Hartford, Connecticut

Suzanne Collins is a modern American writer that has made quite the impact on young people across the globe today. Best known for The Hunger Games Trilogy that was published in 2008, her concise yet powerful writing has discussed themes that are sometimes avoided in young adult literature, such as how weakness and bravery can work together and the wrath of war. (“Biography”) Collins is a huge fan of dystopian style writing and she stated, “Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this…

people…” (Lundgren). Trinity, like many church burial grounds throughout New England would flood after storms. Because of this flooding, outbreaks of communicable diseases like typhoid and cholera were common (Williams). The residents of New Haven, Connecticut saw the Basil Hall Rural Cemetery or New Burying Ground as a vast improvement over its old “soppy churchyard, where the mourners sink ankle deep in a rank and offensive mould, mixed with broken bones and fragments of coffin” (French…

Barbra McClintock was born June 16, 1902, in Hartford, Connecticut (Editors). The third of four children born to physician Thomas McClintock and wife Sarah, McClintock was christened Eleanor, though her parents soon began to call her Barbra believing the nickname better suited her pragmatic demeanor (“Barbra McClintock”). Barbra demonstrated an interest in science from a young age, perhaps influenced by her father’s profession (Editors). At the age of seventeen, she graduated from high school…

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, has been central to American literature for over a century. He was born on November 30, 1835 in a small town in Missouri. Mark Twain is one of the most famous American literature authors of all time. He has changed the way people look at American Literature and has wrote hundreds of stories about his past childhood experiences and way of life. Twain tried to embody his virtues into the stories he wrote to help readers through tough times…

create a barrier to one’s life. The importance of disabilities have not come to much consideration until the early 1800s. Before then, handicapped were highly discriminated against. In 1817, the first American school for the deaf was founded in Hartford,…

He and his family moved into a costly manor in Hartford and he was gradually picking up a bigger and bigger fortune. He earned cash by giving addresses worldwide and composing books. In the mid 1880's he established and ran his own particular distributing firm. Amusingly however, he lost the majority…

Values are a set of beliefs and ideals that are meaningful to an individual, group or organization. They signify what is most important in our lives and often gives reasoning for our particular actions. Each set of values differs from on individual to the next because they are built off of our own personal experiences, social environments and family backgrounds. Values play a major role in how we go about living our daily lives. My set of personal values consists of the importance of family,…

All beings possess a powerful weapon within their vessel. The Bible cautions its readers to not let it rule over them. The Quran apprises its readers that life and death resides in it. It can heal the emotionally wounded, and cut them even deeper in the same instant. It is the tongue, or in other words, Nommo which means the power of spoken word. Nommo is one of the terms I learn while taking Dr. Franklin’s African American history 101 course, and in my opinion, it is also the foundation for…

While in the process of colonizing America, servants signed contracts, or indentures, to gain an entry into America. Although it may have seemed like a good deal, they were unaware of the danger and turmoil that was going to occur. The travel across the Atlantic has been described as torturous, and many of the servants who agreed to come did not get to live to see the New World. For those who survived the journey, it seemed as though there was disease and death surrounding them everywhere they…

The topic I decided to discuss for this research paper is social media and how it affects law enforcement agencies. Technological advances in the recent decades has led social media to be used in everyday modern life. For law enforcement, it has opened up new opportunities to share information with the general public. As our guest speaker mentioned to us on Thursday, the Fort Wayne Police Department uses Twitter and Facebook to make citizens aware of any detours or roads they may want to avoid…