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INTRODUCTION Haiti is a nation where the people are resilient, prayers are consistent and work hard with perseverance. Born in Haiti but, raised in Florida, I found myself doing research on the country that has formed a place in my heart. After doing much research at the library and even online, I found that Haiti is a country known as the "Mountainous Land” (Girault). It is usually remembered for its poverty and its recent earthquake back in January 2010 where thousands of people were killed…

Golden Age of Piracy Benjamin Hornigold was one of the 18th-century pirates, along with his many projects he started ( History of Humanity). He was a famous pirate possibly out of the English country Norfolk. It is not confirmed where he was born, but latest discoveries lead to historians thinking he came from Norfolk. Ben was born in 1680 and died 1719. He died at the age of thirty nine by getting captured near Havana in the spring of 1718. Ben was known to have died by captivity. His first…

Two continents named after one explorer, Amerigo Vespucci. His travels are not well known compared to Columbus, but they were more integral to the discovering of America. Vespucci writes a letter to Pier Soderini, Gonfalonier of the Republic of Florence, depicting his travels to the New World on his first of four voyages. The letter describes the encounters with the natives as well as the different types of animals they saw. Involvements in battles and celebrations throughout his exploration of…

When facing challenges the colonists did not get the excitement they were expecting when coming to the New World. They were faced with a lot of unexpected deaths with their friends and families caused by diseases, they were encountered by hostile people that they never knew or heard of before called Native Americans, and they never expected to have gone through any more hardships by losing more people while being there, so when starvation took a toll on their colony it was completely unexpected.…

emigration from Europe to North America. Spanning more than three centuries, this movement grew from a trickle of a few hundred English colonists to a flood of millions of newcomers. Impelled by powerful and diverse motivations, they built a new civilization on the northern part of the continent. The first English immigrants to what is now the United States crossed the Atlantic long after thriving Spanish colonies had been established in Mexico, the West Indies and South America. Like all early…

lot of American film and television. This gives them a topical familiarity with American culture, causing them to feel that they “know” American culture. While this is of course untrue, what they do know of American culture, they appreciate, seeing America and it’s people as daring and innovative. There is of course some suspicion of Americans as well, especially in Copacabana and Rio. This may stem from the prevalence of American men as sexual tourist in Brazil, and as a BRICS country, some…

Christopher Columbus, Afonso D’ Alboquerque, and Adam Smith contributed greatly to the interconnections of the world through international trade and commerce and through cultural exchanges. Christopher Columbus, a Spanish explorer, was the first to find America. He was the first of many to explore unknown territories and lands in search of trade and with the intention of spreading his European, Christian culture. This exchange of goods and culture between the American people and…

INTRO: Many people may see passenger lists and not think much of them or think they are just random names on paper. But passenger lists used to be very important when it came to people immigrating to the new world. The following two passenger lists—one for England and one for Virginia—provide an indication of the different types of people who came to the two colonies. These passenger lists tell a lot more than the amount of people who entered and exited board these ships. These lists often…

How would you feel if you went to a new country with only a few belongings?The story “Of Plymouth Plantation” tells us the journey of how the pilgrims left their country and found a new home.The story of Shahad a refugee from Syria is similar to the one of the pilgrims and they share similarities as well as differences. Of Plymouth Plantation written by William Bradford takes place in about 1630.It is a story about pilgrims leaving their country in order for them to have religious freedom.The…

preliminary tasks such as setting up their government. Little time was devoted to establishing a unique culture. However, in the 1700s, with the onset of the Great Awakening, radical religious and ultimately, political, ideologies spread throughout America. Britain’s shift from a feudal system to mercantilism had resounding effects on colonists’ daily lives and behavior. The stable crop production also increased the lifespans of individuals, who then produced a greater number of children, and…