Chapter 18: Israel expresses his feeling about what the boat was named, and ask Paul for it to be changed to something better, because the boat name reminds him of imprisonment, which reminds Israel where he have been the last few times when he was captured by authorities. When thinking that he could not find a replacement of the name, he yelled out “Poor Richard”, and Paul agreed with it and stated that “In honor of him saying that ‘God helps them that help themselves,’ as Poor Richard says.” (Melville, 131) A while after, it was renamed Bon Homme Richard. They traveled near the Cheviot Hills, which is between England and Scotland. When arriving in Scotland, Israel was put in the Pisa of the Richard to watch out for any man that comes into Scotland. Israel explains that his adventure so far with John Paul Jones comes from …show more content…
luck, and feels like they can be ranked like Marshal Ney and Napoleon.
Chapter 19: Back on the Bon Homme Richard, they encountered an enemy, the Serapis. In history, the Serapis and the Bon Homme Richard battle off the Flamborough Head were the first battle on the sea in the American Revolutionary War. On the Bon Homme Richard, they had 135 members on the ship, when the Serapis had 320 members on the ship. In addition, the Bon Homme Richard and a supply of weapons and gun, but the Serapis had only 50 guns, but the power of the gun are more powerful than anyone on the American boat had. The crew on the Bon Homme Richard was outnumbered by members and weapons in the battle but was underestimated by the Serapis of the power they have, although being a small crew. A few moments later, the Scarborough came in view, and they seem to favor more of the Serapis side, it did not make a
move in the battle. Another boat came in view, and it was the Pallas and the Alliance, who was favoring the Richard fleet. Both the Pallas and the Scarborough had both shot fire to each other and started to battle as well. As the Richard and Serapis are battling, John Paul gave Israel orders to throw a grenade at the Serapis’ supplies. Both fleets thought about retreating as their boats were on fire, but they continued to fight, both Israel and Paul responding to the English that they still wanted to fight. An officer on the Richard gave an idea to free the prisoners to help them at war and urge them to be on their side, so they can keep themselves alive, and this gave Richard an edge to win this war. However, although the Bon Homme Richard won, but both lost their ships at war, as they were still caught fire and was burnt down, and both fleets lost more than half of their people who were fighting. Chapter 20: As founding out, they have won the war, without the Bon Homme Richard, they decide to board on the Ariel, a former British ship. When hearing that they can take possession from the other ship, he decides to jump on the stranger’s fleet, not knowing that nobody on the Ariel saw him jump onto the other fleet, and sailed away. Founding out that he actually jumped on a British fleet, he decides to play a British, under the alias, Peter Perkins. Nobody on the boat knew who he was and told him to get off their ship, because they knew he did not belong there, on the restricted part of the ship, but at the deck. However, the lieutenant questions who he really is, asking the question of the British ship that he is on, such as what is name is and the captain name is. Then the lieutenant ask where the ship stopped, in which Israel answered, Boston, New York, and Falmouth. The next morning, he felt better and volunteered at anything that came his way and was now approved on the maintop, which he always was. Chapter 21: Still on the British fleet, the British wanted to go the castle and that where the boat set sailed. As they set ashore, they have received the permission to stroll around the Pendennis Castle. He meets a man named Colonel Ethan Allen, who was a prisoner of the British who speaks of Lord Howe. A lady walks past by, thinking about taking some of Allen’s hair. Then, attempting to escape with Allen, he fails, and the soldier who held Allen captive told Israel that he would have killed him if he dares touches Allen once again. As the solider is still furious, Israel goes to the door and close it behind him, getting out of the castle.
