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    The Northeast consisted of both the New England states and the middle states. Most people who lived in the Northeast lived on small farms in the early 1800’s, but more and more people in that section began to look for other ways to make a living. Some in the Northeast looked to the sea for their living. Since colonial times, fishing, whaling, and shipbuilding had been important occupations. But changes in technology in the early 1800’s began to offer the people of the Northeast even more…

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    As time passes on more people would want to live the better life without having the fear of persecution, or banishment, and have their own freedom of religion. Massachusetts Bay was founded by the puritans and was said to have a better life in a new world and the English would maintain their identities.…

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    Influenced by romanticism, Platonism, and Kantian philosophy, it taught that divinity pervades all nature and humanity, and its members held progressive views on feminism and communal living. “Transcendentalist embodied a number of the new attitudes regarding man’s relationship to the universe and the quality of the life that he leads” (16). Transcendentalist were basically optimists that live in the present and had no worry of the future. They focused on reason and believed they would…

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    in Boston increased over the years of 1800 to1860. Boston and Chicago saw a different market revolution then the South states. The North saw manufacturing cities then economy in farm. The old northwest saw a move to a settled society, with a web of new transportation and urban rural neighborhoods. The rural areas witnessed dramatic change from the 1800. Where people used to made goods at home and working all day, and labor process change. In the 1860s, people found themselves working at plants,…

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    Golden Bay K-9 Social Club is a dog daycare and boarding service that strives to be the home away from home for our customer’s furry babies. Our mission is to provide top notch care for dogs when there owners can’t. In order to achieve this, we have selected to establish ourselves in Fremont, California. We did this to be closest to are target market, which are people who are 25-44 years old with a dog and a household income of $100,000. Our target market was selected based the average age of…

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    was not founded to promote a specific religious vision or economic gain unlike other British colonies established at the time. All four founders of Rhode Island were exiled from Massachusetts as a result of their radical beliefs. In 1644 the four towns of Rhode…

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    funded by the British Crown to supply raw material to their central economy. The colonial holdings allowed Britain to blend feudal customs with more modern merchant practices to establish interests and wealth for the Crown abroad. An example of this new kind of commonwealth was the Virginia Company. A joint venture…

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    Wharton establishes patterns of imagery by using figurative language — language meant to be taken figuratively as well as literally. In Ethan Frome, Wharton's descriptive imagery is one of the most important features of her simple and efficient prose style. Her descriptions serve a definite stylistic and structural purpose. The figurative language used by Wharton includes metaphors and similes. Metaphors compare two unlike things without using words of comparison. For example, in the beginning…

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    publication attempts, the poetry was not published until later in his life. Although the 12 years of farming had been unsuccessful Robert drew many inspirations from the rural setting for his poems. Frost and his family sold the farm and moved to England where he hoped to pursue a career in poetry. There, he met with publishers who agreed to publish two of his poetry collections, A Boy’s Will and North of Boston. He also made friends with several famous poets, including Ezra Pound and Edward…

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    Nathaniel Hawthorne is the author of The Scarlet Letter. He was born July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts. Winther, Sophus Keith in “Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Biography” explains that “Hawthorne was the practical, ordinary man interested in the ordinary and commonplace problems of everyday life.” Hawthorne was faced with a lot of problems which led him to his love of writing but he also went through an ordinary life. He got married and settled away from home. As his occupation as an author he wrote…

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