Mao And Stalin

Mao came into power by starting as a soldier. Later on he began leading troops. Later on after that he builds a reputation on the fields.

Esam #4, Part 2

*Propaganda and art are different than one another. Propaganda is like a bunch of posters that makes people think their own country is better than the other. Art trys to make you feel bad in weird ways. I think both Propaganda and the art is different because propaganda get you to feel good about the country and art makes you feel bad or weird. I think the art dosent show much as a good art but the propaganda is which i think is better than the art.

* The art with weird shapes compard to pictures ar much different. In the Painting it looks like a woman who has a hard time trying to take care of her child. A horse that has just gotten hurt. The bull represent spain to make spain look like they are messed up or confused. In the middle of the art drawing looks like every thing must be crazy. The art is really confusing.

*Guernica was a small spanish town that the germans bombed. It was during the spainish civil war. The germans wanted to prove that they were better and more powerful. Before the war started the germans wanted to show how mean they were or how hard the spainish people will have to work. Pablo Picasso painted this picture to show what happend to the spainish people and how bad it was. Guernica is important because the german blew up the whole town and show how aweful they were.

World Studies III Final

* The Russian and French Revolution starts with the same reason. The two Revolutions lasted 10 years. Both the Russian Revolution and the French Revolution were they had poor economic condition so the money were worth less. The French Rev. that were poor had lead to the Bread Riots, bread was so expensive that it caused riots because of people needing food. The Russians Rasputin were to help Nicholas son who was the story teller that likes sinful things. He was poisoned, shot at allot and went into the half frozen river then finally drowned. Rasputin likes to party so it makes the king look bad. The other party of the French was the Woman named Marie Antoinette who likes parties. If the poor people were starving and they are partying it makes every one mad. It helps cause the French and Russian Revolution.

* Both of the leaders are with each revolution were about the same altogether. The leader of the Russians was Czar Nicholas II. He gets ideas from his wife so he can be a stronger leader. The Bolshouiks made Czar step down, because they wanted more rights to the common people. The leader of the French was Louis. Louis was lazy and mostly cared about hunting instead of his own country. Goverment changed during the french revolution. They kicked out the king, so it became a democracy, but Napoleon made himself the emporer. The Russian rebel, was Lenin the Pres. of the Comm. Party. The French rebel, was Robespierre. Lenin and Robespierre are both rebels. They both were able to get people excited. They help to serve the poor people so it makes the king want to get rid of them. The two countries bothers its on self.

* Both the Russians and the French gets about the same power. The Results of the Russians was Stalin in Power. With Stalin in Power the country is more powerful. The Results of the French was Napoleon in Power. With Napoleon in Power the country has more power. The two countries that has more power are still about equal. The French and Russian Revolution ends up the same.

Palmyra History

Palmyra, Maine’s History
By: Joe Adams
January 8, 2008





PALMYRA

The history of Palmyra goes back to millions of years. Evidence suggests that this part of the world was covered by a vast sea. Through a series of great volcanoes, Maine rises from the sea. Earth quakes shook Maine's new formed land that caused great mountain ranges which were made by wind, rain, ice, snow and the sun. Maine was changed a lot during the Ice Age and lots of massive glaciers came and disappeared. About 2,000 decades ago the ice glaciers were gone.

Palmyra was incorporated as a town on June 20, 1807 so this year is Palmyra's 200th anniversary. Massachusetts governor James Sullivan signed the act of incorporation. The name Palmyra by the wife of John Warren. No one seems to know how Mrs. Warren arrived at the name “Palmyra” but many people have different stories. It is said that the Warren's had a daughter named Myra who lived here at one time with her brother and his family. Out of love and admiration for this daughter the town was supposedly named. Because of incomplete family records it has been impossible to tell if the Warren's had a daughter named Myra or not. Another story tells that Palmyra is named after the ancient Syrian city by the same name.

In 1807 Palmyra was an unsettled territory which was part of Lincoln County. Lincoln County was one of the two provinces of Maine at the time. Dr John Warren bought 28,200 acres for the price of $7,666.89. The first settlers that arrived to this piece of land were invited by John Warren. They were to purchase their land directly from him. The Warren's were knowledgeable and well read people. The Warren family were active supporters of the colonial cause during the Revolutionary War. John Warren served as a surgeon and his brother, Joseph was killed at the battle of Bunker Hill. Dr. John Warren was born on July 27, 1753 in Roxbury, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard in 1771 where he studied medicine. He practiced in Salem for two years and then settled in Boston in 1775. Warren joined the Continental Army as a surgeon that year until 1777. At that time he became a hospital surgeon in Boston.

