Rhode Island

During the evening of August 13, 2015, the Hawthorne Fire Department conducted a training exercise using the Sugar Shack. They arrived at Eastview at approximately 6:30 pm to set-up. Hiltz, Lombardo, Rutigliano, and Ramlochan were all present during the exercise, but they did not participate in the exercise. Feeney participated in the training exercise in his role as volunteer firefighter but not in his capacity as a Con Edison employee. According to Hiltz, there was no job briefing done before…

William Cronon’s Changes in the Land – Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England, depicts the changes that occurred in New England after the arrival of the Europeans. It not only provides a detailed account of the changes that took place from a historical point of view, but also from an ecological pint of view – meaning it not only paints a picture of how the European settlers changed the lives of New England’s Indian inhabitants, but it also clearly shows how the arrival of the…

Businesses in La Grange Have you thought of all the businesses in La Grange? While there are a lot of businesses in La Grange there is still some we need. There are businesses that La Grange have too many of and businesses we need. We have too many restaurants in La Grange and feed stores. With all the restaurants here people don’t really have to go out of town to eat with people. We do have a lot of feed stores but it’s good because we also have a lot of cattail and houses.…

The New England and Chesapeake Colonies are quite different but they also have a lot in common. New England and Chesapeake Colonies can be compared and contrasted by the settlement patterns, demographic patterns, trading patterns, religion, government and economic activities. In terms of trading pattern the Chesapeake and New England Colonies had way different ways to trade. The Chesapeake Colonies mostly exported tobacco products, while the New English Colonies mostly exported things like fish…

I am following up on my final report by providing information in regards to the exhibit of “The Celebration of Writing” I attended. As you have requested, I have attended this festival and am reporting to you on the positives and negatives of what I saw and by using my observation and thoughts about the exhibition. These observations will provide you with information to create a visual exhibition on the ethical issues of payday loans. I know you are looking to make an exhibition on the final…

Fall River, Massachusetts is a city just about an hour south of Boston College. I have lived there my entire life. I moved once, but it was only to the other side of the city. Having accumulated, then, twenty years of experiential knowledge living in Fall River, I thought I knew more about the city than – it turns out – I do. The way that I know Fall River, and the way that I portray my home town to others, is as a large, diverse, economically-challenged, dead end city. This does not paint the…

Introduction Newport, Rhode Island was a safe haven for pirates during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, especially from the late 1600s to the early 1700s. This perhaps is surprising considering that Rhode Island was established by Puritans, but it is important to note that these Puritans were not as devout as the first generation that had settled the colonies. In fact, Rhode Island was a place where the non-traditional colonists’ could belong. Still, pirates were a part of the daily…

Williams got caught lost in a forest during one of the greatest winter storms ever recorded. He stumbled upon foreign lands that would soon become Rhode Island and a tribe of Indians nursed him back to health. This was the start of a thriving relationship between Williams and the native people. While Williams was able to found and create the colony of Rhode Island, he could not have done it without help. He reached out to the native tribes and created a partnership with them. These Indians aided…

name meaning "people of the small point." The Dutch used the shortened form of Nahican. Location Narragansett is located in Narragansett Bay and western Rhode Island the grand sachem who usually resided in the largest village. Their villages of medium-sized longhouses were usually large energetic and located on the islands on the islands of Narragansett Bay. They farmed extremely large fields of corn,beans,and squash. Narragansett is expert with the canoe, their diet was appendage by…

Rhode Island Trip I started out in the delta airport of Michigan with amazing looking seats and I sit third class, but I don’t complain about I was about to travel over a thousand miles to get to Rhode Island where my dad was. “I’m super excited to see him”. I said to my mom”. She said to me “ i'll miss you very very much.” She looked like she was going to cry but I knew she would be happy that i’m gone for the summer, well not the whole summer just a MONTH. I barely get to see him so I…