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My brother Sam is dead

The title of this book is "MY BROTHER SAM IS DEAD." The author of this book is James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier. The publication date of this book is 1974. This book is about a boy named Timmy Meeker and his brother Sam Meeker. Timmy has a hard time choosing which side of the war he wants to be on because his parents are on the Tories side and his brother is on the Rebels side. The theme of this book is conflict. The importance of the theme would be conflict is sometimes necessary in life.

The theme of this book is conflict and conflict is sometimes necessary in life. Timmy's brother Sam had most of the conflicts going on in the book. He disagreed a lot with his parents. His parents didn't want him going to war but Sam did. No matter what happened, he would still do what ever he could to go to the Revolutionary war. Sam is a rebel and the rest of his family are Tories except for Tim. Tim is nether on either side of the war, he tries to pick which side he is on but he doesn't want his mom and dad or his brother Sam getting mad at him. The importance of the theme of the book which is conflict, is told between Americans and English, Tim and Sam, Sam and his parents. This book would not be interesting if there were no conflicts between anybody.

The theme of conflict has always been in history. There were many conflicts in history, and one of them would be the Revolutionary war. The Americans wanted to be free from England, because we didn't want to be under the English rules. We should be able to control our own country so that is what caused the war between the Americans and England. World war II for example was in part, a conflict between U.S.A and Japan. One part of W.W.II would be Pearl Harbor. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. The U.S.A brought the conflict with Japan to an end by dropping the nuclear bombs on Japan. Another example of a conflict in history would be racism. Racism has been a problem in history, because the whites used the black people as slaves, until Abraham Lincoln said that slavery must stop. The importance of the theme "conflict in history" is that conflict is needed in life.

The theme of conflict is important, because conflict is a part of life. Everybody has an opinion so somebody must have a reason to fight for what they stand for. The importance of the theme in the book would be that almost every body stood up for what they believed in. The importance of the theme in history would be that there were a lot of wars between the U.S.A its self and wars with other countries. The book does show a lot of conflicts, between countries and individuals. The reason why it is important to understand the theme is because you and everything in the world are always going to be for or against something.

Valley Forge essay

March 15, 1778

Dear Father,
I'm in Valley Forge, living with 12 people in a really small room. Its very cold right now, because there are lots of snow on the ground and we don't have very much warmth. Our cabin is drafty, damp, smoky and terribly unhealthy. We don't have enough food, but just fire cakes, because don't come and drop off supplies, because the roads are so bad. I spend most of my time keeping warm and dry. Many of the soldiers are getting ill, maybe from water from the river because people and animals are peeing and dumping upstream. People are either too sick to fight or dying. About 3,000 soldiers have died at camp or in the hospitals.
I joined the army because I wanted to fight the Britain's so that we can control our own colonies. This army isn't really prepared to fight the Britain's because we didn't get much training and we didn't know how to march in ranks or maneuver on the battle fields. Baron Von Steuben is going to get us to beat the Britain's but he does not speak English. Steuben speak very few words and we have to try figuring out what he is saying.
In the begging of the war Washington was not a very good leader, because we lost all of the battles with the British, but in the end Washington emerged stronger than ever, because we "soldiers" worship Washington, this army did not fall apart. The French will send us uniforms and gear to help us with the war.
Since I joined this war I felt like a real soldier until it got to the point of everything getting bad, but after quite a while everything turn out to be much better, because of the French helping us. We also got extra months pay for sticking throughout the winter.

Sincerely, Joe

Propaganda Essay

I am an American Colonist, and I think we should fight for our freedom against Britain. The king has no right to take our money and control us. We should govern our self and make our own law. We need to prove Britain that we are stronger. The king is to far away to govern us and we should make our own government.

I think the future in america would be alot more freedom once we beat the Britains. Americans will be free and will take over the leader of the world. America will grow and become rich, because americans are creative and inventive.