One of the most prominent early settlers on Warren Hill, named after John Warren, was Jeremiah Robinson. A man of learning and ambition he was an agent of the Warren's. Following that Samuel Lang moved from Bath, New Hampshire to Palmyra near the Detroit line in 1802. The next year he and his wife moved to Lang Hill where he built a log cabin. They raised eleven children and he lived to 96 years old. I now live on the Lang Hill road.

Palmyra is located at 44.9 degrees North and 69.4 degrees West. All of the towns that border Palmyra are Pittsfield, Newport, St. Albans, Hartland, Corinna, and Detroit. Palmyra is in the Somerset County. Palmyra is on the border of Penobscot County. Palmyra has an exit from Maine's Interstate 95 which was built in 1964. The land area of Palmyra is 40.2 Square miles. The elevation of Palmyra is 310 feet above sea level. The pons in Palmyra are named Hicks Pond, Whites Pond, Douglas Pond, and the Robbers Bog. The streams, brooks, and creeks in Palmyra are named Pratt Brook, Madawaska Brook, and the Fogg Brook. Half of Nokomis Pond is located in Palmyra. The west branch of the Sebasticook River runs through Palmyra. The Douglas and Whites Ponds are not natural ponds. They are man made, because people built dams on the streams to form a pond.

The first town meeting in Palmyra was in September 5,1807, David Jewett, Justice of the Peace, issued a warrant to Samuel Lancy to warn free holders of a meeting at Lancey's at 1:00 p.m. on September 14, 1807. One of the discussion was to raise six hundred dollars to fix the roads but they took two hundred dollars to build a bridge called “the Nigger bridge.” They had to build bridges because people needed to cross rivers in order to get to the next town without having to have to take a raft or a ferry. They built the bridges by taking the logs on the rafts to have them float down the river and had to stand up the logs. Then put the rocks on the logs to get them to sink down into the mud. That bridge over the Sabasticook river was an important part of the colonial life in Palmyra. The people who got paid for building this bridge were Daniel Gale, Isacc Smith, Sam McLure, Samuel Lancey, and Jeremiah Robinson. It took too much time to just get on a raft or ferry so they thought of a bridge so they can just drive over wood. Now the Nigger bridge is called the Sebasticook bridge. At a town meeting in Palmyra they changed the bridge name to Sebasticook. The reason why it was called Nigger bridge, because there was a black family living near the river. Some people that lives on the same road that the black family lived still calls the Sabasticook bridge the “Nigger bridge.”

Compared now to the past the roads were really bad. Mostly all the time the roads were muddy, had holes in them, especially in the spring. People made the town meetings pay them for the horses or oxen hurt by the pot holes or killed stumbling in the mud holes. There were responsibilities for each farmers to help keep the road they live on good. Some farmers choose to work on the roads while others were to pay tax for the farmers that work on the roads. There were two main roads, one is called the “Country road” and the other one is called the “Stage road.” These two roads are important to the town and location because Palmyra is half way between Norridgewock and Bangor on the Stage and Country road. Palmyra was in the center of the trade and business. There were lots of blacksmith shops and mills going on at the time.

Palmyra had 141 people in the 1800's. In 1840 there was a free black family in Palmyra, Maine. In 1850 there were 4 blacksmiths in Palmyra, Maine. In 1850 the population in Palmyra was 1,626 people. In 1860 the oldest person was 87 years old.

The past schools were Egypt School, Ell Hill School, and Gale School. The early schools were small. The schools had one or two rooms. The Palmyra Village School in 1946 had about 48 kids. One of those kids was George Cray, he was my bus driver. He played in the school band. Clara Higgins was a lifelong resident of Palmyra who for 37 years dedicated her life to the education of Palmyra's kids. The school now in Palmyra is the Palmyra Consolidated School, grades k-4.

Palmyra has an annual town meeting, which is held on the second Saturday in March. Palmyra has a board of select persons made up of five people who are elected by the town people. They also have a town manager; one of the town managers was Pat White in 1990. Palmyra elects two Representatives to the M.S.A.D. #48 board of directors. The town of Palmyra also employs a road commissioner who is responsible for maintaining roads in the winter.

Taxes are very low in Palmyra because there are not many services. There are no libraries in Palmyra. Palmyra has no public water systems. Palmyra has no public sewer treatment. There are no Fire or Police departments in Palmyra, so Palmyra pays the towns that border it to give those services. However, Palmyra does offer some services such as roadside trash pick up, road maintenance and in 1980, the town began a recycling program. The recycling program was started by Pat White. He is my mother's father.

