Born and Raised in Charlotte

I was born and raised in Charlotte North Carolina, a place where I call home, and a place where I’d rather be than any other place. Being from Charlotte is a good thing. When I tell people I’m from Charlotte, they say, "Wow" as in that’s a great place to live. Charlotte has many attractions and plenty of things for everyone to enjoy. People say that Charlotte is the gateway to the south -- it all starts in Charlotte. Charlotte is the biggest city in North Carolina, and the 20th largest in the world.

Charlotte was founded in 1755. By Thomas Polk. The uncle of United States president, James k. Polk. One day Thomas was traveling with his family, he stopped and built a house at the intersection between the Yadkin and Catawba rivers. Charlotte had a road called the Great Wagon Road; settlers of Scots-Irish and of German descent came from Pennsylvania into the Carolina foothills. Within the first decades in which Thomas Polk settled, the area grew to become the community of "Charlotte Town". Charlotte was named in honor of Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg, wife of King George III of the United Kingdom.

Charlotte was a site of encampment for both the American troops and the British troops during the Revolutionary war. Sometimes the British troops would get into skirmishes with the Charlotteans and therefore the village earned the nickname "Hornets Nest". Today the landmarks still endures, such as my elementary school being named Hornets Nest Elementary, they’ve also had a basketball team called the Charlotte Hornets, a high school being named Independence high school, and a street called Freedom drive.

Charlotte is located in North America ’s humid subtropical climate zone. Charlotte has mild winters and hot, humid summers. In the winter around January the mornings lows average be around 0c [32 f] and afternoon highs average around 11c [51 f]. Where Charlotte is located it is in direct path of subtropical moisture from the gulf as it heads up the eastern seaboard. Charlotte receives [very little rain and] about 43.52in annually. There are many Ice storms in the winter. In 1989 Charlotte took a big hit from hurricane Hugo. The storm passed through Charlotte with wind gusts over 100 miles per hour, Hurricane Hugo caused massive property damage and knocked out power to 98 percent of the population. Many residents were without power for several weeks and the cleanup took several weeks to complete. Over 80,000 trees were destroyed in Charlotte. The storm knocked out 1.2 million Duke Power customers.

Charlotte has become a major U.S. financial center. Charlotte has the second largest and fourth largest financial institutions, both Bank of America and Wachovia. Charlotte has the largest skyscraper between the states of Philadelphia and Atlanta. Their tallest building stands 871 feet tall and was completed in 1992 The tall buildings is what makes Charlotte’s skyline look great and makes Charlotte a very attractive place to live.

Charlotte is also a sports town with many sports attractions for any sports fan. They have baseball, basketball, football, arena football, and hockey. The sports attractions is what makes Charlotte a great city; because of the atmosphere, the people in Charlotte are nicer than the people in other big cities because on a statistic shows the 10 cities where the people are most rude with Florida being number one and Charlotte not being named. One of Charlotte’s most famous attraction is their Amusement park; Carowinds; it is a fun place to go it has over one thousand rides, many say that Carowinds is better than Atlanta’s Six flags.

I like the city that I was born and raised in, knowing the history of your city and how it was founded makes a difference because you know how your city started out, its background and the very important people who founded it.

Rip van wrinkle

1. Rip van wrinkle was a man who everyone in the town knew. he helped the people in the town by running errrands and doing odd jobs for them. Rip van wrinkle slept for twenty years many cartoons portraying the real Rip van wrinkle have said that rip van wrinkle slept for thirty to forty years.

After rip van wrinkle slept for twenty years he went back to the town where he once lived everyone stared at him as if he was some street bum because they've never seen anyone dress the way he was dressed; rags, long beard, and probably smelled bad. the towns people had never seen anyone like him and therefore he didn't look familiar to them. Rip van wrinkle wondered why no one recognized him and why he didnt recognize any of them the reason was because every one had either died after rip van wrinkle left or had gotten very old.

2. The story of Rip van wrinkle was romantic because it says that rip van wrinkle slept for twenty years and woke up and went to the village where he once lived

the way the describes the scene at the top of the mountains when rip van wrinkle was hunting. the little men and the way they dressed

3. The poem Thanatopsis is talking about nature and the beauty of it; how it speaks to you with its beautiness. when the person in the poem is happy nature looks very beautiful and it says so many things with its beauty. When the person in the poem id sad nature dosen't say the same thing as it does when your happy. Ramanticism shows up in the poem when it talkes about haw nature speaks to you.

4. In the poem someone is describing many things that he or she is seeing while a spiders spinning it's web. The images that standout are when the character describes things that he see and gives descriptive details about them. A good example of ramantcism is when "human spiders spin and spin".

5. This painting could be considered romanticism because you probably won't see anything like that in the real world. it's very beautiful and it's something that you would only imagine seeing.

The reason i chose this picture is because the man in the picture is suppose to be the "god of fog" and thats a good Example of Romanticism.

Rationalists project

1. The puritans believed strongly in god. they believed he was the creator of all and that he was the reason we had most of the things that we do. they believed that when most bad things happen god allows them to happen for a reason.the puritans believed that god created the world and man did everything else to build the earth.





3. benjamen franklin made a chart of the days of the week and the goals he wanted to accomplish to becoming a perfect man. "I made a book in which i allotted a page for each of the virtues". He wanted to become perfect by doing a chart in helping him do that. The puritans wpould pray to go to help them become perfect instead of doing it through science.





4. Role model- be a good example to kids kids younger than me.

Kind hearted- be nice and kind towards others

Thankful- appreciate the things that i already have.

Grateful- be grateful for the good things that has happened in my life.

Honesty- be true to myself and to others.

Respect- respect others as well as myself

Open minded- willing to recieve information and learn more.

Cleanliness- keep my body clean as well as my room

Obedient- do what im told to do by my parents and elders

Thoughtful- always thinking of others besides of myself

Neat- always being presentable and clean

prideful- dont let anyone get me down and tell me i cant do a certain thing.

self-motivated- always motivate and lift myself up through bad times

i think i could reach moral perfection this way by doing the things i have set for myself to do to be perfect. i believe if i try i can accomplish all of my goals and overcome every obstacle that set before me.





5. the Rationalist thought that if the present king who was called by god didnt do a good job they could get rid of him and find their own governor "it is their duty to throw off such government, and to provide new gaurds for their future society.
the rationalists wanted to get rid of the king because he wouldnt let anyone be else be elected "He has for a long time after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected.
the rationalists believed that the powers of the state was different the laws of the nation "powers of the earth the seperate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of natures god entile them.

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done with puritans project