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In this analysis of a primary source, I will be examining the Rape Trial of Ephraim Wheeler. Ephraim Wheeler was on trial for raping his thirteen-year-old daughter Betsy in 1805. The first part of the document is a transcript of Betsy’s testimony in court, in which she gives a straightforward account of the events leading up to, and following her assault in 1805. In 1806 Ephraim was found guilty and hanged as a result of the trial. This document gives insight into the life a teenage girl in the…

Your essay, “The Way We Live Now: 11-11-01; Lost and Found,” interested me because of your perspective on creating my own personal New York. As you mention at the end of your essay, I am part of what you call, “those new kids on the block,” in fact, I would call myself the newest kid on the block (CITATION). I am originally from a rural town in Pennsylvania and have come to New York City to not only educated myself through my classes, but also through examining the city. However, after reading…

Walt Whitman was born May 31, 1819, in the village of West Hills, Long Island, New York, approximately 50 miles east of New York City. He was the second of eight children. Whitman’s father was of English descent, and his mother’s family, the Van Velsor, were Dutch. In early 1822, when Walt was two years old, the Whitman family moved to Brooklyn, which was still a small town. Whitman would spend most of the next 40 years of his life in Brooklyn, which grew into a thriving city during his…

Born and raised in the east end of London, the Cobblepot family was one that lived a life of immense power and riches. Oswald, one of four children, was the youngest. Arthur Cobblepot, the patriarch of the family, lead an expansive monopoly on the London shops, but, was almost rooted out by the police by the time Cobblepot turned ten. Moving to Gotham City in the following winter, it didn’t take long for Arthur to begin a new monopoly on the harbors and eventually climbed his way into the upper…

“Ethan Allen, a farmer, businessman, land speculator, philosopher, writer, lay theologian, and American Revolutionary War patriot, hero, and politician. (n.d. 2015)” It’s apparent that Ethan Allen was a very successful, busy and multi-talented man. Made most successful by creating the Green Mountain boys and the capture of fort Ticonderoga in the Revolutionary war, Ethan Allen was an essential part in declaring our independence from Great Britain. Ethan Allen was born on January 21, 1738 in…

Blessing Opara Eduard Pedersen History 120 15 September 2014 Colonization-Collecting and Evaluating the Evidence In the late seventeenth century Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn. A British colony established as a safe haven for Penn and his fellow Quakers. Pennsylvania was a colony that promoted religious tolerance as it was established to prevent the religious persecution of Quakers that was happening in England throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Pennsylvania was a…

The poems “I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman and “I Too” written by Langston Hughes each express similar and different attitudes towards America. Both writers each have their own perceptions of America that they have written about in their poems.The attitude expressed in “I Hear America Singing” and “I Too” are both wanting equality along with the poem “I Too” wanting to end racism. There are some major differences perceived in both these poems on the author’s perspective on America. One…

The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream was written by, the three men whom the story is about, Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt. This book explains the promise between three young men to change what society is trying to deem these young men will become—which is nothing, but drop-outs and drug dealers. Sam, George, and Rameck swore to each other that they would be better than the stereotypes, they would become doctors, and they would give back to their…

Whitman and Hughes Comparison Essay The two poems we have studied and analyzed, Walt Whitman’s “I hear America Singing” and Langston Hughes’ “Let America be America Again”, each have very different central meanings. Both poems show the authors’ outlooks on America, Whitman’s being positive, and Hughes’ being negative. The tone and diction that each of these very successful authors choose to use in their writing come together to create the central message and the mood of the poems,…

Frank Sinatra was an actor, producer, and singer in the 20th century. He was born on December 12, 1915 in Hoboken, New Jersey, to Italian immigrants. He had to be delivered with the aid of forceps, which caused severe scarring to his left cheek, neck, and ear, and perforated his ear drum, damage that remained for life. Due to his injuries at birth, his baptism at St. Francis Church in Hoboken was delayed until April 2, 1916. A childhood operation on his mastoid bone left major scarring on his…