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    We as a colony have suffered much over great amount of time. Almost every reason we have suffered has been due to the British and their fellow loyalists who walk among us. The inflict taxes on us that make it harder to live in this already arduous colony. It takes guts, strength and will to live here unlike back in the pampered villages of England. We must maintain every penny and every square foot of land to help us succeed. I know many of you may see what I’m saying as hypocrisy, but it is not…

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    when it came to the colonies and England’s government at the time. In his pamphlet, “Common Sense,” Paine argued over many things when it came to the government, but one of his most notable arguments had to have been when he made several points leading to his theories that the colonies should separate from Great Britain. In his argument for independence, he made quite a bit of points, but his three most effective points would have to be that, while Britain protected the colonies during…

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    Jonathan Wick Dictator

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    So, put off were the colonists when a certain letter, whose author remained anonymous, arrived at each of their respective colonies. The letter, entitled, “The Imminent Demise of Our Unruly Dictator”, spoke of what the colonists would praise as a utopian society, free from the command of “our unruly dictator”. The author took the liberty of explaining an intricate plan, which…

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    year was 2020, but colony C was told that it was 1864 by the mysterious eight people who made up the monarchy. They were a family but no one knew that, no one even saw them besides me. The colonists only saw the huge castle that they lived in among the mountains. Some of the colonists worked with the monarchy, the were in on it, they knew what the king and queen have been doing all this time, infact they were the people who built the four colonies A, B, C, and D. The colonies were four…

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    With there being not that many workers there would only be Captain John Smith was the leader for them to work. He inspired some of the colonists to work for the colony to survive. Then after a while Captain Smith was sent back to England. The Early Jamestown: Why Did So Many Colonists Die? Document it states, “Captain John Smith who provided much needed leadership was sent back to England” with Captain John Smith not being able to lead them, and work hard for their food so they could have enough…

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    James Town Case Study

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    hunger in addition to dehydration also took many lives. Thankfully the Natives noticed the struggle. They gave them corn and taught them how to grow it. When working together to form a colony you should have access to finish making the colony/shelter early. A lot of people died. The cause was that the first colony failed because they didn’t know how to build houses, churches or schools. The town was in need of any help…

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    consisting of the number of colonies present and the percentage of fungal colonies. In Table 1 both fungal and bacterial colonies refer to the number of individual groups with distinct boundaries which match the assumed physical characteristic for each group. It is important to note the large increase in the number of fungal colonies as well as the decrease of bacterial colonies in the Mycophil plate both of which account for the discrepancy between the two percentages of fungal colonies…

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    This statement claims that due to the fact that European and U.S colonial powers were a product of the European Enlightenment, they believed in the equality of all human beings. The Japanese also believed that within the spheres of race and culture, they shared these similarities with their colonized subjects. Therefore, European, U.S. and Japanese colonial endeavors were not a product of racist discrimination but a tactic developed to lift the status of women within in the areas that they…

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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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    opportunity to achieve success and wealth through hard work, determination, and initiative (Oxford Dictionary). After all, this is precisely what America was founded upon: the Founding Fathers took it upon themselves to turn what had been English colonies into a new nation in which its citizens could live according to law far more suitable than the law of the English tyrants. However, before America became the America of today’s world, or even 1776’s world, there were a number of hurdles the…

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