Mason Jennings

The Monumental trial of john peter Zenger took place on the historic site where Federal Hall National Memorial Now Stands. The case inspired the entire city and helped Further the cause for freedom that led to revolution, forty years later the John Peter Zenger trial would lead the way for the First Amendment to the constitution of the united states of America. The Man Generally perceived to be the villain of the Zenger affair William Cosby was the guy who was rewarded 50 pounds for the…

Different interpretations’ of facts, theories, and beliefs between people automatically generates controversy. People believe their facts are correct so they attempt to “correct” others’ facts and beliefs. The conflict between nature and language was one of many issues that created a huge controversy between science and humanistic beliefs. What actually caused the issues between these beliefs is the misinterpretation of facts of the natural world and humanities utilization of language. Humanity…

According to Dictionary.com the definition of justified is to show (an act, claim, statement, etc.) to be right. World War 1 was utterly tragic. It all started because of Germany. Germany was a threat to the United States Morally, economically and politically. So we had to enter the war whether we wanted to or not. The US was morally, politically and economically justified to wage war on Germany and their allies. America was completely justified at entering the war morally due to what Germany…

Taft had a long and extensive career path before he became president of the United States. He attended law school in his hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio after graduating high school. He easily passed certification to be a lawyer in 1880, and a few months later he was appointed as the assistant prosecutor of Hamilton County. 2 years later the president appointed him to the position of Collector of Internal Revenue in Ohio’s first district. In 1887 Taft was appointed to be a judge for Cincinnati by…

patriotic men without distinction of party and in every section of the country” (New York Daily Tribune, 1896). The election of 1896, the election against the “Gilded Age Republican” (Kelly, 2003) William McKinley and the Populist candidate William Jennings Bryan. The era of Republicans of using the Civil War to mobilize Union veterans was slowly coming to an end due to “the defeat in Congress of the Force Bill, legislation designed to use Federal police power to enforce black suffrage in the…

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…