As the Spanish advanced again to take Fort Frederica, Oglethorpe was waiting. Slowly moving through the swampy lands on St. Simons the Spanish headed toward Fort Frederica with high confidence. Posting a regiment of Foot Soldiers and Darien’s Independent Company of Highlanders in a wooded area overlooking the marsh where Spanish soldiers would have to cross, Oglethorpe returned to Ft. Frederica (Swinson 137). Oglethorpe then left to retrieve more soldiers. When he returned, the battle was over. The troops had stood off the Spanish until they ran out of ammunition and retreated. Even though he arrived after the fighting, Oglethorpe became the victor (Coleman
Sedaris describes an experience when his dad promised to buy the family a beach house but soon broke the commitment. The broken promise brought problems for both his present and future family life. The story starts off in a dry cleaning store, where both David and his mom are standing behind a woman who is talking about “one of her homes” (Sedaris 1) in the garden tour. The Sedaris family dreamed owning more than one house like this woman. So when Sedaris’ dad makes the suggestion to “skip the middleman and buy a place” (Sedaris 3) in their dream vacation spot, Emerald Island, the family became very enthusiastic. Their excitement neglects the fact that his dad is known for making promises that he can never deliver. Ignoring this trait in their father, Sedaris’ family manages to become so excited about the potential beach house they start to suggest names for it, such as The Nut Hut, The Tar Heel and The Shell Station. Sedaris offers up the name Ship Shape, since the house is shaped like a
The British chose to attack the Americans from the north by way of Isle aux Pois in the mouth of the Pearl River because this was the only only stable water they had found that ships could ride and anchor. When hearing that the british where coming this way, Lieutenant Thomas Ap Catesby Jones and his five gunboats went to try and Barackade the Rigolets trying to make sure they wouldn’t enter. His 185 men and 23 guns awaited the British. At 10:30 on December 14th 1814 three columns of British ships, 42 to 45, armed with 43 guns and 1,200 under the command of Captain Lockyer met the American blockade. Fierce fighting began and the British had finally captured the five American boats. Losses were 17 British and 6 Americans killed, 77 British and 35 Americans wounded. This gave Gerneral Andrew Jackson six days more to improve his defenses. The British at the very beginning of the war had demolished almost all of Jacksons sea power. Jackson only had the Carolina, Louisiana, and one gunboat left.
As the British continue to advance toward the hill, Colonel Stark of the American forces ordered the troops to stay in ranks and to fire when Major General Howe’s columns, of the British Army, reached within 35 yards for the redoubt. Once this occurred, the American forces opened fire on the British forces that had advanced close enough to be hit by gunfire, but far away enough to not use bayonets and hand to hand combat, and the Americans were able to keep the British from advancing and forced the survivors to retreat, leaving 96 British troops dead. Howe’s second attempt at taking the hill was executed with the same tactic of trying to attack from the American’s left flank, but this time he had Pigot’s unit assaulting the redoubt directly; however, the British were fired upon heavily once again and were left with a massive amount of casualties. The American forces led by Prescott began to panic and flee the area, due to their inexperience in war, and left Prescott with a force of 150 soldiers, which had little to no gun powder, ammunition, and water. On the other hand, the British decided to change their tactics and Howe decided to order his troops to leave behind their heavy equipment and charge the fortification directly with bayonets in hand to hand combat for his third and
Davies were put in a row boat and pointed in that direction. Once on land, Mr. Davies went to the Governor William Nicolay to report what had happened to him and his crew (Blaufarb and Clarke 93). Davies explained everything that happened to Governor Nicolay and Governor Nicolay acted at once by getting in contact with the Secretary of War and Colonies, Sir George Murray; the Governor of Guadeloupe; the Admiral, the Baron Des Rotours; and Admiral Fleming, commander of the British Navy. Fleming took Rotours’s absence as evasiveness and was considered to be involved in the Neirsee incident; however, Deare and Davies investigated the taking of the Neirsee. Davies recognized a boat that belonged to Janoel, the pilot that took the Neirsee, but when searching for him, they could not find him inland.They then entered Guadalupe to search for any slaves that were sold, but they were soon sought out by an officer and told to leave. The French felt disrespectful that they were accused by being involved in the slave trade and that the British searched their island without permission; therefore, the French and British went through confrontations about why Captain Owen took the Neirsee and how to prevent further occurrences like the Neirsee incident. The French finally took the matter at and end when they received a letter of Captain Owen’s account of how the ship was never a French ship and it was
The colours of France were raised on the British ships as they passed through the dangerous point. When the pilots rowed out to help guide the ships, they were captured. These men were given the choice of helping the British or being hung.
a. Railroads in the late nineteenth century helped America become the richest industrial nation on earth. The railroads increased commerce and integrated the American market as well as helped national brands to emerge such as Ivory soap and A&P grocery stores. They also introduced time zones to make shipping and passenger travel more standard. The railroad was the first modern publicly traded corporations, the companies were large and expanding across the country. Railroad companies had a large amount of employees. Capital was needed to build railroad tracks so stocks were sold to the public such as wealthy tycoons such as Vanderbilt and Carnegie. The Railroad system was also a symbol of the partnership between national government and industry. The railroad would have never been created without legislature, land grants passed out by congress. An example would be the Central Pacific Railroad it was backed by wealthy tycoons including Leland Stanford, the ex-governor of California who had useful political connections, and Collis P. Huntington, an adept lobbyist. Railroads gave land th...
