Providence, Rhode Island

Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachussets on January 19th, 1809. He was a well known poet of his time and many well known poems. Some of his most famous works are " The Raven", The Masque of the Red Death", "The Tell-Tale Heart", and many other short stories with morbid, and dark qualities to them. Althoug Poe was a great poet, he had a hard life from the time he was born till the time of his death in a hospital on Sunday, October 7th, 1849. When Poe was 18, he was broke and had no job skills, and his father David Poe didn't agree with him so he went to Boston in 1827 to join the U.S. Army. While in the army he did well and made his way up to a sergeant major. He was stationed at West point as a cadet. After his father signed his…

The New Englanders desired a place where they prosper together as a community. They were more than concerned about the moral health of the whole community and would do whatever was called for to keep their community strong and happy. "This court … in the interim recommends [that] all tradesmen and laborers consider the religious end of their callings, which is that receiving such moderate profits as may enable them to serve God and their neighbors", DOC. E, this shows that they would give their…

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…

Narragansett is an English corruption of Nanhigganeuck, their actual name meaning "people of the small point." The Dutch used the shortened form of Nahican. Location Narragansett is located in Narragansett Bay and western Rhode Island the grand sachem who usually resided in the largest village. Their villages of medium-sized longhouses were usually large energetic and located on the islands on the islands of Narragansett Bay. They farmed extremely large fields of corn,beans,and squash.…

Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1809 and was the son of Elizabeth and David Poe, though, they died when he was only two years old. Poe then became the adopted son of John and Frances Allan in Virginia. He was taught in the finest boarding schools in Richmond and in 1825 went to college in Charlottesville at the University of Virginia. Unfortunately, after only one year, Poe was forced to leave due to inadequate financial support from John Allan, his stepfather, who refused…

Why Blackstone River is A National Corridor The Blackstone River changed Rhode Island horrendously. I think the Blackstone river is a National corridor. The reason why Blackstone is a national corridor is because of it change the way how people looked at, its destruction it had caused and the mills. The Blackstone River caused a whole lot of destruction and havoc around Rhode Island. “similar amounts of rain fell throughout the Blackstone Valley. These rains slowly, but steadily raised the…

Stephen Hopkins was born Scituate March 7, 1707 and died in Providence, Rhode Island July 13, 1785 after retiring from serving the Continental Congress. He was born and orphaned to his uncle at an early age, and came from a family prominently involved in politics such as his grandfather who served a prominent role in the politics of Providence, and his cousin, Benedict Arnold, who became the first governor of Rhode Island (Austin, p. 324.). Stephen was apparently self educated and had had a long…

Samuel Slater was born in Derbyshire, England on June 9, 1768. He went to work at an early age as an apprentice for the owner of a cotton mill. He became one of the superintendents and was very familiar with machinery. In 1789, Slater emigrated to the United States. He wanted to start working in textiles and make good money from it. British law forbade textile workers to share technological information or to leave the country. Slater set foot in New York in late 1789, having memorized the…

This essay will be going over the pros and cons of Roger Williams. we will be talking about p People left England to escape religious prosecution. the people who left England came to the United States to practice there religions freely. Roger Williams is defender of religious liberty. He took a hike and had a lifelong search so he could emerge his beliefs and ideas with God. When Roger Williams had a chance to remind everyone what bad they did against him he didn’t miss it.…

contentious figure, having been lionised, mythologized, and demonised by various writers. “ For me this quote showed that to many people she was religious leader who many people believed in and a person who changed history and believed the most in women 's rights and making equality a known thing. Anne was such a powerful person that when she got put in jail twenty-three people signed a paper known as Portsmouth Compact. This paper allowed Rhode Island to elect a new governor and maybe let Anne…