Fall River, Massachusetts is a city just about an hour south of Boston College. I have lived there my entire life. I moved once, but it was only to the other side of the city. Having accumulated, then, twenty years of experiential knowledge living in Fall River, I thought I knew more about the city than – it turns out – I do. The way that I know Fall River, and the way that I portray my home town to others, is as a large, diverse, economically-challenged, dead end city. This does not paint the…
Morning Josh and Fanyons! Marilyn asked me to hold the fort while she is on vacation this week and I'm happy to help as she is making her way to unite with old friends, make new ones and just have fun this week! So here goes. . . Today is Columbus Day and that seems the perfect holiday to celebrate as our fellow adventuring Fanyons are packing for and traveling to GRL in Atlanta. They are trekking across the United States, from Canada, across the Pacific and the Atlantic to meet up with Facebook…
Live in Boston The Success of the Hutchinson in the New England Colony was just astounding, or at the least very lucky. Even thou William Hutchison was very successful and brought a large estate to the New England. In the summer of 1634, the Hutchinson purchased a half-acre lot of land on the Shawmut Peninsula; which is now downtown Boston. They Built a house on a lot of lands and was one of the largest on the peninsula with a timber frame and two stories. (The house would stand up until 1711…
As the Puritans spent more time in the new world, John Winthrop’s vision for a religious ‘City on a Hill’ transformed into a society with less religious fervor because problems with the natives and a desire for more secular goods and possessions made it hard and not popular for the Pilgrims to actively practice their religion. From the beginning of the Massachusetts Bay colony, John Winthrop explicitly states the intentions for the colony to be a religious haven for Puritans when he says that…
As the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony, John Winthrop eagerly established his position through his writings, both in “A Model of Christian Charity” in his attempt to induce the colonists to accept their position working for the good of the whole colony and in his journals. Winthrop simply desires that the colonists will work and live in amity, however any opposition to his authority poses a threat he cannot effortlessly overlook. Mary Dyer, the woman addressed by Winthrop in his…
Everyone I have met at Mitty has inspired me to want to attend myself. Since my brother is a Mitty student, I have gotten to witness firsthand how much he enjoys Mitty. When I was a guest to Kristen Voelker, I was delighted to have that viewpoint validated, as it was very obvious she enjoyed her time at Mitty. Throughout that day, I was greeted by many people, freshmen, and seniors alike, and all were friendly. The positivity just broadened my favourable view of Archbishop Mitty High School. I…
QUESTION 1: Where were the first Settlement houses, founded by whom and for what reason? How did they differ from Charity Organizations in their views of families, in their views of society’s responsibility to the poor and their views of social welfare as a helping mechanism? The first settlement houses were founded by Stanton Colt and Charles B. Stover, The neighborhood build of NewYork in 1887. The concept was to transport the priviledged and the unpriviledged to over thrown the effects of…
William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, in the year 1564. He moved to London in 1582, and back then plays were not liked or thought as good. Most of the people considered them bad or even unhealthy. After some time, he became to be popular as an entertainer. His play Romeo And Juliet was one of his most successful plays ever. This play is about two families in a feud. The son of the first family The Montagues whose name is Romeo Finds true love for a woman named Juliet, But there…
This essay will examine two documents, John Winthrop, Speech to the Massachusetts General Court (1645) and Roger Williams, Letter to the Town of Providence (1655). Both of these documents express opposing views of liberty through the eyes of John Winthrop and Roger William. While both were Puritans who emigrated from England to America in search to worship and govern as God intended, John Winthrop sought to develop a society in which government and people would work together to glorify God,…
Most Puritans, including John Winthrop (a Puritan lawyer and leader) did not want to break away from the Church of England due to their reasoning that her churches could still be purified through compromise (Morgan, 27). However, when the Puritan leaders noticed that the corruption in England was on a steady rise, they decided to emigrate to New England in order to preserve a purer Church of England (Morgan, 44-45). For example, on March 10, 1629, King Charles customarily liquified the…