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Settlers John Smith and William Bradford were two settlers from england who wrote about their journey to the “new world”. Both of their writing were for different purposes you would think it’s all for other people's benefits which is somewhat true. Both of them coming to America was a whole new different experience, like us visiting an unknown planet. On their adventures there were many problems they faced and that came their way. John Smith, he became an important force in the later…

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 Sieur de La Salle claimed the Mississippi for France and named Louisiana, New France covered much of the midwestern United States and eastern Canada.While New France was expansive, few people inhabited it. Most French colonists were more interested…

Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare is a not-for-profit health service company that strives to improve the quality of health and care for its members in states like Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Maine. Harvard Pilgrims main goal is to make a difference and create value through those differences in the community, in their company, in the marketplace and with their business partners, suppliers and vendors. In recent years, Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare has made continual effort in overall…

Running on Empty Ethan Palmer is a teenager living in Halifax, Nova Scotia with his father and sister. The death of his mother has caused Ethan’s personality to significantly change and resulted in him struggling throughout high school. To cope with his mother’s death, Ethan uses his passion for muscle cars to escape his reality and suppress his feelings of anger. Throughout the story, Ethan has several confrontations with his father regarding the direction of his life, crashes his car and…

source of income for many of the town’s inhabitants. One of the most efficient ways to transport goods at this time was by train. For my Area of Inquiry project I would like to research the history of the trade by means of train into and out of the town. My project will start with research of the Boston and Maine Railroad Company. This information can be found on various websites for and about the company that I have already located. I will also go to the National Grand Bank, which is located on…

man doesn’t. Ethan’s moral and social values combined with his indecisiveness cause him to retreat from life into a vision. Ethan retreats into his vision to escape reality. Being a poor man tending to a stoic, sick wife, living in a cold, desolate town leaves a life with much to be desired. With a community that is indifferent at best, Frome has nobody to share his troubles with. He ponders this. “Must he wear out all his years at the side of a bitter querulous woman? Other possibilities had…

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was born in Trenton, New Jersey, on April 1st, 1950. His parents were Rose Fradusco and Samuel A. Alito, Sr.. His mother was a schoolteacher; his father was the Director of the NJ office of Legislative Services and an italian immigrant. He attended Steinert High School, the local public school, where he immersed himself in extracurricular activities with a focus on student politics and debate. He graduated at the top of his class and continued his education at…

Stuck on a farm, forced to deal with the eventual death of both his parents and lost in the beauty of the house maid Mattie Silver, Ethan Frome is a victim in Edith Wharton's novel Ethan Frome. Throughout the novel, Wharton highlights the circumstances Frome's faces that lead him to his incident on the sled when Mattie and he crash into a tree. Wharton begins Frome’s journey of poor circumstances when his father dies and he is left in Starkfield to tend for his sick mother while still…

Mary Rowlandson was a settler in the Americas during the early periods of colonization of America. She lived in Massachusetts, in a small unprotected border town called Lancaster. Rowlandson, like many other settlers in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, was a Puritan. Rowlandson was the daughter of a wealthy land-holder in the Massachusetts colony, and eventually settled in Lancaster. Her husband was the minister of the parish in Lancaster, and as a result she lived a very public life. However, the…

John Winthrop was born in 12 January 1587 in England to wealthy parents. He grew up being a strict puritan. He had excellent education at home which in turn made him a critical thinker who wanted more from this world. Winthrop was one of the best educated among the puritan colonists, had great leadership skills, and was known for being very religious. His strictness and harsh treatment to some other religions resulted in some mistakes, but he is still respected and admired for making good…