Notes on the State of Virginia

delegates from Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia unanimously supported it. Delaware’s votes were evenly divided, and the other states voting (CT, NY, NJ, MD, NC, SC, and GA) all disapproved. This defeat, however, was not the end of the debate over the federal negative at the Convention. The limited version of the negative lived on in the working draft of the Constitution, which granted Congress the power “to negative all laws passed by the several States contravening, in the opinion of…

Virginia Woolf was an English writer in the twentieth century. During this time, society revolved around sex. According to Sigmund Freud, the emotions that were aroused in a young child (typically around the age of four) resulted in an unconscious sexual desire for the parent of the opposite sex. This is referred as the Oedipus complex. Virginia Woolf, would take these new psychoanalysis studies and apply them to the female gender. She would try and negate many of the concepts that society…

Racism is a very sensitive subject to discuss. So, why it is that racism still exists today in our very own home, the United States of America, the country of freedom and dreams? Racism is still alive and well because people have different views depending where they were raised. Both Thomas Jefferson 's Notes on the State of Virginia and Michelle Alexander 's book, The New Jim Crow present prime examples of the portrayal of Black American, as seen from the perspective of both White and Black…

Europeans who came to the America’s, Virginia, and multiple establishment. Economic factors were not the only factor at play, many times other things were at play as well. When the Spanish…

this… an abolitionist in the 1850’s leading a slave army, fighting for the freedom of African-American slaves. Such accomplishment is incredible, inspiring, and some may say heroic. However, John Brown received the death sentence by doing so. The Virginia Court’s decision to convict John Brown and sentence him to death by hanging was unfair and unjust – John Brown was an antislavery activist with good intentions and was wrongly convicted and sentenced to death. Important to realize, John Brown…

removal of a large polyp at Allegheny Hospital 01/2017. The patient states that she has had two weeks of heavy bleeding out of four weeks since the D&C. She was told they removed a large polyp but could not get all of the polyp out. No ablation was performed at that time. Doctor's notes from that physician were obtained which showed an ultrasound with a 2.4 cm fibroid, normal ovaries, and benign endometrial biopsy. Surgery notes have not been obtained or pathology from the polyp. The…

circumstances where better to set my paper than in Virginia during the brink of the Civil War, the war in which some of the bloodiest battles ever fought on U.S. soil accrued in, and the nation was split pinning family against family and brother against brother. I chose to set my “Romeo and Juliet” in Virginia, in 1861.The Confederate States started to secede from the union on December 20th of 1860 when South Carolina decided to leave the United States of America, and after this quickly…

For at-risk children in the commonwealth of Virginia, early education interventions could result in positive short and long-term outcomes. According to Barnett (2008), “well-designed preschool education programs produce long-term improvements in school success, including higher achievement test scores, lower rates of grade repetition and special education, and higher educational attainment; some preschool programs are also associated with reduced delinquency and crime in childhood and adulthood”…

president of the US was born in Shadwell plantation, West Virginia. This famous historical figure is Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson’s mother was Jane Randolph Jefferson. She came from a prominent background and lived in London until her sister, Mary was born, moving to Virginia in 1725. She married Peter Jefferson on October 3, 1739, in Goochland County. Peter was a justice of peace, sheriff, and surveyor. He also acquired land in Albemarle County, Virginia, called Shadwell and later the place of…

As discussed in the lecture notes, identity is socially constructed and these identities are built the way we are raised. Our identities play a vital role in shaping our life experiences, what opportunities we get, how we are treated, and what power we can obtain. One part of our identity is gender which is relatively connected to the issues of power. Also in the lecture notes, masculinity is described as superior gender category while femininity as the inferior gender category.…