Peterborough, New Hampshire

Grover's Corners, NH vs. Worland, WY In the play Our Town, a man very much like a narrator tells the audience all about how small Grover's Corners is and how everyone knows who everyone is. It's very interesting, and most people in the town of Worland, Wyoming would agree with what he is saying. Between Grover's Corner and Worland, Wyoming, people would get along fine with one another. The only way that people from Worland wouldn't get along with people Grover's Corner, is all the technology we have today. Worland and Grover's Corner were both built around the same time (1900) but people from the time of Grover's Corner wouldn't understand anything that the normal society has today (2015). For the most part however, things would run smoothly. The first reason why Worland is so similar to Grover's Corner, is the size. Worland is very small compared to other towns in the United States. 5,500 people is about the population of Worland, and Grover's Corner isn't far off at all. People of Worland would more than likely agree that living in Grover's Corner wouldn't be very different than living in Worland. The people of Grover's Corner have their own personal establishments owned by the very people who live in the town. Worland, has very little places that are personally own by other people outside of Worland, but it does have some establishments that aren't own by a large corporation. For example, the movie theatre in Worland is owned by someone who lives in Worland…

New Hampshire is an enjoyable state to either live in or visit. It features many mesmerizing landmarks which contain mountains and vast green land. New Hampshire is known for many achievments. Whether it is natural beauty or man-made, New Hampshire has a lot to offer. Many visitors become stunned with its beauty and enjoy its natural resorts. New Hampshire , abbreviated NH, has a capital of Concord, and was originally named North Virginia and New England. It was established in 1788. New…

The plaintiffs begin by mentioning the implications of Reed v. Town of Gilbert, a recently decided legal case in which the Town of Gilbert regulated the placement of outdoor signs, on the New Hampshire court case. The Supreme Court held that treating these signs differently was a content-based speech restriction, meaning that is was subject to strict scrutiny. The Court importantly stated that if a law is content based “on its face,” then the government’s justifications do not matter—the law…

Comparison of the New England and Southern Colonies The colonies were first developed in the 1600’s, however the New England colonies and Southern Colonies were very different despite them both having similar reasons for coming to the new world. The southern colonies, consisting of Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia, were centered on making money and agriculture, whereas the New England colonies, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, were centered on…

In 1761, Wheatley was kidnapped from West Africa and enslaved. She was purchased by John Wheatley as a servant for his wife. Although Phillis was brought as a slave, the Wheatleys took a great interest in Phillis’s education. Phillis learned to read and write English, and she became familiar with Latin, Greek, the Bible, and other classics at an early age. Wheatley had a hard time publishing her poems because of the bad economy. Phillis published her first poem in a new england newspaper in…

From the article Taking a Biographical Approach to Literary Criticism “Frost’s poem ‘Out,Out-’ is based on a real-life incident recorded in the Littleton Courier, a New Hampshire newspaper, on March 31, 1901, in which a boy suffers a serious accident to his hand.” Robert Frost was a successful poet who used many elements of his personal life in his writing. He took inspiration from his hometown, local news-stories, and local farmers. Robert’s past experiences impacted and influenced his writing.…

There are many reasons that make Connecticut's landscape/surface got its shape. The three most important reasons are tectonic plates, glaciation, and weathering and erosion. Tectonic plates in CT formed three major landforms. One of the three landforms is the Appalachian mountains. This mountain range is a convergent boundary. Convergent boundaries means that the two plate collide into each other pushing up the land and create the mountains (as shown in the diagram). Finally, the last…

Miriam White (Pritchard). After graduation in 1892, Frost attended Dartmouth on a scholarship and found joy in his Latin and Greek courses as well as in English verse, especially Francis Turner Palgrave’s Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language (Burnshaw). However, the campus life of Dartmouth was dismal and Frost felt “isolated and restless,” therefore he quit at the end of December (Burnshaw). Physical geography is a major theme in several of Frost’s poems…

Robert Frost's Life Of A Poet Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California and never earned a formal college degree but his younger sister sure earned a few college degrees though. He spent the first 11 years of his life there, until his journalist father, William Prescott Frost Jr., died of tuberculosis. Following his father's passing, Frost moved with his mother and sister, Jeanie, to the town of Lawrence, Massachusetts. They moved in with his grandparents, and Frost…

“Mending Wall” was first published in 1914 in the second collection of Robert Frost. The poem brings out the comparison of two different kinds of people with different personalities which in this poem are neighbors. The two neighbors have different perspectives regarding the fence but they annually meet and repair the wall once it's destroyed by nature every spring. The speaker believes that the wall is not important but he's the one who initiates the repair of the fence. The neighbor keeps on…