Ben Franklin's Autobiography
How is Franklin a combination of his American roots (In Puritanism and in the relative independence from the society of England) with the Enlightenment ideas of writers like Pope? I.e. -- How is he a particularly America Continue Reading...
Managing the Transition of Starting Primary School in England - Policies and Practices
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Education for the English child is compulsory from the age of five through the age of sixteen. This compulsory primary education consists of Continue Reading...
Adolescence to Adulthood:
Comparative Study of Stephen Dedalus from James Joyce's "Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man" to Felicitas Taylor from Mary Gordon's "The Company of Women"
Stephen Dedalus, the hero in "Portrait of an Artist as a Young M Continue Reading...
Populist Persuasion," Michael Kazin sees populism as a vehicle for the weak and disenfranchised common person to address and challenge the ruling elite. As such, Kazin views populism as an "impulse" that is at the very root of American democracy. Ka Continue Reading...
Hannah Foster's "The Coquette"
Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette is scarcely remembered today, a point that she herself would probably have expected. Few women writing at the end of the 18th century could have expected that their works would prov Continue Reading...
Tecumseh and the Shawnee Prophet
Tenskwatawa "The prophet" and Tecumseh
Tenskwatawa was born in 1778 at Old Piqua near present day Springfield, Ohio. His father was an important Shawnee chief. Lauliwasikau was one of eight children, and he protecte Continue Reading...
Teen Violence
Imagine being caught in the middle of a crossfire with two students shooting and you are right in the middle of it. Well that is exactly what students and teachers in Littleton, Colorado went through. On April 20, 1999, at approximatel Continue Reading...
American Idiot
Popular Music and Social Change in the Present: Green Day's 'American Idiot' (2004)
Following the catalyzing events of September 11th, 2001, the United States would find itself deeply divided over the issues of terrorism, war and pre Continue Reading...
Religion and Politics
Some groups hold the view that faith groups and other institutions have a very significant role to play within the political arena and that they have a duty to enter the political fight and they expect the government to remain Continue Reading...