The plaintiffs begin by mentioning the implications of Reed v. Town of Gilbert, a recently decided legal case in which the Town of Gilbert regulated the placement of outdoor signs, on the New Hampshire court case. The Supreme Court held that treating these signs differently was a content-based speech restriction, meaning that is was subject to strict scrutiny. The Court importantly stated that if a law is content based “on its face,” then the government’s justifications do not matter—the law is subject to strict scrutiny. Under New Hampshire’s law, one can take a picture of a ballot, simply not a marked, and a distinction that the plaintiffs argue is content-based. Thus, the statutes are subject to strict scrutiny (Plaintiff’s Statement). The argument is actually supported by the New Hampshire District Court, who agreed with the plaintiffs that the statute was subject to strict scrutiny, “’which requires the Government to prove that the restriction furthers a compelling interest and is narrowly tailored to achieve that interest’” (Reed v. Town of Gilbert). In the petitioners’ brief, they walk through the requirements of strict scrutiny, addressing various government…
Comparison of the New England and Southern Colonies The colonies were first developed in the 1600’s, however the New England colonies and Southern Colonies were very different despite them both having similar reasons for coming to the new world. The southern colonies, consisting of Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia, were centered on making money and agriculture, whereas the New England colonies, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, were centered on…
group of young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts said they were possessed by the devil and accused three local women of witchcraft. During this time, those that were religious believed that the devil could give certain people the power to harm others. The accusation created panic between people and quickly created a massive witch hunt. A special court was created in Salem to hear the cases of those accused of being a witch. At some point, accusation of witchcraft spread to people of any age…
From the article Taking a Biographical Approach to Literary Criticism “Frost’s poem ‘Out,Out-’ is based on a real-life incident recorded in the Littleton Courier, a New Hampshire newspaper, on March 31, 1901, in which a boy suffers a serious accident to his hand.” Robert Frost was a successful poet who used many elements of his personal life in his writing. He took inspiration from his hometown, local news-stories, and local farmers. Robert’s past experiences impacted and influenced his writing.…
There are many reasons that make Connecticut's landscape/surface got its shape. The three most important reasons are tectonic plates, glaciation, and weathering and erosion. Tectonic plates in CT formed three major landforms. One of the three landforms is the Appalachian mountains. This mountain range is a convergent boundary. Convergent boundaries means that the two plate collide into each other pushing up the land and create the mountains (as shown in the diagram). Finally, the last…
Miriam White (Pritchard). After graduation in 1892, Frost attended Dartmouth on a scholarship and found joy in his Latin and Greek courses as well as in English verse, especially Francis Turner Palgrave’s Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language (Burnshaw). However, the campus life of Dartmouth was dismal and Frost felt “isolated and restless,” therefore he quit at the end of December (Burnshaw). Physical geography is a major theme in several of Frost’s poems…
Robert Frost's Life Of A Poet Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California and never earned a formal college degree but his younger sister sure earned a few college degrees though. He spent the first 11 years of his life there, until his journalist father, William Prescott Frost Jr., died of tuberculosis. Following his father's passing, Frost moved with his mother and sister, Jeanie, to the town of Lawrence, Massachusetts. They moved in with his grandparents, and Frost…
“Mending Wall” was first published in 1914 in the second collection of Robert Frost. The poem brings out the comparison of two different kinds of people with different personalities which in this poem are neighbors. The two neighbors have different perspectives regarding the fence but they annually meet and repair the wall once it's destroyed by nature every spring. The speaker believes that the wall is not important but he's the one who initiates the repair of the fence. The neighbor keeps on…
Robert Frost: An amazing Psychological Poet. Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, California, on March 26 from 1874 and died at the age of 88 in Boston, Massachusetts, in January 29 from 1963; he was a farmer in Derry, New Hampshire, which influenced in his writing when he and his family moved to England to start his poetry. Robert Frost was a very psychological, realistic and reflective poet, as account of the fact, in most of his works humanity will meditate about frost’s message in that…
Robert Frost is considered one of the most celebrated poets in America. Although he grew up in urban New England, Frost chose a distinct rural literary style using everyday language. Frost lost his father to tuberculosis at eleven and his mother to cancer fifteen years later. It was through his grandfather’s financial support that he continued on in high school where he published his first poem in the school’s magazine. He briefly attended college but returned home to various unsatisfactory jobs…