We'll ask some follow-up questions. Use it to prep for your next quiz! What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight. O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming!
Oh, say, does that star- spangled banner yet wave. Now that it's light again, can we still see what we saw yesterday before it got dark? The British and Americans were fighting each other in the War of , and Key happened to be on a British ship as an American representative, hoping to negotiate the release of American hostages. He was watching the fighting at Fort McHenry, near Baltimore, Maryland, when the sun went down, and at that point, the American flag was still flying. If the flag had been gone the next morning, it would have meant that the British had won the battle.
Understandably then, Key was anxious to see what the morning light revealed. Was the American flag still flying? People these days often refer to the American flag as simply the "stars and stripes," and Francis Scott Key also picked up on how important and recognizable those features of the flag are. In fact, two flags were actually flown over Fort McHenry during the battle on September 13th and 14th, One was a relatively small "storm flag" that was during poor weather, and it was this flag that Francis Scott Key observed flying through the rainy day and night of the battle.
By the following morning, the weather was better, so when Key got his first chance to see if McHenry had survived the British shelling, the fort was flying its much larger "garrison flag. The big flag was really, really big. It measured 30 feet by 42 feet.
To give you an idea of how big that is, keep in mind that an average yellow school bus is usually something like 35 to 45 feet long. This flag had been specially commissioned by the fort's commander, Major George Armistead. A local craftswoman, Mary Pickersgill, was hired to make both the larger flag and the storm flag.
Assisted by her teenage daughter and niece and a black indentured servant, Pickersgill spent seven weeks constructing the flags. The stars on the large garrison flag measured two feet from point to point, and each of the 15 red and white stripes was two feet wide. Ramparts are protective walls, and Fort McHenry's, which were made of earth, had recently been repaired and strengthened. This line and the one before it are phrased in a weird sequence, so let's break it down: Key and whoever else was with him were watching the flag from "o'er the ramparts," or walls of the fort, and the flag kept "gallantly streaming" "through the perilous fight.
Fort McHenry and its ramparts were in a good position to keep the British away. Baltimore patriots built the fort in Situated on Whetstone Point, at the mouth of Baltimore Harbor, it was designed to protect the city in case the British tried to attack up the Chesapeake Bay. During the s, there were a lot of maritime conflicts with Britain and France, so Congress allocated money to expand Fort McHenry.
Key held onto the flag as a symbol of hope as he watched from the British vessel, catching sight of it as the sun set, twelve hours after the British bombardment began. In this final verse, Key asks one last time if the flag is still there, waving over a country born from revolution and still fighting to maintain its hard-won freedom. In general, expect to pay about half the cost of a traditional diploma when you are a remote learner.
One thing that's often overlooked when comparing all the differences between traditional and computer-based curricula is the discipline factor. If you intend to opt for an e-degree, make sure you have the self-control to watch every video lesson, take part in live discussions, study for exams, and write papers.
For some, it's far too easy to give in to the temptations of TV, social media, and other distractions when earning a degree from the comfort of home. I am saying one thing that I am thankful each day for until Thanksgiving.
You try it to it will bring you joy. November 1st, I am thankful for God and Jesus. I put my faith in them, they protect and help me through the happy and the sad in life. I could not imagine a world without them. November 2nd, I am thankful for sweets. I love them. Sweets can make me joyful when I am upset. They make my sweet tooth go at ease.
Especially Lava Cakes. November 3rd, I love my family. They push me to be the best I can be. My family supports me and always cheers me up when I am down. My family cares so much about me and will do anything for me if it is legal. I really couldn't imagine a world without them.
November 4th, I am thankful for my teachers. They might give me a lot of hassle and work to do. Yet they come through by trying to help however they can. Teachers can be funny and kind of cool. November 5th, I am thankful for my character traits. My hard-working trait, my try to be amazing at things trait, my sweet trait, my fashion trait, and my smart trait, and my love trait. But I also am thankful for those who stick around when my bad traits come out like my sassiness, my moody trait, my sensitiveness, my grumpy trait, my angry trait over dumb things, and even my trying to be amazing at things trait because I always try to be perfect.
Thanks, friends, and family for sticking around. Arthur Bozikas has penned a memoir that is heart-breaking and gutsy, as well as being full of hope and gratitude. This book is guaranteed to lift up readers and have them believing in the resilience and transcendence of the human spirit, making it a must read for years to come. When reaching adolescence, most teenagers want more freedom, independence and control in their lives.
For Arthur, it was the opposite, as he discovered that his lifespan would only last up to adulthood. After becoming an adult, Arthur was waiting for his death. It was at the eleventh hour, at the age of twenty-one, when Arthur was introduced to a miracle treatment, but only after the damage of iron overload from all the blood transfusion was done to his body.
Grateful to be given a chance to survive for a few more years, Arthur decided to do something with his life; to get married, buy a house and also to have children, knowing he had no prospect of any future for himself. At the age of sixty, Arthur and his wife Helen celebrated their thirty-five-year marriage anniversary. Recently we caught up with Bozikas so we could learn more about this amazing human and very talented writer. Why was you story Iron Boy one that you felt you needed to share with the world?
I promised myself if I made it to the age of 40 years old, I would put it all down in writing. I didn't know it will take me another twenty years to do it?
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