...The Letters of Abigail and John - John Adams & Abigail Adams This book from John & Abigail Adams goes about the letters they sent to each other. So, it’s a sort of letter bundle. Abigail was the daughter of William and Elizabeth. Abigail was thirty-one years and John, her husband was forty-one years old,when they send this letters to each other. John was a lawyer and Elizabeth was a housewife. In the letters the love for each other is most forward. In the letters you can also see the political situation of 1776, colonial America tries to be independent. Abigail completely understood this situation. The Coquette - Hannah Webster Foster This book is an epistolary novel. It has been published in 1797, after the writer...
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...Blake Hughes Ms. Tolle English III-2 8 November 2011 Reactions Negative reactions to inauspicious events can pile up on the situation to make matters worse. Eventually there will be a large web of causes and effects as a result of one poor reaction to a single event. Such a situation occurs in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a book about a Puritan reaction to adultery. In the novel, the adultery of Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale causes Roger Chillingworth, who is the betrayed husband, to react negatively to the events outside of his control, showing that Chillingworth has been removed from his role as the important male figure in his marriage to Hester. Dimmesdale, who is the minister, removes Roger from his legal role as a dominant male figure in Hester’s life by first sleeping with Hester and, later, by continuing the relationship despite Chillingworth’s disapproval. The two culprits of the adultery are Hester Prynne, the unfaithful wife, and Arthur Dimmesdale, the Puritan minister of the community. Hester and Roger are married, but that does not mean that they are in love. They are together because it is against the Puritan lifestyle for a man to go unmarried, so Roger takes Hester to be his wife. Since the women of this time have little say in what happened, Hester and Roger marry. Arthur is the man that Hester is in love with, and she shows the proof of that fact through their adultery and having Pearl Prynne. They are so in love, they want to move...
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...under the 5th, 9th, and 14th amendment. Abortion should be illegal because it violates the rights of unborn children and it ends the life of a child before it has even begun. Abortion is murder, according to abortion.procon.org, “The federal Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which was enacted ‘to protect unborn children from assault and murder,’ states that under federal law, anybody intentionally killing or attempting to kill an unborn child should ‘be punished... for intentionally killing or attempting to kill a human being.’" (abortion.procon.org) Many Pro-Life activists argue that a woman or a...
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...Sylvester Stallone was born with dyslexia and he struggled with it when he was young, but he overcame it like many people. Dyslexia is the disability of mixing up words and their sounds (Moragne 9). Dyslexics suffer from both physical and mental symptoms throughout their life. They suffer from low self esteem by being made fun of and rejected by other people (73). When they sometime speak, they cannot find the right words to say (30). Dyslexics also have problems remembering things like somebody's name (Bronswick 46). Some dyslexic children and grown ups also have problems with spelling and reading. Sometimes dyslexics has troubles with figuring out which letter makes which sound (25) . Many people with dyslexia also struggle in school (Moragne...
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...writing in response to the letter I received from you regarding absences of my daughter Kat Dudek. I attached your letter to my email. There are a few things of which I would like to make you aware. First, all of the absences were due to Kat's sicknesses. Since she was a little child, she has been sick quite a lot. Before Kat was born, I had three miscarriages, including ectopic pregnancy. Kat was conceived right after the surgery during the time when I had to take very strong antibiotics to heal the infected fallopian tube. She is a miracle and the fact that she was born without any defects, is also a miracle. Unfortunately, all the problems that had happened before she was born might have weakened her immune system. When she was 2, she was hospitalized because of the asthma flares, after that she had frequent breathing problems, asthma flairs, and upper respiratory breath infections. She used to miss many days from preschool and kindergarten when we used to live in Poland. Fortunately, the older she has become, the fever asthma flare-ups she has begun to experience. She has been taking Singular 5,...
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...End of Life Care for the Newborn Ashley Altendahl Author Note This research is being submitted on November 18th, 2010, for Kristy Reinke’s PN 130 Maternal-Child Nursing course at Rasmussen College by Ashley Altendahl. 1) Article: The Dying Neonate: Family-Centered End-of-Life Care Author: Lisle-Porter, M., & Podruchny, A. This article discusses the importance of proper end of life care for dying infant and their family. They discuss three main goals: pain and comfort management, assisting with end of life decision making, and bereavement support. They believe the most important aspect of care, is to keep the newborn as comfortable and pain free as possible. It is also important to involve the family in end of life decision making, such as when to withdraw life support, whether to bless or baptize the child, and what to do after death. The article also stresses the importance of active listening and encouraging the family to discuss their thoughts and concerns. They also find it very crucial for the family to bond with their child during this time, which will help with the grieving process. It is also encouraged that they hold and bathe the child, as well as collect any mementos to remind them of the child they lost. 2) Article: ‘We baptized him with our tears’: A family is forced to say goodbye Author: Kris Berggren In this article, a woman discusses a loss of her sister in law’s baby, her children’s very first cousin. The one day they received a call stating...
