John Williams

short story Lord of the Flies by William golding the setting starts out as being paradice with a mountains jungles for the boys to explore and hunt while they survive on the island. The island is beautiful with no wreckage from the plain or sign of civilization or adults, this lets the boys feel free to do whatever they want without parents or cicity telling them no. Their first instincts as Locke and Hobbes predicted would get together as a group and form a John Lock kind government with Ralph…

witchcraft by Abygail Williams, who was lying to keep herself along with the other girls, from getting into trouble with the court. “The girl, the Williams girl, Abigail Williams...And demandin’ of her how she come to be so stabbed, she testify it were your wife’s familiar spirit pushed it in” (1245-1246). Elizabeth was questioned and sentenced to sit in jail, because a child that her husband had “known” wished to have her dead, since she was still in love with her him, John Proctor. Even…

In the essay, The Calypso Borealis, John Muir uses very intense descriptions and changes the tone of his essay using words to show readers how nature gives him peace, but at the same time it gave him a hard time. “The flower was white and made the impression of the utmost simple purity like a snow flower.” In this paragraph, John uses the word “purity” which has a peaceful and spiritual connotation. It also shows how the feeling of the first encounter with flower will stay with him for a long…

had four children, one dying as a toddler. After 13 short years, Harriet died a few weeks before Thanksgiving in 1865. Five months later, he left for America with his three young children ranging in age from 12 to 8. The crossed the plains with the William Henry Chipman Company and arrived in Utah September of 1866. The Jones family moved to Henefer where Robert lived the rest of his life. His journal records, “On December, 2, 1866 I was married to Miriam Ann Richins, daughter…

husband as he had had an affair with the housekeeper, Abigail Williams, when Elizabeth had fallen ill (the argument). Although she has every right to be angry about the affair she bad mouths Abigail and drops little hints around town about the affair (Abigail talking to proctor in the beginning), she also constantly brings it up and holds it against John, which only makes everything worse. It seems as though her coldness may have been what led John a stray. Even though she tends to be a bit…

The Middle Ages also more commonly known as the Dark Age was a period in time that lasted for a thousand years starting sometime the fifth and officially ending all the way in the fifteenth century. This period in time is mostly characterized in modern day by subjects such as the black plague, the hundred years war, tales of brave knights, rigid class systems and heavy religious influences. As the fourteenth century came about there began to be a gradual transition into what would be known as…

William Shakespeare is considered as one of the greatest writer in the world, that once lived. He wrote so many plays and sonnets and to be more exact, it was 37 plays and 154 sonnets. William Shakespeare did not only write plays, he also acted them out, he was an actor and performed at the Global Theater. He was born in April 23, 1564 at Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom and died at April 23, 1616 at the same place he was born. He had three nicknames, Bard of Avon, Swan of Avon and The Bard.…

John Proctor, the protagonist of The Crucible, is responsible for the witch trials that ensued in Salem, because he takes advantage of Abigail Williams, prioritizes his reputation over integrity, and defies the community and God. The humble beginnings of the witch trials stem from Abigail’s desire for John Proctor. Prior to the witch trials, it is revealed that Proctor had an extramarital affair with a young, confused girl, Abigail Williams. Although Proctor ends the affair, Abigail has already…

we make as human beings. The argument is, are we as humans, born with the intent of doing evil and we learn manners as we get older, or, are we as humans naturally trying to do good and what is right, but it can vary depending on your environment. William Golding, author of “Lord Of The Flies”, believes that we humans naturally do evil. While on the other side, Jean-Jacques Rousseau believes that it all depends on what kind of environment you are in. There was an experiment held based on…

ships for six judicial circuits. The U.S. Circuit Courts over which the new judges were to preside, gained jurisdiction over all cases arising under the Constitution and the acts of the United States. John Adams, leader of the Federalists, signed the Judiciary Act into law on February 13th, 1801. John Adams, did this less than three weeks before the end of his presidency and the start of the Jefferson presidency. The hastily confirmed appointees to the circuit courts earned the label “Midnight…