William Pope Duval William Pope Duval‚ lawyer and congressman‚ the son of William and Anne (Pope) Duval‚ was born at Mount Comfort‚ Virginia in 1784. In 1804 he married Nancy Hynes and was admitted in to the bar that same year. On May 1821‚ President Monroe appointed Duval as a federal judge in the Eastern district of the Florida Territory. That is where his legacy in the Florida history begins. From 1822 -1834‚ Duval served as the first territorial Governor of the territory of Florida. In those
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William Lloyd Garrison: Uncompromise During Times of Compromise William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) was an American journalist and adamant abolitionist. Garrison became famous in the 1830s for his uncompromising denunciations of slavery. Garrison lived a troubled childhood. His family lived in poverty. In addition‚ his father was a drunkard‚ and when Garrison was three years old‚ his father deserted his family and never came back. Thus‚ with the absence of an encouraging father figure
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Should William Penn be a heroic figure to American history? Throughout British proprietary colonization of the Americas‚ there were many different motives for claiming American soil by those whom were audacious enough to consider the prospect of funding a distant statehood. Penn claimed to see his colony as a “holy experiment” (page XIII); who differed from its “peers” in the respect that it had intent to provide refuge to those whom faced religious persecution‚ even so‚ the “devout” Quaker‚ eventually
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William Blake’s “London” was published in 1794 as part of his series‚ Songs of Experience. In fact‚ it is one of the few members of Songs of Experience that does not have a corresponding in his Songs of Innocence. A literal interpretation of the poem depicts the speaker’s perspective of London as a highly corrupted city. Through his use of juxtaposition‚ diction‚ and repetition‚ Blake establishes a social commentary on London in the 1790’s. Thus‚ the conflict of the poem revolves around the political
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William Shakespeare has been a decorated playwright and poet since he first began introducing his works in the sixteenth century. The plays and poems of Shakespeare has a power over audiences‚ to make them feel the emotions that are embedded within the works themselves. In “Macbeth” we feel the pain and suffering of Macbeth as he is overcome with his greed and his own brand of paranoia‚ which leads him to destroying everything in the world that he finds dear. Shakespeare has the power to make audiences
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"The Use of Force"‚ a short story by William Carlos Williams published in 1938 depicts the story of two characters in confrontation. The narrative implies the severity of a situation when social roles and personal impulses intertwine. An analysis can be done by determining the correlation amongst characters and this theme. The man’s behaviour towards the girl and this young patient’s reaction emphasize the difficulties people have separating emotions and standards. The doctor‚ the main character
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William Randolph Hearst George Hearst‚ William’s father was born in 1820 on a frontier plantation in Franklin‚ Missouri. George’s father died when he was 26. George was a very hard worker and loved his family very much. He worked odd jobs and in mines to pay off his fathers debt and to take care of his mother‚ sister and little brother. Mining fascinated young George and even though he could barely read he dwelled into geology books to learn more. In 1848 word started to spread like wildfire
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On April 29‚ 1863‚ William Randolph Hearst was born in San Francisco‚ California. He received the best education that his multimillionaire father and his sophisticated schoolteacher mother could buy—private tutors‚ private schools‚ grand tours of Europe‚ and Harvard College. Young Hearst’s journalistic career began in 1887‚ two years after his Harvard expulsion. "I want the San Francisco Examiner‚ " he wrote to his father‚ who owned the newspaper and granted the request. When William’s father died
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Irish poet‚ dramatist‚ and prose writer‚ one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. Yeats’s father‚ John Butler Yeats‚ was a barrister who eventually became a portrait painter. His mother‚ formerly Susan Pollexfen‚ was the daughter of a prosperous merchant in Sligo‚ in western Ireland. Through both parents Yeats claimed kinship with various Anglo-Irish Protestant families who are mentioned in his work. Normally‚ Yeats would
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Tennessee Williams influenced playwrights in the 1950s and continues to do so today. His most popular works are Cat on a Hot Tin Roof‚ The Glass Menagerie‚ and A Streetcar Named Desire. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a story about a Southern family full of dysfunction and crisis. One of the main characters Brick‚ is having doubts about himself and it soon affects his marriage with his wife‚ Maggie. The play revolves around Brick and his extended family over the course of one evening. The Glass Menagerie
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