The College of William & Mary

Who is Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley? She is a very well know early English Literature, she wrote the book Frankenstein, the book all started with a gentleman named Captain Robert Walton, he was on his ship in the middle of the ocean in about the 18th century, the boat get stuck in impassible ice. While he was stuck he wrote his sister letters in England and all he wants was another gentleman to come and keep him company, because he was getting lonely. As all is going he seen a man out in the…

The University of Alabama has the largest sorority pledge class in history and the student body is at least 33 percent Greek according to Alabama’s website. It is no secret that Greek life is a huge part of the college experience in the South. When I walk around campus, every third person I see is Greek and I would never have the opportunity to experience something like that back at home. It is almost surprising how popular Greek life remains down here considering…

they love. Runyan loves to compete in track and field events, and she did not stop just because she was blind. After contracting Stargardt’s, she also showed people that it is possible to live a normal life, even with blindness (Abbey 92). To sum up, Mary Runyan is an Olympic runner who never gave up on her dream, even when she was diagnosed with Stargardt’s Disease and became legally blind. She wanted people to remember her, not because she was a blind runner, but because she was a runner who…

“Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong” (Coolidge qtd Brainyquote). President Calvin Coolidge said this about increasing taxes on the wealthy. He cut taxes four times, because he felt excessive taxation is nothing more than a restriction upon the freedom of the American people. Former President Calvin Coolidge and future President Donald Trump both can and have run businesses efficiently, even though their personalities differ extremely. John Calvin Coolidge was born…

is a serious debate. Many arguments date back hundreds of years ago, but are still relevant and believed by a minority today. Many people, including famous actors, academics, and writers, have suggested that the plays and other works credited to William Shakespeare were either not the work of a single man or, were not written by Shakespeare at all. Even people such as Mark Twain who said "So far as anybody actually knows and can prove, Shakespeare of Stratford-on-Avon never wrote a play in his…

In the beginning of America’s journey to success, two political forces created different views of the future of America. One wanted to increase the central government’s power and the other one wanted to decrease it. These two political forces created political parties. A political party is a group of people with similar ideas and beliefs that agree on how a country should be run. The leader of the first political force is Alexander Hamilton. He wanted a selected few to run the country; this…

structures” (Discovery Institute). He is current study “involves delineation of design and natural selection in protein structures” (Discovery Institute). Michael Behe was born on January 18, 1952 in Altoona, Pennsylvania. He went to St. Margaret Mary School and graduated from Bishop McDevitt High School. In 1974, Behe graduated from Drexel University…

population of 2 million when Victoria came to the throne to one of 6.5 million by the time of Victoria's death, indicates the dramatic transition from a way of life based on the ownership of land to a modern urban economy.” http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/victorian/review/summary.htm The Victorian era developed many aspects of the English life, giving it prosperity, optimism and stability.…

This is shown in the following excerpt from Mary Lavin’s “Happiness” when Mother demeans herself because she was not perfect: Another time she'd dream she'd be a great singer. ‘We didn't know you sang Mother!’ She had to laugh. ‘Like a crow,’…

William Blake was a British poet and painter who lived during the French Revolution. The devastating end to it caused Blake to lose faith in the goodness of mankind. This explains why much of the poems in Songs of Experience are about bad experiences rather than good ones. The purpose of the poems in Songs of Innocence and Experience were to show the two opposing states of the human soul. These being that a child with no experiences are innocent and happy, but when they grow and gain new…