University of Massachusetts

Yet instead of immediately meeting up with my hosts I felt the need to spend some time alone with the city, visit familiar sites, retrace old steps. After literally bumping into two very surprised friends (because Boston is where such serendipity happens) I journeyed out to my undergrad school, University of Massachusetts-Boston. It was nine o’clock by the time I wandered down its quiet Harborwalk and found a bench to mediate with the bay’s moonlit waters by. (UMass Boston is a seaside campus). I thought upon this town’s sense of intimacy; of the sadness of having left it, of the desires that kept me away and made me long to return. A lone male-bodied jogger in gray sweats and a hoodie ran by, making me think how we, academics and others, all occupy the lonely space of long-distance runners at some…

why I chose this topic University of Massachusetts Amherst has been joined “The Real Food” challenge for three years. I’ve seen the posters and boards towards “The Real food” challenge in the dinning hall but without knowing what “the real food” stands for. After doing the research. I getting to know that “Real Food” means the food is grown locally, heathy and sustainable. This year UMass dining has been ranked number 1 in the nation by Princeton Review. According to the Princeton Review…

Massachusetts 1 of the original 13 colonies and one of the six New England states and is very important to the history of America and is a relatively wealthy state. Massachusetts had the thirteenth-highest gross state product in 2005. Although this state is very small, it is one of the most populated states in the US. Boston is the state capital and the largest city with a very important seaport. Massachusetts is also the homes to some of the most important people in our history today like John…

Samuel Adams was an American Patriot. He was born in Boston, at September 27th 1722. Adams was one of 12 children born to Samuel and Mary (Fifield) Adams. Only 3 of the children survived, Mary, Samuel and Joseph. He was born into a wealthy, religious family that was involved in politics. Samuel’s father wanted him to become a clergyman, but Adams had an interest in law. Adams got his Masters Degree in Arts to practice law at Hardford University, but his mother did not approve. When the British…

The two authors I am comparing in this essay are Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. I will convey both the similarities and differences between the lifestyles of the two authors; Both Thoreau and Emerson are categorized as publishers from the transcendentalism era. Both authors had extraordinary passion for living a life of simplicity and harmony, but what did this really mean and how did they achieve this? Both Ralph and Henry were born in Massachusetts, Emerson in 1803 and Thoreau…

History 17, no. 4 (2003): 16-20. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25163616. Woodward’s analysis serves as an effective comparison to the prosecution of the Salem Witch Trials. Furthermore, this source helps to illustrate the evolution of legal ideas and notes what caused the major shift in New England legal thought to occur. Bellefontaine, Edgar J. and Newman, R. Constantine. "The Early History of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court." Supreme Judicial Court Historical Society Journal 2…

Norton presents a text where she offers a “new interpretation of the witchcraft crisis” of Salem, Massachusetts (101 of 8616). She argues that rather than solely analyzing Salem, scholars must analyze the whole of Essex County, Massachusetts (113,184). She also argues for the need for exploration of the history of the witchcraft crisis as a history of frontier warfare because of the military affairs such as King Williams’ War occurring simultaneously in New England as the rise of the witchcraft…

Three years after that in 1630 Massachusetts is founded by Jhon Withrop and England starts sending ships over to help colonize it. Which led to over one thousand new colonists arriving in Massachusetts from England. Four years after that their governor Jhon Withrop loses power. He lost his power by a bunch of delegates from all over Massachusetts voted him off for producing a royal charter. John Withrop was a Puritan lawyer leading the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Later in 1635 Roger Williams a…

Samuel Adams was born in Boston, Massachusetts on September 27th, 1722. Samuel’s dad was a successful brewer and served as a deacon for the Old and New South churches in boston. Samuel’s dad also was a Boston selectman and representative to the assembly. Samuel’s mom was also deeply religious from the teachings of Jonathan Edwards. Samuel’s childhood insisted of him surviving and 2 other children surviving out of 12 children all together. Adams and his 2 other brothers and sisters were…

the church regulated the clothing worn by Puritans. Their style of clothes was typically “dark and somber” (“Salem Witch Trials”). In Gilead society, the government strips people of their individual expression by regulating people’s clothing. The attire provided for each person was modest and its color reflected its owner’s status is society; whether they were a Martha, a Handmaid, a Wife, etc. “There are other women with baskets, some in red, some in the dull green of the Marthas, some in the…