I chose “Settling New England” as my topic. The website I had chosen has many intriguing facts. While reading it, it just made me want to read more and more. It also had very descriptive pictures that one could visualize what it was like back in the day will reading. This site is related to chapter 2 out of the book that we read because it talks about the Mayflower and Plymouth Colony, Thanksgiving, Puritan life, and how New England expanded.…
Katherine Boo’s first book, Behind The Beautiful Forevers, details the lives of the citizens of Annawadi, a small slum in Mumbai, India. For three years and four months Boo chronicled the everyday struggles of several individuals illegally squatting within the cramped quarters owned by the Mumbai Airport Authority. Founded in 1991 by construction workers hoping to acquire temp work brought on by the ever-expanding airport (Boo, 2012, p. 5), Annawadi is home to “three thousand people … packed into … three hundred and thirty five huts” (Boo, 2012, p. xi).…
After reading the novel Nest in the Wind: Adventures in Anthropology on a Tropical Island, written by Martha C. Ward, I learned about a culture on an island that is much different but similar in many ways to ours. The Climate of the Island was tropical with heavy rainfall. The Island was known as a “tropical paradise”. Ward a female Anthropologist went to this Island to study its inhabitants . Some area she focus on was Family, Religion, sex, tradition, economics, politics ,medicine, death, resources and daily activities . Ward approach to getting this information as accurate as possible was to live among the Pohnpeians as . She got involved in their culture and community. She even , though unwanted gained rank in their society. Her and Her Husband lived in a tin hut, learned customs and manners. They were forced to do the daily chores , find food learn the language and be an active part of the community When the first arrived they had little idea what to expect. They went for information and what they got was a life changing experience. Their study is one of the few done on the traditional way of Pohnpei life recording everything from chores to beliefs.…
Go Set a Watchman details the return of Jean Louise Finch to her hometown of Maycomb, Alabama. The novel opens with the train ride to the smalltown and Jean Louiseś description of what it meant to go home. She conveys her thoughts on returning and shares what exactly coming home does to her: it morphs her into a different person. She arrives at her destination and is greeted by a familiar face, Henry Clinton, a boy whom she’s known all of her life. The two share in each other’s embrace and the reader is informed of the current situation of the Finch family. Jem is dead, and Atticus is almost a cripple. The little town has changed since her last visit, and this change is what drives the conflict of the entire story.…
The Hobsons Bay website provides links to a short book which outlines the history of the Yalukit Wilum people and highlights the impact colonisation had on their lifestyle and their survival post settlement. The book is called ‘The Yalukit Wilum – The First People of Hobsons Bay’ and it is a short history of the aborigines who lived within the Hobsons Bay region of Melbourne.…
Title: Seminole Indians The Seminole Indians lived near the ocean in Florida. These areas had a hot and humid climate in the summer and mild climate in the winter. They had lots of rainfall. They used their environment for water, food, and shelter.…
Mary Ann Glendon begins by discussing the eighteenth century and what the Founding Fathers expected America to be when they were discussing social systems, the environment and emphasis on family during that time period produced different character and personality than our environment and definition of family does today. Glendon asserts, “the market economy, too, can take a toll on society.” This quote in particular reminded me of the probing social commentary discussed in the previous chapters of Lasch, where the market, no longer relying on small-scale production can cause a loss in civic virtue because citizens focus their concerns elsewhere. Therefore, the environment that the Founding Fathers were exposed to, surrounded by small-scale production,…
Have you ever been worried that you would die before confessing all of your sins? In the Plymouth Colony, people did that. The Plymouth Colony was the most healthy and safe European Colony in North America. It was an English colony founded on the coast of Massachusetts. It was active from 1620 to 1691. The first residence of the Plymouth Colony was at New Plymouth, a location earlier observed and named by John Smith. The settlement, which was the capital of the colony, is now a town in Massachusetts. The Plymouth colony was the friendliest to the Native Americans. In this essay, you will learn all about the Plymouth colony.…
Mary Rowlandson who wrote A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson described her first person experience she had with Native Americans. She depicts the events as would be seen by an outside observer which become partly biased due to the emotions she felt during captivity. Her story takes place during King Philip’s War, a territorial battle between Native Americans and English settlers. Mary and her children were captured and taken as prisoners by Native Americans in order to be ransomed off. Mary was later sold to a neighboring Indian tribe which she obtained a bible and allowed her to practice religion. Mary’s strong faith in Christianity allowed her to survive her arduous and emotional journey.…
Although there are several amazing people that came from Arkansas one of my favorites is Katherine Alexander. Katherine Alexander is my favorite actress from Arkansas because she worked constantly doing what she loved.…
Although witchcraft is commonly associated with the Salem Witch Trials of 1692, there were also other trials throughout the century across colonial New England. It is important to look at some of these other trials also in order to see their cultural and historical impacts. The impacts are often overlooked because all of the attention tends to be put towards the Salem trials. One trial in particular, the 1669 trial of Katherine Harrison, is interesting to look at because of its particular circumstances. Although the essays by two respected historians, Jane Kamensky and Carol Karlsen, never address the trial specifically both seem to offer explanations for Katherine Harrison’s particular witchcraft circumstances.…
“What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail” (Unknown)? No person can say or do anything without one taking it too personal and getting offended by it. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and belief but that does not mean they have the one correct opinion. Everyone has a story or background about their life that few people know about. Everyone has worked hard for something and failed. So why is it now people are constantly in disagreement with others beliefs and think they have some sort of say in it? Social media makes it easy for people to argue without talking in person. Society has brainwashed people into thinking that only one way is right—even though everyone has different pasts and perspectives. People need to…
Jacqueline Kennedy once said, “One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness” (Anzia). Jackie Kennedy faced many great ordeals in her lifetime. When she was a child, her parents divorced, which was unusual for the time period. The separation of her parents led to Jackie becoming closed off. When Jackie Kennedy was married to John F. Kennedy, she had a miscarriage, a stillbirth, and a baby who died shortly after birth. Jackie Kennedy also had to face the death of her husband, from a communist killer. All the events that took place in Jacqueline Kennedy’s life led to how she handled her husband’s presidency and his assassination.…
Throughout their journey the boys’ overcome difficult obstacles in order to find the missing body. Some of those obstacles include taking shortcuts across the train bridge and trekking through a river in order to save time. These obstacles symbolise the complications they are going to face later on in life.…
Would you rather live in a working, breathing prison where you are guaranteed a horrendous health and probably death, or would you live in a healthy and reliable workplace where you know you can make a good living? In the book Lyddie by Katherine Patterson, this rhetorical question comes to life. This book is about how Lyddie, the main character, must work hard to support her family back home in Vermont. Her mother’s mental health is deteriorating as her father left several years ago, in the search of wealth and riches in the West. As she continues, in the beginning, to live with her brother and herself in solidarity until she and her brother are called upon to pay off the tremendous debt of her father. As she finds a job at the Tavern, she…