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John Locke John Locke is considered to be England’s most prominent philosopher. He was born August 29, 1632 in a small town of Somerset, which is south of Bristol, England. Locke was the oldest of three children. His mother died when he was 22 years old and Locke spoke of her very well. Locke’s father was a Puritan attorney and clerk to a justice of the peace in the town where Locke was born. He was very strict with his son when he was younger. which Locke later believed that parents should

A general for the American colonials, Nathanael Greene said it best when he stated, "he wished he could sell them another hill at the same price." The battle of Bunker Hill was a significant event for the American colonists cause. It was fought in less than 3 hours on June 17th, 1775, but became a game changer in the struggle for independence. The British’s plan to fortify and occupy the Boston area and harbor was met with a determined colonist army headed by Colonel Prescott. Although the colonists

Wordsworth, Social Reform Literature, and Politics of the 1790s The historical mix of social fictions in England and France at the end of the 1780s greatly impacted the literature of the period. Tom Paine's The Rights of Man (1791) and Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1791) were the two most widely read works that spurred a decade long debate on how the nation of England was to be governed and by whom. As a young man during this period, William Wordsworth formed part of