Ulysses Simpson Grant
I did my expository paper on Ulysses Simpson Grant. He was a solider that had later become a well known General. He had participated in the Mexican and Civil War, but because of his greatness during the Civil War he had late became the 18th President of the United States.
Ulysses Simpson Grant was originally named Hiram Ulysses Grant. Mr. Grant was born on April 27, 1822 in Point Pleasant, Ohio. He was born into a family with a father, a mother, two brothers, and three sisters.
Mr. Grant’s father was named Jesse Root Grant. Mr. Jesse Grant had started his own tanning business as his profession. He was an outspoken gentleman, but because of his outspokenness he enjoyed being involved with the Whig political party. Due to him liking the Whigs he was very interested in the political standpoints of others.
Mr. Grant’s mother was Hannah Simpson Grant. She was the complete opposite of Mr. Jesse Grant. She was strong, quite, reserved, and a very religious women. Many people who knew her believed that Mr. Grant had inherited her traits.
When Mr. Grant was a young child he had moved frequently. He moved from different places such as Georgetown, Ohio to Maysville, Kentucky. He had finally settled down at a military academy in West Point. The academy is known as the United States Military Academy.
At the United States Military Academy Mr. Grant had settled down and attended it in 1839. His name was changed to Ulysses Simpson Grant because Congressman Thomas Hamer, was already acquainted with the family, had assumed that his mother’s maiden name had become Mr. Grant’s middle name and wrote it on the forms. From then on Mr. Grant had decided to never change it to his original name. He finally graduated at the age of 17 in 1843 as a second Lieutenant. He ranked twenty first out of thrity nine in his class.
In 1861 Mr. Grant had won his first battle of the Civil War at Belmont, Missouri. During the war he had many victories and as well as loses. He was known because he would never give in to the opponent. Finally on April 9, 1865 General Robert E. Lee had surrender to Mr. Grant at the Appomattox Court house. It had declared the end of the Civil War.
The Civil War was through the years of 1860- 1865. It was one of the worse wars in the United States history. It had contained 620,000 casualties and an emergency for reconstruction in the south. It had cost the United States 20 billion dollars.
On April 14, 1865 Mr. and Mrs. Grant was suppose to go and attend Ford’s Theatre in Washington as guest of President Lincoln. At the last minute Mr. and Mrs. Grant had cancelled and decided to go to Burlington, New Jersey and visit their children. They had believed that it might have been a double assignation. Ever since then Mr. Grant had wonder if he could have prevented him getting shot.
Mr. Grant had taken office in March 4, 1869, in which he had become the 18th President of the United States. He was only 46 years old and the youngest man to hold office in that time. He had served two terms that had ended on March 3, 1877.
On July 23, 1885 Mr. Grant had died at Mount McGregor, New York at the age of 63 years old. The cause of his death was throat cancer, but if you are ever looking for his grave site it is located on Riverside Drive and 122nd Street in New York.
Sources

www.civilwarhome.com/grantbio.com

www.userpages.umbc.edu/~cgehrml/pres_site/presidents/usg.html

www.css.edu/usgrant/facts.html

Marching and Concert Band Comparison
In my Comparison Contrast Paper I am comparing Marching Band with Concert Band.
The things that are similar with both Marching and Concert Band is that each deals with having to deal with playing your instruments which include flutes, trumpets, baritones, and much more. No matter what, you have to play music through your instrument with both bands. When you play your music you have to have practices and rehearsals to get better for competitions in which you participate in. Throughout the competitions you usually have people playing solo’s to complete the sound of music. To have everybody at the right tempo during the music you must have somebody conducting the music while you play it.
The things that are different from Marching and Concert Band is that in marching band you have color guard twirling there colorful flags on the foot ball field where in concert band you do not. In marching band you are up walking/marching around on the foot ball field with the great big spot lights are on you during half time of foot ball games and during competitions where in concert band you are sitting down in an auditorium. In marching band you have to memorize your music to be able to march and play at the same time where in concert band you sit and have your music right in front of you. During marching band you play more up beat tones by memory as you watch a fellow student who is conducting known as the drum major where in concert band you play more slow classical music from sheet music while you watch your teacher who is known as the conductor. Finally in marching band you wear a full uniform that include a hat, gloves, aglets, pants, shoes, black socks, and a jacket. In concert band you just have your jacket, pants, shoes, black socks, and gloves for silver low brass instruments.
In conclusion I believe there are many things that are similar and different between both Marching and Concert band but both are done for fun and school spirit.

My Room
I locked the door and I’m now free, to do as I please. My friends have been waiting for me.
With a fast flicker of a flame, my room is lit with a dim light on my walls. The red cinnamon- apple scent candle burns with a grace of a God. Standing out like earth in the emptiness of space.
I my room I am the queen and the keeper. Then my black 17” television wakes me up so I can push the buttons. The television is a restless sleeper.
My good friends of Z93 have been waiting for my in my black and blue speakers. Ready to play the rhythmically beat that plays through the sound waves of the air.
My friends on my bookshelf, Robin and Sarah, They never say a word to me because they are too busy slaying and traveling through time.
My cozy full size bed is the place where dreams travel through my mind. Fairies, giants, and mystical creatures that fill the mind of a little poor traveler who only wishes for delightful dreams. But then the warmth of the dark blue electric blanket puts the feeling of being in front of a brick fire place on a cold winter day, with the smells of fire burning the freshly chopped logs.
Tiggers fill my room as the character that I chose to have. His orange and blackness is like having Tiggers floating all around me. It’s like having the Hundred acres woods in my own bedroom, my own thoughts.
Just looking back on my room I realize everything in it describes me. Showing my feelings, my thoughts, and my personal outcome. Showing every detail about myself and how I feel from day in to day out.

The One
You see them some and go week by week.
Some you remember, some you forget.
Some you wish you still had,
Some you wish you never had, but did.

People find their one at first sight,
Some can never end the fight.

We remember the one that hurts us all,
And the one that stole our hearts away.

The one that changed your whole personality,
From beginning to end.
They are a part of you,
A part that will never fade,
Because it strengthens you,
Strengthens you for the better or worse,
From beginning to end.