Discovering Boston
By: Roxanne Aguilera
Don’t miss these sights
Boston and surrounding areas in Massachusetts, is home to breathtaking sceneries, historical sights, cuisine, schools, and more. It’s a place to hide from your problems one may say. Just about 3 miles west of Boston, is Cambridge commonly known for Ivy League University, Harvard. Boston itself is a tourist location for many sites. Oddly hidden between skyscrapers, is the Old State House, a museum devoted to explaining the history of not only Boston but some secrets of our nation itself. There is the Old North Church, which is Boston’s oldest church. On the steeple of this church Paul Revere was signaled about the British arrival. Even enjoy a baseball game at Fenway Park, home of the Red Sox since 1912.
*Getting around Boston shouldn’t be a problem due to the public transportation system,consisting of buses, trains, boats. More commonly used is the “T”, which is a subway. Getting you where you need to be!*
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It is subdivided into 23 neighborhoods, each with it’s own fascinating background, connected by a series of “T” lines. Boston is known for the distinct seasons, and indecisive weather patterns. The saying “If you don’t like the weather wait 5 minutes.” really takes play in Boston. The temperature averages from around 79 °F in July to 20 °F in January. Experience the summer breeze and crisp winter air, with year long, distrustful rain. It’s important to know how to gear up for the unexpected, especially if you fall into the wrong
The events of March 5, 1770 should and have been remembered as momentous and predictable. Perhaps not the night or city specifically, but the state of affairs in Boston, if not throughout The English Colonies, had declined to the point that British troops found themselves frequently assaulted with stones, dirt, and human feces. The opinions and sentiments of either side were certainly not clandestine. Even though two spectators express clear culpability for the opposing side, they do so only in alteration of detail. The particulars of the event unfold the same nonetheless. The happening at the Custom House off King Street was a catastrophic inevitability. Documents from the Boston Massacre trial, which aid us in observing from totally different perceptions. The depositions of witnesses of the event prove to be useful; an English officer Captain Preston and a colonial Robert Goddard give relatively dissimilar details. In spite of these differences, they still both describe the same state of affairs.
Nora Ephron wrote, “The Boston Photographs” to make her argument about how the media should be able to publish photographs of death. She used the Boston Photographs as her example. The photographs were taken by Stanley Forman. They were of a woman and a child falling from a fire escape. Readers thought the photos were disturbing and should not have been published. The photographs were taken by accident when the photographer thought the woman and child would be rescued. He turned away at the very last split-second before the woman fell to her death. There were a lot of criticism for the published photographs. Ephron thought that the photos were rightfully published and argued that the pictures were irrelevant to the woman 's
In the nineteenth century, Boston is true to the colonial connection which they become the proficiency capital of the new democracy. Also, they have a financial center to allow only New Yorkers during the 1840s. New York played a long obscure role in the government of the Revolution including Boston. New York and Boston never captured on an identical symbolic attention because there was a bunch of promises that were really hard to understand which bounded values of an entrenched and well-represented of the ancient tradition, but it was incontestable which the populations arose from the American eighteenth century and they still needed to continue overtime no matter what happens.
The Character of the City Boston in J Anthony Lukas' Common Ground and Richard Broadman's Mission Hill and the Miracle of Boston
On March 5th, 1770 the colonists were going to protest against the British rule because they were being unfair to the colonists, with taxes being passed without the colonists’ approval. The proclamation of 1763 didn’t help stopping people from settling across the Appalachian mountains even though people fought for it. Also each house had to house and feed a soldier. Many other taxes on different items also caused colonists to be angry. Many started to protest one of these protests had the colonists in front of government building with weapons the British soldiers then fired killing five and injuring others. There was not a massacre on March 5, 1770 in Boston because there was not a massacre on March 5, 1770 in Boston because less than ten colonists
Because of the destroying angel standing over the Town, a day of prayer is needed that we may prepare to meet our God.'' – Cotton Mather, 1721
The Boston Tea Party led to the creation of the US and the revolutionary war. Before any taxes were put on tea, the colonists had to deal with the Quartering and Sugar Act. They didn’t like it since it included the British invading their homes and belongings. They were taxed on multiple things. The colonists decided it would be a good idea to just boycott British goods. It worked and both acts were taken away although this angered Parliament and they ended up getting another act.
The Boston Massacre was an incident on King street where 5 male civilians were killed by British Army soldiers. The Boston Massacre took place on March 5, 1770. The colonists were at fault. The colonists threw snowballs with rocks inside of them. The colonists caused war by using snowballs as an weapon to hit the British soldiers with. The outcome of the colonists actions caused 5 males to get shot and 6 other injured. A total of 11 civilians were hurt. Not all 5 males died on sight though. Some of the civilians died because other illnesses plus the gunshot wound.
Washington D.C: Our Nation’s Capital Although the entire world is familiar with the City of Washington as the United State’s capital, the city was nonexistent when we became a nation in 1789. Thanks to the brilliant design of the French born engineer, Pierre Charles L’Enfant and his assistants Benjamin Banneker and Andrew Ellicot, our capital city that was once a swamp now is beautiful with many different parks, gardens trees, tall buildings and wide avenues. Washington, District of Columbia named after Christopher Columbus, has played a unique role in the wars of our nation and has been dramatically affected by their awesome events.
Beautiful Colonial Williamsburg has many roots within the history of Virginia. From colonial times to present day, Williamsburg has kept the charm of a time long ago. Colonial Williamsburg through the centuries has given people a place to learn about the rich history Virginia has to offer. The significance of Colonial Williamsburg can be found within the battles that were fought during the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, the political figures that helped shape this great nation, and restoration efforts within the city of Williamsburg to maintain a time that should never be forgotten.
The Boston Massacre was a fundamental event at the beginning of the American Revolution. The massacre became part of anti-British propaganda for Boston activists and fed American fears of the English military in both the North and South. The Boston Massacre was the first “battle” in the Revolutionary War. Although it wasn’t until five years after the Boston Massacre that the Revolutionary War officially began, the Boston Massacre was a forecast of the violent storm to come.
The Boston Massacre was an important event in U.S. history, that lead to the American
Boston Massacre was a street fight between the patriots and British troops that happened on March 5, 1770. It is remembered as an important event that helped gain America’s Independence. The riot was about the disagreement the settlers of America had on the Townshend Act. The Townshend Act was an act passed by the British ruler and it was about taxing on everything except tea. The Americans disapproved of the act, they believed it was an abuse of power. The Boston Massacre resulted in public protest and threats against Britain’s Townshend Act. During the Boston Massacre, there were five deaths. The town demanded a trial for Captain Preston and his men for murder. John Adam and Josiah Quincy the second were on the British side and didn’t believe
The Boston Massacre was one the most controversial massacre in American history that teased the coming of the American Revolution. People were taunting a British soldier who was standing “in front of the Boston Custom House” who got very frustrated to the point where he hit somebody. The soldier got overwhelmed by people who came after he hit one of them, called help from his fellow soldiers. When Captain Preston and his soldiers arrived at the scene, people were coming from everywhere, some were trying to fight them and some were just there to watch. Then, one of the soldier shot at the people and his fellow soldiers started shooting after, which killed five people. This what ended it up being called the Boston Massacre. Some might say that the murderer were the soldiers who shot the people, but the real murderer is
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