1a. In the videos “Ain't I a Woman” and The United States of America v. Susan B Anthony, both women expressed their disdain that all people weren’t looked at as equal. Both Susan B Anthony and Sojourner Truth felt like if we are citizens of the USA we should be allowed the same rights as men. 1b. Sojourner Truth’s poem spoke to how an African American women (during slavery) wanted the same rights as the white women that they worked for.…
The Federalists would have countered the authors view by stating that the Act was for the betterment of the country. The Alien and Sedition acts helped protect the country from French nationalists by allowing the President to deport anyone that was dangerous. It also helped keep journalists from creating lies that would hurt the country by creating instability. The Whiskey Rebellion erupted the tensions between the two parties.…
John Winthrop, Jonathan Edwards, and Thomas Paine were all writers who called for their audiences to denounce their previous actions and live according to certain ideals in order to reach their desired destination: in the case of Winthrop and Edwards, that destination was reunion and harmony with God; in Paine’s case, he needed to persuade his audience to continue to fight through their God-given advantages so that America would defeat England. All three writers attempted to persuade their audiences through the usage of religion; religion is what would allow the Puritans to prosper, rebellion to religion is what would cause the Puritans eternal suffering, and religion is what would prevail so that the American soldiers would win the war. However, each author used three very distinct approaches to religion; Winthrop positively proclaimed that the Puritans were God’s chosen people, while Edwards used pain and suffering to demonstrate to the…
The Gap Creek romanticizes a simpler time that takes place in old Appalachia. Robert Morgan, the author of the Gap Creek, shares his love for Appalachia heritage by depicting a story of a strong-willed girl named Julie. Although the exact time period is not provided, we know that it takes place sometime after the invention of trains but before the invention of automobiles. Furthermore, there is not much mention of the outside world around them. In the Gap Creek, southern Appalachia heritage is represented by a way of life that is isolated from the rest of the world.…
I am Richard (Rich) Barker, I live in Granbury TX, just outside of Fort Worth. I have a passion for history and learning from scholars who provide both sides of an argument. To learn and understand our nation’s history and hopefully apply that knowledge in my future endeavors as a history teacher. Was the “Age of Jackson” truly the “Era of the Common Man?”…
Throughout history, there have been many people who have expressed their ideas and lived their lives in ways that others may not be able to understand. There are people in all different cultures who refuse to conform to social norms and live lives the way that society has taught us we’re supposed to. Chris McCandless was one of these people, who, despite what others say, he went about his life how he wanted to, and didn’t give in to people telling him that he should be doing things differently. He never finished school and did not go on to live a life the way most people do: getting a degree and a real job, getting married, having children, and spending their whole lives working to make money until retirement, McCandless wanted nothing to do with that lifestyle. Another influential person who portrays ways of going about life in a “different” way is Allen Ginsberg.…
By the spring of 1859, there were cities on both sides of the South Platte. The situation was tenuous and filled with confusion, as tensions between the cities grew and nearly led to bloodshed. Horace Greeley described the rapidly growing metropolis as a "log city of 150 dwellings, not three-fourths completed nor two-thirds inhabited, nor one-third fit to be." Finally, a torch-lit meeting was held, and on the one bridge over Cherry Creek, for the price of a barrel of whiskey, all other names were dropped and the settlement in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains came to be known as…
John Winthrop and Jonathan Edwards were some of the earlier American writers and they had some little characters in common in terms of their ways of writing. They were backers of the same principles adopted by Christianity but they had many differences in the ways they adopted different styles of writing. The differences in the styles of writing can be explained by the situations faced by each one of them in terms of time in which each wrote the essays. Edwards had a feeling that the new world was built upon ideal principles which were slipping away while Winthrop wrote in order to describe the progressions of the new religion as well as social experiences of the new religion.…
Thoreau and Bryant had similar works from the fact that they were different from everyone else's point of view and, they saw their different subjects similarly. Thoreau saw solitude as a refreshing and wonderful thing to experience and Bryant saw death as a really wonderful thing, not lonely and sad. They also brought nature into their ideas as a companion and in some instances a divine being. Thoreau had some quiet, alone time with nature and writes that "some of my pleasantest hours were during the long rainstorms ..." and he "throughly enjoyed its protection."…
Why isn’t humour discussed as a theme on the module? There are certainly aspects of comedic moments across the texts we have studied, but they are not central themes. What Wong adds to the module is using humour to look at the nature of an addict. For instance, David lures John (who’s passed out on “soy sauce” in David’s car) by holding his “cigarettes” as bait (63). John's response is immediate, but gradual, with Wong using the simile “like a sleepwalker” to indicate that John's addiction is almost on an unconscious level.…
Christopher McCandless crafted his own ideologies by considering the thoughts and philosophies created by scholarly saints that he had idolized. Those three specific individuals were where McCandless had found his motivation to go on such a journey as through the wild. Henry David Thoreau, Jack London, and Leo Tolstoy all majorly impacted Chris McCandless and his rationality on life. These three writers inspired McCandless to set out on his long voyage to live in nature. I feel that Jack London was the greatest motivation to McCandless, in light of the fact that his activities are quite alike to McCandless'.…
We all face problems in our everyday life that we have to deal with that can affect us for a small period of time or it can affect us for a long time. McCandless was a very smart young man who had a very bright future ahead of him but he was in a situation where he felt like he should do something to try and make it better but he took the way of dealing his situation to drastic measures. McCandless felt alone because he has such a bad relationship with his parents and all he wanted was to leave society and live on his own, doing what he thinks is best for him.…
During the 17th century, many English men and women were unhappy with the lives they were living in their home country. As a result, the people voyaged to the new world in search of religious freedom, glory and wealth. Early settlers chose to build their lives in different ways; two of the first colonies that arose in the new world were Plymouth and Chesapeake Bay. Plymouth and Chesapeake were alike in their forms of government, both used a representative approach that embodied the people. Both colonies relied heavily on slave labor to grow their economies.…
Vice president and cabinet member essay Coleman Tech Charter High School Brady wagstaff In 1776 when the states had decided they were going to pronounce freedom from Great Britain, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were working one next to the other in the battle against the oppression of Great Britain. It was John Adams that named Thomas Jefferson to compose the Declaration of Independence. Ideally we all see how noteworthy that report was, and is, to our country.…
Marlow makes this statement about the Russian harlequin. Although Kurtz let the power and control of the Congo capture him mentally, the Russian harlequin had no interest in the power. He ventured into the Congo just for the sake of adventure. Once Marlow realized that the Russian still didn't let the darkness of power get to him after he had witnessed and been taught by Kurtz, he was able to understand that the exploration of the country was all that kept him there. This fits in with the theme of curiosity and adventure because the harlequin was similar to Marlow and Kurtz in the adventurous aspect of life.…