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What if everything in your life was leading up to today?
Grades for last semester are in. All of them.
Projects submitted this term have not been graded.
Today's work substitutes for the last 2 quizzes.
If you can’t fly, then run
if you can’t run, then walk
if you can’t walk, then crawl
but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
3 And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity...
“Our unalterable resolution should be to be free.”
Sam Adams, to James Warren, 1776
1835--Austin and the Army of the People
Alamo--March 1836
"Say to Mr. Poinsett that it is very true that I threw up my cap for liberty with great ardor, and perfect sincerity, but very soon found the folly of it. A hundred years to come my people will not be fit for liberty. They do not know what it is, unenlightened as they are, and under the influence of Catholic clergy, a despotism is a proper government for them, but there is no reason why it should not be a wise and virtuous one."
--Antonio López de Santa Anna
Texas Declares Independence
San Jacinto
Admission to the Union--28th State--July 4, 1845
God raised up some rough people.
And small and simple people, too.
Deadline is tonight (Wed) at midnight.
20 points for a paragraph (not two sentences)
Yes, more points possible for extra work
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
--Winston S. Churchill
For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Orson Hyde said that if we will do the works of Abraham, then we will be the children of Abraham. Likewise, if we want to be the heirs of the Founders, we should do as the Founders did.
— Bro C
Born March 2 1793 in Virginia
Governor of Tennessee in 1827
Moved to Texas--battle of San Jacinto
Married three times
Twice elected President...of Texas
Senator from Texas after annexation
Compromiser, but opposed secession
Forced from office in 1861--died in 1863
Page 273
Twice elected President...of Texas
The most famous US battle before the Civil War wasn't even fought by the US.
Mismatch--71 DEs signed up
No pressure. Talk, or don't, whatever works for you.
Still room for others.
Where your fear is, there is your task.
--Carl Jung
And now, my beloved brethren, after ye have gotten into this strait and narrow path, I would ask if all is done? Behold, I say unto you, Nay...
20 Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life.
“It’s hard for us to relate to historical figures when all we have to go by is flat portraits wearing outdated period era garments. We don’t connect with them. But they were real people, with real feelings.”
— Becca Saladin
https://medium.com/history-of-yesterday/an-artist-created-lifelike-photos-of-the-wives-of-king-henry-viii-bdb99cd35155
Santa Anna marches north
Travis, Crockett, Bowie for the defenders
Feb. 23 Santa Anna arrives
Victory or Death letter
Texian independence
March 4 assault
March 6--the end comes
Survivors and aftermath
So long, Era of Good Feelings. Hello, Civil War (almost).
It's a lot of work being so popular.
Deadline is Saturday at midnight.
Project purposes--i.e. this is not a crafts class
Quiz #7 (Week 13) will be up this afternoon
"Everything turns out to be valuable that one does for one’s self without thought of profit."
-- Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian
And now, my beloved brethren, after ye have gotten into this strait and narrow path, I would ask if all is done? Behold, I say unto you, Nay...
20 Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life.
“It’s hard for us to relate to historical figures when all we have to go by is flat portraits wearing outdated period era garments. We don’t connect with them. But they were real people, with real feelings.”
— Becca Saladin
https://medium.com/history-of-yesterday/an-artist-created-lifelike-photos-of-the-wives-of-king-henry-viii-bdb99cd35155
Born 1767--Died June 8, 1845
Reading for Jackson: pp 199-230
Teenage soldier--captured
Married Rachel Donelson Robards in 1791 and 1794
Battle of New Orleans
President (lost in 1824, won in 1828 and 1832)
Captured but refused to submit
Lost his mother and brother
Won a plurality in 1824
Paid off the national debt
Became a Christian late in life