In Anne Orthwood’s Bastard‚ John Ruston Pagan focuses our attention on the legalities surrounding a single case of out-of-wedlock pregnancy in seventeenth-century Virginia. Prosecutions for fornication and premarital pregnancy were common matters in early modern courts in Virginia‚ British North America‚ and England. Through Pagan’s narrative‚ this seemingly routine case gains significance for early American legal history. He argues that the event‚ its characters‚ and the legal suits it generated
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We Can But Should We? Laurel Lotterhos Chamberlain College of Nursing NR361: Information Systems in Healthcare May‚ 2013 We Can But Should We? Technology is an ever-changing part of our society that has affected the healthcare profession greatly. It seems that every few months a new technology is introduced to improve quality care and safety in every aspect of healthcare‚ whether it be inpatient services or emergency services. “Trends in the rise of smartphone adoption and usage by
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The Diary of Anne Frank ! This summer I read The Diary of Anne Frank. This book was a diary written by Anne Frank who was a young Jewish girl living during the German occupation of Holland‚ and was translated by B.M. Mooyaart-Doubleday. In her diary she writes about what her and her mother‚ father‚ and older sister Margot went through because of their culture and beliefs. In 1942‚ Anne and her family went into hiding to avoid being sent to a concentration camp by the Nazi’s. !
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Anne Frank: Writing as a journey to self discovery The protagonist and author of The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank began writing her diary at the age of thirteen. She has many friends and admires at school; however‚ she confesses that she doesn’t have any close friend whom she able to open up fully about deeper things in her mind that she wants to share. It makes her to feel lonely and misunderstood. Anne found a best friend in the diary she named “Kitty”. The diary gives her a private place
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committed‚ a jury or judge should choose to try the person as an adult. For example‚ Lionel Tate‚ who was twelve‚ beat a 6 year old girl to death while wrestling. Lionel Tate is a person that Marjie Lundstrom used in her article; “Kids Are Kids - Until They Commit Crimes”. That happened because television had influenced a young boy. That doesn’t make him a murderer‚ but yet he
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The poem “Contemplations” is said by critics to be one of Anne Bradstreet’s greatest writing accomplishments ever. Born in the 17th century‚ Bradstreet moved with her family from England to New England in search of a better way of life and to recover her Puritan values. While this transition was quite a struggle‚ she did not let it take away from her beliefs. In this poem‚ Bradstreet focuses on three main topics that are important to her spiritually: nature‚ God‚ and how they are significant to our
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Criticism on Anne Bradstreet In a criticism by James Ryan on Anne Bradstreet’s over all poetic history. At around 1639‚ Bradstreet became interested in the composition of many types of poetry. There was a great variety of poems that she wrote such as elegies‚ dialogues‚ religious verse‚ and love lyrics. Many of her poems were wrote about her everyday life dealing with her family or major events that occurred. Publishing a book in the seventeenth-century in England was an amazing accomplishment
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Introduction The book “Anne Frank: Diary of A Young Girl” tells the story of Anne Frank‚ a German-born teenager who spent 2 years of her life hiding during the German-occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. Anne Frank gained fame after her diary was found 2 years after she has died. Since then‚ her writings have been etched into history as it accounts the horrors faced by the Jews and the Dutch alike during the peak of Nazism. Summary The story of Anne Frank’s experience during the Nazi
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Imagine getting a call from the school’s principal saying your son is failing classes‚ doing drugs in the locker room‚ and drinking alcohol on school property. In the story “Teenage Wasteland” by Anne Tyler‚ Daisy is struck by the reality of her son Donny doing poorly in school. First your parents can not force you do well in school‚ the child has to make the decision on his own. “Donny was noisy‚ lazy‚ and disruptive.” Daisy gets a phone call from Donny’s principle telling her that her son is doing
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flies away as quickly as it came. I turn to my mission and look down. The rushing river beckons to me. My final resting place. I take a deep breath. My knees bend and… “Skylar?” I hear a deep voice behind me. Shit‚ the cops are probably here again. I turn‚ ready to sprint away like always. But the voice behind me is not an officer.
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