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Today, being accused of witchcraft is as crazy as saying the Kardashians provide any real benefits to society, but in the Puritan society of New England in the 1600s, witchcraft was a perfectly logical explanation for strange or otherwise inexplicable events. Most likely if you ask someone about witch hunts in New England they will bring up naked girls dancing in the woods or accused witches being executed for their crimes by hanging at the gallows or being pressed by stones. This is only one…

from the Pagan religion, German and Dutch immigrants, and Native American customs. As time went on and early America was colonized by European Christians, these people were condemned as witches. From the first American witch hunt, which was in Hartford, Connecticut in 1662 (Klein), to the rise of modern tv witches in the 1960’s, America has seen a lot. In March of 1662, eight year old Elizabeth Kelly was allegedly “possessed” by a woman named Goody…

The White Album The White Album by Joan Didion is a scrapbook of well-written and vividly detailed personal memories of Didion in the 60s. “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” Using this sentence as the opening to her essay establishes interest within the reader. Didion uses amazing imagery to describe her first hand experiences. The book is a collection of thoughts and themes that Didion explores throughout her life, by recording all her opinions and ideas. This book is an exploration…

Having had recent ground-level experience within the Arizona, Connecticut, and Massachusetts public education realm, it has been apparent that every state has their own foci, challenges, ideas for reform, and agendas. Current policy initiatives seem to be tailored for each state’s own struggles but with little oversight and success. Additionally, two federal policies and education initiatives that have influenced states across the nation have been the No Child Left Behind Act (enacted in 2002)…

of legal and ethical level of treatment (Coristine, Hartford, Vingilis, & White, 2007). This article (Coristine et al., 2007), showed that those with mental disorders and their family members that visited the ER were concerned with the hospital’s ability to maintain confidentiality. The patients state the ER rooms don’t have sufficient privacy for mental health issues and therefor cause a breech in confidentiality (Coristine et al.,…

An Overachiever Dreamers are born every day, but it is up to us to make our dreams come true. Some of us are born with talents that we have not discovered at the moment, due to the fact; we do not push ourselves to do our best. We, as people, cannot blame it on the lack of education or wealth. There is a story behind every novelist that helps them express themselves. Visualize the joy and pain of Mark Twain as I speak on his life and achievements. In Florida, Missouri, there was a starry…

Levent Tuncer is a Turkish/American artist. He was born in Turkey. At the age of 18, he moved to London where he lived for 8 years. After that, Tuncer moved to United States, his home the last 36 years. He studied at the University of Hartford. Later, he moved to Tampa where he lives today. He travels to New York each month, where he has most of his paintings. Tuncer is recognized for include in his paintings ideas of history of the 16th and 19th century, ideas of repetition, order, disorder and…

Harriet Beecher Stowe was born on June 14, 1811, in Litchfield, Connecticut. She was the oldest of eleven( nine from her biologic mother and father, three from step-mother and biologic father). Her biologic mother Roxanna past way when Harriet was only five years of age. As for her father, he was a religious leader. All seven of her brothers grew up to be ministers, which would include Henry Ward Beecher. Catharine Beecher grew up to be an author and a teacher. Isabella,another one of her…

On May 12th 1907, Katharine Hepburn was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and her parents were a doctor and a suffragette. Her parents always encouraged her to be different and to exercise her body and mind to the fullest. Hepburn cultivated a tomboy personality as a young girl because she always spent her free time with her brother, Tom. In 1921, Hepburn felt devastated when she found out that her brother had died because he had hanged himself while trying to perform a hanging trick. Hepburn took…

The Election of 1800 was monumental: it was the first peaceful transition of power. Never before in history had a transition between two opposing groups occurred without warfare. However, in the United States, this election was the start of opposition, and the transition of power between two separate groups would continue from here, beginning with the transfer of power from Federalist John Adams to Democratic Republican Thomas Jefferson. From this original conflict between the Federalists and…