Connecticut Compromise

At the University of Connecticut, located in Storrs, Connecticut, all first-year students are required to live on campus. The University provides several housing options, including thematic communities like Honors Program housing or Business Connections Learning Community housing, gender-inclusive housing, and standard co-educational, non-thematic options. Regardless of a student’s housing selection, the student will live in a community that is maintained by Resident Assistants. Depending on the…

The Emergence and Evolution of the American Identity Prior to the Civil War Introduction The American Identity is an abstract, multifaceted concept that has evolved over time throughout every period of American history. During the Colonial Era, distinct colonies, each with its own culture, values, and legislation, made up Colonial America. The colonies were largely disunited, leading to a dearth of a collective cultural identity. As a result, the American Identity at that period of time was…

The methodology selected for this article involves a collective case study of hyper-segregated public elementary schools in Connecticut from 2010-2014. The cases selected for analysis consist of 131 elementary schools identified as hyper-segregated using the Sheff Standard. The Sheff Standard considers a school hyper-segregated if less than 10% or more than 90% of a school’s student body are Minority. For the purpose of this research, the 131 elementary schools identified using the Sheff…

The time period was the early 17th century. A group of people traveled on a ship to the New World. They all came over looking for a new way of life and religious freedom. Religion is what drove them all out of England to North America. The all left England to escape religious persecution. Massachusetts back in the early 1600’s wasn’t like it is today. It wasn’t a small state that had a land area of approximately 10,000 square miles. It stretched across most of the north eastern part of the…

Phineas Taylor Barnum was Born on July 5, 1810, in Bethel, Connecticut and was a natural salesman, peddling lottery tickets and Cherry rum to Soldiers as a young boy around the age of 12. As a young man Barnum moved to New York City and got into a variety of businesses including newspaper publishing and running a boarding house and much more.. Barnum hated working with his hands so instead he made his fortune using his mind and using the gullibility of the public in his favor by almost tricking…

Phineas Taylor Barnum is one of the most famous showmen in America. He was born July 5, 1810 and died April 7, 1891. During his lifetime, P.T Barnum invented the circus and he was the reason we have the three-ring circles in the circus. The movie The Greatest Showman tries to portray P.T Barnum’s life. There is a lot of similarities and differences between the movie The Greatest Showman and real life on P.T Barnum life. Some similarities are what he did before the circus and who he worked with.…

In A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, a novel written by Mark Twain, the issue of slavery is extremely prevalent. Twain correlates the sixth century and nineteenth century through the idea of slavery. Hank Morgan, the protagonist of the novel, romantically travels back in time and perceives that people of lower class, especially those without a title, were treated horribly. Hank attempts to resolve the idea of slavery in the sixth century by bringing King Arthur on a journey as a…

The American Revolution was caused by much more than the simple concept of no taxation without representation; its roots can be found dozens of years prior, in 1763 and the years that followed, as well as back to the early history of colonial North America. Two authors and historians, Colin Calloway, who wrote The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America, and Eric Foner, who authored Give Me Liberty! an American History, offer two comprehensive viewpoints into the origins…

The diversity of the U.S. traces back to the beginning when the northern and southern colonies were established. Northern colonies were founded by pilgrims who wanted religious freedom, whereas southern colonies were founded to grant colonists opportunities for land ownership. Their differences and similarities in economic, political and religious is what shaped our country into what we are today. However their differences caused strife and a lack of understanding that eventually led to the…

Allocation of the state’s resources has shown a concentration in the city schools as a result of the influx of need required from the staff and students. In the Connecticut Constitution, the amendments guarantee citizens to their right to an equal education free of segregation. For the defendants, they presented an argument focused primarily on the interpretation of the Federal Constitution. Justice Peters’ ruled in favor of the plaintiffs due to the inability for the principles of the Federal…