John Donelson

resigning from office. Furthermore, whenever Washington left office the country was in turmoil over who would lead them next. Due to the recent war affairs, the citizens based their votes more on the revolutionary credits rather than political standpoints. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were, without a doubt, two of the best candidates for the role of president. These two men were friends and collaborators who worked together to shape the country in the beginning stages, and not they were…

A theme is the core of a central importance and often the universal idea that is explored throughout a piece of literature. In Paradise Lost, the importance of obedience to God is one of the main themes that shapes Adam and Eve and their different roles when focusing on gender identities. Milton uses Adam and Eve’s disobedience to further illustrate why Satan was rebellious and to educate why Jesus’ resurrection was important. Throughout the poem, two moral paths come from disobedience. One…

“But as she bites into his neck and he feels a burning poisonous venom seeping through his veins paralyzing his every muscle… he realizes the answer to it all!” (Skal 336) From the very beginning, vampires were obsessed with human blood. Their craving for blood is a sign of lust and emotions. They develop different emotions when they are surrounded by blood. Sometimes the emotions are good, for example if they smell blood and they are able to taste it. Also, sometimes the emotions are bad, for…

In American history, few ideological disagreements have been as important as the divide between Alexander Hamilton 's Federalist Party and Thomas Jefferson 's Democrat-Republicans. Both parties were led by brilliant men whose political arguments would lay the foundation for debates on the nature of government in America that are ever present in our national discourse. Hamilton thought America should drive ahead into the future as an industrial and mercantile powerhouse, whereas Thomas Jefferson…

everything the movement stood for. He stood by the people and against the authority on how every human has their rights, and no one should have their natural born rights taken away from them or be governed by a group of rich elites and aristocrats. John Locke preferred to rebel against all traditional established institutions as he said “The end of government is the good of…

As Joseph Ellis observes in his book Founding Brothers, longtime friends (and part-time bitter rivals) Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were very different men -- in politics, in personality, and (as we will observe most closely here) in leadership styles. Adams was talkative, confrontational, and tended to make his feelings unambiguously clear, while Jefferson was reserved, elusive, and outwardly passive, leading conversations where he wanted them to go by more subtle methods (a less charitable…

My parents emigrated to this country thirty-four years ago from Mexico. My father had a grade school education and my mother had a middle school education. They had a deep desire to improve their lives, and having that American dream everybody talks about. The American dream they had in mind was giving their children what they couldn’t have, due to the lack of funds. Due to their limited English and lack of education the only available work was low paying manual labor. My mother worked in the…

Many truly don’t know the complete meaningful definition of the word passion. Passion in the dictionary is a very vague and simple definition. The definition defines passion as a strong emotion. There are many strong emotions out there in the world that the word passion can be confused, or can be used in the wrong context. It seems like people have taking away the true meaning of passion. People have overlooked the word and substituted the definition with a definition that will never truly…

events from their own lives to make stories to teach about the world. John Ernst Steinbeck is one of many examples of this. Steinbeck is an American novelist who used his own life experiences to inspire, and create his works. Steinbeck through these works has taught about human nature, the natural world, and shone light on social issues. Three of his works exemplify these: “Of Mice and Men”, “East of Eden”, and “Grapes of Wrath”. John Steinbeck was born in 1902 in Salinas, California. He was the…

the list of trials and began a few months later because of the heinous accusation brought about and also because the courts were have a slow season in the middle of a possible revolution. As the trial started Jefferson teamed up with his good friend John Adams to be is defender because Jefferson knew that Adams has intelligent, had a way with words, and had worked as a defendant before and the justice system did not have the best public defenders. Jefferson also knew that it would be in his…