Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

Kingsford officially became recognised as a suburb on 25 June 1936. Prior to becoming its own suburb, it was mostly undeveloped land and was known as South Kensington. The suburb is mainly residential with a population of 14,100. It has a large commercial area where the markets, restaurants, hotels, and bars are found. Kingsford is surrounded by other eastern suburbs, making it close to Sydney, beaches, and other recreational areas. Housing The housing situation in Kingsford consists of multi-storey apartments near the commercial area and houses, townhouses, units, flats, and apartments near the Kingsford town centre, a medium to high density residential development. Many of the houses are two-storey dwellings that were built during the housing…

The patterns of American colonial life, specifically in the Massachusetts Bay colony, encapsulated the massive social, political, and economic shifts of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Factors including freedom of religious expression and increased opportunity for wealth or opportunity led many Europeans to immigrate to New England. Prominent figures and experiences of the entire Colonial Massachusetts Bay population as a whole are often times generalized onto those of the…

The first pieces of early American literature were written in attempt to persuade. During the mid-1600 to mid-1700, the puritan communities in early America were becoming unruly. An attempt to a bring the puritan people back into a discipline group of people, two authors named Ann Bradstreet and Jonathan Edwards began writing to inform the puritans about God. The puritans traveled from England to America for freedom of religion. Puritans focused their teachings on four main subjects: eternal…

Hester Prynne: Rebellion in the Hands of a Labeled Conformist In the Puritan Era of colonial North America, Anne Hutchinson was banished for publicly questioning the Reformed Anglican Church. Hutchinson said she could interpret the Bible and that God spoke to her. The patriarchal society of the Puritan era was shocked by that statement and immediately sought to put Hutchinson back into submission. Similarly in the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester Prynne is forced…

the Massachusetts Bay Colony under the leadership of Governor John Winthrop. Puritans brought--to what some in today’s modern standards may consider--intense ideology that dictated everyday life. John Winthrop praised those principles that rooted from English Calvinist beliefs in order to form a better community and inspired the idea of a “city on a hill.” John Winthrop’s “city on a hill” sought to create a ‘perfect’ community “for others to emulate" (17). Overtime, John Winthrop’s stern…

Unlike the other colonies such as Virginia, consisting of those who had come on their own such a second sons, the Massachusetts Bay colony was established, not as a money maker, but instead as a place where the Puritans could worship the way they chose. The environment of the northwest was not suited for large farms, so the colonists made their money fishing in Cape Cod, fur trapping, ship building, and trading. These markets became the town’s main source of income, giving it a merchant based…

Anchored off the inhospitable coast of Massachusetts, a meager band of 88 Pilgrims, weak and weary from their lengthy voyage, stared at two terrible behemoths: in front of them was a vast, hostile land and behind them was the powerful, immense Atlantic Ocean which cut them off from the rest of the world. After they set foot on the rocky shores and watched the Mayflower sail past the edge of the endless horizon, one can only imagine the settlers’ unbearable sense of being all alone, separated…

Over history we have learned that everything changes. The strong conquers the weak, and new beliefs are always introduced or forced. We learn that discoveries are made every day; for the most of us, it is a new word, a tool, idea, or the discovery of a new place. In the early 1600s, the early Settlers arrived to New England. The first Settlers were the Plymouth Colony, led by William Bradford. They were often referred to as Pilgrims or Separatists, and they arrived on The Mayflower Compact. The…

Often, they were sometimes tolerated, and at other times they were severely persecuted. Charles I of England made efforts to purge all Puritan influences from England, which resulted in the “Great Migration” to Europe and the American Colonies. The Pilgrims who formed the Massachusetts Bay Colony were separatist Puritans who had been forced out of England and Holland. Non separatist Puritans who remained in England responded to this persecution with the English Civil War (1641-51), which led to…

Chesapeake colonies, and wealthier families went to the the northern New England colonies. Strong political beliefs held by the Puritans leaving England helped shape the New England colonies. The Puritans wanted a policy of self governance. These ideas about government were held before they even reached land. As exemplified by John Winthrop in A Model of Christian Charity which he wrote en route to America, the settlers were to cultivate a community that honors charity and unity, “a city upon a…