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in 1818 which led her to open the Hartford Female Seminary in 1823. She combined core parts of algebra, chemistry, history, Latin, philosophy, and rhetoric with a strong emphasis on development of moral and religious character. Explained in her essay published in 1829, Suggestion Respecting Improvements in Education; Catharine believes the primary goal of education should be to provide a basis for the development of a student’s…

political cartoon (Doc C), which depicts a man trying to smuggle American tobacco to a British ship. The cartoon portrays the Embargo Act as an overreach and criticizes it for being “cursed”, as many thought it was. In a series of resolutions by the Hartford Convention in 1815 (Doc E), we see that the radical Federalists who created the report were still criticizing Jefferson’s policies. For example, the second resolution states that ⅔ of both the Senate and House of Representatives must agree…

In the sixth paragraph she comments, “But let the men of Hartford imagine that they were not in the position of being voters at all, that they were governed without their consent being obtained, that the legislature turned an absolutely deaf ear to their demands, what would the men of Hartford do then . . . they would either have to submit indefinitely to an unjust state of affairs, or they would have to rise up and adopt some…

enforcement of the law will be a daunting task, but I speaking to a different type of enforcement. In April 2010, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) launched the "Phone in One Hand, Ticket in the Other" enforcement program in Hartford, Connecticut, and Syracuse, New…

The Industrial Revolution started in 18th century and ended in the first half of the 19th century. Samuel Colt was born 19 July 1814 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States and he died on January 10, 1862 in Hartford, Connecticut. He died a wealthy man. He started his idea of the revolver on a yearlong voyage on the ship Corvo in 1830, where he made designs of his first revolver out of wood. In 1836 Samuel Colt received a U.S. patent for a revolver mechanism that would enable any gun to shoot…

Throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries when the journalism industry began to blossom, a series of changes have occurred within the field. Various scholars, writers, and publishers have argued multiple facets within and surrounding the journalism industry. A few topics include its role in society, the types of reporting genres, broadcasting and the role of reliable news, and the use of social media to share what’s happening currently in news. Works shown in this paper date back as…

Puerto Rican grandparents. This was to ensure the validity of the study in question. The study was conducted due to the high prevalence of Asthma in the Puerto Rican population. The children that were chosen were living in San Juan, Puerto Rico and Hartford, Connecticut. The children ranged from six to fourteen years of age. There was only one child per family chosen, even if there was more than one child in that particular age category. The intervention that was studied was, did breastfeeding…

The organization the essay is about, is the National Theater of the Deaf. The two addresses of the theaters are Monte Cristo Cottage 325 Pequot Avenue New London, CT 06320 and 139 North Main Street West Hartford, CT 06107. The company began in 1967, 10 years after David Hays, Dr. Edna Simon Levine, and Broadway's director Arthur Penn and actress Anne Bancroft got the idea. It all started in the 1950's when the show Miracle Worker was on broadway. Hays was the set designer of the show and was…

history. About 30 years before the Salem Witch Trials, there were trials over in Connecticut. Eleven people were hanged and 46 prosecutions took place. Connecticut was the first of the American Colonies to have gone through the witch hunt frenzy. Hartford, Connecticut was the first New England town in America to have a witch hunt and trials. A young 8-year-old girl had died suddenly coming home from her neighbor’s house in March, 1662. She suddenly fell ill after she returned to her home. The…

to the story they say. Activity #3 a. Identify contemporary historical events and social practices during the life of each critic that you chose, considering race, gender, age and class-based roles in society during that time. The author of “The Hartford Courant” was unsigned and i am unable to identify the author as there is no account. But the author of Critique #2 is T.S. Perry. T.S. Perry was a caucasian Male in his 40s holding the status of a writer (middle class). In 1885 the middle…