Thursday, November 13, 2008
How I feel About The Election
The night that Barack Obama won the Presidential Election, I was in my grandmothers’ room and she started crying. That’s when it hit me, after all the struggling that African Americans have went through, we finally have a Black President. I felt very passionate about this election not only because he is black but because he is going to give America the change that we have needed for a long time. I can’t wait until he is officially put in the White House. God Bless America
Monday, November 10, 2008
Searches
http://www.nndb.com/people/174/000023105/
http://www.britannia.com/history/monarchs/mon63.html
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page150.asp
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0703070/
http://who2.com/ask/queenelizabethii.html
http://www.britannia.com/history/monarchs/mon63.html
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page150.asp
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0703070/
http://who2.com/ask/queenelizabethii.html
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Rough Draft
Queen Elizabeth was born April 21 1926. She was born to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. She became Queen at the age of 25 and has been Queen for more than fifty years. Queen Elizabeth II is the 38th in direct line of descent from Egbert who was a great king. (c. 775- 839); King of Wessex from 802 and of England 827 to 839. She is the fortieth monarch since William I (William the Conqueror), and also the great great granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Queen Victoria was an excellent queen. Queen Elizabeth is married to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. They have four children and eight
grandchildren. She is a wonderful woman. And has done a lot to make England strive.
Elizabeth has managed to maintain to keep her public and private life seperate. She is the first person in royalty to send her children to boarding schools in order to keep them from the innoiying media. She has a strong sense of duty and works hard and presents her queenly business with great dignity, efficiency and proud. Her knowledge of current situations and trends is daily up to date, often to the embarrassment of her Prime Ministers. Harold Wilson, before his retirement, said, "I shall certainly advise my successor to do his homework before his audience." Churchill, who had served four monarchs, was impressed and delighted by her knowledge and wit. She possesses a sense of humor rarely displays in public where a dignified presence is her goal.
At 16, as World War II raged, Queen Elizabeth II asked her father if she could serve as a volunteer nurse in bombed-damaged London, but he though it was too dangerous. She kept asking, and when she was 18 he allowed her to volunteer with the Auxiliary Territorial Service, where she was trained to drive and repair heavy transport vehicles, although she was not allowed to do much of the actual driving and repair work. She worked very hard to keep the peace and when she couldn’t she helped the wounded. As a perk of royalty in the United Kingdom, she is head of state in all the Commonwealth Realms, meaning she is also Queen of Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the Solomon Islands, and Tuvalu.
I n 1945, Princess Elizabeth went with her parents on visits to Commonwealth service personnel, began to carry out solo duties, such as reviewing a parade of Canadian airwomen in 1945, and joined the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service, where she was known as No. 230873, Second Subaltern Elizabeth Windsor. She trained as a driver, and drove a military truck while she served, making her the first, and so far only, female member of the Royal Family to actively serve in the armed forces, although every monarch is nominally the Commander-in-Chief of both the British and Canadian Armed Forces, and other royal women have been given honorary ranks. This training was the first time Elizabeth had been taught along with other students, and it was said[by whom? that she greatly enjoyed the experience, which led her to send her own children to school rather than have them educated at home.
At the end of the war in Europe, on VE Day, Elizabeth and her sister stole away from Buckingham Palace and talked with the celebratory crowds after midnight. Two years later, the Princess made her first official overseas tour, when she accompanied her parents to South Africa. It was there that she had her 21st birthday, when she made a broadcast to the British Commonwealth, say "I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong."
grandchildren. She is a wonderful woman. And has done a lot to make England strive.
Elizabeth has managed to maintain to keep her public and private life seperate. She is the first person in royalty to send her children to boarding schools in order to keep them from the innoiying media. She has a strong sense of duty and works hard and presents her queenly business with great dignity, efficiency and proud. Her knowledge of current situations and trends is daily up to date, often to the embarrassment of her Prime Ministers. Harold Wilson, before his retirement, said, "I shall certainly advise my successor to do his homework before his audience." Churchill, who had served four monarchs, was impressed and delighted by her knowledge and wit. She possesses a sense of humor rarely displays in public where a dignified presence is her goal.
At 16, as World War II raged, Queen Elizabeth II asked her father if she could serve as a volunteer nurse in bombed-damaged London, but he though it was too dangerous. She kept asking, and when she was 18 he allowed her to volunteer with the Auxiliary Territorial Service, where she was trained to drive and repair heavy transport vehicles, although she was not allowed to do much of the actual driving and repair work. She worked very hard to keep the peace and when she couldn’t she helped the wounded. As a perk of royalty in the United Kingdom, she is head of state in all the Commonwealth Realms, meaning she is also Queen of Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the Solomon Islands, and Tuvalu.
I n 1945, Princess Elizabeth went with her parents on visits to Commonwealth service personnel, began to carry out solo duties, such as reviewing a parade of Canadian airwomen in 1945, and joined the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service, where she was known as No. 230873, Second Subaltern Elizabeth Windsor. She trained as a driver, and drove a military truck while she served, making her the first, and so far only, female member of the Royal Family to actively serve in the armed forces, although every monarch is nominally the Commander-in-Chief of both the British and Canadian Armed Forces, and other royal women have been given honorary ranks. This training was the first time Elizabeth had been taught along with other students, and it was said[by whom? that she greatly enjoyed the experience, which led her to send her own children to school rather than have them educated at home.
At the end of the war in Europe, on VE Day, Elizabeth and her sister stole away from Buckingham Palace and talked with the celebratory crowds after midnight. Two years later, the Princess made her first official overseas tour, when she accompanied her parents to South Africa. It was there that she had her 21st birthday, when she made a broadcast to the British Commonwealth, say "I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong."
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