Viviam Thomas was born in New Iberia, Lousisana, the son of an carpenter. His family moved to Nashville where he later graduated from high school with honors. Vivian had an older brother who also became a teacher. His brother was involved in the Brown vs Broad Case.…
The book starts out with an account of the British troops leaving Boston Harbor in March of 1776. The people of America were celebrating George Washington and what they thought was the end of the war. Washington wasn’t so convinced. He alludes to many difficulties that he “was obliged to conceal then from my friends, indeed from my own Army.”…
Tom eventually stopped after a few miles of lifeless forest passed and suddenly he felt something shift in the back of his car. Tom slowly turned around and remained unperturbed as he saw a stranger sitting in his back seat, staring back at him, and he noticed the car doors were all locked. The stranger was a man who wore a sharp black suit with a distinguished red tie. As Tom looked into the man’s eyes he saw nothing but a vague reflection of himself, his greed and thirst for money. This is when he realized who the man was, Old Scratch.…
“Of Plymouth Plantation” by William Bradford is history about the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the lives of the Puritan colonists. He was a Puritan who sailed to Plymouth. He began to attend meetings of small group of Nonconformists and later, he joined them. The Nonconformists sailed to find land where they can be free to worship and live according to their own beliefs. After several years, William Bradford became governor of Plymouth Colony, and he was elected as a governor at least thirty times. During the sailing, and after arrived at Plymouth, there were several conflicts shown as internal and external.…
Lamott explains how writing for her is like creating a present for someone. She wrote most of her stories based on her experiences such as her father’s death, her friend Pammy’s death, and her son witnessing the death of a friend’s baby. For finding your own voice, writers should use their own material and experiences to shape the style they want. Though having an author that you look up to is ok, writers often times try to sound like the author they admire and it doesn’t help make their work original or unique. Lamott says there are two things that put her in the spirit to give: giving a book to a patient in the hospital and being given a book by other writers and then writing a book back to them. I like how she connects giving to writing…
He tells the story of a young girl and boy in trying situations and persuades his audience to feel sorry for them. The boy lives in a bad area. His father is “jobless” and his mother is a “sleep-in domestic.” The girl must take on the “role of [a] mother” because her “mother died.” What reader can help but feeling sorry for a young child who has no hope? They still live in fear and desolation and have no hope, for their race is sinking. Once, their people worked with “George Washington” and “shed blood in the revolution.” But, they fell from higher hopes and were put on “slave ships... in chains.” The reader can’t help but feel sorry for a race that has been so abused and taken advantage of.…
1. In complete sentence format, list three specific details you learned about William Bradford from this reading.…
These two opposing forces are best represented by two of the novel 's principal characters: Victor and Thomas-Builds-the-Fire. Victor, raised in poverty by an alcoholic, "failure" of a father, can only see the past through dark colored glasses. For him, the past is a force that, more often than not, leaves disaster in its wake; the tragedy of the past begets the tragedy of the present, pain begets pain. It is an endless and indefatigable cycle. Thomas-Builds-the-Fire on the other hand, is a man who sees value in the past and in tradition-hence his role as a storyteller. When Thomas speaks of the past in his stories, he speaks of past Indian glory, of acts of bravery and sacrifice, and in such a past he sees hope for the future. For each man, the past holds a different meaning, and a different potential; where one sees only decay, the other sees the possibility for rebirth.…
In Darryl Pinckney's discerning critical essay, "Richard Wright: The Unnatural History of a Native Son," Pinckney states that all of Wright's books contain the themes of violence, inhumanity, rage, and fear. Wright writes about these themes because he expresses, in his books, his convictions about his own struggles with racial oppression, the "brutal realities of his early life." Pinckney claims that Wright's works are unique for Wright's works did not attempt to incite whites to acknowledge blacks. Wright does not write to preach that blacks are equal to whites. The characters in Wright's works, including Bigger Thomas from Native Son, are not all pure in heart; the characters have psychological burdens and act upon their burdens. For instance, Bigger Thomas, long under racial oppression, accidentally suffocates Mary Dalton in her room for fear that he will be discriminated against and charged with the rape of Mary Dalton. Also, according to Pinckney, although the characters of Wright's books are under these psychological burdens, they always have "futile hopes [and] desires." At the end of Native Son, Bigger is enlightened by the way his lawyer Max treats him, with the respect of a human being. Bigger then desires nothing but to live, but he has been sentenced to death.…
Thomas saw the land tore up. There were old log cabin houses that were now decaying and littering the landscape. For the creation of these artificial river systems and dams, the ground was brought up and trees were uplifted. Instead of cleaning up the mess in those days,…
As a wise professor once told his class about a Lincoln's biographer, "I went to bed with Mr. Lincoln every night for . . ." I also choose carefully the person for my thoughts as Thomas Jefferson. The author of the declaration of independence, a great statesman, an aristocratic diplomat, a Virginia nationalist, a philosopher, a scientist, an architect, a plantation and slave owner, this multi faced personality is as intriguing as meaning of being an American itself. Thomas Jefferson was born in Virginia colony on April 13, 1743. He was the third child and eldest son of Peter Jefferson and Jane Randolph. His father was a surveyor a map maker, a magistrate and a member of the Virginia House of Burgess. His mother's aristocratic background assured mild manners and social standing. Young Thomas…
Samuel had many health problems as a child. Therefore, they had to keep him indoors for the first half of his childhood. Although, when he was around ten years he joined the rest of the town's children outside. He grew up in a two-story house at 206 Hill Street. One of Samuel’s major life events was when his father died of pneumonia. Because of his father’s death, Samuel left school and became a printer’s apprentice. Samuel found his first…
Religion plays a major role in the day to day lives of the early settlers in America. So much so, that early colonial writers use it as a form of literary persuasion. John Smith and William Bradford were two such writers.…
The first part will be about Thomas Jefferson’s ideas for America. He wanted to expand lands from Mississippi where red people or Indians lived in. Jefferson wrote that he would give all the best for Indians. He convinced them to live in peaceful together. He would give many benefits for them it they were friendly and listening to him. He said that he did not like a war that could happen if Indians attacked and against U.S. government. They had to follow the policies that the president or the Congress suggested to them. Government accepted their conditions, which could were accepted and done well. He promised with red people that they would become his children, and he would like to take well care their lives if they lived in together. He would like to show the development of cities that he could do for them, and telling that friendships of white people would give to Indians. He gave them two chooses that first was a war with the government, or second was lived in peaceful with many benefits from government. From him, his country was kindly and nice to everyone. Anyone lived in his country would live in peaceful and freedom.…
Early Americans as depicted in William Bradford’s primary source document Of Plymouth Plantation (1640), were God-fearing, compassionate, christians who traveled from Old England to Early America were faced with disease, sickness, hunger, weather, and Indians. The Puritans that traveled there spread the word of god with the Indians and built a place of worship. While, The Scarlet Letter (1850), by Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays these traditional Puritans as: harsh, judgmental, religion based, do everything by the book (in this case, the Bible). Their town was rustic and grim with the prison being the first to be built with spikes on the door. After a young woman by the name of Hester Prinn committed adultery, she was forced to wear the letter “A” on her chest as a form of public shame for the rest of her life. This letter represented the crime she committed. The audience meant for Bradford’s text was for Old England Europeans and other Puritans, while the audience for Hawthorne's novel was for a 19th century audience.…