History Questions

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1.)The pacifist owned the proprietary colony in which patroons worked.
2.) The Charter of Liberties was signed in 1100 by Henry I of England and was the forerunner of the Magna Carta. It listed 14 points that were essential rights of an Englishman most of which dealt with the relationship between the church and the State so it can be said to have created the foundation for William Penn's grant of a degree of religious tolerance in the new Colony of Pennsylvania.
3.) William Penn paid the Indians and the English for his colony and treated the Indians with Justice. 
4.) The Quakers did not believe in violence and refused to fight in wars. 
5.) Colony:           Type of Government
     New York        Parliament
     New Jersey       No Religious Harbors
     Pennsylvania    Parliament
6.) The Middle Colonies, Grain, Fish, Rum, Cattle, Lumber, Iron, Important Products to Pennsylvania: Cattle, Grain, Lumber, Iron, and Rum.

There Will Come Soft Rains: Family Story

7:00am: the alarm sounds. A man and woman accompany each other towards their children's bedroom. Once both children wake, the mother leaves the room and preparing breakfast silverware, plates, and napkins. 7:30am: the family of four devours a meal of two pieces of browned toast, two eggs, four pieces of bacon each. The father and mother drank two cups of coffee themselves, while the children drank two glasses of water. Today was the weekend: no school for the children. The mother then left the house to tend to her garden. Beautiful, it was. Then the father lied down on the couch, taking a quick nap. It was a completely normal day. But this would soon change. The mother set the children inside and instructed them to remain inside. The followed instructions, then the father began mowing the lawn. The mother left the children a red teflon ball to play with, then resumed her gardening. Everything seemed completely normal: but today, was different. A loud noise followed by a white flash engulfed the entire area. Then. Silence.

Leonard Mead

Approximately two hours after Mead was contained in the maximum security vicinity of the holding cell lined with titanium bars, Mead was taken into a room that confined into a black leather chair with 21st century straps to prevent movement, and, with his eyes spread open by a pincing-like machine, stared at a television in which the only programs shown were why the "magical" electronic box was the most advanced and influential technology known to man. After ten hours of the constant waiting, Mead was asked by a cyborg looking more robotic than human, with only two functioning limbs, why the human population does not leave home, he replied with,"Because they are lazy," and was informed he would be held for an extra ten hours. Once the robotic guard left the room, he realized what he preferred the answer would be. After another excrutiating ten hours of waiting, he began exclaiming that he realized how perfect the program was, he was then relinquished from his restraints and placed himself on his couch and began watching television. Mead, had changed.

Howard Zinn Response

 My reaction to Howard Zinn's first two chapters about Columbus and the Indians was rather eye-opening and completely altered the way I viewed and felt about Columbus. Zinn portrays him as a cruel being who only seeks the benefits for his own people, no matter how harmful he may be to the opposing force. This convinced me to view Columbus as a negative person as well, and I was easily persuaded by Zinn's point of view.