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...Ingeborg was the second member of this Wahl family to immigrate to America. She was the sixth child of Anders Larsen and Berthe Syversdatter Wahl. She was born, 23 September 1855, at Hvaleie in Gran. In 1865, Ingeborg was residing with her parents, and younger siblings, at Ulverud (under Hval). Just like her older siblings had done, Ingeborg probably worked outside of the home once she was old enough. In 1875, she was employed at the North Bratvold farm in Jevnaker. There she was worked as a servant. It’s important to note here, that the North Bratvold farm was located just west of the Braaten farm where, Ingeborg’s older sister Anne Maria worked that same year. However, Ingeborg decided to follow her older sister, Elise, to America the following year. She...
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...March 29, 2015 Instructor: Mrs. Wiley Scarlet Letter Essay Some may think evil comes just from the devil and his accomplices. But in actuality, evil lives throughout mankind also. There are several points in “The Scarlet Letter” that reveal the nature of evil: Chillingworth “forcing” Hester to become his wife, Pearl being named a devil child, and Dimmesdale’s denial of Pearl. Chillingworth forced Hester to marry him and took away her youth. “Mine was the first wrong, when I betrayed thy budding youth into a false and unnatural relation with my decay.” (Ch.4) This may be the reason Hester committed the sin she did. While Chillingworth was away, Hester committed adultery with a man she was not to reveal until later on in the novel. It was also said that Chillingworth sent Hester to New England while he remained in Europe. Although Hester did not know if Chillingworth was alive or dead after being captured by Native Americans, when she first saw Chillingworth when he arrived in New England, she did not seem very excited to see him. This looks to be another reason why it is to be believed that Hester was forced to marry Chillingworth. She may not have been happy throughout the entire marriage. She seeks Dimmesdale for the happiness she never received. After the town discovered that Dimmesdale was the man Hester committed adultery with, the Puritans all began to look at Pearl differently. They began calling her the Devil’s Child. None of the children wanted to play with her....
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...What Happened To The “SLAVE” Who Wrote The Letter Everyone is Talking About Added by blacklikemoi on February 6, 2012. Saved under Black History, Inconceivable Tags: Big Spring, Colonel Anderson, David Lee Child, Dayton Daily Journal, George Carter, girls, Jordan, Jourdon Anderson, Lydia Maria Child, shooting A letter written by a freed slave to his former master has surfaced again after almost 150 years and is creating a lot of buzz. The letter was written by former slave Jourdon Anderson to his master Colonel P.H. Anderson in August 1865. According to Letters of Note, Colonel Anderson had written his former slave, asking him to return to work as a freeman on the farm on which he had spent 30 years as a human tool. The former slave’s response to his former master’s request surfaces again after the book, The Freedmen’s Book, compiled by Lydia Maria Child almost 150 years ago, was reissued this month. Child was born in 1802. Her husband David Lee Child, was an abolitionist who also campaigned for Indian rights and women’s rights. Jourdon, in the letter replied to his master that he and his family had moved from Big Spring, Tennessee to Ohio, after being emancipated and now he had a job and was being paid, for the first time, for his labor. The letter starts out heartbreaking and somber but by the letter’s end, it is revealed as one of the great, all-time, understated sarcastic missives, with the final sentence, “Say howdy to George Carter, and thank him...
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...It has come to my attention that you never received your letter from us regarding a placement at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. I am afraid that this news has come to my attention at such late notice, on the day of your 20th birthday, however I would like to offer a formal apology. After the Battle of Hogwarts in 1998 a large portion of potential student records were lost in the battle, information regarding Muggle-born, Half-bloods and Pure-records from 1995 to 1997 were lost or damaged beyond redemption. We worked tirelessly with the ministry of magic to amend this issue however we just simply weren’t able to restore all the respective documents for every child born within that timeframe. It comes with great remorse to say that this is my last term as head teacher at Hogwarts. After more than a decade acting as the headmistress of this school I feel I have offered all I can to the pupils and staff. I would just like to say, off the record, that I am definitely not retiring on account of a certain pupil starting this coming semester. After all the trouble that last Potter put me through all those years ago I can’t imagine going through all of that again with Albus Potter. But alas, I seem to have wondered off topic, something I seem to being doing a lot as of recently, I must admit this is partly due to me getting on a bit. As a token of my apology I would like to offer you a copy of ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts 1 & 2 (Special Rehearsal Edition)’...
