New England Colonies

Influenced by romanticism, Platonism, and Kantian philosophy, it taught that divinity pervades all nature and humanity, and its members held progressive views on feminism and communal living. “Transcendentalist embodied a number of the new attitudes regarding man’s relationship to the universe and the quality of the life that he leads” (16). Transcendentalist were basically optimists that live in the present and had no worry of the future. They focused on reason and believed they would…

Golden Bay K-9 Social Club is a dog daycare and boarding service that strives to be the home away from home for our customer’s furry babies. Our mission is to provide top notch care for dogs when there owners can’t. In order to achieve this, we have selected to establish ourselves in Fremont, California. We did this to be closest to are target market, which are people who are 25-44 years old with a dog and a household income of $100,000. Our target market was selected based the average age of…

funded by the British Crown to supply raw material to their central economy. The colonial holdings allowed Britain to blend feudal customs with more modern merchant practices to establish interests and wealth for the Crown abroad. An example of this new kind of commonwealth was the Virginia Company. A joint venture…

Wharton establishes patterns of imagery by using figurative language — language meant to be taken figuratively as well as literally. In Ethan Frome, Wharton's descriptive imagery is one of the most important features of her simple and efficient prose style. Her descriptions serve a definite stylistic and structural purpose. The figurative language used by Wharton includes metaphors and similes. Metaphors compare two unlike things without using words of comparison. For example, in the beginning…

publication attempts, the poetry was not published until later in his life. Although the 12 years of farming had been unsuccessful Robert drew many inspirations from the rural setting for his poems. Frost and his family sold the farm and moved to England where he hoped to pursue a career in poetry. There, he met with publishers who agreed to publish two of his poetry collections, A Boy’s Will and North of Boston. He also made friends with several famous poets, including Ezra Pound and Edward…

Nathaniel Hawthorne is the author of The Scarlet Letter. He was born July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts. Winther, Sophus Keith in “Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Biography” explains that “Hawthorne was the practical, ordinary man interested in the ordinary and commonplace problems of everyday life.” Hawthorne was faced with a lot of problems which led him to his love of writing but he also went through an ordinary life. He got married and settled away from home. As his occupation as an author he wrote…

opposing stances in the level of hope that they present to Ethan. Zeena surrounds Ethan with the overwhelming truth of how the desolation of Starkfield has seeped into their lives and the hopelessness of that fact is inescapable. Mattie, however, breathes new life into Ethan’s seemingly empty future and gives him the opportunity to finally seek a life filled with the happiness he has always envisioned, but has never had. The description that Wharton gives to the reader to sum up all of Zeena’s…

Woodhull was born in Setauket, Long Island to parents who were part of prominent families in Long Island. His normal life, during the revolution was farming at Long Island while taking care of his elderly parents. A while later Woodhull was looking to sell his land for money, but decided to trade with Britain. This was considered a serious offense for the Rebels, at the time. So, in consequence, Abraham was put in jail, but then released by Jonathan Trumbull, the Connecticut Governor, and was…

scaffold in the middle of the night at one of his personal vigils, he is visited by Hester and Pearl. “ ‘Wilt thou stand here with Mother and me, tomorrow noontide?’ inquired Pearl. ‘Nay, not so, my little Pearl,’ answered the minister; for with the new energy of the moment, all the dread of public exposure, that had so long been the anguish of his life, had returned upon him; and he was already trembling at the conjunction in which- with a strange joy, nevertheless- he now found himself.”…

With bountiful snowfall and harsh winters, Edith Wharton establishes an inhospitable setting for her piece of literature, Ethan Frome, which gives the book a frigid and depressing atmosphere. The cold nature of the book explains the protagonist’s, Ethan Frome’s, need to search for companionship in other people. The fear of existing alone and forgotten in the gelid winter appears to be too much to bear for Ethan Frome. He pounces on the first opportunity that arises and marries his mother’s…