Potomac, be well trained before being returning to fight. By April 1862, Lincoln pressed McClellan to launch a campaign for the siege of the Confederate capital of Richmond. The campaign would be known as the Peninsular Campaign, where McClellan’s failure to seize Richmond would lead to the Seven Days battles.
The book that is going to discussed in this essay is The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt. It is about a boy named Holling and his teacher named Mrs. Baker. This is going on during The Vietnam war. Holling thinks that Mrs. Baker is a mean teacher, but he has to stay with her every wednesday, because he is Presbyterian and everyone in his class goes to Catholic or Hebrew school. Here is the two questions will be discussed in the essay are How do the plays Holling reads with Mrs. Baker mirror events in the book?
The general argument made by David Herbert Donald in Why the War Came: The Sectional Struggle over Slavery in the Territories is that the issue of slavery in the national territories started the Civil War. More specifically, Donald argues that the Kansas-Nebraska Act, crafted by Stephen A. Douglas, revived the issue of slavery in the territories and divided the nation into hostile sections which turned the great forces that once cement American unity into a tool that further divided the nation. Donald points out that North detested slavery to the conception of slavery as being un-American and was the main reason why the South was lagging behind. In order to abolish slavery, the North, who held the majority in the national government, acted on the regulation of national territories. The national territories were one of the few areas that the North could act against slavery since they did not have power over slavery within the states it existed.
Strangely Germany began building up their army and navy prior to the start of war, leaving the other countries left with limited time to build up and prepare their army and navy for the unexpected. All in all Germany was involved in all of the underlying causes of World War
From 1914-1918, Canada was in a state of Total War. Women and minorities contributed to the war effort on the homefront by making clubs for themselves, custom making quilts, bandages, and clothes for overseas, worked traditional male jobs, donated land, working in the red cross, and organizing festivals. Every citizen of Canada was committed to giving back to the war effort. Even at home and overseas, the military added to the country being in Total War in the air and the sea; they gave it their all no matter where they were fighting. The government’s power in Canada created even a larger condition of Total War by the restrictions introduced and the amount of money spent/donated in WWI.
Contextualization Prior to the Seven Year War, the colonist in America were faithful subjects to the king. They lived under the period of neglect where they can establish a self-sufficient society and developed a unique economic based on the region under the British government. Hoping to form a friendly relationship with the colonies, the Parliament avoid any strict enforcement keep American colonies in North American obedient to England. During the war, the American fought along with the British and the Iroquois against the French and their Native allies. They fought for the power to control the Ohio River Valley, Canada.
The Korean War was inescapable, and we would have had to fight them in the future no matter what the circumstances. There is no question about it, some people agreed with the fight and some didn’t. So, being asked the question, “What did the American public think about the war by late 1952-1953?” I come up with many different answers. Further, what influenced their opinions to be as they are?
Compare and contrast the foreign policies of Bismarck vs. Kaiser Wilhelm. How were their decisions significant to WWI? (At least three paragraphs). (9 PTS) Otto Von Bismarck was the prime minister of Prussia from 1862 to 1873, and the chancellor of the German empire from 1871 to 1890. Overtime, Germany began to trust his judgement and followed every order that was appointed by him.
Thieves are easy to come by their everywhere, what is hard to come by is someone who steals but feels really bad so he fix what he did. There is an example of this in the short novel called “The Wednesday wars” wrote by Gary D. Schmidt. Mr. Kowalski is competing with Mr. Hoodhood to see who is going to be the head architecture For the new junior high school. Kowalski got his hands on Mr. Hoodhood’s plans and binded his plans together with his. Later he felt bad for what he did so stepped down and Mr. Hoodhood got the job.
By winning continuous wars in Germany, Wilhelm and Bismarck were able to successfully unify Germany into one strong empire. Bismarck began his succession of wars in 1866, during the Seven Weeks’ War. This war began when Bismarck intentionally began border conflicts with Austria, which led Austria to have to declare a war due to these tensions. The Prussians were fortunate enough to have their superior training and equipment to help them be victorious. The Prussians easily defeated Austria in the Seven Weeks’ War, which allowed Prussian annexation and more German territory.
In the second half of the twentieth century, it was understood by the majority of society that civilians physically and psychologically suffered from warfare. In The Shock of War by Sean Kennedy, the author weaves a global perspective of how World War Two entered and affected citizens world-wide. As stated in the novel, “As many as 60 million people died as a result of the Second World War; over half of them were civilians” (Kennedy). China became a breeding group of corruptness that allowed millions of deaths as Japanese soldiers raided homes and killed civilians, illustrating that soldiers were not the sole victims of warfare (Kennedy). Moreover, a woman reported that she delivered her newborn on the side of a country road, illustrating how
After years of being controlled by the French, the thirteen American colonies thought that the Seven Years War would be their salvation. While the British did defeat the French and gain the territories in the colonies, it was not the answer the colonists were looking for. The British gained complete control over the colonies. The colonies were tired of being restrained and saw a new destiny for themselves: freedom. The results of the Seven Years War were united colonies and a drive for independence.
was a result of a young country bolstering its importance in Europe. A strong economy and a growing middle class allowed a new ideology of Woltpolitik (world politics) paving a way for Germans to think of expansions east. An arms race resulted against Britain, from Wilhelm’s perspective this is not a bad thing because the arms race meant that the people of Germany would be more nationalistic in their thoughts. Finally, in 1914 war broke out, the nation was not against this because before WWI battles and wars only lased months. No one had foreseen the bloodshed and anguish brought by the trench warfare and mustard gas.
Through the novella, Leaving Gilead, Patt Carr introduces the idea that war brings out the worst in even the best of people. Even though we might be fighting a war for a good cause, no one wins in war. We all lose something or someone. Through this story, Carr tells the story of the Birdsong family during the Civil war and how it affected them. War brings out the worst in people.
