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his “Cross of Gold” speech. The main focus of this speech was the push for the United States to return back to the single metallic financial standard; silver more preferable over gold. Williams preferred silver over gold because a silver standard would have accommodated for the lower class of people or people that were already in debt. The silver standard would have also benefited manufactures whose products would have been cheaper and would have applied to a mass audience including foreign…

felt in his marriage. Caged in, imprisoned,and unpleased.Tired of the same boring day to day miserable life and wife who shows no intimacy whatsoever. Yet Edith Wharton makes Ethan change throughout the book Ethan Frome when this woman named Mattie Silver the cousin of his unloving wife comes along. He feels like there is another chance for life to be happy again, then he changes again, back spiritually broken and dissatisfied after figuring out that there is now way possible for them to be…

The Admiral Benbow Inn represents family, home, and Jim’s starting place. The Admiral Benbow Inn also represents Jim leaving his childhood behind and moving on, starting to grow up. Some major characters in treasure island are Jim Hawkins, Long John Silver, and Dr Livesey.Jim hawkins is the narrator of the book, the main character of the novel, and around 12-13 years old. He is a good son of an owner of an inn near Bristol, England.…

In “The Fall of Rome — an author discussion,” authors Bryan Ward-Perkins and Peter Heather present and confer their stances related to the fall of Rome. Though the two historians disagreed on a few concepts, they both definitely agreed that the fall of Rome was caused by a violent struggle through several “series of unfortunate events.” Contrary to other historians, like Walter Goffart, Ward-Perkins and Heather agreed that each time the Romans ceded land to foreign adversaries, their internal…

As a youth, Emily Grierson was kept from most social contact and all dating by her father. When later dies, she declines to recognize his passing for three days. When the people in her town bury her dad, Emily is further segregated by a secretive sickness, potentially a mental breakdown. Homer Barron's crew comes in town to construct walkways, and Emily and Homer are noticed together. He tells his friends he's not the marrying type. The people of the town consider their relationship…

The general theme from the lecture and readings of the Emerging Modern World and Age of Discovery focuses on the big picture behind 15th century history and what we all know as the Age of Discovery. Not only was this time period filled with exploration, more significantly, this was a time of expansion and conquest. When we use the word “discovery” to describe this time period, we can often overlook what really happened behind the scenes, which was essentially the extermination of millions of…

Aztecs in 1519, Indians were forced to work in the gold mines, silver mines, and haciendas to supply wealth for Spain. Also, with the Spanish focusing on gold and silver mines and the growing of wheat and sugar to supply wealth for Spain, the French focused on fur trade with the Indians after Rene-Robert Calvelier claimed the Mississippi River for France in 1681. The significance of the fur trade from the French and the gold and silver mines along with the growing of wheat and sugar from the…

The Spanish Conquistadors wanted to find wealth, gold and silver, and people. In 1519 the Spanish Conquistador Hernan Cortes walked into ‘the new world’ in Tenochtitlan, the Aztec Capital. Many of the European Conquistadors were second born sons consequently Hernan was properly second or third born son as the laws in Spain at the time considered that the first born sons would get all of the father's land and wealth. “Second sons of wealthy nobles, afforded an education but no rights to inherit…

upright and gave them fire from the sun, “… a protection to men far better than anything else, whether fur or feathers or strength or swiftness.” (p. 85) Creation of the Races of Metal: • In the myth of the metals, there were five races of men: gold, silver, brass, iron, and stone. Beginning with…

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