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Antiques have a unique place in American society even today. Going even further, they arguably have a different meaning today than they did in the past. Briann G. Greenfield offers an effective evolution of antiques from the early 1900’s onward. She charts the advances in collecting, selling, acquiring and even displaying of antiques. Greenfield even offers several case studies of collectors and dealers within the five chapters of Out of the Attic: Inventing Antiques in the Twentieth-Century…

I. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a bildungsroman novel written by Betty Smith. The novel is considered bildungsroman because it is about Francie's coming of age and becoming more mature. II. The setting of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 1912. During “Book 2,” there are flashbacks, and the novel's setting is 1900. “On Sunday, most people crowded into the eleven o'clock mass... She and her brother, Neely, like other Brooklyn kids, collected rags, paper, metal, rubber…

quarrelsome with peers and superiors. General Hooker got the nickname “Fighting” Joe Hooker after Northern Press newspaper article with a headline that was misprinted. The article, referring to General Hooker’s participation during the Battle of Williamsburg, was intended to read “Fighting – Joe Hooker” but when printed it read…

Thomas Jefferson was born in 1743 in Albemarle County, Virginia. During his life he accomplished many things and now is one of the most well-known presidents in history. People associated Jefferson with being the spokesmen for democracy. In addition, he signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Jefferson was also the first Secretary of State, the second Vice President, and the third President of the United States. During John Adam’s presidential term Jefferson served as his vice president…

Kara Walker’s A Subtlety (2014) is a 75-foot tall artwork that was exhibited in an uninhabited Domino Sugar factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY (Larson 2014: 505). The female sphinx inspired artwork was made of sugar, polystyrene, plastic and molasses (Lewis 2017: 12). Walker addresses how the black female body has been represented through stereotyping practices for years. Essentialism, reductionism and naturalization are used in A Subtlety. Essentialising is when a race’s intrinsic nature is…

From the beginning Christians tried to push their beliefs on the Native Americans, even though it was no good their beliefs were all so strong and that it was natural. A Swedish Minister gave a great short speech of Christianity, afterwards the Indian orator shared some main aspects of their own religion. The good missionary was appalled and disgusted by the story and called them idle tales. The Indian replied “my brother, it seems your friends have not done you justice in your education; they…

Wisconsin brought forth 91,379 soldiers for the Union Army, and these men were organized into 53 Infantry Regiments, 4 Calvary Regiments, a company of Berdan’s shooters, 13 light artillery batteries and 1 unit of heavy artillery. The First Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, 3 months, was assembled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and was rallied into State Service on April 27, 1861 then left for Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on June 9, 1861 (Wisconsin in the Civil War 2012), John C. Starkweather was the Colonel.…

George Washington George Washington was 67 years old when he died. He was the commander in chief of the continental army. He began his career in the Virginia Militia. George Washington played an vital role in the American revolution. During the American Revolution, he led the colonial forces to a win over the British and became an American hero. Over the course of the gruesome eight-year war, the colonial forces won very few battles but consistently held their own against the British. In October…

house. Only three years later he married Martha Wayles Skelton with whom he had six children, only two of which lived to be an adult. They lived happily together for ten years until her death. Jefferson attended the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg at the age of sixteen. He graduated after two years with the highest honors. He practice law and served in many different political positions throughout his life that will be covered later in this essay. At the age of seventy-six Jefferson…

area has claimed the number two spot for the largest dead zones in the world. “"More than 212,000 metric tons [235,000 tons] of food is lost to hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico," says marine biologist Robert Diaz of The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va., who surveyed the dead zones along with marine ecologist Rutger Rosenberg of the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. "That's enough to feed 75 percent of the average brown shrimp harvest from the Louisiana gulf” (Biello). The low…