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...is one of the major themes in The Scarlet Letter. The negative side was that the scarlet letter “A” branded Hester Prynne physically for committing the sinful act of adultery, and her daughter Pearl emotionally because she was the product of her mother’s sinful act. Many people in the Puritan community of Boston shunned this behavior even though it could ultimately produce a miracle of life. Yet, throughout the text, there was a strong focus on the positivity that came as a result of Hester’s sinful act of committing adultery. Because of Hester’s behavior, a little girl was born who shed a ray of sunshine onto what was deemed one of the most horrific acts in the Puritan society. She was not named after purity or innocence but instead she was characterized as the gift of a miracle. Hester’s devout love for Pearl gave her the drive to survive the cruelty she endured as she walked down the roads of her community. Her child became a major symbol in this romantic novel exhibiting the characteristics that evolve over time as she transformed from the product of a sinful act to a woman without sin. Pearl evolves both physically and emotionally throughout the story by changing from a child with an extremely sassy and mature personality and known for her “witch-child” persona to a person portraying a new woman who overcame being the product of sin outside the Puritan community. Throughout this romantic novel Pearl is born with a personality that is much more mature...
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...Mary Queen of Scots Mary Stuart was born on December 8, 1542, in Linlithgow Palace, West Lothian, Scotland. She was the daughter of King James V of Scotland and his second wife, Mary of Guise. Her father died when Mary was only 6 days old, making her Mary, Queen of Scots. (Schlesinger). Mary Queen of Scots became Queen at a very young age. Mary married a lot of men during her life. Her and her cousin, Queen Elizabeth, did not get a long that well. Mary was born into the throne. She was the only surviving legitimate child of King James V of Scotland. Given Mary's age, her great uncle, Henry VIII, made a bid for control, but her mother ended up acting as regent on Mary's behalf. Mary was initially betrothed to Henry VIII's son, Prince Edward...
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...This I Believe In Manila, Philippines, I grew up in a big family with a special child. My sister, Christine, had an extra chromosome that made her a special child. Many people in my country in the 1970’s thought that having a genetic disorder like Down syndrome was a curse from God. Really, she was not a curse, but a wonderful blessing to my family. Children from our neighborhood did not want to be associated with her because Christine looked differently than any kids. Unlike me, Christine could not express her self well verbally. She could not play outside because most youngsters would not understand her. Every time I took my sister to the nearby store to buy her favorite ice cream, our neighbors usually talked about my sister and laughed at her. As a kid, all I knew was to complain to my parents about what people said. However, my parents would simply tell me not to be bothered of what our neighbors were saying about Christine; my father and my mother always reminded me not to judge anyone because of how they look like, and this I believe. Christine was born in 1975; she was our youngest, the sixth child for my mother who was in her 40’s at that time. My sister always felt loved and cared for, not because Christine had special needs, but because she was the youngest among the family. My parents never thought that Christine was different. All the children in my family went to school; therefore, my parents wanted Christine to go to school too. Even though it was hard...
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...Presumption: The term 'presumption' in its largest and most comprehensive signification, may be defined, where in the absence of actual certainty of the truth or falsehood of a fact or proposition, an inference affirmative or dis-affirmative of that truth or ft is drawn by a process of probable reasoning from something which is taken for It is, however, rarely employed in jurisprudence in this extended sense. Like “presumption it has there obtained a restricted legal signification, and is used to of an inference, affirmative or dis-affirmative, of the existence of some fact, drawn by a judicial tribunal, by a process of probable reasoning, from some matter of fact, either judicially noticed or admitted or established by legal evidence to the satisfaction of the tribunal. Presumptions are drawn from the course of nature for instance, that night will follow day, the seasons follow each other, death ensues from a mortal wound, and the like; or from the course of human affairs from a familiarly with the ordinary springs of human action, from the usages of society, domestic relationship and transactions in business [Norton, p 97; see post, s 114].J Shortly speaking, a presume is an inference of fact drawn from other known or proved facts. It is a rule of under which courts are authorized to draw a particular inference from a particular fact unless and until the truth of such inference is disproved by other evidence. Divisions of Presumption: Presumption according to English...
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...Japanese ancestry during the Second World War. Naomi, now an adult, discovers the hardship and institutional racism that Japanese people faced, whereby they were forbidden “to go anywhere in this wide dominion without a permit” and the government had “requisitioned the Livestock Building…to house 2,000 ‘Japs pending removal’” (Kogawa, 1983, p.95), through a series of letters written by her Aunt Emily to her mother. The letters and conversations between Naomi and Emily reveal the impact of prejudicial policies and discourse on people of all ages including, Stephen, Naomi’s younger brother. The themes of racism, both of the subconscious and overt varieties, highlighted by Kogawa are also prevalent in Angela Aujla’s “Others in Their Own Land: Second Generation South Asian Canadian Women, Racism and the Persistence of Colonial Discourse” which points out the role of government as well as the general public in propagating racial prejudice against South Asian women. In Obasan, Kogawa provides evidence that shows how Japanese people faced racial discrimination through and after World War II. Aunt Emily’s letters written to her sister, Nesan, who had gone to Japan to see her grandmother, and her painful narrative of the suffering of Japanese-Canadians becomes a defining moment in Naomi’s life. “Pearl Harbor bombing shocked the whole continent” (Kogawa, 1983, p.86). Racial prejudice was widespread and, in fact, was propagated by those in power. The Canadian government “took away...
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