Essays on Firsts

In the year 1880, when Susan Coolidge published her book, A Short History of the City of Philadelphia, From Its Foundation to the Present Time, she observed the rapid growth of the city. She wrote, “It is difficult to realize, when studying any one of our large American towns, how short a time it is since the ground on which it stands was an unbroken wilderness, upon which eye of white man had never rested” (Coolidge, Chapter 1). Indeed, to stand in Philadelphia today, one absorbs a sense of great history, ideas, and progress, feelings that seem as if they should ...

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1.1 Statement of Purpose

The Crink Insighters Company will be a medium size market research agency that will be located in Troy, Michigan. The company will occupy will occupy the back 3600 square feet of 743 Main Street on the Second and Floors. This is a new business in the start-up phase. The company will however establish other centers across the major cities in the country. The Crink Insighters will be market research agency that will be running a series of surveys for our clients. The company will be offering two types of research services: Branded research, which will entirely be ...

Abstract

Construction of Kamehameha V Post Office (Hi) building occurred in 1871 that used different and exceptional style of concrete bricks. It was the first building in Hawaii to use such style and design. It is a government building that has hosted and used for various functions within different agencies of the governments. The structure built and designed with concrete bricks and iron bars that resulted into a stronger structure that has amazed many up to the current times. It was built by Osborne and has remained one of the most important and ancient building that existed in the US owned by ...

There are unconventional concerns within the midst of Pope Francis’ governance as the Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic world. Pope Francis was reported to being elected as the 266th pope with St. Peter being popularly known as the first . The defiance to tradition was observed to be immediately exhibited right after Pope Francis’ election when he appeared before the crowd at the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica wearing very simple white vestments . Various reports have disclosed other actions that allegedly breaks tradition include: choosing “to live in an apartment rather that the archbishop's palace, passed on a chauffeured limousine, ...

The emergence of early colonial America onto the stage of Western civilization, dramatized many political, social, and religious events. Perhaps the greatest and most surprising story, surrounds the United States’ first official education system. It grew from turbulent beginnings. This paper explains how the United States government stepped into the pages of history, to create the first federally mandated public school system. One source states that the U.S. public education system can trace “its development from its roots in Puritan and Congregationalist religious schools in the 1600s” (“A History of Public Education in the United States”). As the newly ...

The idea of woman suffrage had to go a long way of suffragist activism led by women until it was achieved in the beginning of the 20th century. Lucy Stone is one of the key figures of this process in the United States. She was a reformer, an abolitionist, i.e. a person who favors the abolition of a practice, an institution or a law in this particular case, and she was a public speaker fighting for woman suffrage. Lois Porter brings to public a term “a Lucy Stoner” as a nickname for those who fight for the same ideas as Lucy did. Calling her also “a woman of firsts” ...

Introduction

What stood out to me the most in the entire lessons and discussions is the way communication is a complex that is composed of different but related parts. In fact what still intrigues me is the way all these parts, though different but work together to complete the communication process. Thus I have been able to learn the basic communication skills as well as the most important communication processes.

I am able to draw the above lessons because I also went through the same processes. For instance, when I was young at about six years, I was so much fancied ...