Earl Lloyd

When the Europeans first came to, what is now known as North Carolina, they struggled to make it and eventually ended up settling in Virginia because of numerous reasons, political, geography, and culture. The Virginia colony finally figured out a way to turn profit and the settlers began settling in North Carolina again. Because North Carolina lacked a deep port they relied heavily on their surrounding colonies to get food and supplies, as well as more immigrants to work. America began to…

Freedom and liberty had many different meanings in American Revolution. During the war, freedom and liberty were desired by everyone but in various ways. The patriots, the loyalists, and the slaves all had different views on freedom. Freedom meant having no changes or going back to the days where there was no rebellion to loyalists like Mr. Lockton. Mr. Lockton defines freedom as having wealth and property while having the King rule the colonies without a rebellion. Patriots might define…

KC and Lazzera went to a drive in movie on Wednesday night, going to see one of KC's favorites. They sat on the roof of Kather's truck, using a blanket to make things more comfortable. The movie was comedical, making Lazzera laugh at times even though she had no idea what it meant. Kather usually laughed more at the confusion or amusement on Lazzera's face than at the movie, even though it was one of his favorites. After the movie, the two went back to the waterfall. Kather took thurough time…

In Fences, August Wilson creates a character, Troy, constantly wanting to control the lives of Rose, Cory, and Gabriel. In Troy’s mind, it’s his responsibility to protect his family; however, it falls into control over their lives. Eventually Rose, Cory, and Gabriel take control over their lives to get away from Troy’s control in various ways. Rose, Troy’s wife, is a typical, stereotypical 1950’s housewife in the novel. She stayed at home cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the children while…

These many folk structures are the soil, natural. Though often slight, their virtue is intimately related to environment and the heart-life of people” (Frank Lloyd Wright). Sheeler used his photography to combine the new American Machine Age’s with its roots. Sheeler’s paintings do not feel outdated fifty years later. Their lack of a personal signature or human figure keep them relevant. At first glance, Sheeler’s…

Born 1867 Frank Lloyd Wright is one of the first architects who found a new style based on interpretation of planes and abreast masses. He was influenced by many aspects of his life, firstly, when Wright’s parents split up he had an obsession with showing an ideal family living space. His early influences came mainly from working at his uncle’s farm and the “froebel blocks” (Curtis since 1900, page 75) his mother brought him, which he used to create various geometric shapes and patterns.…

American Civil Rights Movement from a historical perspective, historians and scholars have focused predominantly on the lives and influences of a few, celebrated characters. For example, early abolitionist advocates, such as Sojourner Truth, William Lloyd Garrison, and Frederick Douglass, and twentieth-century civil rights leaders Ida B. Wells, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King Jr. have received significant attention and justifiably achieved revered status among scholars and non-academics…

Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, commonly know as Frederick Douglass was born into one of the worst periods in the last century to be of African decent. Douglass was born into slavery around 1818, (according to “Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, an American Slave”, it is stated that Douglass never knew his exact age or birth year), near Tuckahoe, Maryland. September 3, 1838 Douglass was able to escape slaver and become a free man by boarding a Philadelphia, Wilmington and…

“While the standard polarization of human being in a crime story is normally dividing by the law abiding citizens from the criminal, the characters here are soon divided on the basis of sex differences.” (Alkalay) In Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles” Glaspell uses a murder investigation of a woman’s husband to demonstrate the different roles of men and women in the early 1900’s. Glaspell shows the reader, through small significant objects that the men think are inessential to illustrate the greater…

Designer Devan Kaufman said it best when he declared, “Frank Lloyd Wright houses have always just made sense.” Wright had a way of creating floor plans that was so novice and incredible that anyone of the twentieth century and now could tell that he was the architect of a house just by looking at it. His work was so amazing because of how contemporary and intelligent it was. Wright knew how to do certain things like creating pillars to be soundproof so that you couldn’t hear a busy road just…