The College of William & Mary

Set during the craze that was the Salem Witch trials, many innocent people in the book were convicted of witchcraft. Those convicted were accused by a small group of girls led by Abigail Williams, which was supported by many prominent figures in the colony. This book taught me that it is hard to go against the majority in a society. It is a struggle to go against what is “accepted”. John Proctor and Giles Corey refused to plead guilty despite…

Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein centers around the life of Victor Frankenstein and the monster he created. Victor’s life starts out quite well he had a happy childhood but it all goes downhill when he is introduced to a book regarding the sciences of Agrippa. The book leads him down the path of making his monster. The monster searches for love and affection from his creator but is denied when Victor runs away from him. The monster goes into human society instead find the love but regrets his…

Kimberly Bittings Death and Dying: SIS 2229 Dr. Vera Jakoby 03 December 2014 Genealogy Project: Suicide in Catholicism and Islamic Religions Suicide has always been look down upon, especially in Catholicism and Islamic Religions. For years it has been considered a sin to commit suicide, but many of these religions have been lenient. For Catholicism, suicide has always been the highest sin anyone could commit if you were Catholic. Suicide in Islamic Religions has been sin unless you die an…

again to impact the literary world. Alexander Pope lived during the restoration period, a tumultuous time. During this time, many things were happening in Britain. Pope was born in 1688, the year of the so called “Glorious Revolution” in which William and Mary became the rulers of Britain. Although things like the Bill of Rights gave most citizens at the time more individual rights, Catholics were heavily excluded. In fact, the Toleration Act of 1689 gave the freedom to worship to all…

These desires rattled the established planters. There was a lot of disaster and unhappiness as a result. The governor William Berkeley showcased this. As misery in Virginia increased, nearly a thousand Virginians broke out of control in 1676, which were lead by Nathaniel Bacon. The rebels mainly consisted of people who were forced into the untamed backcountry in search of…

She was exposed to important liberal writers, such as James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Samuel Beckett, and William Faulkner. The way they approached their work left a profound influence upon Parks. “But their use of stream-of-consciousness, their willingness to break conventions of sentence structure and language, and their assertion of voices that countered received…

Thomas Jefferson is known to be one of the greatest and most highly regarded founding fathers of The United States of America. Jefferson’s credentials were essential to his achievements. Jefferson was the author of the Declaration of Independence, the first diplomat abroad, the first Secretary of State, the second Vice President, and lastly the third United States President. The history created during Jefferson’s presidency was immensely in depth that it is still studied today. As Jefferson…

Written in 1818 by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein is widely considered to be among the novels that fully exemplify Romantic-era literary achievement. The Romantic movement is a general term used to denote the intellectual evolution in literature and the arts, primarily in 19th century Europe. Substantial facets of literary Romanticism include belief in the innate virtue of humans, the bounds of morality, as well as exploration of the polarity of human emotion; all of which are…

Latin, Greek, and French at the age of nine. In 1758, Jefferson begins studying history, science, and the classics with Rev. James Maury as his teacher. At just the age of 16 he started his college career by enrolling in the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. During his educational years in college he began studying more advanced subjects such as mathematics, metaphysics, and philosophy. After graduating only two years later, Jefferson will have obtained his law license and…

When we think of the Wild West, the first things that usually come to mind are cowboys, gunfights, revenge, duels and Indians. The typical cowboy we think of is a rugged, tough looking man, dressed in a “cowboy” hat, a vest, leather chaps and boots with two revolvers holstered around his waist, always at the tips of his fingers. While these images, in part, reflect reality -- there were cowboys and bandits and Indian raids -- they are primarily based on popular culture, the movies, TV shows,…