Wars of Scottish Independence

over America. Franklin’s original goal of money and aid to America changed during his time in France upon receiving letters from American prisoners of war, ill-treated and dying in British prisons. The American prisoner’s outlook on life become dire after Parliament voted in 1777 to deny them legal rights traditionally granted to prisoners of war. Upon the…

Technology has significantly advanced for the past few decades, with abundance of inventions created by brilliant minds have filled the current world. One such brilliant inventor that made his name known in the inventing world back in the 1870s was Scottish-born American inventor Alexander Graham Bell, the founding father of the device that could transmit speech electrically; the telephone (Gray, 2011). The telephone was notably fashioned from his attempts to improve an invention that was…

These women that were accused did not fit into the norm of society due to their independence from patriarchal norms, specifically elderly women that lived outside the parameters of the patriarchal family. The suspect issue that surrounded these women were that they often never gave birth or married, leading them to create a sub-set of English social hierarchy that was unable to mesh into the traditional, male-dominated, immediate family unit that was so prominent in English society. Another…

I guess I am a bit clueless on what is going on around the world today. As I am reading up on the UK abandoning the European Union I am starting to feel this was not a good decision from looking outside in; before making that finally decision I am going to investigate what happened let’s start. First off what is a referendum? Apparently is a voting that took place in the UK on June 23, 2016 that decided if the UK should remain or leave the European Union. Considering the leave vote won by 52%,…

centuries, slave trade became quite popular in the slaves’ home country of Africa, where they were strictly imprisoned and horribly mistreated, as represented by the 18th century writings of Mungo Park and Olauda Equiano. Mungo Park was a Scottish explorer who voyaged to Africa’s interior. During his visit, Park witnessed the African slave trade in action. His accounts led him to produce Travels to the Interior Districts of Africa. In his writings Park illustrated his first hand…

The Amazon queen, Hippolyta is in greek myth a symbol of female power, marchiarty, and independence. Also, Titania rebelled against make authority at one point. She didn’t allow Oberon to tell her what to do and didn’t allow him to have the Indian boy. She fights for what she wants and not what Oberon wants, revealing strong female independent…

Thomas Jefferson is remembered in history as a brilliant writer and the author of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, however, few people noticed his flaws and contradictory conduct to beliefs. One of those who saw through all of Jefferson’s accomplishments was Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton was an immigrant from Nevis, British West Indies who is often remembered as being the creator of our National Bank System and as Thomas Jefferson’s counterpart. Despite being broadly remembered in history as…

classes created famine conditions, exacerbated by the lavish lifestyles enjoyed by the upper class and royals. The lack of social mobility within French society crushed the hopes of millions of French commoners for a better life. Finally, the constant war with other countries drained away financial resources that were desperately needed at home for domestic…

his famous book The Autobiography. Benjamin Franklin He was the first great self-made man in America, a poor democrat born in an aristocratic age supported the cause of independence,, and aided Jefferson in writing the Declaration of Independence. Practical yet idealistic, hard working and enormously successful. the Scottish philosopher David Hume called him America's "first great man of letters”. Major Works Franklin’s place in literature owes much to his almanac and autobiography:…

mental and physical maltreatments that were aimed at them and the rest of the Loyalist. Revolutionist viewed Scottish settlers in Virginia as being leaches feeding off the poor native-born people of the colonies. The people of the colonies posed a great threat to their economic, social, and even political independence. The revolutionist stormed the Campbell’s estate, where they forced the Scottish…