Analysis: What Life Is Really Like In The Colonies

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“What Life Is Really Like in the Colonies”
Life is very different than what life is like today. In the Colonies we had to work in different ways and the people had to adapt to living in new places.
Life was a lot harder to keep up with in the Colonies because many people had to use their resources and make their own materials to survive. We will talk about farmers playing cards for hours a day, and how Unemployment rises in cities. Let's start off with what the London Chronicle said about farmers. This sentence stating “Study Shows Farmers Spend Hours Playing Cards Each Day” is way wrong. This statement is mostly inaccurate because the London Chronicle said the farmers spent hours everyday to tend to livestock and crops. The fact the farmers

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