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singing’ and ‘Leaves of Grass’. You will find out how many jobs Whitman worked and how that helped shape his career. Also, you will read why Ralph Waldo Emerson inspired Whitman. Walt Whitman was born May,31 1819 in West Hills, Huntington Township, in New York. Whitman was the son of Walter Whitman and Louisa Van Velsor. Whitman moved to Brooklyn where he attended school before dropping out in 1830 and becoming an apprentice for Long Island Patriot. Eight years later from 1838 to 1839…

I first knew that drum corps was for me at the DCI East super-regional in 2012. DCI, or Drum Corps International, is marching music's major league and is essentially professional marching band. I hadn't known anything about it until that fateful day the summer before freshman year when my high school band made the hour and a half journey by school bus to J. Birney Crum Stadium in Allentown, PA to watch this classic drum corps event. I only barely remember the corps that performed or what their…

America is a rose, every petal is similar, but different from one another just like the people of America. On the stem of the rose there are many sharp thorns, these represents the problems that exist America. they are shown outward and not hidden due to the imperfect nation that America is. When the rose is observed it is considered a beautiful specimen of diversity, just like America. In From Preface of the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass the author Walt Whitman discusses that American’s…

He went to the college of New Jersey which is now an ivy league school, Princeton University. Madison being a very smart and bright kid studied Latin, Greek, Science and Philosophy, and other subjects, he graduated in 1771, though he stayed even longer to continue studying, with the head of the school, the school's president Reverend John Witherspoon. When Madison came from New Jersey back to Virginia in 1772 he was soon caught up in tensions between the…

Tales From A Revolution: The Struggles of A Growing Nation The book, “Tales From A Revolution” highlights some of the most important struggles that early America was facing in the 1600’s. Following the story of multiple individual that time, we see how each of these struggles affected everyone present at the time. A quote from Maya Angelou states that, “History, despite its wrenching pain cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage need not be lived again.” A few of the main struggles that…

Dante, Shakespeare, and the Bible. Walt Whitman worked as a printer in new york city a couple of years later until a fire in the printing district ruined the printing press. When he turned seventeen he got a job…

Walt Whitman was born in eighteen nineteen in West Hills, New York. The second of nine kids, which would eventually fall to seven, his family suffered tremendous financial difficulties. While his father was a gifted builder and craftsman, their rural location, and their financially struggling neighbors, made it nearly impossible to maintain a steady income. Ultimately, at eleven, Whitman was forced to leave school to work in printing. Often, Whitman described his childhood as ‘miserable’ because…

Jersey Shore was a popular TV show on MTV between 2009 and 2012 about “Guidos”, or Americans of Italian descent in their twenties who rented a house together on the Jersey Shore, which was aimed at teenagers and people under thirty. Jersey Shore is affecting our culture in a negative way because the majority of people that watched it might have thought differently about Italians and think that’s all that they do. At one point, Jersey Shore became one of the most watched TV shows and I think it…

How does one interpret unity in America, after all we live in the United States? In the poems, “I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman and “I, Too” by Langston Hughes, both authors express what it means for them to live in America. Hughes writes from an African American perspective living in the 1930s, while Walt Whitman writes from a Caucasian perspective living in the mid 1800s. These facts play an important role in interpreting these poems. “I Hear America Singing” and “I, Too” share a…

the Delaware was created in 1851 (metmuseum.org). The painting is 12ft 5in. by 21ft. 3in and is in good condition; there does not appear to be any damage. Washington Crossing the Delaware is currently on display at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. It is displayed in a gallery with other American paintings from the same time period. The top part of the painting consists of grey clouds with sunlight and sky streaming through. On the horizon and far off into the background of the…