...[Students share observations] Great observations! So we can see that some people are wearing read coats with black hats and they have weapon. We can also see that the people standing on the left side aren’t wearing fancy clothes and some have been wounded. There is a dog at the bottom of the image and there are building in the background. 5. Teacher will begin to pass out “The Boston Massacre” play to students. Students will be assigned roles. Teacher will explain directions to students on how to follow their skit and how to know which roles they play. Some students will have speaking roles and some students will have non-speaking roles. Students with non-speaking roles will still have to participate in the actions presented in the play and all students will be instructed to follow along. Students will be told to think about what the Boston Massacre was and the role John Adams had during this...
Words: 1531 - Pages: 7
...How do we reckon with a history full of complexities and contradictions? To what extent did Abigail Adams contribute to the ideals upon which the US was founded? In the 18th century, many important figures contributed to US history, however, some of them were not typically considered founders of the United States. Abigail Adams, the wife of John Adams, the second president of the United States, may not typically be regarded as a founder of the United States. Still, she contributed significantly to the democratic ideals upon which the US was founded. Abigail Adams was a writer and thinker whose works offer invaluable insights into the early years of the United States. She wrote about her concerns as a woman living in the 18th century emphasizing that women should have more opportunities, especially in education. Adams also had strong feelings about marriage and believed that women should be able to make their own decisions rather than only be considered “maids” to their husbands. She believed that if women were properly educated, they could use their intellect to manage household affairs. In the 18th century women were not allowed to have, and more importantly, express their opinions. For this reason, other women highly...
Words: 732 - Pages: 3
...Wife of U.S. diplomat and later second president John Adams, Abigail Adams, writes in her letter to her son John Quincy Adams how he has everything he needs in order to become a respected and honorable man. Adams’ purpose is to convince her son that he has the potential to become a hero to the nation. She adopts a maternal tone in encourage her son through the use of supportive diction, clear-cut comparisons, and expressive pathos. Adams begins her letter with the use of supportive diction. By using words such as “superiour” to describe the advantages her son has she helps boost his confidence. Adams is aware of the significant role she plays as JQA’s mother and understands that she can use that position to motivate him in some way others...
Words: 381 - Pages: 2
...Abigail Adams was an important women from our history that has influenced our present today. She was born in November 11, 1744 and was the daughter of a minister. While growing up, Abigail did not receive enough education since most women had other morals to do. She did however, dedicate her time to reading William Shakespeare and John Milton authors. While growing up Abigail married John Adams, our president of the United States that ran in office in 1796. During her marriage with John, she influenced many things towards him and the office. When John Adams was being a part of the new government, Abigail began to have to become someone very important to the concerns of the government rights. She began to be a very influential women for politics....
Words: 379 - Pages: 2
...in the public eye and the other is the difference between a role model and a hero. Everything and everyone is overanalyzed in the present time. Any person that could be a hero has been cut down in size by somebody else. It does not matter if the person is a historical, biblical, or political figure, they have been judged and picked apart by someone who does not agree with their thoughts or morals. Everyone is a critic these days. Heroes and role models are judged even more erratically than those that were judged in the past. The main reason for this is because of all the means of communication we have via the web. In the “George Washington Era”, when a hero made a bad decision, it at times went unseen and unknown by many or even all. Now everyone can see every mistake or “screw up” that every person makes. It does not matter if the person is famous or not, the mistake will be seen by just a click of a button. There is a thin line between a role model and a hero. I believe that there is a definite defference between the two. A role model is a person that people wish to be like. They have looks, smarts, money, cars, or something else that others wish they had. People want to know how these role models got what they wanted in life and became so successful. A hero is a person who helps another person better themselves or even save their life in some way. The white-haired wig people, such as, John Adams, George Washington, or Thomas Jefferson, are still heroes to...
Words: 376 - Pages: 2
...John Maynard Keynes He was a famous economist born on 5th June 1883. His father was an economics professor at Cambridge. son of a Cambridge economics professor If ever there was a rock star of economics, it would be John Maynard Keynes. Keynes shares his birthday, June 5th, with Adam Smith and he was born in 1883, the year communist founder Karl Marx died. With these auspicious signs, Keynes seemed to be destined to become a powerful free market force when the world was facing a serious choice between communism or capitalism. Instead, he offered a third way, which turned the world of economics upside down. In this article, we'll examine Keynes' doctrine and its impact. (To read about Adam Smith, be sure to check out Adam Smith: The Father Of Economics.) Keynes was ultimately a successful investor, building up a private fortune. His assets were nearly wiped out following the Stock Market Crash of 1929, which he failed to foresee, but he soon recouped. At Keynes's death, in 1946, his worth stood just short of £500,000 – equivalent to about £11 million ($16.5 million) in 2009. His first prediction was a critique of the reparation payments that were levied against the defeated Germany after WWI. Keynes rightly pointed out that having to pay out the cost of the entire war would force Germany into hyperinflation and have negative consequences all over Europe. He followed this up by predicting that a return to the prewar fixed exchange rate sought by the chancellor of the exchequer...
