Notes on the State of Virginia

Panic of 1819 was the first financial panic since President Washington took office. The main cause was over-speculation in frontier lands. The Bank of the United States was hated by western farmers because it foreclosed on many farms. Growing Pains of the West Between 1791 and 1819, 9 states from the West had joined the United States. People moved west because of cheap land, the construction of highways, and many Indian territories had been eliminated. The Land Act of 1820 authorized a…

transformation into a roach. Virginia Woolf’s narrator finds that women are being marginalized base on the opinions of men. According to Sascha Bru, modernist writers “depicted society in a state of disintegration and dehumanization.” (Page 111) Writers worked to break tradition and established social views. Frank Kafka’s Metamorphosis reinforced the idea of oppression and alienation through Gregor’s physical change and the reaction that his family has towards his situation. Virginia Woolf…

control has been a never ending rollercoaster ride. The fight on guns on college campuses -- a supposed safe learning environment -- has been even more difficult. In 2015 alone, the number of college campus shootings have skyrocketed in the United States while less than five college campus shootings have occurred in England and Wales. Many gun enthusiasts claim that stricter gun laws will not solve the problem. On the other hand, there has been a call for tighter gun laws and more strict…

interviewees Islom Moseley and Fountain Hughes as two ex-slaves. Their narration is used to compare and contrast their lives in the different states where they lived. Isom Moseley is a slave who lived in Gee’s band Alabama but was born in Selma-Dallas. On the other hand, Fountain Hughes was a slave in Baltimore, Maryland, but was born in Charlottesville, Virginia. The life of Isom Moseley and…

The odds for media covering LGBT murders is disturbingly low. For example, in 2012, Sage Smith (from Virginia) went missing at age 19 with Heather Hodges, who was 22. Hodges was a white and cis-gendered woman, and Smith was a black transgender woman. Popular LGBT+ media reported the missing Smith, but mainstream media focused on…

When a citizen of the United States of America (USA) looks at the USA’s flag, or its Constitution, or its Declaration of Independence, what does he or she see? One person may see and believe in the ideals set forth by the Founding Fathers of “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” in the Declaration of Independence, another person may also see these ideals, but feel fundamentally locked out their attractive promise. These “unalienable rights” (archives 1) seem to construct a society based…

former writer for the El Diario La Prensa, in New York, Vicky Pelaez tells the prisoners’ stories for them. In her article titled, “The Prison in the United States: Big Business or a New Form of Slavery?” she points out the negative impact of private prisons on the sentencing of African-Americans and other non-white races in the United States justice system.The article’s main point focuses on how the private prison system is directly influencing the amount of people being incarcerated.While at…

The paragraph states the king George has violated the most sacred right of life and liberty by transporting and selling slaves. While this paragraph does show that Jefferson care deeply enough about the slave cause as to put it in to the declaration of independence. The paragraph in the end was omitted from the document one could attribute that to the fact that other signer would note have agreed to it. Jefferson however does not speak of solely slaves…

The American Revolutionary War occurred between Great Britain and the colonies of the New World. The colonies declared war and sought their independence from Great Britain as a new nation. The war was the combination of the political and series of coarse policies that Great Britain brought onto the colonies that led to the revolution. The American Revolution was led by great leaders that had different assessments of our new nation. These leaders who became our founding fathers had different…

the second was whether or not to ratify the proposed United States Constitution. The belief of abolitionists was that all men deserved the same rights to freedom as one another while those benefiting from slavery believed that the two races, blacks and whites, could not live in harmony. On the other hand, the Antifederalists were fighting against the ratification of the Constitution on the grounds that it would weaken the power of states and create a consolidated government, and the opposing…