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    organization I will discuss is my current employer. I currently work for a finance company that provides auto loans to emerging credit customers. For short,, customers with bad credit looking to rebuild their credit. With working at this organization there is a lot of training that is required, provided, and continued The organization is fairly new so they are really still working to find what works and what does not work for the company itself. According to Govil, S. K.; Usha, Kumar, “Training…

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    Southern Colonies Essay

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    opportunities. And these purposes brought them to settle in new lands. The Southern Colonies consisted of Virginia, Maryland, Chesapeake, and Caribbean Islands where Europeans came for their purposes. The first land was Virginia where a first group of British merchants called themselves as the Virginia Company. This company was divided by two groups. The first settles’ group was the Virginia Company of…

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    The Virginia Colony and the Massachusetts Bay Colony were not meritocracies. The definition of meritocracy is an elite group of people whose progress is based on ability and talent rather than on class privilege or wealth. This system of meritocracy only existed for an elite few in the colonies of Virginia and the Massachusetts Bay, those that were white, wealthy males. While the colonies had slightly different ways of going about it, they each had ways they prevented the people in the lower…

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    the year 1700. Aboard the Mayflower during the year 1620 were Separatist; people who withdrew from the Church of England. They were headed for the Virginia area to join the Chesapeake colony when they derailed from their course and landed at Plymouth. The Separatist become the first pilgrims and established their own settlement north of Virginia. Ten years later in 1630,…

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    Indentured Servant

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    for my life since my arrival, in 1607, to Jamestown, Virginia in the Chesapeake Bay, a swampy land, full of mosquitos, with a dry and humid climate. I urge you not to come to North America because you will face mistreatment as a laborer, bad relationships with neighbors, and high mortality rates. I arrived to the Chesapeake Bay in 1607 with about 100 other poor, lower sort, young English males through the Virginia Company, a joint stock company, charter. Unfortunately, by May of 1608 there was…

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    Jamestown Case Study

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    England, divided the land of Virginia into two colonies. According to J. T. Elliot’s book, King James VI financed expeditions to the New England colony and the Virginia colony through the use of a joint-stock company (Elliot 2006:8). A joint-stock company is a private partnership between investors who will buy stocks as a way to gather enough capital for developing settlements in the two colonies. In April of 1606, a London-based joint-stock company named the Virginia Company, received a…

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    John Smith Settlement

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    In June of 1606, King James I granted a permission to the Virginia Company to go to the Chesapeake region of North America and by December, 104 people sailed out towards Virginia on the Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery and landed on May 14 of 1607 on Jamestown Island; it became one of the first successful English settlements which helped grow a nation. John Smith became the leader and established a “no work no food” policy and he played a crucial part in trading with the Powhatan Indian…

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    Virginia is among the most developed states in the United States basing on the various important aspects. According to the research, this is one of the states that offers services and well-manufactured products that serves the across the world. In the US, this is among the top four currently states which are highly developed hence performing better in most of the aspects. It is evident Virginia is also one of the leading centers in terms of software development; hence, the high technology…

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    HISTORY ESSAY Many differences existed between Virginia and Massachusetts with the main ones being laid on the economic and social structures of their society. Each of them was established as a result of different ways of living. Their occupants had different customs and religious beliefs with them being dependent on their different ways of settlement, religion, agricultural practices and labour. Virginia and Massachusetts were both colonies of England at around the same period. Many same…

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    Jamestown in 1607 by using propaganda and head rights: which is a legal grant of land to settlers in exchange for service. The head right system was introduced in Virginia it gave each superior of the household the right to fifty acres of land for himself and another additional fifty acres for each grown family member in exchange for service. Virginia and Maryland both appointed the “head right” system to encourage the import of servant workers under their terms, whoever paid the passage of a…

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