Connecticut Compromise

Introduction Understanding conflict management strategies can aid a person in resolving conflict effectively and efficiently. This paper discusses the conflict management strategies, avoidance, accommodation, competition, compromise, and collaboration. Each strategy has positive and negative consequences that can aid parties within a conflict in deciding which strategy to use. Each strategy can be used in an appropriate and inappropriate manner. Understanding these concepts can allow conflicted…

Luna Smith sat down on her black leather couch with a cup of raspberry ice tea in hand. She turned to her right and picked up the TV remote from a glass side table. She then pushed the on button to turn on the flat screen TV after a long day at the courthouse of Virginia as a lawyer. She then pushed the rubber keys five and seven to turn on the CW since it was 8:55 (which is a channel made by the CBS and Warner Bros) to watch the new episode of Supernatural. (Supernatural is a show where two…

Newton! Newton is one of the most beautiful and calmest towns that I have ever lived in. It has the best restaurants and doughnuts! The town is also well taken care of and has great school districts along with many wonderful sports that start in middle school and are offered to the students. You don't see many run down buildings and all of the houses are nice and well taken care of. There are many wonderful reasons why you should move to Newton. First of all Newton is known for the the…

Exotic Animals in Burke County? One night an exotic 40-pound cat named Tyra ran off in downtown Morganton and the owners needed people to help find her. Who knew that you could have an exotic cat that almost looked like a cheetah in Burke County? Did we allow exotic animals at the time? Tyra’s owners had her for four years and as I was not aware that you could have exotic animals in Burke County. Many of you probably don’t know, that the mayor of Morganton did go out and fee the cat and…

Emily Morua Edwardo Pedregon English 4 April 20, 2016 Morua i Final Draft Basketball was invented by a physical education instructor named Dr. James Naismith in the early 1890s. He was challenged to come up with a new game that was able to be played indoors due to the cold weather. Back in the days before the actual basketball was invented, they would play with a soccer ball. The basket didn’t have a hole on the bottom of the rim just yet. So what they had to do was, climb up to the top of…

discontent she has when making these compromises by stating, “It tore me up inside to suppress my dream, but I went to school for a PhD in English literature thinking I had found the perfect compromise… felt I was staring at the bottom of the abyss. I had seen the flaw in my life of halfwayness, in my planned life of compromises.” The following statement was effective because she uses hyperbole to strongly express displeasure she has faced by trying to compromise with her parents intentions for…

America has endured many hardships and fought many wars in order to reach where we stand today. One of the most difficult and significant time periods was the late 1800 's when there was a divide between the North and South. Each side had different views which caused great tension between citizens, eventually leading to the Civil War in 1861. The South and North were dependent on different things to support a successful economy like slave labor and developed transportation. Another difference…

John Brown; hero, criminal, or insane? John Brown was a 19th-century belligerent abolitionist who is well known for his raid on Harper’s Ferry in 1859. John Brown was born on May 9, 1800, in Torrington, Connecticut. Growing up with a father who strongly disapproved of slavery, Brown was highly motivated in creating a slave insurrection. He strongly believed in violently taking care of entities. The actions taken upon by John Brown led others to view him in different ways. His work led him to…

two-part Missouri Compromise came into being. The compromise was that Missouri would be allowed to enter the Union as a slave state as long as another free state was also admitted to keep the balance of power in Congress. The second part was to set the future borders of the Unites States within the Louisiana Purchase establishing a free zone and a slave zone with the hopes that this would settle the issue of what states could be free or slave holding in the future. This compromise only…

Senate passed the Missouri Compromise which allowed Missouri to be a “slave state” and then Maine would be a “free state”. Then it was added on to that slavery was prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase. That part of the compromise halted slavery from moving and growing into the rest of the Louisiana Purchase. It was best said that“ it was becoming clear that strong opposing positions on slavery were beginning to take root” (Emer 3+). The Missouri Compromise was a way for Congress to…