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Gulf Of Mexico Gulf Coast
1,634 words
Before a territory can be settled, it has to be
explored. Through an exquisite quest, amongst
adventure and hardships, Sir Rene Robert Cavalier
de La Salle set out to explore the Great Lakes and
Mississippi River. In the winter of 1681 - 1682,
the French explorer Rene Robert Cavalier, Sir de
la Salle, led an expedition from Canada down the
Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico. La Salle
reached the river's outlet to the gulf, where he
set up a cross and a wooden post carved with the
coat of ar...
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Part Of China Lot Of Money
984 words
Why would a communist country want to have a
capitalist country? Well I think it is because
Hong Kong has a lot of money, because they are one
of the major trade centers of the world. Another
reason is that Hong Kong was a part of China until
1842 when the British defeated China in the first
Opium War and took possession of Hong Kong. In
this report I will be talking about how the
Communist Chinese government regained possession
of Hong Kong, a capitalist Colony, after 156 years
of British rule....
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Sierra Leone Rebel Forces
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The British established a colony at Freetown in
1787 for slaves returning to Africa from Great
Britain and the United States and for slaves
rescued from shipwrecks. The land of original
settlement, where the city later developed, was
purchased from local chiefs. The Sierra Leone
Company, formed in 1791, administered the
settlement until 1808, when it became a crown
colony. Britain set up a protectorate over the
hinterland of Freetown in 1896. The British were
relatively nice towards the people o...
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Reasons For Settling Differ In Many Ways Jamestown
745 words
North America was first discovered by European
country in the late 1400 s. A little over 100
years later two men by the names of John Smith,
leader of the Jamestown settlement, and William
Bradford, the Governor of the Plymouth, decided to
adventure cross the Atlantic Ocean in a ship in
search of the New World. The Puritans and
Jamestown settlers left England in search of a new
way of life. The colonists left England for
different reasons and ambitions. In The General
History of Virginia and Of ...
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South Africa West Africa
707 words
By 1875 European possessions in Africa consisted
of some forts and trading posts along the coast
and a few tiny colonies. Between 1880 and 1910,
however, Africa was divided up among the
Europeans. For the next 50 years decisions
affecting Africa and its people were made not in
Africa, but in London, Paris, Lisbon and other
European capitals. France acquired a huge empire
in North and West Africa. Algeria, Tunisia,
Morocco, Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Mali and other
areas in West Africa came under Fren...
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Threat To Society Beginning Of The Book
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Hester Prynne is a very strongly portrayed
character in The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel
Hawthorne. Hester comes into conflict with the
rigid beliefs of traditional Puritan Society in
which she lives. She poses a threat to the society
through her radical thinking, her loyalty to the
ones that she loves, and lastly her unwillingness
to conform inwardly to the Puritan lifestyle,
although she does conform on the outside for the
sake of her only daughter, Pearl. Hester poses a
threat to Puritan soci...
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Daughter Of Shew Find A Cure Benjamin
336 words
This story is about a boy name Benjamin and his
adventure. In this book there was a great city and
a fire destroyed it. The only survivors were
mutants that eat people. The mutants god is a
librarian. Benjamin is out to find a cure for the
people who live in a colony that was not destroyed
but the great fire. The children of his colony are
sick and 2 have died. His mission was to find a
cure for these children. A man came to the colony
and he told Benjamin about a girl who cures
dieses. The girl...
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Cash Crop Make Money
514 words
The Virginians were better off than the Puritans
were, because they had tobacco for a cash crop,
they had a longer growing season, and they could
trade and sell to England easier than the Puritans
could. The Virginians were also more loosely
structured than the Puritans, and were allowed to
be individual people instead of one large mass.
Smith and Bradford's ways of leading their
colonies were similar, yet so very different.
Smith's main concern was to make money and be
famous. Bradford's concep...
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Southern Colonies William Penn
1,669 words
... have the liberty to conduct their own trade.
Also, people such as Edmund Andros restricted the
colonies. When he came from England he was set to
bring the colonies under effective royal control.
He abolished popular assemblies, changed land
grant systems and attempted to reinforce
Anglicanism. These actions that Andros took were
all restrictions of civil liberties. The Great
Awakening and The Enlightenment both brought
greater knowledge to the colonists. This knowledge
lead them to believe a...
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Eye For An Eye Tooth For A Tooth
1,557 words
Death Penalty According to the most recent figures
assembled by Amnesty International, more than half
the countries in the world no longer use the death
penalty. The international human rights
organization, which opposes the death penalty,
regularly gathers and publishes data on its status
and use throughout the world. In February 1999,
the division between abolitionist and retention
ist countries was as follows: 67 countries and
territories have abolished the death penalty for
all crimes; 14 co...