Before 1925 recordings were made with an acoustical horn that would capture the sound of the musicians in front of it and transferred the vibration to a cutting stylus. No electricity was used. This process was called the acoustical process. In 1925, microphones were introduced to transfer the acoustical energy to an electric signal, which fed the cutting stylus. This electrical process ameliorated recordings sound.
Then the three men stay with the party and aide them in their journey to the British Fort. Once there, the two women’s father whom is the man in charge of the huge battle going on at that time. The French and English are at war. Colonists are urged to fight for Britain, and once they become part of the battle, they were not allowed to leave to defend their own homes.
Willard’s crew was comprised of mostly young men who had no idea what they were doing. “Come on all of you big strong me,” writes Joseph McDonald, “Uncle Sam needs your help again”(Class handouts, McDonald). This would describe the men that were with Willard. None of them knew where they were headed or why they were leaving, all they knew was they were serving their country. Marlow’s crew knew that they were trying to figure out what happened to the ivory supply. Marlow had a crew full of mostly natives. Their respective ships were different too. While Marlow cruised on a French steamer, Willard was on a boat provided by the military. Both men had a unique surrounding that helped each respective tale.
Chapter 34 is about a study among "57 college age women at a university and these women lives both on and off campus, mostly white ages between 18-25 years of age" (Chapter 34, pg. 410-411). Chapter 34 mentions how, "Drug use and eating disorders among college women are high because of sudden transition change from high-school to college along with pressure with courses, dating and peer expectations that contribute to eating disorders and drug use among college women" (Chapter 34, pg. 410-411). Within this study, the chapter mentions how "these women would use either street drugs or pharmaceuticals for weight control" (Chapter 34, pg. 411). This chapter also mentions how "these women often hid the fact that they were uses drugs and their eating
What I find interesting in chapter 14 is the diagnosis and treatment section. The reason I find this section interesting is because I think it's amazing how new technology is introduce to the medical profession constantly to help with patients care. This allow health profession to diagnose illnesses and to treat them more effectively. For example, we can diagnose the size and location of a tumor cancer through PET or CT scan. Then there's 3-D ultrasonography that create 3-D images of various organs and structures. There's also surgery techniques that allow incisions of a 1/2 inch or less, which reduced postoperative pain, hospital stays, costs, and enable patients to return to normal function much more rapidly. This make me feel happy because
Waiting impatiently for the arrival of the Allegro Middleseton the Upper Chadwell Green Monitoring Unit counted every wheel-turn between start and finish of its journey, a journey that took the massive double engined, battery-powered shining blue train through the rain directly towards, and beyond the huge railway configuration situated between smokestacks 2 and 3. Upper Chadwell Green Monitoring Unit also checked on the whereabouts of Coal Train 6476.
They watched from the hay-loft as the clouds of dust spit out a small white sports car. Watched in amazement as the white car – ball skidded down the hill. . . The disaster, a tornado with four wheels, music blaring, sped towards them. Questioned why? Then, they heard music associated with the Fourth of July’s firework's Grande finale. What did it mean? They waited and watched. Like most Mid-westerners, they willed and prayed the impending disaster away. They were grounded, transfixed by the chain of events – unbelievable acrobatics performed by the midget car. Would a clown exit the car at the end of the show? Entertaining until the outhouse exploded and caught the porch on fire.
Damn the squirrelly woman cur, for she escaped me yet again by leaping between the standing rigging. She jumped o’er the taffrail into the sea and be it of her own accord. No one pushed her and I could not reach her, hard as I may. My captain lunged in his effort to save her. A second shot fired off from their deck guns very near his head. “Man overboard,” he shouted and stood to his feet. I gave thanks to God that he be not scathed, that the shot had gone right by him. Our harquebusiers laid dead the threat and I helped him to look for her. But she was nowhere; we could not find her. Dismayed, he would have jumped to save her had I not stayed his hand. I would not let him do such a thing. He is John Cain, Captain of the Edward Bonaventure, not the saviour of drab hearts. Let her die in such a way. Let us leave her to the water’s depths, a more merciful plight than death by the Gallows’