Boston Marathon

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…

Dive bars are broadly defined as a shabby and disreputable establishment—essentially the lowest of quality drinking establishments. Though there are numerous guides to Boston’s “best dive bars,” this complicates the definition of what exactly constitutes what makes a bar a “dive”. If a dive bar is always shabby and seedy, is it possible to be “the best” in being the worst? If so, would the award for the best dive bar actually go to the worst? Many of these common standards that define a dive…

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…

In his work “A Model of Christian Charity,” Governor John Winthrop sets out a grandiose (and unrealistic) vision for the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He desires the colony to be an ideal Christian community built on the principal of loving your neighbor as Christ commands. He imagines the colony as set apart from other communities as a devoted community that loves one another and is always charitable (while still being sure to keep some money back as a savings). The colonists, however, seem to be…

Working in an office, specifically in the front desk, to many is a mundane, straight forward, pretty repetitive job. What could be so awful about working in an office, right? I unfortunately work at a taxicab company and let me start of by saying that there is nothing mundane about this place. On a day to day basis, I find myself struggling to remain positive, stress-free and most of the time end up failing at keeping my spirits up. After viewing the movie, What the Bleep Do We Know?, I saw 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…

Excerpts 6.3, “Thomas Hutchinson, Excerpts from Letters to Great Britain Describing Popular Unrest (1768, 1769)” and 6.4, “John Dickinson, “The Liberty Song” (1768)” were both written about Boston at the same time. The first excerpt, 6.3, was a letter that Hutchinson wrote explaining the riots and the reason why he fled. He also explains why there should be acts in a community. Thomas Hutchinson wrote this letter to describe his actions that caused something bigger. The riots that occurred…