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    Vince Lombardi What do you think when you hear Ethical and Visionary Leader? I’ll tell you what I think, I think of the legendary football coach Vince Lombardi. Vince Lombardi once said, “You don’t do things right once in a while…you do them right all the time” (Vince Lombardi’s Quotes, 2018). Everyone has their own opinions on who an Ethical leader and Visionary leader is, to me a great leader is someone who builds trust, credibility, and respect for both you and the organization and guide…

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    How Puritan gender politics reflected in Salem witch trials In late 16th Century a new religious movement established in New England known as “Puritanism” a group of English Protestants. By 1630 Puritans migrated to Massachusetts from England due to several reasons, including the desire to escape religious persecution, anxiety about the future of England, and the prospect of economic betterment. They migrated with their families and settled down. The society believed that the man had power…

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    Chillingworth’s Revenge and Destruction of Dimmesdale and Hester One Villain The Scarlet Letter takes place during the 17th century amid the Puritans of Boston. The Puritans had left The Church of England because they felt that the church had become too liberal in their thinking. As a result the plot of The Scarlet Letter is even more intense relative to the adultery and the revenge of the villainous character of Roger Prynne “Chillingworth” set among the very religious Puritans of Boston.…

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    native people. Before the Pilgrims' arrival, sickness wiped out the majority of the New England Indians called the Wampanoag. Several survivors befriended and assisted the colonists. The alliance between the two ended in 1636 when the Massachusetts Bay Puritans declared war on the Pequot Tribe and Plymouth was in the middle of the…

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    How Ernesto “Che” Guevara contributed to the Establishment of a Communist state in Cuba, 1958 Ernesto Che Guevara played a huge role in Fidel Castro’s radical political movement which overthrew Batista’s dictatorship in the island of Cuba during the latter 1950s. Guevara is best described as courageous, intelligent and a powerful visionary. Born into a wealthy upper class family in Argentina, Ernesto was a qualified doctor. He was strongly influenced by the scenes he had witnessed during his…

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    Religion has had an enormous influence in the evolution of the thirteen colonies. However it has also had an impact in the reinforcement of the US as a nation. Religion beliefs were fundamental in particular colonies. Religion helped shaped the population, forms of government, economy, culture, politics, and along with others. Give me liberty is the main resource of the fundamental information on how important religion has been in the evolution of the thirteen colonies. Many of the European…

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    Alcatraz Prison History

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    crime and this led to the creation of larger, higher capacity federal prisons. Alcatraz prison was one of the products of this decision, and is possibly the most famous prison in American history. Alcatraz Island is located offshore the San Francisco Bay in California. This penitentiary was home to the nation’s worst criminals such as “Machine Gun” Kelly, Al Capone, Arthur “Doc” Barker, and Alvin Karpis. (Blakely…

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    The stories of losses and struggles, fights for religion and conquests of new land surge through the colonies of the New World in the 1600s. Puritans and Pilgrims both have struggles and successes flowing through their history that is traced to their independent motivations as well as overlapping motivators. Puritans focus on generating a purer Church of England that breaks away from the interventions of hierarchy in the England faith. The Pilgrims work to create a better life in the newly…

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    Spain, Britain, France, and Portugal all developed colonies in North and South America, but they administered them in differing ways. French explorers such as Jacques Cartier, and Samuel de Champlain founded French colonies on the island of Mont Real (now Montreal) and in Quebec by sailing along the St. Lawrence river. The summation of their new colonies became known as New France. After priest Jacques Marquette and trader Louis Joliet explored the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes, add…

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    Did you know the Mayflower Compact was the first written structure of government? "In 1802, John Quincy Adams described the agreement as “the only instance in human history of that positive, original, social compact” and it is popularly believed to have influenced the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution." Also it is believed that the name of the ship is what the pilgrims named the Mayflower Compact after. The Mayflower Compact was molded to keep the pilgrims together. Theses…

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