Mount Holyoke

The Oxbow is a landscape painting composed by Thomas Cole in 1836 using oil on canvas as medium. The painting was a view from Mount Holyoke, Northamption Massachussets after a thunderstorm. At first glance i can't help but to appreciate the beautiful interpretation of wilderness to the left and the first modern society to the right. Also, This piece shows how unpredictable nature can be due to calamaties and no man can do anything about it. The Oxbow by Thomas Cole is a masterpiece depicting…

inventor of Amherst College. Dickinson’s father worked and served in Amherst as a state legislator. Dickinson has 2 siblings named William Austin, Lavinia Norcross. Dickinson was a great student at Amherst Academy for 7 years and then went to Mount Holyoke Female Seminary for 1 year. The real reason on why Dickinson left the school is still unknown some say that her emotions/family told her to pull out. Dickinson started writing as a teenager. Dickinson;s influences were Leonard Humphrey the…

Dickinson’s early poems were those that berated science for it’s inquisitive curiosity. Dickinson believed that “its study took the life out of living things”(poetryfoundation.org). Dickinson’s poem also showed the things that she delighted in. While at Mount Holyoke Dickinson studied botany and it clear to see that she delighted in the study because of her poem “Arcturus’ is his other name”. After the earlier years Dickinson still continued to write about the things that delighted her but she…

In the early 1800’s Emily Dickinson was born. She became a poet with good education. Dickinson had a few influences too. Emily Dickinson was the most innovative poet of her era. Dickinson’s significance on history was that in her time period there weren’t a lot of poets, and her poems stood out to the so called poets of her time. Also Emily Dickinson didn’t believe in God. Dickinson had a brother and a sister. Emily Dickinson was born on the 10th of December 1830. She was born in the town of…

Esteban Borja Pena Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Emily was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, on December 10, 1830. She attended the university of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley. Some of her quotes are “If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”, “Forever is composed of nows.”, “Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.” Throughout most of her life, she seemed to have had very few visitors and sporadically left her house. The people who…

Between the years of 1825 to 1850, democracy was defined by the ideals of equality, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This idea was instilled into the minds of the American people through reform movements. The goal of the reform movements was to create an America that was a civilized and united society. Through the reform movements, democratic ideals began to change and expand. The Second Great Awakening was a great boost towards an evolution in democratic ideals because the religious…

Some may say that the quiet and secluded are the most threatening. In Emily Dickinson’s case this statement is true. Not in the manner as harmful or dangerous, but in the way that she was better than most poets. However, no one knew it until after her death because she never published any of her work. Today she is considered one of the most prominent figures of American Literature. Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts on December 10, 1830 to the leading family in Amherst. Edward…

Susan was an employee for NeXT (the company formed by Steve Jobs after she left apple in 1985), she worked as the Creative Director. Education: Susan Kare graduated from Harriton High School in 1971, received her B.A., summa cum laude, in Art from Mount Holyoke College in 1975 and her Ph.D. from New York University in 1978. Family: Susan Kare is the sister of an aerospace engineer, Jordan Kare. Susan’s parents were not found in her biography. Major changes within her lifetime: There are no…

The Hudson River School was a group of artists based in New York City in the mid 19th Century. Primarily known for painting landscapes, the group belonged to many of the same clubs and in 1858 many of them worked at the Studio Building on West 10th Street, the first building in New York City to be built primarily as a workplace for artists. Thomas Cole, considered to be the founder of the movement, was born in England in 1801 and emigrated to the United States in 1818. In 1825 he moved to New…

Jane Elizabeth Hitchcock, a pioneer in public health, was born on August 31, 1863, in Amherst, Massachusetts to Dr. Edward and Mary Hitchcock. Jane was a very bright young women who pursued her education at Mount Holyoke Seminary and Cornell University where she was considered a “special student” (American Association for the History of Nursing, 2007). Jane completed her nursing education at New York Hospital Training School for Nurses and graduated in 1891. Jane chose to begin her nursing…