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John T. Scopes would teach the class. Knowing he would be arrested Scopes taught the class and set into action one of the most important trials in American history. Scopes was arrested for violating the Butler Law. At the resulting trial William Jennings Bryan acted as prosecutor. World famous criminal defense lawyer Clarence Darrow…

possessed before World War I, by strengthening family values, promoting a Christian lifestyle, and interpreting the Bible as a literal, historical piece of writing. In the monkey trial of 1925, defense attorney Clarence Darrow interrogated William Jennings Bryan, the democratic politician of Nebraska, for his credence on whether everything in the Bible “should be literally interpreted”; to which Bryan replied that he believed “everything in the bible accepted as it is given there.”…

Hello! I'm Caitlin Hoyng, a student Northmont High School, and I believe, as you do, that Dayton should join other countries and cities in the task of accepting refugees from Syria. Before I begin, I'd like to thank you for taking the time to read the letters of local students. As mayor of the Dayton, you must have countless responsibilities to juggle, so I appreciate the fact that you still designate time for smaller tasks, as well. In my German class, we've been researching the Syrian refugee…

religion doc 4. In the document the author is in favor of science. During the 1920’s most Americans were fundamentalists who believed exactly what the Bible said. William Jennings Bryan was a fundamentalist leader and people like him opposed the idea of evolution. Soon this led to the Scopes trial, which was a trial between fundamentalists and modernism. Defended by Clarence Darrow he was able to help Scopes in his trial since…

In the 1890’s to the 1920’s America had many large businesses and companies starting up. Many of these Businesses and companies were owned by large tycoons like John D. Rockefeller. A tycoon is, as described by dictionary.com, “a person of great wealth, influence, or power.”One of these large business tycoons was John Pierrepont Morgan, he is better known as J.P. Morgan. He was a financial, railroad, and a banking tycoon who sometimes merged with other companies. Such as the time that he merged…

Lusitania During this time in my life, it was already extremely difficult to cope with things. The loss of my husband was always in the back of my mind. Knowing that he wasn’t here to help raise my son, John, was the worst feeling that I have ever felt. Now that it had been five years since the death of my husband, I realized John and I needed a new beginning. I live in New York City and have heard of the Lusitania many times by almost everyone. It was a buzzing topic that was popular among…

From the beginning of his term, President Woodrow Wilson had not been an advocate of aggressive foreign policies since he detested Imperialism. Along with his Secretary of State, William Jennings Bryan, Wilson believed in a foreign policy called “moralistic diplomacy”, which based foreign decisions on moral as opposed to material values. Uprisings in Latin America called for the use of this policy to spread democratic values, but the negative effects of moralistic diplomacy overshadowed this…

Parties Involved in the Case The parties involved in the case were John Scopes, Clarence Darrow, William Jennings Bryan, and John Raulston (Linder, 2008). John Scopes was a young high school biology who was found to be guilty of violation. Clarence Darrow was a successful lawyer who defended scopes (Linder, 2008). William Jennnings Bryan was a religious politician who was the plaintiff in the case (Linder, 2008). John Raulston was the judge of the Rhea County Courthouse in Dayton, Tennessee…

John Scopes was accused of teaching evolution in the classroom in Dayton, Tennessee. Under the Butler law, Tennessee had made it illegal to teach evolution in schools. As a result, Scopes went to trial, and through heated debate between William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow and much drama, he was found guilty of violating the Butler law. This trial was one of principle, where both sides were fighting for something greater than simply the crime committed. It was a fight over authority,…

“He who troubles his own house will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart”. Proverb 11:29 explains when someone creates a conflict within their own community, they must suffer the consequences of their actions. This is evident in the two sources I will be examining which is the film Inherit the Wind, directed by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee debuted in 1960 as well as the Scopes Trial also known as The Monkey Trial that took place in the state of Tennessee on…