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    If I was a poor uneducated white twenty-five year old male from a farm family in england around 1730 and I was given the choice to settle in one of the following; the New England, the middle, or the southern colonies, I would choose the New England. I would choose this region mainly because eliminating the south as a place to settle is easy because of how difficult life was there compared to New England. Environmentally, the climate of the New England Colonies were much more cold than middle…

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    least in the early days of the New England colonies, the colonists shared a common purpose, binding them together and creating a unique sense of harmony within the colonies. This harmony was spurred by John Winthrop, the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, in his “A Modell of Christian Charity” sermon he gave to his congregation encouraging them to support one another so as to be a model Christian city and inspire other towns to be like them (D1). (D1, D2, D4,…

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    took office after Eisenhower, and in March of 1961 an invasion of Trinidad, a city along the coast of Cuba, had been planned. Trinidad was never invaded, and a new landing point, called the Bay of Pigs, was chosen instead. Cuban exiles invaded the island in April of 1961. The invasion came to be known as the “Bay of Pigs Invasion,” and the American…

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    In the 1600s, England’s two most prominent colonies in the Americas were busily evolving into disparate societies with different goals and social structures, even though the people who settled Massachusetts Bay, Virginia, and their surrounding colonies all emigrated from the same country. This difference in overall development occurred due to the contrasting motives of the colonists departing for New England and the Chesapeake. The people who would become New Englanders were motivated by the…

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    lose their jobs. With the loss of jobs and lost hope of acquiring any land, the British set their sights on the New World. Many journeyed across the Atlantic to populate a variety of areas, ranging from the West Indies to Virginia and Massachusetts’s Bay. Although both the Chesapeake and New England regions were settled by the white English, by 1700 both evolved into distinct societies due to economic,…

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    King Henry VIII had left the Church of Rome, and thus formed the Church of England. However, many English Calvinists believed that the Church of England needed to be more reformed. This group of Calvinists devised a Protestant movement, called Puritanism, that sought out to purify the Church by removing all Catholic influence. With this intention, the Puritans repeatedly asked King James to grant more reforms, but he felt that the Puritans threatened his authority, for that reason he rejected…

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    Pacific Rail Construction

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    Introduction Infrastructure has long stood a measure of human progress and capability throughout the ages as many consider it a cornerstone for economic development. As a nation, the United States contains one of the most sophisticated and vast networks of roads since economic prosperity, especially following World War II, provided the capability to invest in infrastructural networks. However, as time has passed and populations have soared virtually everywhere, infrastructural development has…

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    Ola Bola Movie Analysis

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    MOVIE REVIEW (OLA BOLA) 1.0 SYPNOPSIS Movie that set background in 1970’s, Ola Bola celebrates the unity and courage that inspire a team of Malaysian footballers to rise through all previous situation that story from zero to hero. Inspired by real events, the film showcase, the pride, and passion of a multicultural football team and their struggles to overcome personal and collective hardships. It is at once a powerful exploration of everyday human relationships and of the indomitable spirit…

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    During the early 1600’s, the Puritans came to the New World. They traveled to the New World from their original home of England to escape the religious laws of the King. Their goal was to create their own religion in which they could have strict laws about committing sins such as lying, stealing, and adultery. An early puritan woman, by the name of Hester Prynne, defied these laws. She was an independent and proud single mother, despite being burdened with her dark sin of Adultery. The outcome…

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    INTRODUCTION There were huge clashes on religion which were going on in America and in the late 17th century, these clashes between political and religious groups came to an end which led to the revolution of 1688. This marked to an era where Church of England ruled as the Church of the country. Other religions such as Catholicism, Puritanism were suppressed. Everyone started practicing one religion. But it had some spiritual dryness among believers. Religion was considered to be a past time…

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