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    technology is barely used, and most of the population has died because of a plague spread by rats. People must thrive and live on the land, and people must work together in harmony to survive. On the island Hatteras, which is connected to the island Roanoke by a bridge lives a tribe of 14 people. Everyone on the island has special gifts, and because of these gifts they’re known as elemetals. Elementals are people who were born with the ability to control fire, wind, earth, and water. They’re a…

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    On August 5, 1585 Jane Langley had witnessed one of the most scariest and disappointing events she could remember. 118 colonist, including herself, that had been hoping for a better life in America had just arrived in Roanoke; an island off the coast of North Carolina. As Jane and her family waited on the supply ship to come in, she watched her little brother. Her brother was a short, blond, four year old who knew nothing on what was going on. All of a sudden she heard her mother scream in…

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    same as before and what they had thought was the Promised Land actually became a place of devastation and enslavement to the majority of those who sought after this promise of land ownership, wealth and freedom. The first colony that England tried to establish was the Roanoke Colony in 1587, but since they were unprepared for the environment and the hard work that it took to establish…

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    the ocean to the new land, many people including me wanted to go, the problem was that I didn't have enough money to pay for my passage. The Virginia Company offered to waive my fee in return of serving as a servant for five to seven years in the colony. December 20 of 1606, England, I was taken to the port having to carry everything I could. When I arrived at the ports I saw a lot of young men. The men wore their ripped jeans and shirt, and they walked up the entrance as they displayed fear…

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    Captain John Thomas and a crew of 20 set sail on Friday, November 17, 1732 for the new colony of Georgia. They would make one stop between England and Georgia: at the island of Madeira, where the ship would load 5 tons of wine for the journey Before leaving a bureaucratic hierarchy was established. Peter Gordon, who was put at the head of the militia, was probably the highest ranking official of the new colony, but it was James Oglethorpe who was in charge. Today the state of Georgia refers to…

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    City Of Alexandria Essay

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    Virginia. Interestingly, it is also the most populated town among the fourteen Alexandrias in the United States. The history of Alexandria began in 1695, when the first European settlement was formed along the Potomac River in what was then the English Colony of Virginia. During the next 50 years, the area was mostly covered by tobacco plantations. When local residents realized that grains like corn and wheat could be raised more profitably than tobacco in the upland area away from the river,…

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    Repulse Bay: A Short Story

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    It was late March 1876, the wind was cold and hard like the stones of the lake shore the S.S. Cronet landed on, carrying six crew and three passengers. The three passengers were explorers sent by the Government of Canada to explore from the subarctic shores of Repulse Bay to Chesterfield Inlet townships. They were sent to map hundreds of lakes and over five-hundred miles of shore line. The passengers on this boat are Troy Mathews Leader and mapper from Quebec, Stephen Lewis the cook from the…

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    Queen Anne’s Revenge In November 1996 researchers working with Intersal Inc. found a mound of cannon, anchors, and ballast stones off the coast of Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina. What the researchers discovered Queen Anne’s Revenge, the flagship of Blackbeard, real name Edward Teach (Wilde-Ramsing:2006). The ship, which sank in 1718, was not professional excavated by archaeologists till 1997 when the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources (NCDCR) to control of the site. The site has…

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    Fairfax County History

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    About Fairfax County The beautiful and affluent Fairfax County is located just across the Potomac River from Washingington DC. With more than a million residents, the growing county is the proud home to more than 142,000 jobs in the technology sector, the largest concentration to be found in the United States. The county's dynamic and ever-growing economy boasts many corporate and regional headquarters, over 400 foreign-owned companies representing the economic interests of 45 countries, and…

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    American Colonization Dbq

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    this question we must first identify the reasons for colonization in each of these regions. To begin, the southern colonies were colonies that were established by the English and included Roanoke, Jamestown, Maryland, Virginia Company, Georgia and the colonies in the Carolinas. Roanoke was the first English colony in the New World, in response to the French founding several colonies in the New World. The purpose of Jamestown was for economic gain. Furthermore, investors had hoped it would be…

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