Thomas Wyatt

The examples demonstrated in the lecture has impressed me a lot. For instance, the puppy plaza in Canada. Poppy plaza is a public space that designed to honor people who served to protect Canada’s freedom and security during wartime. Although I have never been there, I can feel the space evokes the sense of connection with distant places. The narratives and topography are concise that portraying different voices and make me feel stunning. I realize there is a question that we should think – How…

After more than two decades of civil war, due to Taliban attack to the United States at 11th September 2001, ISAF occupied Afghanistan’s and civil war was finished apparently. Next year, in 2002, Afghanistan witnessed its first presidential election; Hamed Karzai won both first and second elections sequentially. A republic government was a big hope and the first step for Afghanistan to have peace all over its land. Hamed Karzai was the Afghanistan’s president for more than eleven years, and…

The writer and philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau, who with writings such as "The Social Contract," in which he defines the freedom of the people and the Republic as a form of government, influenced greatly the thinking of the French Revolution and is remembered today as one of the first great classical liberal thinkers. Born on June 28, 1712 in Geneva, Switzerland, Jean Jacques Rousseau started early on in his life working as an apprentice to an engraver before moving to Paris where after a few…

They desire the state to be solid as well as "support", usually, to suggest assault. They are, primarily, the racist grandad that is going to ruin your Christmas. These are individuals pollsters have actually classified "tyrannical populists" as well as inning accordance with YouGov there's a great deal of them. Forty 8 percent of Brits checked display some or all these qualities, inning accordance with proof provided by the YouGov Centre Cambridge recently. As a mounting gadget of what's…

The ideas behind the tide mills were introduced to North America with the settlers. In particular, Maine has seen almost frequent use of tide mills since the eighteenth century. In the later part of the nineteenth century, the concept of tidal power was changed from turning wooden wheels for machinery, to producing electricity. An engineer by the name of Dexter Cooper in 1920 came up with the idea of making energy from tides, a plan that he envisioned to implement in Passamaquoddy and Cobscook…

It is evident that the early writers of the colonial period were influenced by their political surroundings and the ever omnipresent British. These early writers in turn impacted authors of the American Renaissance. A major theme that both fiction and non-fiction works have is their obsession with is the parent to child relationship of Britain to America. The hope and drive for freedom from Britain encouraged, symbolized, and fought for throughout Benjamin Franklin, Phillis Wheatley, Washington…

Locke believed that every man or woman was born with certain “natural freedoms”. He believed that every man was born with the right of life. He did not agree with taking someone else’s life away because he thought it was a right of theirs to be able to live. Locke came up with the idea of separation of powers. He said that nobody should be able to control people all by themselves. He believed it was the governments job to serve people, namely by protecting life, liberty, and property. He was a…

When someone asks me if I feel that the Federal Government is holding up its obligation to the American people, I must stop first and determine as to what it is that the government is actually obligated to provide. When our founding fathers created this country, they dreamed of a small-government that was not all involved in the details of the people’s lives. Thus, there aren’t many tasks the government is compelled to uphold. The first guaranteed function of government was a republican…

Benajah Wolcott, a distant cousin, was the first keeper of Marblehead Lighthouse. Marblehead is the oldest continuously operating lighthouse on the Great Lakes. It was originally called Sandusky Bay Lighthouse. He maintained the lighthouse for ten years: from 1822 until his death. After his death, his wife, Rachel Miller Wolcott, became the first woman lighthouse keeper on the Great Lakes. Benajah was born on April 7, 1762 in New Haven, Connecticut. He enlisted in the army at 14 and served until…

Cormac McCarthy’s The Road presents the author’s depiction of what he deems a potential picture of post apocalyptic America, a society unregulated by governmental laws. The hypothetical situation presented, one dominated by murder and cannibalism, indicates McCarthy’s potential view that, without the constraints of society, we would descend into egocentric savagery, suggesting that we need guidance and government in order to maintain peace. For me, this idea that without regulation we would all…