American Renaissance

     This is a picture called Storm in the Mountains painted by Albert Bierstadt in 1870. This picture really appeals to me because of all the different perspectives it holds. You could either choose to look at the beautiful valley shown by the sun, or you could look at the storm as a dark way of life and then there is the person that looks through the storm to the summit on the other side. I tend to look at it as a whole and look at the beauty of the picture and mountains as a whole.
     This connects to the American Renaissance because you can interpret the picture in the way of a timeline. I view the near sunlight is like the time that has come, antebellum. The clouds signify that the dark days of the War of 1812 have passed and it was time to enjoy life. The summit in the back, to me, signifies the time TO come. It shows how beautiful as a nation we can become. The again I could also say the summit symbolizes the summit, or test, as a nation with the Civil War to come.

Battle of New Orleans vs. Johnny Horton's "Battle of New Orleans"

Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton Lyrics
 In 1814 we took a little trip Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip. We took a little bacon and we took a little beans And we caught the bloody British in the town of New Orleans.
 [Chorus:] We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin. There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago. We fired once more and they began to runnin' on Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. We looked down the river and we see'd the British come. And there must have been a hundred of'em beatin' on the drum. They stepped so high and they made the bugles ring. We stood by our cotton bales and didn't say a thing.
  [Chorus]
 Old Hickory said we could take 'em by surprise If we didn't fire our muskets 'til we looked 'em in the eye We held our fire 'til we see'd their faces well. Then we opened up with squirrel guns and really gave 'em ... well
 [Chorus]
 Yeah, they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go. They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.** We fired our cannon 'til the barrel melted down. So we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round. We filled his head with cannon balls, and powdered his behind And when we touched the powder off, the gator lost his mind.
 [Chorus]
 Yeah, they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go. They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

The Battle of New Orleans
     The battle was a series of events in Louisiana from December 23, 1814 to January 8, 1815. It was the final battle of the War of 1812. Andrew Jackson, and 4,732 Americans, fought and held back an invading 11,000 soldiers. Who we're trying to take New Orleans as a strategic tool to end the war. It took place 2 weeks after the Treaty of Ghent was signed. But fighting continued until the British retreated putting an end to the war.

The Comparison
     The song talks more about the main battle in which lasted a whole 30 min. Jackson routed the brits with ease. Days later the british retreated and that ended the battles.