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    he didn’t miss it. Roger Williams is a warm, sweet tempered, and rigid old man that followed a spiritual journey that forced him to separate from first one group and then another. during that time founded and governed an influential colony of Rhode Island. Some pros of…

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    Why Blackstone River is A National Corridor The Blackstone River changed Rhode Island horrendously. I think the Blackstone river is a National corridor. The reason why Blackstone is a national corridor is because of it change the way how people looked at, its destruction it had caused and the mills. The Blackstone River caused a whole lot of destruction and havoc around Rhode Island. “similar amounts of rain fell throughout the Blackstone Valley. These rains slowly, but steadily raised the…

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    Williams got caught lost in a forest during one of the greatest winter storms ever recorded. He stumbled upon foreign lands that would soon become Rhode Island and a tribe of Indians nursed him back to health. This was the start of a thriving relationship between Williams and the native people. While Williams was able to found and create the colony of Rhode Island, he could not have done it without help. He reached out to the native tribes and created a partnership with them. These Indians aided…

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    Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachussets on January 19th, 1809. He was a well known poet of his time and many well known poems. Some of his most famous works are " The Raven", The Masque of the Red Death", "The Tell-Tale Heart", and many other short stories with morbid, and dark qualities to them. Althoug Poe was a great poet, he had a hard life from the time he was born till the time of his death in a hospital on Sunday, October 7th, 1849. When Poe was 18, he was broke and had no job…

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    Roan Mountain Case Study

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    On 7 February 2017 at 1400 a windshield survey was conducted in Roan Mountain, TN; the temperature was a pleasant 70 degrees. Roan Mountain is a town located in the Appalachian Mountains on the side of the mountain it is named for. The valley it occupies is surrounded by amazingly beautiful and diverse landscape and scenery. The population of Roan Mountain is Caucasian and has varying ages. During the windshield survey, roughly 13 people were seen out of doors. Two older gentlemen were…

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    The New Englanders desired a place where they prosper together as a community. They were more than concerned about the moral health of the whole community and would do whatever was called for to keep their community strong and happy. "This court … in the interim recommends [that] all tradesmen and laborers consider the religious end of their callings, which is that receiving such moderate profits as may enable them to serve God and their neighbors", DOC. E, this shows that they would give their…

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    Golden Bay K-9 Social Club is a dog daycare and boarding service that strives to be the home away from home for our customer’s furry babies. Our mission is to provide top notch care for dogs when there owners can’t. In order to achieve this, we have selected to establish ourselves in Fremont, California. We did this to be closest to are target market, which are people who are 25-44 years old with a dog and a household income of $100,000. Our target market was selected based the average age of…

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    Narragansett is an English corruption of Nanhigganeuck, their actual name meaning "people of the small point." The Dutch used the shortened form of Nahican. Location Narragansett is located in Narragansett Bay and western Rhode Island the grand sachem who usually resided in the largest village. Their villages of medium-sized longhouses were usually large energetic and located on the islands on the islands of Narragansett Bay. They farmed extremely large fields of corn,beans,and squash.…

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    Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1809 and was the son of Elizabeth and David Poe, though, they died when he was only two years old. Poe then became the adopted son of John and Frances Allan in Virginia. He was taught in the finest boarding schools in Richmond and in 1825 went to college in Charlottesville at the University of Virginia. Unfortunately, after only one year, Poe was forced to leave due to inadequate financial support from John Allan, his stepfather, who refused…

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    Nellyonthego1on1 - From Miss Rhode Island USA to Reality Star Villain… How did those two worlds collide? Claudia Jordan – The only reason I look like the villain is because I hold people accountable, and if holding people accountable makes me a villain, then call me the villain. On the Next 15, I’m trying to put together a talk show, and I’m dealing with grown folks who don’t want to do any work. I asked all of my fellow cast members what role did they want to play and of course since the…

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