John Adams

Adams, John. The. “John Adams - Message to the Senate of December 15, 1800 Regarding the Convention of 1800.” The Avalon Project : John Adams - Message to the Senate of December 15, 1800. Accessed February 27, 2024. https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/ja00-01.asp. According to this source, John Adams’ statement to the Senate is referring to the Treaty of Mortefontaine, signed to end the Quasi-War between the United States and France. The message is a request from John Adams, directly to the…

The opera Doctor Atomic by composer John Adams dramatizes the strenuous anxieties surrounding the Manhattan Project 's creation of the atomic bomb. The opera’s libretto using original sources, features in their own words the described tensions among the scientists involved in making the bomb. The 3-and-a-half-hour production follows the father of the atomic bomb, theatrical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, as he wrestles with “the pull between scientific rectitude and mass murder” while…

Ansel Adams was born in San Francisco, California on February 20, 1902. His parents were Charles Hitchcock Adams and Olive Bray Adams. Ansel was an only child and was born when his mother was forty years old. Growing up, Adams had a pretty bumpy childhood and a hard time fitting in at school. During one of the aftershocks from the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Ansel was playing outside when he fell into a brick wall and broke his nose. His crooked nose was a characteristic that…

a possibility that John “Grizzly” Adams’ beard made him look tougher than the bears he trapped and trained, thereby contributing to his long standing legacy of masculinity. But John Adams did not start out as the epitome of Western mountain manliness. He was born in 1812 in Medway, Massachusetts, a member of the prominent Adams family of New England. He was a distant cousin of two presidents, John Adams and John Quincy Adams, as well as Revolutionary War patriot Samuel Adams. At the age of…

Akers, Charles. Abigail Adams: An American Women. Boston: Brown, Little and Company, 1980. Abigail Adams: An American Women written by Charles W. Akers. This book was based on Abigail Adams, the wife of John Adams, the first vice president of the United States and second president of the United States, and mother of the United States’ sixth president, John Quincy Adams. The book follows her life, from her parents’ lives before she was born to meeting John and fighting for women 's…

In January of 1780, Abigail Adams writes a letter to her son and husband, while they are taking a voyage for political reasons. Adams meticulously constructs a piece of writing that emphasizes the importance of their journey and summarizes her high expectations for him. It would not be unlikely to that Adams assumes her son will follow in his father’s footsteps. Vice president at the time and the husband of Abigail Adams, John Adams, will become the second president of the United States.…

commands those under them to achieve victory. I have since discovered that this is not what makes a leader a leader. I found that not every person with power is a leader. I grew enough to notice what I could not before: people’s motives. When John Quincy Adams said “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader,” he does not mention what the leader gets. He only mentions their effect on others. These effects are what are truly important to a…

Son The letter written by Abigail Adams to her son, John Quincy Adams, is meant to promote his continued success as an important virtue for himself and his family, as he takes his voyage to France, in his newly acquired role as an interpreter for matters regarding the US and French governments. While attempting to replenish and ensure her son’s moral in written sentiment, she heavily relies on the usage of appeals, extended metaphors, and diction. Abigail Adams’ letter uses multiple doses of…

Abigail Adams: Ingenuity/Intellect and Perseverance “If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.” - Abigail Adams. Abigail was supporting women's rights and stated that they should be able to learn and/or do all the duties that men do no matter what the law says. Abigail Adams is one of the first defender of women's education and rights.. She…

Writing Etiquette While reading the letters written by Abigail and John Adams, I noticed that they were written differently than if someone from today’s society had written them. They were written well, clearly thought out and pleasantly worded. There may have been an occasional misspelled word; however, despite that, it is obvious that both Adams were highly intelligent. It is a shame that people today do not give the same careful attention to their written communications. Writing properly…