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War For Independence War Of Independence
1,678 words
How Literature, Specifically That of Jose Marti,
Sparked a Revolution in Cuba in the 1800 's The
last Spanish colony in the Americas, Cuba launched
a second war for independence in 1895, more than
half a century after the establishment of
independent republics in the rest of Spanish
America. However, the intellectual war against
Spanish domination began earlier, before the first
failed revolution of 1868 - 78. In particular,
many nineteenth-century Cuban intellectuals,
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Make A Decision Colonial America
817 words
September 22, 1642 Dear Madam Aires, I appreciate
your interest in taking up residence in colonial
America. As a favorite client of mine, I m sure
the information we provide at Boats R Us Travel
Agency will be very helpful to you. The
information which I have included such as the
domestic life, advice on being successful, things
to avoid, politics, and trades will be vital for
you to make a decision of settling in colonial
America. Although Massachusetts is a great place
to settle, I feel Virgin...
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Indentured Servants Seventeenth Century
1,455 words
Essa Although New England and the Chesapeake
regions were settled largely by people of English
origin, by 1700 the regions had evolved into two
distinct societies. I have described both
societies in an attempt to demonstrate their
developments. Virginia Colony In 1607 a group of
merchants established England? s first permanent
colony in North America at Jamestown, Virginia.
They operated as a joint-stock company that
allowed them to sell shares of stock in their
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Spheres Of Influence Won The War
885 words
Africa and Asia Imperialism Imperialism is
political, social or economical one country that
rules an alien country. During the 1800 s,
European Countries and the United States started
imperialism in Asia and Africa. In 1841, Dr.
Livingston started exploring the African Interior,
which produced promising information of the land
and rivers. Explorations of gold and diamonds in
Africa by Rhodes spurred excitement in the Western
Countries. Two European nations had already had
colonies in East Asia i...
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Cape Cod Lawrence River
2,474 words
INDIAN EUROPEAN CONFLICT IN THE NEW WORLD Since
1492 to late into the 17 th the century there was
perpetual struggle between the power hungry
Europeans and the natives in the New World. Pitted
against each other, the Dutch, English, French,
Spaniards, and Indians struggled to maintain
control of what they viewed as rightfully theirs.
The English, were struggling to settle on the
eastern coast and had no use and respect for the
Indians or their land and way of life. At first
maintaining a tentati...
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John Smith American History
863 words
John Smith has proved himself to be an inspiring
leader and a skilled explorer who played a
significant role in American history. His many
accomplishments included helping found the
original colony of Jamestown, saving it from a
starving time, leading various expeditions of
exploration, and courageously escaping from the
Indians. John Smith had the qualities of a great
leader, and all of his men seemed to think highly
of him. Smith always recognized good qualities of
his companions, and often co...
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King Leopold Slave Labor
2,109 words
King Leopold's Ghost tells a story of the Belgian
King Leopold II and his misrule of an African
colony, named (at the time) the Congo Free State.
It is a wild and unpleasant story of a mans
capacity for evil and the peculiar manifestation
of it. In telling this story, Hochschild does a
wonderful job of giving detailed descriptions,
especially of the colorful individuals involved,
both good and bad. His analysis of the situation
is very solid, starting with the movement when the
Congolese hero (M...
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19 Th Century Sq Mi
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Malta is an independent republic in the
Commonwealth of Nations, consisting of a small
group of islands Malta, Gozo, Kemmuna, Kemmunett,
and Filfla located in the Mediterranean Sea south
of Sicily. The area of the largest island, Malta,
is 95 sq mi; of Gozo, 26 sq mi; and of Kemmuna, 1
sq mi. The combined area of Kemmunett and Filfla
is 0. 12 sq mi. The total area is 122 sq mi. The
capital and leading port of the country is
Valletta (population, 1997 estimate, 7, 172). The
population of Malta (2...
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1 St Edition Nineteenth Century
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Singapore. Even saying the word and some of the
uninformed may still hold the belief that it is
located somewhere in China, knowing only where it
is approximately. Yet this vibrant, newly
industrialized city-state is in fact located close
to the equator and is often overlooked on the
world map; not surprising, considering it is only
represented by a small dot in the South China Sea.
Today, the island of Singapore has earned high
acclaim for its rapid transformation from a humble
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Bark Beetles Sponge Molds Beetles Sponge Molds Buy
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Andrew Moss (The buy-buy is a great louse that
sucks. Repeat. Start. Repeat. Start. ) Ruth Stones
career has been recently celebrated in a volume of
essays edited by Wendy Barker and Sandra M.
Gilbert. The volume, excerpted on MAPS, lauds her
poetry via reader response, feminist politics, and
the unwinding of the tragic and comic entwined in
her poems. Without too much more (deserved, I say)
unrestrained appreciation, Id like to look at the
ways From the Arboretum is worth repeating, and at
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