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Carol Berkin is a professor of History at Baruch College, and she teaches early American and women’s history. A BRILLIANT SOLUTION: Inventing the American Constitution is a book that involves the independence of United States of America. The years after the Rebellion were the greatest years and the most terrible periods. Even if the nation is eminent their newborn liberty, they did not have a strong central administration that would connect them mutually (Berkin, 2002). Berkin amazingly…

These regions are similar, yet unique in their own way. The New England region, Middle region, and Southern region each have an economy, a climate, and a history that is each unique to that region. The New England Colonies The New England region was made up of the colonies of Massachusetts, Maine (which was part of Massachusetts), Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire. Being in the Northeast of the future U. S. the New England colonies never got very warm with harsh and cold winters…

Confederate army prisoners, the Federals built barracks inside the fort intended for two thousand men. During the period of exchange under the alliance of July 22, 1862, the fort often served as a rest station for officers and enlisted men in route to City Point, Virginia. With the breakdown of exchange in 1863, the Federal authorities declared Fort Delaware to be a regular prison depot and built outside the walls of the original fort additional barracks intended to hold five thousand prisoners…

“I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman is a poem about how different people from different backgrounds have one thing in common, being a hardworking American. In this poem, Whitman is using singing to metaphorically symbolize the sounds and the actions of laborers. It is a metaphorical tale in the sense that varied carols are being used to represent how America is made up of many individuals working together as one nation. The tone is an ecstatic display of everyday people working hard and…

The greatest human impact on the water quality of Barnegat Bay is irrigation. Irrigation occurs when water is added to land or crops in order to aid in growth. In the northern parts of the bay, where “peak nitrogen levels have been recorded”, many homeowners continually use lawn fertilizers which carry nutrients in the runoff produced (Seitzinger 6). In addition to being a problem in the northern Barnegat Bay area, in the past few years, “the pollution problem is now being magnified by increased…

In this free verse poem, “A Song,” Walt Whitman is describing how great he believes America really is by using metaphors and by adding a touch of repetition, imagery, and personification to give the reader a warm and fuzzy feeling. The first line in this poem emotes a powerful feeling. By writing about “making the continent indissoluble,” Whitman is creating a backdrop for the rest of the poem. It allows the reader to understand that the words that follow include colossal ideas about a nation…

impacts. These shows often portray stereotypical models all across America, emphasizing, and even exaggerating their habits and Ebonics, leaving viewers with a narrow vision of American citizens and lessening ethical and moral values. Shows such as Jersey Shore, Teen Mom, and Here Comes Honey Boo Boo give us a glimpse of what exactly reality television entails. We, the people, are obligated to ensure the prolific souls of our great nation be rid of these vicious and terrible stereotypes. It is…

singing’ and ‘Leaves of Grass’. You will find out how many jobs Whitman worked and how that helped shape his career. Also, you will read why Ralph Waldo Emerson inspired Whitman. Walt Whitman was born May,31 1819 in West Hills, Huntington Township, in New York. Whitman was the son of Walter Whitman and Louisa Van Velsor. Whitman moved to Brooklyn where he attended school before dropping out in 1830 and becoming an apprentice for Long Island Patriot. Eight years later from 1838 to 1839…

I first knew that drum corps was for me at the DCI East super-regional in 2012. DCI, or Drum Corps International, is marching music's major league and is essentially professional marching band. I hadn't known anything about it until that fateful day the summer before freshman year when my high school band made the hour and a half journey by school bus to J. Birney Crum Stadium in Allentown, PA to watch this classic drum corps event. I only barely remember the corps that performed or what their…

America is a rose, every petal is similar, but different from one another just like the people of America. On the stem of the rose there are many sharp thorns, these represents the problems that exist America. they are shown outward and not hidden due to the imperfect nation that America is. When the rose is observed it is considered a beautiful specimen of diversity, just like America. In From Preface of the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass the author Walt Whitman discusses that American’s…