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practice of witchery because it is still a current subject that most people are not informed about. Thirty years before the famous Salem Witch Trials there was a witch hunt in another New England Town. This case involved an eight year old girl in Hartford, Connecticut.She was found dead in her bed inside her home by her parents. Her parents claimed she was possessed by witchcraft. (Her parents) “ testified that…

A Woman’s Journey into Insanity in Relation to Feminism The Yellow Wallpaper is a short fiction, written by Charlotte Gilman; an American author who was born in Hartford, and who suffered from a lonely childhood due to her father’s abandonment. She worked as an art teacher and married the artist Charles Stetson, who turned her married life into a nightmare full of sadness and gloom. Her depression and illness came after giving birth to her daughter. Gilman committed suicide later, after she…

support the Boys and Girls Club of America because it is a safe place for children that are struggling in poverty. For more than 150 years, clubs have been helping young children to become their ideal self. It all began in 1860 with three women in Hartford, Connecticut. All three women help organize the club in their belief that boys that wandered the streets had a place that can be danger free. Today, clubs work with young children with diverse ethnicities, physical or mental disabilities, and…

There were two different parties in politics in the early days of America; the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans. The Federalists believed in “loose constriction” of the Constitution, were against slavery, wanted a strong national government, and were allied with Great Britain. The Republicans believed in “strict constriction” of the Constitution, thought slavery was essential to the country, favored state government over national government, and were allied with France. They had…

Slavery. It used to be a widespread issue. Many folks had different opinions. Unfortunately, those different opinions led to severe problems. Tension within the United States. The Civil War. Floggings. Executions. These are but a few. However, during the grief and pain of war, there was still hope. This hope took upon itself the form of a little woman, namely Harriet Beecher Stowe. Harriet was strictly opposed to the horrors of slavery and, utilizing her gift for prose, spoke out against it with…

“How we can make it through the long night of despair to the bright day of hope” is the author’s way of saying, how a change should be made in order to have a better life, a better future, and a better relationship with others. Racism started when African Americans were kidnapped and sold to White Americans. Ever since, Americans have grown up with a feeling of superiority towards minority races. The author Michael Eric Dyson utilizes statistics, real life examples, word choice, and emotional…

Henry M. grew up just outside of Hartford, Connecticut and was known as a young man with an above average intelligence. Some of his favorite activities were ice-skating, listening to detective shows on the radio, and he enjoyed figuring out what would happen in the detective shows before it was released. On his sixteen birthday, Henry had his very first grand mal seizure. Then after that day, the seizures started appearing more often. In 1953, he was experiencing up to as many as eleven seizures…

Ex'pression College for Digital Arts, Full Sail University, University of Hartford, Berklee College of Music and many others. Skill wise, all the above universities and many of the others require for you to be technologically wise so as to be able to repair the recording equipment when it falters, have a background and love of…

American Sign Language (ASL) is a complex language communicated through intricate signs made by a person’s hands with many different facial expressions, positions of the body, and other gestures. The language is most commonly used by the deaf population in United States, and English-speaking parts of Canada, and in certain parts of Jamaica and Puerto Rico. Since ASL is seen as an authentic and definite language, it has many variations such as Spanish and French. There is no set form of sign…

The development of the two-party system that gradually settled into the partisan politics of modern-day United States was entirely unintended by the Founding Fathers. The primary root of the nation itself, the Constitution, does not mention the need nor want for this political system. Moreover, George Washington, the first president of the United States, directly and clearly mentioned his opposition against this then-hypothetical situation of the system in his Farewell Address. A little…