Boston Massacre Essay

The incident started on King Street in the early evening of March 5, 1770. I saw Gerrish exchanged insults with Private White, who left his post, challenged the boy, and then struck him on the side of the head with a musket. Then i was shocked by when Gerrish cried in pain, so this attracted a larger crowd. The mob grew in size and continued harassing Private White. Private Hugh Montgomery was struck down onto the ground by a club. I was also surprised when he got back to his feet, he fired his musket, later admitting to one of his defense attorneys that he had yelled "Damn you, fire!" However, the protesters in the crowd were taunting the soldiers by yelling "Fire". There was a pause that lasted quite a while then the soldiers fired into the crowd. Their bad aiming had hit eleven men. Three Americans Samuel Gray, James Caldwell, and Crispus Attuck died instantly. Seventeen-year-old Samuel Maverick, struck by a ricocheting musket ball at the back of the crowd, died a few hours later, in the early morning of the next day. Thirty-year-old Irish immigrant Patrick Carr died two weeks later. To keep the peace, the next day royal authorities agreed to remove all troops from the centre of town to a fort on Castle Island in Boston Harbor. On March 27 the soldiers, Captain Preston and four men who were in the Customs House and alleged to have fired shots, were indicted for murder. All of this little battle(massacre) was really quite amazing. I think the consequences for the people that were involved should be going 2 jail or every single war that there will be in the future.

Martha Washington Bio

Martha Washington


Martha was born June 2, 1731 near Williamsburg, Virginia. At the age of eighteen, Martha was married to Daniel Parke Custis. He was wealthy, handsome and twenty years older than her. Martha set up housekeeping on the Custis plantation, while her husband managed the estate which encompassed over 17,000 acres.

Her husband adored his young, pretty bride and pampered her with the finest clothes and gifts imported from England. They had four children, two died in infancy.

John Parke, called "Jacky" and Martha, called "Patsy" were their two surviving children. In 1757, when Martha was twenty-six, Daniel Parke Custis died after a brief illness. Jacky was three and Patsy was less than a year old.

Sometime later, Martha met a young colonel (several months younger than her) in the Virginia Militia at a cotillion in Williamsburg. This young colonel fought for the British in the French and Indian War. His desire was to become a commissioned officer in the Royal Army, but the British never considered it. His name was George Washington. (shylo10.blogspot.com)

Martha fell in love and George found her quite attractive. That she had a good disposition and inherited wealth were an added bonus to the relationship. He had had a crush on a pretty neighbor, Sally Fairfax, but when she married another, he knew he must find a suitable wife for himself. So then George chose Martha and they got married in 1759. (shylo10.blogspot.com) They lived a prosperous and happy life at Washington's Mount Vernon estate in the state of Virginia.

Martha Washington had alot of recognition for being George Washington’s wife. However she didnt get alot of have alot of recognition in her own right. George Washington is very famous because first of all, he was the first president of the United States and secondly he lead us to win the Revolutionary War with Britain. Some of the things she should have been recognition a out are that she was so committed with her family, because she always supports George and she goes with him to the battle fields some times. She has supported the needy. She supported education for girls. One of her quotes was that dependence was "Wretched State."

Martha and George Washington had no children together, but together they raised Martha's two surviving children. Martha followed Washington into the battlefield when he served as Commander in Chief.

Martha Washington and her husband both died at Mount Vernon. George Washington was inaugurated president on April 30, 1789. As the wife of the president, Martha lived with her husband and grandchildren Nelly and Wash in Philadelphia until they returned to Mount Vernon on March 15, 1797. George Washington at Mount Vernon December 14, 1799. Martha was widowed for two and one-half years until she, too, died of a severe fever at Mount Vernon on May 22, 1802.They both died at their Mount Vernon home.

Martha Washington was one of the few womans at this time with Abigail Adams (britza2010.blogspot.com), Sarah Franklin Bache (campingqueen.blogspot.com) , Betsy Ross amyamm.blogspot.com, And Deborah Samson (punkysblogger.blogspot.com). Also Martha was the first wife of a first president. Some of the first people working with the government are George Washington(President), John Adams (Vice President)(zackstudies.blogspot.com), Thomas Jefferson (Secretary of State) (historyamg.blogspot.com), Alexander Hamilton (Secretary of Treasury) (marie2010.bogspot.com), Henry Knox (Secretary of War) (brittany92nokomis.blogspot.com), and Edmund Randolph (Attorney General).



http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/mw1.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Washington
http://www.history.org/Almanack/people/bios/biomwash.cfm