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Garrett Sheldon assesses the transition within Thomas Jefferson’s ideology as he initiates with deep Lockean Idealogy and shifts towards more Democratic Republic beliefs associated with Christians ethics, and Scottish moral philosophy, etc. Jefferson utilized Locke’s philosophies in his revolutionary movement to maintain independence and human rights during the revolution and as he writes the Declaration of Independence. He applies ideas from John Locke’s Second Treatise based on the idea of…

an attempt to their gain freedom Americans traveled to the new land of North America. Without representation in the parliament the Americans were forced to pay taxes that would fund Britain and not the new territory. British parliament created an Act that would soon be enforced called the Stamp Act, this taxed any paper the Americans used. Ben Franklin in Pax queritur Bello points out that although Britain has the power to enact this tax if they do the Americans will strongly fight back.…

were Asians and American Indians (Wolfram Alpha n.d). On the first day of class, I was thrown into a new world. I learned a lot about race and what it meant…

characteristics of any individual that are inherited based on where their ancestry is from, and what their genetics are. For instance, if someone is White, I usually characterize them as European-American, or Caucasian. If someone is Black, I tend to identify them as African-American, and so on. My family is Scottish-Irish American, and we participate in the Highland games. My uncles wear kilts, as do my cousins, and we have visited Scotland in the past. Race is what a person's genetic and…

they did or accomplished. John Witherspoon came to the burgeoning United States to become president of what would become Princeton University, and he ended up helping to shape the country. John Witherspoon was born in Scotland and emigrated to the American colonies to become the president of the College of New Jersey (later called Princeton University). He became a vocal advocate for colonial independence…

In the early ‘700 while France was going through the Mississippi Bubble, in parallel Great Britain was going through the South Sea Bubble. The South Sea Company was founded in 1711 with the aim of detecting the British public debt, which amounted to 10 million pounds. The company bore the English public debt and in return received an annual interest paid by the state and the monopoly of trade with the Spanish colonies in South America. To finance the transaction, the company issued, in…

In society rap is arguably one of the popular forms of music in African American culture. Rappers today continue to talk about current issues of the world and their personal stories through rap's poetic meaning and structure, for example rappers like Mickey Factz expresses his hope and dreams through music. “Do it for the culture. For the grind, for the hustlers. Yeah I do it for the love of life. It's the life I'm living,I'm gonna keep, keep on winning. This time…”(Mickey Factz ft.Marsha…

have met her she seems like a good friend. Mrs.Parks is a wonderful women in my world. Rosa Parks was a brave and strong women who pushed herself to do what it takes. Mrs. Parks was born on February 4 ,1913 in tuskegee alabama. She was irish and scottish. She went to a local/rural area school. Mrs.Parks had to quit school because she had to watch after and take care of her grandmother. Mrs.Parks married Raymond Parks ,a barber in Montgomery. Mrs.Parks was on her way home from work on the…

central irony of Herman Melville’s career is that his masterpiece, Moby-Dick, which is now considered one of the greatest American novels, was almost wholly ignored during the time of its author. Although he might have thought of himself as a complete failure, he came to be one of the greatest American writers. During the American Renaissance period, Melville came to be a great American novelist, short story writer, and poet. While traveling on the remote and stranded sea, Melville writes his…

works to answer a series of questions surrounding the “statistical link between blackness and criminality” (1), focusing on the core historical actors and the circumstances that were constructed to allow for the current reality that while African-Americans make up 12 percent of the general population, they make up 30 percent of the prison population (4). The issue becomes less about whether or not the committed crimes are real, but more about how the concept of Blackness historically became…