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    As you can tell, many of Hawthorne 's books he has written has to do with Puritan society and/or beliefs. Such as, The Scarlet Letter published in 1850, which takes place in Plymouth, Massachusetts in the 1600 's, a big time of Puritan belief. Also, The House of the Seven Gables, published in 1851, took place in New England in the 1800 's. Shmoop.com said about the book The House of the Seven Gables, “He 's not just interested…

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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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    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…

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    aluminum, rubber, glass, plastic, and food are being disposed in some areas of the United States which can cause not only water pollution, but can tragically harm the innocent aquatic animals living in the ocean. According to research performed by Plymouth University, seven hundred different animals are being threatened by the water pollution caused by the simple…

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    Organisation As a not-for-profit organisation Nuffield Health combines hospitals, health clinics, gyms and diagnostic units in addition to providing a multitude of treatments in order to create a complete health and wellbeing service (Nuffieldhealth.com1, 2015) by reinvesting operating surpluses back into the institution. Established in January 1957 by the British United Provident Association (BUPA), the organisation started by acquiring nursing home and continued to expand by purchasing and…

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    Fundamental Orders of Connecticut was the first constitution in America, it described the representative government in detail. Democracy was based upon some of the views in it. The Mayflower Compact was written right before the colonists had arrived to Plymouth. In November, 1620, this crucial document was signed and written to prevent dissent between the Puritans and non-separatist Pilgrims. The Mayflower compact showed the framers of the constitution that they had to provide for the common…

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    belonged. His power and passion was one that garnered many followers, a characteristic that Elijah Muhammed, the leader of the Nation, planned on taking full advantage of to spread the word of the Nation. X stated that, “We did not land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us!” and now it is time to empower ourselves and move passed their oppressors. In Avianne’s opinion, though his mind was in the right place, the influence that Muhammed had over him blinded him from his true…

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    Indian Poem

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    Loving, and old friend; [W]e have built seven dwelling houses . . . and have made preparation for divers others. We set the last spring some twenty acres of Indian corn, and sowed some six acres of barley and peas, and according to the manner of Indians, we manured our ground with herrings . . . which we have in great abundance . . . Our corn did prove well, and God be praised, we had a good increase of Indian corn . . . our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so…

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    Essay On Jamestown

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    supply mission called the Third Supply. The Third Supply had the most supplies ever delivered to Jamestown. The Third Supply traveled of 7 ships with the biggest being the newest also, the Sea Venture. While the ships were heading to the fort from Plymouth, they got stuck in a storm which was most likely a hurricane. Most of the ships made it to Jamestown but some of them, including the Sea Venture, had to crash on the coast of Bermuda. The English had almost run out of supplies at Jamestown and…

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    Chesapeake colonists sailed to North America in the hopes of finding gold or silver, a northwest passage to Asia, a cure for syphilis, or other valuable products for sale in Europe. The main colonies of Chesapeake were Virginia and Maryland. Chesapeake soon became rural colonies of independent tobacco planters. The family life of Chesapeake typically consisted of marriages where the groom was older by 10 years or more. Orphans became a major community problem. People died younger. For example,…

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