Margaret Fuller

1. The Northeast was one of the first to industrialize because it was the first to have factories. Factories was what made the Industrialist Revolution take off. Their success helped promote more machines. Before steam, the North used water from rivers for their mills. America overall had an abundance of natural resources compared to Europe, however the South had plantations and cash crops. They focused on producing large-scale agriculture verses subsistence, like in the North. Also, in the…

knowledge that has been lost as time has moved forward. This gained knowledge allows black historical revisionists to become viable authorial voices because of their ability to navigate between their dual identities as both a black and an American. This fuller knowledge of the past allows black Americans to reclaim historical black figures such as the “mammys” and give a voice to their complicated narratives of survival. While traditional American narratives depict these characters as people who…

Program Outline: The Eucharist Set out a nuanced understanding of the Eucharist (i.e. a theology of the Eucharist) that you want to convey to your students, making reference to key concepts from five of the readings Sacraments are sacred symbols and rituals through which people can be put in touch with the God . The sacrament of Eucharist is one of the three initiation sacraments. Through the sacraments, Jesus welcomes, heals, forgives and in ways touches followers through bread, wine and oil.…

Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on November 29, 1832, to Abby May and Amos Bronson Alcott (Price). In a letter to her father twenty-five years later, Alcott described herself as being born “bawling at the disagreeable world” (Kort). Louisa May Alcott’s father was a philosopher and educator, a leader in transcendentalism, and a spokesman for the abolitionist movement (Heginbotham). Fascinated by child development, he observed his own children in various stages, including,…

Throughout the length of this course, I’ve come to realize the global impact of many documents that I perceived only affected the country in which they were written, and on the off-hand chance, would be spread to countries that were “overcome” or allied by the country. The idea that so many of the events that have occurred in our country and countries on the other side of the ocean is astounding to me, as many of the ideologies and goals of societies have been exchanged for the ones created by…

Young Louisa May Alcott grew up with big hopes and ambitions. Her family’s depressing financial situation was always there to doubt her, but Alcott never gave up, because that was all she had. Miss Alcott underwent good and bad to get her to where she was, through determination and dedication. As she grew older, it was easier to cope with, so she focused more on her exceedingly well novels and other pieces of work, leading to success. Constantly writing, she produced famous and purposeful…

education in order to be good housewives. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan b. Anthony, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, and the Grimke sisters became leaders in the fight for women's rights. Stanton was the first to publicly suggest suffrage for women. Margaret Fuller was the first female in the field of medicine and graduated from medical school, previously forbidden for women. At the Seneca Falls Women’s Convention in 1848, all these and many more women's rights activists met. There, Stanton wrote and…

Margaret Fuller had been a leader of this movement, and when she died Emerson took the reins. While he and Henry David Thoreau were friends, Emerson found Thoreau to be a bit too radical for his refined comforts. Their dynamic personality clash would symbolize…

Since the emancipation of slavery, former slaves, and occasionally non-slave abolitionists, have written or orated their accounts of living under America’s “peculiar institution.” These accounts were christened Slave Narratives and soon became a genre within themselves. The Handbook of African American Literature by Hazel Arnett Ervin defines the slave narrative as “A subgenre of the African American autobiography, written by forer slaves, starting as early as 1760. Major themes are the…

In Henry David Thoreau’s experiment to living alone in the woods, Walden, or Life in the Woods, the ten components of Transcendentalism are represented in his work. They are “live life to the fullest, thou shalt not conform, individualism, do not worship the material, be your own mentor, society corrupts and individual’s inherent goodness, be one with God, not the church, simplicity, moral values, and nature is sacred” (elements). These components are what the transcendentalists went by in life.…