Words: 2145 - Pages: 9
...aware of its roots and what influenced the ideas of the Founding Fathers. This paper dives into those influences on the development of the political system that has been successful for all of these years. The Founding Fathers drew upon the writings and history of a number...
Words: 1573 - Pages: 7
... Abigail Adams made her strongest appeal for women’s rights in her letters of 1776. Abigail wrote “Remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors.” She went on to write “Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.” Those statements stressed her concern for how the women would be treated. Abigail sensed the struggles that were to come by her statement “If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies we are determined to ferment a rebellion.” She understood the unfairness of making one group subject to the will of another. John Adams response of “We know better than to repeal our masculine system.” Did not please Abigail. It was obvious by her response in a subsequent letter. Abigail wrote “Whilst you are proclaiming peace and good will to Men, Emancipating all Nations, you insist upon retaining an absolute power over wives.” That response said it all. It was obvious that she saw the hypocrisy in the Founding Fathers quest for equality. While they were fighting for freedom, they found it acceptable to suppress the rights of women denying them equal freedom. Abigail Adams was ahead of her time. She did not have a great impact on eighteenth century America but her ideas would continue to spread for generations to come. Women’s rights activists remained small throughout the first half of the nineteenth century. Women began to play a greater role in the public...
Words: 768 - Pages: 4
...Exceptional Motivation Based on Dick and Rick Hoyt Contents Executive Summary………..………………………….……………………………..….. Page 3 Introduction………………….….……………….……………………………………..…… Page 4 Literature Review.…………….…..………………………………………………......... Page 5 Discussion..................…………………………………………………………............ Page 8 Conclusion……….....……………………………………………………...……..………. Page 11 References….………….…………………………………………….…….……….….….. Page 12 Executive Summary Motivation is defined as “the forces within an individual that account for the level, direction and persistence expended at work” (Wood, Zeffane, Fromholtz, Wiesner & Creed, 2010). |This report will focus upon three motivational theories to explain the exceptional motivation ‘Team Hoyt’ depict and outline the particularly important factors that influence this behaviour in the workplace. ‘Team Hoyt’ is a rather unusual father son athletic duo made up of a Dick and Rick Hoyt. The son, Rick, has cerebral palsy and if fully paralysed. To fulfil Rick’s passion for competing his father, Dick, carries him through marathons and triathlons; a seemingly impossible task without the appropriate level of motivation. Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs is a theory based on human motivation; it shows that people are motivated to meet lower order needs before moving onto higher order needs. Since Rick and Dick have already satisfied the lower order needs, well at least partially, they are motivated to obtain higher order needs...
Words: 3632 - Pages: 15
...Branches of Economics Branches of Economics Economics has two branches: microeconomics and macroeconomics. Microeconomics is the branch of economics that deals with the personal decisions of consumers and entrepreneurs. Its primary concern is to help consumers and investors make their lives better by increasing their earnings and satisfying their needs despite limited resources. Also included in its study are the consumers' decisions on what products to buy and how the cost of commodities is determined. Macroeconomics deals with the larger aspects of a nation's economy, such as the sectors of agriculture, industry, and service. It aims to (a) speed up the economy's growth rate and increase total production; (b) increase the rate of employment; (c) keep the prices of commodities stable so that they remain affordable; and (d) have sufficient reserves for foreign exchange for importing goods and paying off loans. Economists help in solving problems like unfair wages, rapid population growth, people migration to city centers, high crime incidence, and loss of human resources due to overseas migration. http://hotbabefatchicks.hubpages.com/hub/Branches-of-Economics The first process is MICROECONOMICS:- this is considering the small scale working of economic laws. Here we see a man faced with choice of ways to spend his limited money, or an individual business deciding its pricing policy. It is a branch of economics that studies how the individual parts of the economy, the household...
Words: 1477 - Pages: 6
...The Aspects of Right to Council Donna Chupurdia CJA/364 July 16, 2012 John Hullar The Aspects of Right to Council The Sixth Amendment was ratified on December 15th, 1791, guarantees the accused the right to council in federal cases (Adams, 2012). The Fourteenth Amendment extends the right to council in all state and federal cases. The role of an attorney is to represent to the best of their ability and defend the rights of their client. Defense attorneys are sworn to defend the accused regardless of their presumed guilt or innocence (Mathewson, 2009). Prosecuting attorneys must bring forth the evidence and present it to a jury of their peers (Mathewson, 2009). A prosecuting attorney must prove their case; the defense attorney must try to dis-prove what the evidence and the prosecuting attorney bring out in court. The majority of cases get pled out because the courts in America are bogged down with too many cases. Additionally, a defense attorney’s case load is usually quite full and especially if they work for the state they reside in, which would make them public defenders. Public defenders are paid by each state as well as district attorneys and prosecutors, but their functions, and responsibilities are much different. The district attorney and the public defender may seem as though they are in ‘cahoots’, but they are not; in fact that are adversaries. They may have a good work relationship and especially if they are in the same courtroom working together for months...
