Drake & Josh

Don’t you feel everyone should receive a fair trial when being accused of a crime? Well, 19 years ago, on January 13, 1999, a boy at Woodland High School in Baltimore named Adnan was accused of manual strangling of a girl named Hae Min Lee. He supposedly told Jay, a buddy of his, that he was going to kill her. After Hae’s missing body was recovered, Jay went to the police and the state used his testimony against Adnan. Recently, a serial podcast was developed by Sarah Koenig, a detective who goes

Elizabethan and Modern Education The Elizabethan Era, the “Golden Age” of English history, ended with the death of Queen Elizabeth I, but its approach to education lingered centuries beyond that. During the Elizabethan times, education was completely dependent upon a person’s social status and gender, as well as the whims of the sitting monarch. Although that is not the case anymore, similarities can be drawn between Elizabethan and modern education. In fact, Elizabethan education and modern education

Life in Elizabethan England was hard. While some people believe that the life was great in that era, but they are mistaken. The life during Elizabethan England era was very hard because of the poverty levels being very high, the towns were unclean and their diets were very poor. During the Elizabethan England era there was an outburst of poverty. Others may say that the poverty was not an issue, but they are mistaken.The poverty created a big issue for the poor because they looked down upon them

The roots of, and reasons for the rebellion of the 13 colonies can be found in the 16th century. There have been several factors that have laid the groundwork for the colonies to rebel against England. The 16th Century was a significant time when exploring the New World. There were three reasons why exploration to the New World took place, God, Gold, and Glory (known as the 3 Gs) (Lecture 7). Throughout this essay we will explore events that led up to the rebellion such as Ysabela’s hope to

Maritime Exploration Challenges of Ferdinand Magellan and Sir Francis Drake Exploration of the oceans was very popular during the time of Spanish explorer Ferdinand Magellan and English explorer Sir Francis Drake. Ferdinand Magellan was a young Portuguese man who enlisted under the Spanish king before he began his expedition to go on a trip around the world on the 10th of August in 1519 (“Ferdinand” 1). Ferdinand Magellan was in search of both fortune and fame, and he left Spain with 5 ships in

Although England faces the menace of the impending Spanish invasion, Queen Elizabeth I reassures her troops that if they commit themselves to the British cause England will be victorious over the Spanish, therefore she incentivises her troops with the promise of honor, glory and wealth. Her purpose is to convince her troops to risk their lives for the safety of England. She accomplishes this by persistent use of parallelism and appeals to ethos. Queen Elizabeth open her speech establishing her

Leadership plays a big role in society and it is where a group or an organization is being led by a person. To be a great leader you have to have a multitude of characteristics. Responsibility, intelligence, confidence, communication, and commitment are some characteristics on what it takes to be a great leader. A leader is a person that takes charge and motivates a certain group to do certain things. Suleiman the Magnificent, Nelson Mandela, and Queen Elizabeth I all have the characteristics of

Queen Elizabeth I The United Kingdom received a gift on September 5, 1533. Queen Elizabeth I was born in Greenwich, England where she began to rule for a very long time, approximately 44 years. Queen Elizabeth governed with prosperity and stability for her kingdom. The greatest monarch of England in the Golden Age was Queen Elizabeth I. Her journey in becoming the greatest monarch of England was not easy. She grew up in difficult circumstances, such as losing her mother, Anne Boleyn, at the age of

The Elizabethan Era has become known as ‘the Golden Age of England.’ Queen Elizabeth I, provided a peace that England had been deprived of for years, she adopted a policy of religious settlement, and encouraged the arts and exploration of new worlds and trade routes. England became a prosperous nation. This was an extraordinary achievement in a patriarchal society, where women were seen as feeble and weak. Historians’ views on the importance of Elizabeth to these advances differ. To some, she is

Francis Drake, later Sir Francis Drake, was an incredibly interesting man. Born in Devonshire, England around 1540 (no birth records for him exist) as the eldest of twelve sons born to the farmer Edmund Drake. When he was a teenager, Drake got his first taste of the sea as an apprentice to a merchant who sailed coastal waters between England and France. He picked up navigational skills well and was soon alongside his relatives, the Hawkinses. The Hawkinses were a group of privateers (fancy