Adam Hochschild

What Is in a Name? Does your name reflect what you do in your life? If you were a character in C.S. Lewis’s book, Perelandra, your name would describe you, and reveal your personality. C.S. Lewis used the names of his characters to portray their significance, and their place in the plot of the story. His characters’ names have been thought-out, making each name coordinate with the overall story, and coordinating with the stories hidden beneath the main plot. Each name is intentional, and has a…

A creation myth is a symbolic narrative of how the world began and how the people first came to inhabit it. For example, two of them are the Genesis story and the Chinese story. Although the two stories have a great deal of dissimilarities they also have a number of indistinguishable elements. Both creation stories have some things in common. First, in both stories humans were made from the earth. The Chinese story states that Nu Wa sculpted humans from the mud. “From the edge of the pond she…

Freedom can symbolize many things. Americans won freedom from the British. Women won the freedom to vote. Some people are still fighting for their freedom. But what if we did not have freedom? What would America be like then? When the colonists came to America, they built colonies. Brick by brick, city by city, they worked hard all day and night. Once the colonies were done, they finally had their own land. The king of England did not like that. He taxed all of their goods and would not give…

The first example of this sinful disease occurs in the lifetime of Adam and Eve; their first son Cain becomes the first murderer ever! Cain killed his brother Abel as a result of jealousy and anger that he had felt for him. Another biblical example is the massacre of the innocents in the book of Matthew. Herod a powerful…

Giving purpose to life is valuable and eases the mind of many questions. However, how is a creation story to be interpreted? The creation story in the Old Testament is a story that has many meanings behind the text. The meanings of the text strongly convey their messages, and possibly impact future cultures. The story seems to go back and forth between what existed before this creation. The very first verse states “God created the heavens and the earth” then the story moves to state “Let us…

Even though the Magna Carta failed in it’s original efforts of being a peace treaty, it still made a strong constitution for people back then, and today. “ Most of the 63 clauses granted by King John dealt with specific grievances relating to his rule. However, buried within them were a number of fundamental values that both challenged the autocracy to the king and proved highly adaptable in future centuries.” The Magna Carta is seen through our gov’t and or documents. Without it we wouldn’t be…

One outcome of the leaving out of Natives in the Treaty of Paris was that the ones in the newly established territory started attacking and raiding newer colonial settlements, such as Detroit. This became known as Pontiac’s Rebellion, which caused the British government to issue the Proclamation Line of 1763, which prohibited British colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains. They did this as a sort of compromise with the Natives, because technically speaking, they could have…

Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 or 1757 – July 12, 1804) was a Founding Father of the United States, chief staff aide to General George Washington, one of the most influential interpreters and promoters of the U.S. Constitution, the founder of the nation's financial system, the founder of the Federalist Party, the world's first voter-based political party, the Father of the United States Coast Guard, and the founder of The New York Post. As the first Secretary of the Treasury, Hamilton was…

men doing this it showed the British what all the colonist thought about the Tea Act. Sam Adams had the bright idea that he thought everyone should have a couple drinks before they do this. All of the colonists acting like this made the British to think the colonies were not mature enough or ready to be on their own as a country. Gov. Thomas Hutchinson wanted to have a town meeting of December 16. Samuel Adams exclaimed that the meeting could do nothing more to save the country. With the cry of…

Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello begins with the architecture of Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's mountaintop home in Charlottesville, Virginia. The book describes the story of Monticello architecture, an inside look at the house, the furnishings, the gardens and the plantation. The authors of this book are William L. Beiswanger, Peter J. Hatch, Lucia C. Stanton, Susan R. Stein. These four members are part of Monticello’s Scholarly staff. They are all experts in their disciplines, have published a…