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    roles in the colonies were strictly defined‚ but the definitions varied from place to place. Colonial education varied greatly depending on geography‚ gender‚ and social class. School subjects included reading‚ writing‚ and math. New England Colonies On farms in New England‚ women were usually working in the home and rarely worked in the fields. Trade was usually a task the men completed. Although these were the norms in many colonial regions‚ there were some areas that women held the same roles as

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    are several literary criticisms used to breakdown works. New Historicism has been informed through different kinds of criticism‚ including psychoanalytic criticism‚ feminist criticism‚ and especially deconstruction. This allows self identifying new historicists to be seen as feminist‚ Marxist‚ or deconstructionist. New Historicism is a literary criticism that allows us to connect events that occur in different time periods and locations. New Historicism in not necessarily a theory that was made up

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    Ethan Heron Storyteller Summary The story starts out with a girl in a jail cell. The reason she is in jail is unknown. She is looking out of the window and sees that the sun has stopped and doesn?t move anymore. She calls the jailer excitedly. He listens to her‚ then walks away uninterested. The girl begins to have random thoughts from her past. She thinks of her village and her cabin in her village. Also‚ she thinks about the last summer when she put red tin over the logs of the cabin. She thinks

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    There are many differences between New England and the Chesapeake. This was because there were a lot of culture differences between the two. Whether it was coming to america to search for gold like the chesapeake or escaping religious injustice like new England. The chesapeake’s hot and humid climate tended to drive people away so they came to New England for dry and mild weather. Farming was a huge part of the Chesapeake’s economy unlike the New England people who had a very diverse economy even

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    century English settlers began moving to the New World in search of a new‚ prosperous life. There were two main areas in America that the English settled in‚ New England and the Chesapeake region. These settlers voyaged to America for either religious freedom or to start a new life. Religion seekers came to the New World to escape the oppression of the Catholic Church. Others came in search of a job‚ or because of their low social class. The New England and the Chesapeake regions became two distinct

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    immigrated to different lands where their new lifestyles had very little in common. This was obvious in the settlement of the New England and Chesapeake colonies before 1700 which caused the development of dissimilar societies. The people of New England and the Chesapeake colonies formed different governments upon arrival to North America. They had different motives and incentives for immigrating to America. The composition of the colonists of New England and the Chesapeake area were nothing like

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    George Sotereanos DBQ 09/15/06 Unit 1 The Distinct Differences of New England and Chesapeake By the year 1700‚ the New England and the Chesapeake regions were both settled largely by people of English origin‚ although the regions had evolved in two distinct societies. The people who made the epic voyage to the new world came here for many different reasons. They wanted to lead the lives they wanted. Some were poor and needed money and saw America as a place to strike it rich. Others did not

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    New England was settled by English Puritans‚ mostly Congregationalists‚ in the 1620s. It was held together by its common religion‚ which gave the region stability in its early years. Contrastingly‚ the mid-Atlantic colonies were made up of a variety of different religious groups‚ including Lutherans‚ Catholics‚ Jews‚ Congregationalists‚ and Quakers in Pennsylvania. During the Great Awakening of the 1730s‚ the influence of older forms of Protestantism‚ especially Calvinism‚ increased dramatically

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    from England in seek of religious freedom. They settled in New England and a majority of their population lived in Massachusetts Bay. In contrast to other English colonists‚ they came to North America to create a pure Christian society that emphasized the community and family aspects of life. Most other colonists‚ such as the ones living in the Chesapeake region‚ came to the New World in search of economic gain. In 1630 to the 1660’s‚ Puritan values and ideas had a considerable impact in New England

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    Chesapeake and New England colonies Comparison During the early 16th century and into the early 17th century‚ European colonies rapidly colonized the newly found Americas. England in particular sent large groups to the east coast of North America to two separate regions‚ which would later become known as the Chesapeake and New England areas. The Chesapeake region included Maryland‚ Virginia‚ Pennsylvania‚ and the New Jerseys. The New England region of the colonies included Rhode Island‚ Plymouth

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