In the past, most of the businesses in town were farms. The Chadbournes and the Fletchers both had major dairy farms. The dairy farms were very popular at the time. The Chadbourne family still has their farm and the Fletchers just closed their farm down within the last year. Today the Cray Farms produce strawberries, corn, cucumbers, and lots of other vegetables.

There are many other businesses that have come to Palmyra since the early times. The restaurants in Palmyra are McDonalds', House of Pizza, and Dunkin' Donuts. The most famous or favorite store in Palmyra is Wal-Mart. There are two gas stations in Palmyra. Some small businesses in Palmyra are Pat White's Weed Control, Rowell's Used Cars, Dow's Used Cars, Palmyra Variety, Ell Hill Market, St. Albans Mobile Homes, and Grignon's Taxidermy.

Today the population density in Palmyra is 51 people per square mile. It is a very low population. The races in Palmyra are 98.4% white, 0.8% American Indian, and a mixture of two or more races is 0.8%. The median age of residents in Palmyra is 39 years old. The median real estate property taxes paid for housing units in Palmyra in 2000 was $551. The average house hold size in Palmyra is 2.5 people. The number of men in 2000 was 964 and the number of women was 989. The population in the year 2000 was 1,953 people and in 2006 there were 121 more people so there were 2,074 people in Palmyra in 2006.

Palmyra has a lot of things for people to do for fun in summer and winter months. The notable locations in Palmyra are the golf course and the camp ground for the campers. Maine's I.T.S. trail system fro snowmobiling passes through Palmyra. Palmyra sponsors a recreation league for young children. They organize baseball and softball teams in the spring and basketball in the winter.
Palmyra is a beautiful town. It has a rich history, because of all of the things I have said in this paper, and a lot of people want to make Palmyra the best place to live.


Citations
“Palmyra, Maine” city-data.com http://www.citydata.com/city/Palmyra-Maine.html
“Welcome to Palmyra, Maine” rootsweb.com http://www.rootsweb.com/~mecsomer/index.htm
“Palmyra-Maine’s Friendly Town – Welcome to our town website” http://palmyra.govoffice.com/
“M.S.A.D 48 online” www.msad48.org
Town of Palmyra. Palmyra, Maine 200th anniversary. Maine; Penobscot Press, 2007

Slavery Project

Joe Adams- Response to Literature- Mr. Viles
“Elie Wiesel”

Fifteen-year-old Elie Wiesel finds out how important it is to never give up. He lives through the horrors of Concentration Camp during World War II in 1943. Because he never gave up, he survived even though his father died. In this nonfiction book entitled “Night” by Elie Wiesel, he teaches us that you can survive anything if you don’t give up. I think this theme is important because if he did give up he be dead the first day he had gone to Concentration Camp. If I gave up when I was going though all of those troubles that I had I don’t have a clue where I’d be right now. I probably would have been in jail, dead or still be in the special hospital for teenagers. The Neals are glad that I’m with them.
In World War II, Hitler, the leader of Germany, wanted all of Europe to be Germany. He invaded parts of Europe and he was successful. He wanted to get rid of the Jewish people. Elie Wiesel was one of the Jews he tried to kill. There are many examples of how Elie didn’t give up. One of the examples is he knew that he was going to the place where Hitler was throwing the Jews into the crematory where they burn people to death. He wanted to jump on the electric fence so he wouldn’t have to suffer the flames, but he didn’t do it. He also suffered through the winters by not having enough food or clothes. He slept in the snow sometimes. He was forced to keep on running even though he was really tired and weak. Eli’s dad was old and very weak. He was sick almost all the time. Elie took care of him by giving him some of his food and helping him, and he always told his father not to give up because soon they would be free. Eli’s traits that helped him to not give up were he had faith, hope, caring, and strong minded.
The theme is to never give up. I can relate to this theme because there were some times that I felt like giving up. One of my examples is I have been through a lot of things that I could have easily giving up. It has only been eight months since I have stopped going through big trouble in school, stores, and homes because I was angry with what has happened to me in my life and all I thought of doing was getting into trouble. I had to deal with not having a family for about three and a half years since I have been in foster care, because my mother was doing drugs, not feeding me, and gave no attention to me. Now that I have changed a lot, I am not doing stuff that I was doing that were getting me into trouble because the Neals has helped me. What kept me from giving up was I wanted to live my life with a family that cares about me and I found one which are the Neals family.
I like this book because it was true and it in some ways was related to what has happened to me. The author wrote the book in a way that made me feel what he had been through. When Elie described about the boy who was hung just because he stole food, I felt hot the boy might have felt. He had been in the camp for three years and he was probably not worried about getting killed because he had been through too much. I would recommend this book to kids who are 14 years or older because they would understand this book more than the younger ones because the little kids will not really know what the book meant or means.