Francis Scott Key was a famous poet as well as a lawyer. He was born on August 1, 1779 to John Ross Key, who was an officer of the Continental Army. He was about 33 years old when he wrote the poem called “The Defense of Fort McHenry.” This popular poem was put to the tune of a very famous drinking song of that time called “Anacreon in Heaven,” and eventually was made into our National Anthem. However the song was not declared the National Anthem until years after Francis Scott Key’s death. Even
Fort McHenry and “The Star Spangled Banner” Have you ever wondered why Francis Scott Key wrote “The Star Spangled Banner”? There is a wonderful story behind how “The Star Spangled Banner” was written. During the night of September 13, 1814, Francis Scott Key was inspired to write the greatest song ever written. Francis Scott Key wrote “The Star Spangled Banner”. He was an American lawyer and an amatuer verse writer(Goertzen,p853). He wrote the song during the War of 1812. The original flag from
to this music to show that they are a part of their nation and are proud of it. Generally, this music is loud and powerful, with lyrics inspiring one to be proud in the achievements of their nation. One famous national anthem composer was Francis Scott Key, the artist behind the American Star Spangled Banner. Part of the great thing about this artist is that he was just a normal, though somewhat affluent, and an amateur poet, citizen of the U.S.A. He captured the idea of American patriotism and
Frances Scott Key’s, “Star Spangled Banner” and Langston Hughes’ “Let America Be America Again” are poems from two American poets, but describe two very different American viewpoints. Using the poems’ structures, and poetic techniques, and overall messages, both Keys and Hughes demonstrate their unique perspectives about America that are both historically significant to helping readers better understand our country’s history. Our National Anthem, “The Star Spangled Banner” was actually a poem originally
originally supposed to be a song? On September 13, 1814 when the document was written by Francis Scott Key it was originally written as a poem about the American flag after "the war of 1812" with Britain. The flag remained flying throughout the fight and the Americans won the war. The poem, originally titled, "The Defence of Fort M'Henry," Included the words to what is now our national anthem. Francis Scott Key wrote these words on a ship while being held captive by British soldiers. He had boarded
war, Francis Scott Key wrote our proud, hopeful, and elegant national anthem. War and conflict plague the entire piece. Line three of the song tells us that Key sees “broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight.” A fight indicates a conflict; this case involves two separate nations fighting over various international issues. Later in the work, the idea of a conflict resurfaces through the description of the weaponry: “And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air” (Key 5). With
Teens, in the United States, are constantly pressured by parents to do well academically, so they can make it in life, It had gotten to the point that the grade of a student is the ambition and not the learning material and grasping it. Every student wants to make a bug in life, but not everyone knows the ways to success. Jay Gatsby is the embodiment of the American Dream. He went from a poor Midwestern farmer to a wealthy businessman running large extravagant parties. His lifestyle: however, shows
In Tartuffe, Dorine exemplifies the meaning of each for someone she loves. She helps Mariane understand life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is key to the enjoyment of life. Happiness is inside of all of us, sometimes you just need someone to help you find it. Dorine's boldness, willingness, and strength are the main reasons she understands life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Although
Throughout the annals of American history, the advocation for freedom, and the absorption of ideals such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness have been at the forefront of the American belief. These beliefs were implemented in 1776, through the Declaration of Independence. This document was ratified by recalcitrant Americans who would not tolerate subjection to tyrannical rule. The American people hoped this document would seal their fate in relation to Europe, and prove to Europe, and
The Great Seal What is the Great Seal and why is it important? The Great Seal documents issued by the U.S. federal government. It is important because it verifies documents and legal agreements. There are two sides of the seal. There are a lot of meanings on the symbols that are on the Great Seal, front and back. On the front of the seal is an American eagle. There is a shield on the breast of the eagle and it has 13 red and white stripes. The white represents purity and innocence and the red represents
What is Unicode SMS? The term “Unicode SMS” refers to text messages sent and received containing characters not included in the default GSM character set. GSM stands for Global System for Mobile Communications (originally “Groupe Spécial Mobile”), and the GSM character set is a collection of the 128 letters (A-Z), numbers (0-9) and symbols (i.e. @, ?, !, &, etc.) most commonly used in mobile communications. Because GSM was developed in Europe and uses 7-bit binary code, it has its limitations. For
While spending a lazy afternoon at home, reading a fiction thriller novel in my bedroom, and listening to Mozart, I can’t help but notice how everything feels different. It must be the oddity of having the luxury of time without worrying about any academic matter, but I know there’s something deeper than that. I was away for only a year and a half except for holiday breaks and the short weekend trips I make when I have time. College is tough to deal with especially when away from home. UP makes
“Four Hail Marys” is a short story by Anne Goodwin, in the beginning of the story the reader meets Mary the protagonist, as that major have an importance to her. The title of the story “Four Hail Marys” alerts the reader know that the setting of the story takes place in a Roman Catholic Church. The reader also meets Graham the antagonist, as he is the person who causes Mary to change her direction, thus contributing to the development of the story. He unintentionally made Mary to go church running
You can't expect a new team to perform well when it first comes together. Through time many team development theories have been set with the aim of better understanding team work and accomplishing the given task as efficient as possible. Such as Tuckman’s group development stages; in his theory he recognizes that teams develop through different stages, from forming to performing. These are the stages we will be explained in the following paragraphs. The team Tuckman studied was small groups’ behavior
Operation Anaconda Joint Function Sergeant First Class Joel S. Johnson MLS 004-18 Joint Functions According to JP 3-0, Joint functions are related capabilities and activities placed into six basic groups of command and control, intelligence, fires, movement and maneuver, protection, and sustainment to help the Joint Forces Commander (JFC) synchronize, integrate, and direct joint operations (p.xiii). ADRP 3-0 states that the general term, joint operations, is military actions conducted
Public key cryptography is an asymmetric method that use a pair of keys for encryption: a public key which is used to encrypt data, and private, or secret key is used to decryption. It requires that a person must have a pair of public key and private key. The public key is distributed in the open so that anyone wishing to communicate with that in a secure way than he can use the receiver’s public key to convert the plaintext into cipher text. This cipher
version of Smart’s approach [4] and hope to still report initial results and improvements in the near future. Smart currently tries to find the right parameters of his approach, to find out what really works best. For example, the generation of the key is very slow, which can be optimized, it is a bit like tuning a race car, you work on the engine and then suddenly discovered that the wheels are the
3. Generate Bits: Generates the sequence of data bits to be modulated. This polymorphic VI can generate Fibonacci or Galois pseudonoise (PN) bit sequences. It can also generate bit sequences based on a user-defined pattern. The selected pattern is repeated until the user-specified number of total bits is generated. This polymorphic instance generates Fibonacci pseudonoise (PN) bit sequences. The selected pattern is repeated until the user-specified number of total bits is generated. Use this instance
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