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Chase, passed away and was not present throughout the story unless talked about. Mary and Virginia live on their farm and for the beginning of the story Chase is an apprentice so he is not home. The story takes place through 1692-1693 in Salem, Massachusetts. Kathryn Lasky was born on June 24, 1944 in Indianapolis, Indiana. She attended a private all girls school. Kathryn then went off to college and got a Bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree in early

Summer HW #2: Walden by Henry David Thoreau 1. “For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, where it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to “glorify God and enjoy him forever.” P.383 What is the “it” that Thoreau is referring to when he says people are in a strange uncertainty about “it” AND what does the rest of the quote in mean? Thoreau conducted his experiment to understand what it meant to lead a simple

Persuading a Son Authors use many rhetorical strategies to convince their audiences of their point. Just after the end of the revolutionary war, Abigail Adams wrote her son, who was at the time reluctantly joining his father abroad, a letter encouraging him to embrace the challenges he would face and become the best person he can be. Abigail Adams uses many argumentation strategies to convince her son that he should use his journey and his abilities to become a future statesman for the newly created

8 - 7 - 17 Visitors I was startled at the beginning of the chapter by Thoreau’s confession that he loves society, despite him previously saying that he did not like company, making me think even the most introverted have a longing for connection. I enjoyed the part where Thoreau talks about risk. It made sense to me when he states that as long as someone is alive, there is always the danger that he will die. I have contemplated this before, that there is no way to truly be safe, so we must be confident

Salutary Neglect- Between 1690 and 1760, the colonist went to little problems from the British. Salutary Neglect was an idea which could be beneficial to the colonies. The concept of this idea was that America could experience self-government and people could make their own rules. The Salutary Neglect make the colonies violate the Navigation Act and allowed the colonies to feel being independent. The colonies had their own legislatures which made their own laws. Proclamation of 1763 was ordered

Winthrop in 1629 led the Puritans on a verge to America to create a “City on a Hill” . The Massachusetts Bay Company relocated their headquarters to America and named where they settled New England. The Massachusetts Bay Company also funds the Puritans journey to America. The colony is known to be the second to establish in America. A year after settling 1630, John Winthrop establishes a port named Massachusetts Bay for their new city, Boston. The city of Boston will become the first major city in America

As you should already know, the 13 Colonies were colonized by Great Britain. This meant the colonists were still British citizens and had to listen to the king’s orders. What government there was in America wasn’t very good. The king appointed a governor for every colony. He was given the power to do whatever he wanted. He could even overrule the assembly of that colony. The British Parliament decided to redo everything in America, mostly because they were in debt and needed money bad. At this

Can you imagine fighting and living through the beginning of the American Revolution? Authors James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier published in 1974, My Brother Sam Is Dead. This book occurred in Redding, Connecticut in 1776 during the American Revolution. My Brother Sam Is Dead is a story of a sixteen-year-old, Sam Meeker, which decided to join the army to fight against the British. While his younger brother, Tim Meeker must decide between his brother’s loyalty to become an independent

In addition to the Director of Admissions, I would invite Edna Pontellier, protagonist of Kate Chopin’s novel “The Awakening,” Henry David Thoreau for his work “Where I Lived and What I Lived For” in “Walden,” and Sally K. Ride. I would invite these people because I think they’d all have profound, original thoughts to offer in conversation, and I think it’d be especially interesting because they would probably have conflicting ideas. Chopin’s character Edna is used to comment on conformity in our

Hemingway’s character Santiago from The Old Man and the Sea is an example of a transcendentalist that takes Thoreau’s ideologies about nature and transcendentalism to heart. Santiago is an old man who’s life revolves around going out to fish on the open sea every day. The character that Hemingway created is clearly a transcendentalist due to his strong connection with nature and his desire to explore the sea on his own, as well as the fact that he exhibits the three key points of learning that Emerson