Words: 1171 - Pages: 5
...iess_Batch4_A-L 5/11/07 11:14 AM Page 1 A–L ABSOLUTE AND COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the dominant economic philosophy was mercantilism, which advocated severe restrictions on import and aggressive efforts to increase export. The resulting export surplus was supposed to enrich the nation through the inflow of precious metals. Adam Smith (1776), who is regarded as the father of modern economics, countered mercantilist ideas by developing the concept of absolute advantage. He argued that it was impossible for all nations to become rich simultaneously by following mercantilist prescriptions because the export of one nation is another nation’s import. However, all nations would gain simultaneously if they practiced free trade and specialized in accordance with their absolute advantage. Table I, illustrating Smith’s concept of absolute advantage, shows quantities of wheat and cloth produced by one hour’s work in two countries, the United States and the United Kingdom. Division of labor and specialization occupy a central place in Smith’s writing. Table I indicates what the international division of labor should be, as the United States has an absolute advantage in wheat and the U.K. has an absolute advantage in cloth. Smith’s absolute advantage is determined by a simple comparison of labor productivities across countries. Smith’s theory of absolute advantage predicts that the United States will produce only wheat (W) and the U.K. will produce...
Words: 1524 - Pages: 7
...Chapter 7: The Rise of Manufacturing and the Age of Jackson (1820–1845) THE GROWTH OF THE FACTORY Economic growth was a key component of Henry Clay’s American System, and in the aftermath of the War of 1812, measures were taken to expand American industry. American industries were protected by the Tariff of 1816, which raised import tariffs by 25 percent. At the same time state governments began improving road, river, and canal transportation systems. Before 1820 almost all products made in America were completed using a system borrowed from Europe called the putting-out system. Under this system merchants would buy the raw materials, recruit dozens, or in some case hundreds, of farm families to do the work, and then sell the finished product. Many shoes in New England were made in this manner; women and children would make part of the shoe, which would be finished by experienced shoemakers. Beginning in the late 1780s the textile industry started to use power-driven machines and interchangeable parts. All power in these early factories came from water, so the early factories all were located along rivers. Most were located in New England or the Middle states. In the 1790s factories like those in Lowell, Massachusetts, began to weave cotton imported from the south. With the introduction of the cotton gin in the same decade, more cotton became available, and production boomed. By 1840 the textile industry employed nearly 75,000 workers, with almost half of...
Words: 3174 - Pages: 13
...(Hyun and Oh ,2011, P103) and ensure that employees enjoy their jobs. Many theories of motivation have been developed, which allows team leaders use in work to motivate their teams The theory's which will be compared and contrasted in this essay are:- Herzbergs two-factor theory and Adams equity theory. Herzbergs theory, has become widely used as well as an respectable theory for explaining motivation and job satisfaction( Oscar,2005). Whilst Adam theory of equity explains the concept of perception of equitability and inequitability experience by the individual which determines how motivation they are. (Al-Zawahreh and Al-Madi 2012) Herzbergs (Herzbergs 1968) two factor theory of motivation was developed from responses of workers through the use of an 'critical incident' interviewing technique , in comparison to the equity theory which was developed through the use of the laboratory. (French et al, 2011). Hence the methodology issues raised in both questions the reliability of the theory's. This being, for the former (two-factor theory) although gathered data from real life industries of work,socially desirable answer may have been given therefore affects the validity of the model purposed (French et al, 2011) .Whilst for the latte (equility theory) laboratory setting was used thus artificial conditions may produce unnatural behaviour that lacks ecological validity (Huseman, Hatfield & Miles, 1987. Herzbergs (Herzbergs 1968) maintained that there are...
Words: 2294 - Pages: 10
...database of medal citations for the Supreme Court. Finally the Judicial which held the court of Alverez and ruled that the Act was unconstitutional because it infringed on the right to speech under the first amendment. The controversial problem would be the power split into the federal government and states and the federal government is trying to overthrow the original rules of the separation of powers. Checks and balances comes into play in the separation of powers and reconcile the powers to not let any of the three branches get overpower and it is used to block and protect from any actions from the government to overrule the people. On many court cases the government have abused its power and the check and balances system have played a big role to figure out the solution such in Hassan v....
Words: 1206 - Pages: 5
