City and town halls

Benjamin Franklin was a well known man. Franklin is well known because of his face on the one hundred dollar bill, which is the biggest bill that we have. Benjamin made his entrance into the world on January 17, 1706. He was born in the town of Boston, in what was then known as the Massachusetts Bay Colony. His father was Josiah Franklin, who was an English-born soap and candle maker. Franklin was remarkably intelligent and learned to read at an early age. Despite his success at the Boston…

I had heard about there being gangs and fights happening in the school and coming from a small town where nothing ever happens except, someone robbing the bank and getting away with it, I was scared. I drove a little blue Boniville and pulling into the parking lot I knew immediately i had parked in the wrong place. There were brand new pickups and…

Many times, the 1920s are referred to as a roaring and prosperous time in America. The country embodied many societal changes and innovations never seen before. Despite great advances, America faced great problems on the homefront. The events of World War I fueled strong nativism for one’s country and the idea that it was possible to revolt against government. Most notably, Russia faced a revolution of their own. In this revolution, communism took hold and its influence began to spread…

Jackie Robinson was one of the best baseball players of his time, and he helped promote the integration of blacks into professional leagues of all sports. Many people know Jackie because of his skills on the field, but few know about his hardships and his impact on ending segregation. Robinson was an athlete since he was in high school, and he excelled at football, basketball, baseball, and track. He later became the first African American to play in the Major Leagues. Along with his impressive…

Democratic presidents have tangentially supported voter registration while in office. In 2010, President Obama issued a one-paragraph statement for Voter Registration Month, which urged qualified persons to register. Then, President Obama, at a town hall in Cleveland, Ohio, suggested mandatory voting 2015. Other presidents have symbolically supported voter registration. Presidents Kennedy and Clinton signed executive orders (EO) surrounding legislation addressing voter registration. In 1963,…

BC punishment is more about power than gender because it was imposed by both male and female. Pompeii is a small to medium-sized town on the southwest coast of Italy which is famous for being buried during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. The House of the Vettii or Casa dei Vettii is a Roman house located in Regio VI in the northwest corner of the part of town and to the…

Will Sheerin Professor Lorenz Music and Migration April 4 2016 Skinhead’s influence in Jamaican Ska During the 1950’s, Britain’s economy was in a recession and they reached out to many of their Western colonies to increase immigration to England. After World War II the economy was in bad shape and the United Kingdom government looked for immigrants to fill the employment vacancies. Many Jamaicans took the opportunity to start a new life and migrated to London in large quantities. With them…

(RAF) the Luftwaffe began to bomb London and other cities. A similar kind intense bombing campaign against Germany was carried out by the Allied to demorlise the German population. So, the governments had to introduce extensive measures to defend the country from attacks and to keep popular support. The two major policy developed were ‘Evacuation’ and ‘Blackout’.’Evacuation’ was developed to protect vulnerable citizens by moving them away from the cities that were likely to be bombed. The…

To describe a film as a piece of “cinema as a window”, it suggests that this piece is bound- not bound by traditional storytelling conventions but rather by time, by space, by fate. However, this window is also transparent, the deep scope of its view determined by an ever changing arena of storytelling. This cinema differs from conventional cinema in its organic and episodic bursts of plot, lack of visual continuity, and deliberately vague grasp of cause and effect. Gueros, a film by Mexican…

The Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy had a significant impact on their area of origin, upstate New York, and parts of the surrounding Northeast U.S.. The Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora peoples comprised the Six Nations of the Confederacy after 1722. Their importance on the original American frontier varied throughout the decades of their prominence. However, during the onset of the American Revolution, the Iroquois faced a deeply troubling and confederacy…