Throughout “Rip Van Winkle,” Washington Irving creates a feature of a henpecked husband, Rip, who goes to the mountain to avoid his wife, but finds that he has slept for twenty years and wakes after the American Revolution. While reading “Rip Van Winkle”, I found that it goes through in a ...

Who were the founders of America? When one thinks of the words “founding fathers”, the first thing that should come to mind are national figures like George Washington, James Madison, George Mason and Thomas Jefferson. Although these men are founders of America, they were also founders of a soci...