Allow me to begin by expressing that I regret my actions that have led to me writing this letter. In the fall of 2014 I decided to begin my college career; however, this later proved to be a mistake for multiple reasons. During the summer before the fall semester, I met a girl which led to the first relationship that I have ever had. I spent every night with her and stayed awake, most nights, until five in the morning, disrespected my parents, and began calling out of work. These poor habits…
two different years, both as an overall educator and for his previous role as a Social Studies teacher. Achieving this recognition is something that he is proud of, and values being associated with the top teachers in his field for New Jersey and Rhode Island. 7. Why it is Important to Integrate New Technology in the Classroom with Sean Houlihan Sean Houlihan has discovered that to be an effective educator in the 21st century, he must integrate and use the most current technologies in his…
Welfare needs to stop acting on good intentions and start acting on discernment by creating a motivation to work and get out of poverty. There are two major ways to promote this strategy: to make it so that welfare is only given out with the condition that those who receive it must be in active pursuit of a job and to make it so that welfare is only given to those who become enrolled in getting some kind of education or training. For example, according to Erin Thomas, who is a social work…
The book “American Jezebel” was written in 2004 by Eve LaPlante, who is from Massachusetts and has written various other books about powerful and influential women in history. The thing that makes this book unique is that Anne Hutchinson is actually an ancestor of LaPlante which allows her to have a different point of view on the situation and she is able to write the book in a different way and explain it differently than another author would. Anne Hutchinson was a woman of change who was very…
was considered treason. At her trial, she was pregnant with her 16th child, but she put her foot down and would not change her views. She was banished from Massachusetts Bay colony. Hutchinson and her husband relocated to Roger Williams colony of Rhode Island. This colony was based on religious tolerance. Then in 1642 she and her family moved to New York where after a year she and most of her family were killed in an Indian…
national affairs, the lesser the chances are that people will know it. Rhode Island is such a state. It is small geographically, unrepresentative of the national racial diversity we observe here in the United States, and has an economy which barely gives the state any political clout. Most importantly, Rhode Island fails to appear often in the media whether it be for good policies, or embarrassing scandals. Simply put, Rhode Island is one of the “loner states”. Being a small prosperous state…
Compact. This paper allowed Rhode Island to elect a new governor and maybe let Anne get out of jail. Nineteen of the men that signed that paper were planning on moving to Long Island or New Jersey but instead settled in the Providence Plantations. After Anne’s church trial she went on a six day journey from Boston to Roger Williams, Anne also brought all thirteen of her kids. From there they took boats to get to Aquidneck Island which was later known as Rhode Island. The nineteen men that…
didn’t miss it. Roger Williams is a warm, sweet tempered, and rigid old man that followed a spiritual journey that forced him to separate from first one group and then another. during that time founded and governed an influential colony of Rhode Island. Some pros of…
In the late 1400s, when Christopher Columbus stumbled across North America, the world was altered. Many countries established colonies, but the only ones that stuck were the English colonies. Jamestown was first, and 12 others followed. Everyone had different reasons for migrating and the culture of these colonies showed that. Although New England and the Chesapeake region were both settled largely by people of English origin, their reasons for settling, their government structures, and their…
Throughout the seventeenth century, the newly discovered America was expeditiously colonized by the Europeans. The eastern coast of North America was settled by the Englishmen from the same background, but by the year 1700, they had established two different civilizations. These two civilizations were known as the Chesapeake, and the New England regions. Although later in the century, these two civilization would become one nation, from the start both had very exclusive and independent…