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Communities that value Puritan ethics are advantageous because they value hard work and family values. Societies require everybody to pitch in so that they will prosper. When the first Europeans arrived in the New world, everybody had a responsibility to do whether it be at home or at work . Eventually, the new settlers prospered through the effort and sweat that was input to the New world. This promotes the idea that groups of people that are labor intensive will thrive as it demonstrates that…

Colonial Period The colonial period of America was filled with the explorations of different religions and the freedom to explore your religious tendencies. In this unit of American Lit, we learned about the puritans, rationalists, and Native American traditions. We read a poem by Anne Bradstreet, “The Burning of our House.” Some of the students chose to do the virtue chart that Benjamin Franklin did in 1726 so he could improve a specific thirteen virtues. We also analyzed a couple of Native…

William Williams was born on April 23, 1731 in Lebanon, Connecticut. He was a Selectman for twenty-five years, served the provincial and later state Legislature for nearly forty years-during which time he was councilor, member, and Speaker of the House. He was appointed by the Connecticut Assembly to become a delegate for the Second Continental Congress after Oliver Wolcott fell ill. Even though he didn’t make it in time to Philadelphia to take part in the debates and cast a vote for the…

My favorite Superbowl commercial, was the Prius commercial. Mainly because it reminds me of one of my favorite movies, The Blues Brothers. My favorite part especially was at the end when all the cop cars were really close together, and the car put on the breaks automatically, then they just swerved their way through the cop cars because the cops were sleeping. Also, I know it had to do with three very illegal things, robbing a bank, stealing a car, and running from a police chase, but oh well.…

The Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) is often associated with Canada; this company started off as a fur trading business and currently operates as a transnational retail store. A recent HBC commercial portraying Dr. John Rae, a Scottish surgeon who explored Arctic Canada with the help of the Inuit peoples, was released with narration by Les Stroud, a famous Canadian survivor-man. Viewer’s reactions to the commercial have been mixed, with some comments on the YouTube video praising the “Inuit being…

Is Jose Mourinho the greatest football coach of all time? During his first press conference after being appointed head coach at Chelsea Football Club Mourinho said, "Please don't call me arrogant.. but I think I am a special one." Since that press conference, the media has called him arrogant many times but he has also convinced them that he is the greatest football coach in history. Mourinho is the only coach in Europe that has worked his way up to a coaching position, he has coached five…

The southern colonies were established as economic ventures. The first settlers arriving in the South were mainly farmers, laborers, high status craftsmen and numerous sons of English nobility. The first colony, Jamestown, Virginia, which was set up by the Virginia Company, had a rough start with high death rates due to disease and lack of food. The Virginia Company seemed to have a quick profit of supplies so they did not rely much on England’s support. With high profit they would rather look…

was in which consisted of, crop failures and depressions in the wool industry. With all these things happening in England the Puritans saw them as “signs of God displeasure with their country” so they left. In 1629 they set up the Massachusetts Bay colony, they also were able to set up a business to make money to support…

Castro really had no chance of succeeding. This due in large part that a small guerrilla force could in no way stand up to Cuba 's forces without U.S support. But the does not address some of the major concerns the U.S had. Why did the U.S launch the Bay of Pigs Invasion? The U.S launched the invasion as means of protecting national security. When Castro came to power he immediately began spreading around nationalism policies and cut ties with the American government. Coupled with his…

In the late 1400s, when Christopher Columbus stumbled across North America, the world was altered. Many countries established colonies, but the only ones that stuck were the English colonies. Jamestown was first, and 12 others followed. Everyone had different reasons for migrating and the culture of these colonies showed that. Although New England and the Chesapeake region were both settled largely by people of English origin, their reasons for settling, their government structures, and their…