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    Make a Wish of Massachusett by Melissa Wlostoski Make a Wish foundation is a place where they grant wishes to children with life-threating conditions. It was inspired into being by a 7 year old boy name Chris, who had leukemia and in 1980 he wanted to be a police officer. A friend of the family who was a US customs officer wanted to help with this but ran into problems. He then talked to a spokesman for the Arizona department of public safety, he then talked to his director and he was given…

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    Massachusetts Bay Government officials focused on things such as fishing and whaling near the coast, as a form of economic stimulus. The fisherman used the whale blubber to create oil for heating purposes. Officials also focused on the building ships, as well as exporting items such as rum, timber, furs, and livestock. Those people inland used farming to grow crops such as corn, pumpkin, rye, squash, and beans, as a way of producing income and influencing the economy The society of the…

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    Ever since I was a young boy, attending Massachusetts Maritime Academy has been a dream of mine. I have put in a lot of hard work over the past four years in order to prepare myself for college and it’s finally time to give it a shot. Throughout my whole life I have always heard my parents and other adults talking about how great of a school Massachusetts Maritime Academy is. This is clearly true because every alumni I have ever spoken to says that it is an amazing college and creates incredible…

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    The indecisive, inefficient leadership in the Virginia colony of Jamestown and the complications of succession and religious inequality in Maryland established a poor precedent for England’s experiment in the New World. The Massachusetts Bay Colony sought to change that precedent. Founded in 1629 and lead by Puritan leader John Winthrop, the settlement was conceived with the intention of escaping both the economic and religious confines of the Old World as well as the past blunders…

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    “The Massachusetts State Police is an agency of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ' Executive Office of Public Safety and Security responsible for criminal law enforcement and traffic vehicle regulation across the state. A Massachusetts State Trooper is known to be part of the Law Enforcement, and one of the largest in New England, holding 2,300 officers.” Known as “State Troopers”, they are primarily hired by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety.” In order to…

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    writing to you under the provisions of Massachusetts General Law, Chapter 93A, § 9, known as the Consumer Protection Act. As you know, I have attempted to recover my security deposit, paid to you when I began my tenancy at 2 Winchester Place, Apt 5 in Winchester Massachusetts, in June, 2008, through mediation services provided by the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Division, AGO File# 488305. Cornelio Lozada, a Mediator with the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office,…

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    residents of Boston and Massachusetts. • The Parliament decides to agree on a set of acts that changed Boston’s laws. They ended up closing the port of Boston on June 1, 1774 • Two additional Intolerable acts are passed, and The Massachusetts act, alongside the Admission of Justice act take place May of 1774. The Americans called the act to be murderous as there was a small chance that offenders where given a fair trial in America and even in Britain. • The Massachusetts government act,…

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    prior assessment of the community. Worcester County, the chosen community for assessment, is situated centrally in the state of Massachusetts (City of Worcester, 2014b). Community Description Topography Worcester County’s topography consists of 95.83% land and 65.95% water. The percentage of land and water combined makes Worcester County the largest county in Massachusetts (City of Worcester, 2014a). Geographic features include mountains, reservoirs and rivers. Quabbin and Wachusetts…

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    after the Puritans discovered Massachusetts Bay in 1630. They were two English colonies but went to the New World for different reasons but also similar ones. Virginia's purpose was trading and making money. Massachusetts Bay Colony on the other hand sought out for religion. Two colonies that was completely different with even more opposite purposes. There were two colonies established in the world with completely different goals in mind. Virginia and Massachusetts Bay Colony were both English…

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    The Anti-British Protests

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    From the outset, Massachusetts was the leader of the anti-British protests for a few reasons. First and foremost, the British establishment of the Dominion of New England- which combined the colonies of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Connecticut into a single province headed by a Royal governor (Edmund Andros)- angered the Massachusetts colonists and created a tense relationship between Great Britain and the colony early on. In addition, there was a growing colonial merchant…

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