James the Just

The ones refusing to pay were the Whiskey Rebels. The rebels were attacking tax collectors and threatened to attack the town near Pittsburgh. The Whiskey Rebellion showed the power of the national government and was just testing the power of the new Constitution. It demonstrated people that the new Constitution was powerful enough to take down a “mobocracy.” John Adams wanted to prevent having a war with France, so he decided to send John Jay, John Marshall , and…

Mary Shelley, in her Science Fiction novel Frankenstein introduces her ideas of technological advancement as a problem between the characters. These problems are considered to be monstrous; however, the modern world would not be where we are today without the advancement of our technology. New discoveries of technology originated in the emergence of the Nineteenth Century and influenced the writing of Frankenstein. Some of these inventions including the discovery of electricity and advancements…

Freedom Summer, just a mere 10 weeks of the summer of 1964, changed the world, just by changing Mississippi. Reconstruction ended and blacks were no longer slaves, but they continued to be oppressed. Mississippi was the state that kept blacks as slaves without the title. Mississippi had the lowest crime rate, supposedly, but most likely had the most murders of blacks in cold blood. The Mississippi Summer Project dived head first into the volatile violence, subjecting their volunteers to a unique…

In the late 1700s, the Federalists Papers, essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay spoke volumes to the colonial citizens. Divided into factions, the Federalists and Anti-federalists had their own views on how the government should be run. Avid supporters of the Constitution, the Federalists made a name for themselves, disguising the fact they were committed to a nationalist government. On the other hand, the Anti-federalists focused more on the true principles of the…

After witnessing the raising of the American Flag by Marines on the Japanese island stronghold of Iwo Jima in 1945, Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal turned to Marine General Holland “Howling Mad” Smith to exclaim, “The raising of the flag on Iwo Jima guarantees the Marine Corps for the next 500 years.” Unfortunately, Secretary Forrestal was unaware of another battle that had already begun in the halls of the Pentagon, the committee rooms of Congress, and in the court of public opinion that…

Today millions of people play Basketball, whether it is playing it professionally, for a school activity, or just to get a little bit of exercise. I bet 90% of those people don’t know a thing about who, what, why, or even when basketball came about. I'm here to take you on a journey to understand how basketball became alive. It all started in December 1891 at the international YMCA training school where a group of college students were sent to play indoor activities to burn off their energy…

Though the narrator’s primary focus in James Joyce’s “The Dead” is Gabriel Conroy and his thoughts and feelings, there is no doubt that there is a strong feminine presence throughout. Gabriel’s self-identity in “The Dead” depends on the presence of three women and without these women, Gabriel would experience no conflict and thus the storyline would be extremely different. His characterization is first revealed when he speaks to Lily, the caretaker’s daughter. She responds to the literal meaning…

and his new adventure begins. This trope is all to normal for movies which feature a love story, but aren’t necessarily considered a romance because they are told from a male perspective. Titanic does not fall into this cliche. Rose’s story remains just that, Rose’s story. At the end of the film, while the camera pans across the many photographs that she insisted on bringing with her to the crew ship, the audience sees the live that Rose lived, completed with flying a plane, working as an…

The novel “The Killer Angels”, written by Michael Shaara, tells about the Battle of Gettysburg, one of the most pivotal conflict during the American Civil War. It is common knowledge that Confederate General Robert E. Lee led his army of 70,000 to the small town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania after gaining a victory against Union forces at Chancellorsville, Virginia. He believed that with a recent win his troops were ready to attack and defeat the North. The battle took place from July 1 to July 3…

James Joyce, in his genius, cleverly placed food and drink throughout his short stories in his collection Dubliners. Despite how subtle and meaningless they may seem, they have a very specific meaning and were deliberate, that is, they were a way of giving the story much more meaning through one of the three themes of the entire collection: paralysis, gnomon, and simony, express his character’s situations into materialistic substances such as food, and communion, which aren’t exclusively in…