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Two of them were the scopes trial and the sacco-vanzetti trial. The Scopes trail came about when John scopes of Dayton, Tennessee admitted to teacher the Theory of Evolution. He, as a high School biology teacher, believed that he could not teach biology without teaching evolution. His trial began on July 10, 1925. When his trial was over with, he was found guilty…

Love is Selfish and Lonely In The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers uses each character to represent the relation between love and desperation rooted in deep loneliness. McCullers creates a city filled with realistic personas that help to symbolize different ideas such as the loneliness of passion and the acceptance of conforming. Using these characters, McCullers also compares love and desperation to the ideology of religion in a such way that displays criticism. By the end of the…

(Benvenuto). Most often, Emily Brontë 's pieces reflect mostly on her agoraphobic personality (Benvenuto), and the time period where she grew up. As like Brontë, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, did not allow his social limitations to hold him back. Dunbar was born in Dayton, Ohio on June 27, 1872 (Bloom). Dunbar was able to relate to Brontë feeling…

Free the Blackfish In summer of 2013 the documentary Blackfish premiered in select theaters and on CNN. This film highlights the unbearable reality of SeaWorld -- behind closed doors. It focuses on Tilikum, a 12,500 pound bull Orca (Cowperthwaite). Tilikum’s tragic story became the inspiration for the documentary. This highly controversial film has been the root cause of numerous protests. Just one year after Blackfish SeaWorld went down 48% in the stock market and lost 7% of their annual…

Patrick Ehren attended Ripon College for all 4 years from 1982 to 1986, while he was also playing on the college football team. While Susan Lapp attended Ripon for a year and a half from 1985 to December of 1986, then Purdue for half a year from January of 1987 to May of 1987, and Marquette for 3 years from 1987 to 1990, and she played soccer at Ripon and Marquette and basketball only at Ripon. Senior year in College, Patrick and his friends created an intramural basketball team to compete and…

During 1742, a small Connecticut village had a soap opera style plan unfold out. Two young lovers, Sarah Grosvenor and Amasa Sessions conceived a child out of wedlock. In a piece called, “Taking the Trade”, author Cornelia Dayton explains the story of what happened to our young lovers. Unprepared for a child, Amasa Sessions presented an idea. To have Sarah take an aide to assist in the abortion of the child, something not uncommon for women to do during this time. With not…

Clarence Darrow and His Adherence to the Underlying Truths Clarence Darrow was widely regarded to be one of the best criminal defense lawyers in American history. Born on April 18, 1857, near Kinsman, Ohio, Darrow attended Michigan University (Clarence Darrow, 1). After one year, he was quickly admitted to the Ohio bar and began to defend the anarchists who were charged with murder after the Haymarket Riot. Darrow mainly defended labor unions and also successfully defended several people in…

It was so useful for me when I started to write my essay because I had the main information that I needed together in one place. At the beginning of my essay I found it hard to do, but later I knew how I want in to look like and what I want to say write. I wrote out a rough draft which was too short so I had to add more details about the event. ESSAY ! The word Genocide means killing or destroying members of an ethic group because of their race, nationality or religion. It is one of the…

The introduction to Gillion’s novel the 10 days that unexpectedly changed America strays away from well-known dates and explores the other parts of history from constitutional to cultural and answering so very important and intriguing topics open for discussion along the way in just 10 overlooked events in American history. Also telling us Puritans play a major part as “the original sources”. The epilogue, shows us that there are many surprising and unknown things in America’s history that…

This document is an excerpt from the book, Fifty Years in Chains published in 1859. Fifty in Chains was itself an abridged unauthorized reprint of Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, a autobiographical narrative of slavery as composed by Charles Ball and edited by Isaac Fisher. By the late 1850s, the slave narrative had become an established literary genre and an important instrument of anti-slavery activists. By 1859, slave narratives had…