Joseph Warren

Can you believe a dentist created cotton candy? It is a true fact and the man’s name was William Morrison. William Morrison was born in Nashville, Tennessee. He was born in 1860. William Morrison graduated from the University of Tennessee Dental College. He also became president of the Tennessee Dental Association after attending college. His interests were in science and politics. Throughout William’s life, he was a noted dentist, lawyer, author, and a leader in civic and political affairs. He was an author of children’s books. William also devised a chemical process to purify drinking water for Nashville. William Morrison died at the age of 66 from a stroke. One of William Morrison’s greatest attributes to mankind before his death was his publicized and modernized invention of cotton candy. Cotton candy was found as early as the 1400’s in Italy. Cotton candy was known as a delicacy because sugar was expensive at that time period due to importation. The sugar would be melted in a pan. They would use a fork and make strings of liquid sugar. It would dry and be eaten as a harder form of cotton candy. Cotton Candy was not known as cotton candy in these early times. William Morrison and John C. Wharton invented a machine that made cotton candy in 1897. Cotton Candy was first introduced in the 1900 at a Paris exposition by the two men. Again in 1904, cotton candy was introduced to the fair of St. Louis. It was sold for about twenty-five cents a box. Over a short time…

In the downs of a small farm, two rabbits are getting ready to flee their warren in an effort to escape the dangers of men come to kill them. Richard Adam’s Watership Down follows these two rabbits - named Hazel and Fiver - as they gather a following and make their way across the farmland to safety. The band of misfits looks to Hazel for guidance, and he leads them to their haven. A warren is established atop the hills where the rabbits are safe and sound. However, the need to keep the warren…

“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” In the play, The Crucible by Arthur Miller, it felt like no one was happy. People were pointing fingers at one another, for no good reason. There were many people at fault for causing such chaos. In the beginning, some people in the town influenced this event to drag it out like Abigail Williams. Later in the play, Reverend Hale comes along and only seemed to make the situation worse. Lastly, Mary Warren started strong, but…

were in a harsh war. The Soviet Premier Nikita was trying to order the hit on Kennedy. The Soviets and the U.S. were involved in a bitter cold war. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was mortified by having to back down after the Cuban Missile Crisis he ordered the hit on Kennedy. Lee Harvey Oswald’s linking to the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) was another piece of evidence. Oswald had 2 visited the Soviet Union with his Russian born wife Marina. The Warren Commission and the House…

Mccarthy was a creature of similar nature, stripped of rational thinking, he was consumed by greed and lust. All he wanted was more power, regardless of how he had to get it. Joseph Mccarthy accused hundreds of being Communists. Regardless of who they were. When Mccarthy went on his Anti-Communist Crusade, the entire USA suffered, not to mention no one was safe. When the numbers increased, the people started to believe him more easily. However later in his Communist hunt, as he started to…

Pointing Fingers Facing The Invisible Audience During the 1950s, the United States evolved from a stable country to a nation filled with terror and suspicion. This unfortunate event took place, by the cause of a senator named Joseph McCarthy. He, who had the power to express a convincing speech, convincingly shared accusatory confessions to the public relating to people, in the government, following communism beliefs. This lead to Arthur Miller writing the play The Crucible, because many people,…

themselves from being killed or blacklisted. Mary Warren and the rest of the people who claimed they practiced witchcraft were a symbol for Elia Kazan in the McCarthy trials (U.S. History). From the beginning Mary Warren was on the fence about the whole thing. In act I, Warren states, “What 'll we do? The village is out! I just come from the farm; the whole country 's talkin ' witchcraft! They 'll be callin ' us witches, Abby! Abby, we 've got to tell.” (The Crucible). Both confessed to save…

endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.” So is polygamy evil as we believe? I believe that though the government has passed many laws that are against polygamy. I believe that it should be legalized. What is polygamy, polygamy is the practice of a man marrying more than one woman. According to the LDS, church polygamy was started in the U.S by a man named Joseph Smith. Joseph Smith was born on December 23, 1805, when Joseph Smith was 14 it is said that he saw God and his son…

1. Carlos Slim Helú was born 28, January 1940 and he is a Mexican business magnate, philanthropist and investor. From 2010 - 2013, Carlos Slim was graded as the richest person in the world. The position was taken back by the Bill Gates in the year 2014 before Carlos Slim reclaimed the position again in 15, July 2014. Recognized as the Warren Buffett of Mexico, Carlos Slim has wide holdings in a significant number of the Mexican companies through his SA de CV, Grupo Carso, conglomerate, have…

will never happen again. Yet, in the 1950s, history repeated itself. During this time, Joseph McCarthy, a United States senator from Wisconsin, began accusing people of being communists, which is similar to the Salem witch trials in the late 1690s when innocent people were accused of witchcraft. Arthur Miller used a real story to show the similarities between Salem witch hunt and McCarthyism. He wrote The Crucible as a reflection of the Communist witch hunts of its time. McCarthyism started…