1938 British Empire Games

The word “freedom” is relative to the perspective of the individual who endures it. As opposition to the British crown grew amongst the American colonists, the need for a formal decree asserting their separation was imperative. Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and after revisions from his fellow peers, Congress adopted the document in the same year on July 4th in Philadelphia. While much of the document elaborates on concepts such as indpendence and civil…

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court explores the drastic differences that separate two eras thirteen centuries apart. Amongst these distinctions are the values and ideals held by the people of these different times. This great disparity is addressed by the story’s narrator, Hank Morgan. Morgan, who holds the same views as author Mark Twain, sets out to challenge 6th century values with his American ideals of the 19th century. A prideful, practical, and intelligent man, Hank Morgan…

Virginia vs. Massachusetts The development of Virginia and Massachusetts has many similarities but also many differences. The two colonies have similar problems when trying to develop their towns but had different reasons for why they started them to begin with. while both had different driving forces, they both ultimately wanted the same thing, to form a successful new town. Though out the next paragraphs I will discuss these differences and similarities, as well as why I think Massachusetts…

that governed the world in harmony. (103) Gupta Empire- The Gupta Dynasty, founded in 320 CE by Chandra Gupta, arose in the Ganges. The Gupta Dynasty had a state that layed in Magadha, known for wealth and power in the Ganges Valley. The Gupta Empire established alliances throughout the continent in order to maintain their power and land. The people of the dynasty were overcome by White Huns from Asia which lead to the dynasty’s decline. The empire eventually fell around 550 CE. (119)…

The American Revolution was a time of change in the colonies. People were fighting for their independence, and now historians such as Barbara Clark Smith, Gordon Wood, and T.H. Breen argue if this was radical. Smith said it was not, due to the lack of attention to the oppressed. Wood disagreed, and said that the legacy of the Revolution is what made it radical. In Breen’s essay, “Boycotts Made the Revolution Radical,” he states how the Revolution was radical by bringing together many colonists…

does what he must—and that is the basis of all human morality” (Bartleby, Kennedy). This quote rings true in Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, a story about the advancement of Gilded Age technology transferred into Arthurian British times. A man named Hank Morgan has mysteriously time traveled into the reign of King Arthur and is being brought to the King for possible execution. His decisions after his capture give a sick and twisted spin to JFK’s quote. Mark Twain uses…

Jared Diamond, in Chapter 19 of the novel Guns, Germs, and Steel, proposes that the black Bantu ethnic group was able to exert dominance over the other four cultural groups in Africa in areas that food production was viable because the Bantu’s sedentary lifestyle was greatly advantaged compared to hunter-gatherers living in the same area. Diamond supports his claims by illustrating the major societal and organizational difference between the Bantu and hunter-gatherer groups and pointing to the…

end of the French and Indian war in 1763 was a victory for England. Having defeated one of their most powerful European rivals, the French, the British felt confident they had control over majority of the American continent. However, the victory was very costly resulting in Britain’s decision to place some of the burden on their mainland colonies. The British government did this though a number of taxation and legislation. These actions as adverse effects because they were rejected by the…

In Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author communicates to the reader the wrongs of slavery by showing the strength of female morale in abolitionists, the wrongs of tolerating slavery but still being Christian, and the fact that slaves have more humanity than whites do. Stowe used female abolitionists and their morale to convey the message that slavery is wrong. The two core women in this novel, Mrs. Shelby, and Ophelia St. Clare, and one supporting character, Mrs. Bird,…

ones the seat of war?” he then answers that question by saying “New england is not infested with tories, we are” This provokes and angers the colonists by telling them that the biggest obstacle they are facing are there own people who are in the british army. This question is answered with such passion by paine that the tories that were reading this would fear what paine is saying as he tells everyone that they are cowards and severely criticizes them, in order to persuade them that what they…