Dear lady, I was there. He sealed up the envelope and put it in the mailbox, hoping it would some day reach it’s destination. Tim knew something that nobody else knew. Except for one other person. He did not know her name. He barely knew what she looked like. But he had seen her… He had seen her assassinate the president. It was only one day into Tondal Drumps presidency when he had been killed and yet, nobody knew how or why or who killed him. The lady may have been the one with the deadly kill but Tim was in there for the same reason. They wanted Drumps dead. It was a brisk thursday morning. In fact it was the first morning Tondal Drump would be in the White House. Tim had planned and planned long and hard since the day Drump was elected. He had planned …show more content…
One women was looking to devastate America as well, with only a single bullet to the President's head. Not a single camera or guard or civilian saw her sneak in. At least that’s what she thought. She had dug a hole that lead to just under Drump’s room. At 3 A.M. she knew he would still be sound asleep. So she silently crept into Drump’s room and shot him in the head as she whispered, “when you open your mouth it irritates me”. At the same time Tim had planned to come right outside of Drump’s room by air. It was 3 A.M. when Tim looked through the window into Drump’s room. I’m finally here he thought. But at that second Tim saw the girl and he saw her point the gun at Drump’s head. She pulled the trigger and ran back down her hole. Quickly Tim zipped back up to his invisible helicopter and sped off without a trace of being there. The next morning when he woke up the world was in shock. However he felt disappointed in himself that it had not been him to do this. He knew the only thing he could try to do was to kill the girl who had shot Drump. He knew this was the only way that he would ever feel good about himself
There were thirteen hundred Dakota still in captivity at Fort Snelling. Those remaining were taken by steamboat to the Crow Creek reservation in May 1863. The reservation was a land with no lakes, drought stricken desolation, with little to no timber. Shultz writes, “Nothing grew there. Nothing could grow there.
He decided he would kill the guard and get the prisoners out of the encampment. Tim went to the guard, but before he could get there, the guard wakes wakes up, hold. The guard shouted pointing his Baronet at him. Tim’s screams for Sam and it throws father‘s brown vest over there and camp in the guard fires a shot and it skims Tim shoulder then Tim racist to the top of the rich once Tim gets the top with the ridge he realizes that the prisoners are no longer in the encampment. Tim shows a lot of braver.
Condemned for her loyalties and grieving the loss of her brothers and son, Mary’s life was still to be drastically affected by the war. While continuously in fear for her husband’s safety, Ruth Painter describes how Mary also found herself a convenient target to the enemy for, “to tear down the wife was to tear down the husband.” Returning home alone one day, Mary Lincoln was in a terrible carriage accident after it had been intentionally tampered with in an attempt on the president’s life. While she received a serious head injury, she was also jolted into the realization that her fears for her husband’s life were justified. On another occasion, Mary fell under the clever and manipulative spell of Henry Wikoff.
The guards rushed into Ford’s Theatre, some attending to Lincoln while others ran after John Wilkes Booth. But he was already gone. John Wilkes Booth had planned his escape. He had his horse waiting in the back.
April 15, 1865 has been called one of the darkest hours in U.S. history when at Ford’s Theatre, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. When we think of the Lincoln assassination we usually think of John Wilkes Booth or Ford’s Theatre. How many of us know about Mary Surratt or her boarding house? Mary Surratt owned and operated a boardinghouse where it is believed that John Wilkes Booth planned to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln and other government officials. She was tried and executed.
The idyllic background music is then abruptly interrupted by a lone gunshot. With the camera facing the oncoming stagecoach, the audience is initially unaware that the Ringo Kid actually shot the gunshot. This mysterious gunshot, in conjunction
Dear God, why have you forsaken me? What would you have me do? I am a man of faith. I must have faith, or I have nothing! What is the meaning of a life of a reverend if he does not believe the very name he preaches?
Several minutes ticked by and then Linge heard a single gunshot. Even more time went by and then Linge went
Pg 178. At this lodge he met an older gentlemen named Elroy Berdahl, Tim had spent a total of 6 days at this lodge, where he learnt a lot about himself, Throughout the stay, Elroy never asked much about Tim; where he had come from, what he was running from, anything about his family. On the last day, Elroy had taken him out to go ‘’fishing’’ where they crossed the Canadian border, here is where Tim lost himself briefly, He thought about jumping and swimming across, He looked for reassurance, thinking ‘’ What would you do, would you jump?’’ He did this in his head but acted like he was talking to a different person. He then visioned his family and how they opposed what he was doing, his friends and future family as well.
Dear, I ‘m writing you to ask that you vote no on the Proposed Keystone XL Pipeline. The reason personally that I believe that you should vote no is because of the problems that will occur do to transporting oil in this way. Not only are we effected the environment in a negative way, we are also putting lives in jeopardy. The 1700 mile underground pipeline would link the tar sands fields of northern Alberta to oil refineries in Texas may sound like a great idea, let me tell you why I know that it is a bad idea.
An attentive look by her revealed that that must have been the Lady of the Salutation. The lady had previously held her in low self-esteem. As a consequence, he told her to behold her heart. The way in
Assassination- the act of killing a political leader, often due to strong, differing beliefs. Sarah Vowell’s novel, Assassination Vacation, acutely explores three of the four American president assassinations; Lincoln, Garfield, and Mckinley. By strategically following the historical paths of the presidents and their killers, Vowell discovers a deeper understanding of the motives and causes behind each assassination. Throughout the book, Vowell travels to museums, historical landmarks trying to get a better grasp on these assassinations. One similarity between the three assassinations is they all relate to at least one of the four broad themes of social studies.
The men were not wounded by the bullets, in fact the bullets when right through them. Elias broke the nearest window in escape from the men. In panic Elias ran towards the nearest police station, thinking they could help. After a difficult run, Elias arrived at the police station, the policemen offered to help, they told Elias to sit down until they finished their paper works. Elias sat down and relaxed his tensed muscles, he dozed off.
His actions without thought end with him getting shot and him shooting and killing his brother. If he would have thought before he did things he would still have a brother. In “The Sniper”, O’Flaherty made the theme action without thought very evident by using description and
On the day of the homecoming, the Sniper was thinking whether he should tell his parents that he killed his brother or just stay silent until they found out that he was dead. For a moment, he thought that the best thing to do was to tell the truth, and say that it was an accident. As the truck carrying the Sniper and the rest of the republican army approaches his stop, he suddenly decided to keep his mouth shut and act like nothing happened. When the Sniper’s family saw him, they were crying tears of happiness to see him alive. “What happened to your arm?”