University of Massachusetts Boston

Former president of Boston University, John Silber, who was also ran for the position of governor for the state of Massachusetts, was an intellectual man. Even after his death, September 27, 2012, he left behind his legacy and had “Sherborn Street” renamed by the city of Boston, the “John R. Silber Way” in honor of him. John Silber’s essay, “Students Should Not Be above the Law” addresses in the beginning of the essay, in which medieval Europe had a “two parallel court systems: the church’s and…

Virginia, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware, North and South Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Georgia. The early colonial eras had many problems dealing with the European balance of power and the colonists’ appropriation of…

Province of Massachusetts Originally Massachusetts was an English colony in North America, founded in 1628, by a group of puritans escaping persecution, until 1961 when it became the Province of Massachusetts and in 1776 seceded from England to be one of the original 13 states of America. The name Massachusetts comes from the Indian tribe, the Massachusett, an Algonquian tribe living in the area of Massachusetts bay. “at the great hill” or “at the range of hills” is its translation, referring to…

the transcendentalism era. Both authors had extraordinary passion for living a life of simplicity and harmony, but what did this really mean and how did they achieve this? Both Ralph and Henry were born in Massachusetts, Emerson in 1803 and Thoreau in 1817. They both attended Harvard University, and abandoned their careers to pursue a lifestyle of transcendentalism. What this looked like was a life of simplicity and connecting your inner soul. Both authors believed there was a deeper meaning…

in the United States of America. Leonard Bernstein was born on August 25, 1918 in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He discovered his passion for music at a very young age after listening to a piano performance which inspired him to begin learning the piano. Bernstein attended the Boston Latin School as a child. Shortly after graduating from Boston Latin School in 1935, he attended the prestigious, Harvard University, where he majored in music. Bernstein met many accomplished conductors during his time…

the Stamp Act. “The news was brought to Boston in John Hancock’s brig the Harrison,” and John announced it to the public. So after the news, John threw a grand party. “He festooned his house with flags, piled his table high with food, and lighted up all of his windows. When the house was full, he rolled out a 126 gallons cask of Madeira wine.” Everybody was cheering at him as the fireworks were set off. On May 1768, John Hancock was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives. “The…

and later on went to Yale University. Samuel Morse was very interested in art and wanted to become a painter after graduating from university. When he finally graduated from Yale in 1810, he thought that his dream of continuing a career as a painter would finally come true. His father Jedidiah Morse did not understand this, he wanted his son to have a more stable and better paid job. So instead, he arranged Samuel Morse to apprentice at a bookstore in Boston, Massachusetts. After working at…

that most teens face. My main requirements for a college are the location, selectivity, tuition and fees, campus life, and job placement after graduation.. The first school that I am considering to attend is Arizona State University. ASU is large, public, four year university. It is located in the small suburban city of Tempe, Arizona. It has an admission rate of eighty percent, admitting approximately 17,465 people a year. Admission requirements for ASU are four years of English, four years of…

involved, Boston College presents the perfect opportunity for me to grow both personally and intellectually. Since birth, Jesuit values and traditions have been embedded in my identity. My mom, an alumna of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, stressed social justice, volunteerism, and community service throughout my childhood, encouraging me to get involved in organizations for the benefit of others. In the fall of my sophomore year, I had the chance to attend a convention at Brandeis University where…

was only 11 years old. After the death of his father, him and his family moved to New England, where he grew up and graduated as valedictorian from Lawrence High school, where he also met his future wife, Elinor White. He then attended Dartmouth University for several months, but never graduated. In 1894, he wrote his first poem; "My butterfly: an Elegy", which was published in a weekly literary journal in New York City. After the success of his first poem, he tried to propose to Elinor,…