Ferdinando Fairfax

majority were still Protestants, who focused on growing tobacco early on, ensuring the success. The Mayflower Compact created a church, which grew into a government. Property owners were later allowed to join, which eventually became a body of elected representatives. Roger Williams, a Puritan Separatist, bought land from the Indians and founded Providence, Rhode Island, the most free and democratic of the colonies in 1631. All religions were welcome, and could be given citizenship by a majority vote. Williams believed that all faiths were equal, even those of the Indians. In 1636, Thomas Hooker and three congregations left to Connecticut and created a self-governing colony. The land of what is now New Hampshire and Maine was given to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and Captain John Mason in 1622. Mason and Gorges divided the land in 1629, Mason taking New Hampshire and Gorges taking Maine. In the 1640s, Massachusetts got too big for it’s britches and took control of New Hampshire, then parts of Maine in the 1650s. Judges ruled against Massachusetts in 1979, so New Hampshire became a royal colony. Maine was incorporated into Massachusetts in 1691. After New York was claimed for the English, the land between the Hudson and Delaware Rivers was given to two men, Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley, and was named Jersey. In 1676, it was divided into East and West Jersey, with Berkeley taking the West. The Society of Friends, or The Quakers (no one could know Christ without…

Case Description The Merrifield Commercial Realization Area (CRA) projected started on April 2009, which it is known as The Mosaic District as well. Because this project, the first Community Development Authority (CDA) was created, and it made sure that the CRA’s principles provided a coordinated approach to address the needs and opportunities of a changing development environment, while ensuring that public dollars are contributed only when essential to realize revitalization. Also, the CDA…

marries Anne Fairfax, George would escape his frightening mother and spent time with William Fairfax from time to time. William would later on offer George a position in the Royal Navy, but luckily his mother puts a cease to it and commands George to come back home. One time Lord Fairfax himself visits, at this time George saw how people in the family would suddenly show up at times when the old aged Lord felt ill hoping they would get some of his possessions in his will. At a point where…

Occupy Denver Eric Brandt is a white male in his late forties. He is 5’8” and 200 pounds, dressed in black shorts and a yellow shirt, with black font on it that reads “Fuck Bad Cops.” He is single and homeless. Eric is a former U.S Navy nuclear engineer. He has been to many countries and speaks four languages. Eric chose to leave his veteran house and be homeless so that another homeless veteran can have a place to live. After he left his housing, he rented a backyard from a lady in Westminster…

This sum includes purchasing 27 new buses and hiring the new bus drivers. While this may seem as a small sum for such a large county, Fairfax County Public Schools are currently facing a deficit of over $14 million, and are expected to see a deficit of over $100 million in the 2016-2017 fiscal year (“FY”). This means that pushing back school start times accounts for nearly 5% of the downfall, leading to teacher being laid off and extracurricular activities being cut. Another reason pushing back…

There’s a student acrostic poem that I have heard in the past for the word school; “Seven Crappy Hours of Our Lives.” It’s not a very appropriate saying, but I can comprehend the feelings of its creator. Imagine school felt long enough only to get another hour and a half added. I believe the way classes are distributed is reasonable, so how would adding another hour function? A longer school day would just mean complicated compromises and sacrifices would have to be made, students who dislike…