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    Journey to the West

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    Journey to the West‚ Pilgrim and the woodcutter seem to be similar where they both feel that they have a purpose in life. However‚ their situations are different from one another. For instance‚ Pilgrim tries to better himself by seeking the immortals‚ as well as‚ gaining eternal youth. He is full of passion‚ desire‚ and excitement‚ which has lead him to have no worrisome thoughts. He has nothing holding him back from the tasks that he wishes to accomplish. Unlike the Pilgrim‚ the woodcutter continuously

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    Spiritual Baptist Mourning

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    spiritual travels‚ and refraining one’s self of the freedom to move about‚ to speak‚ to eat‚ drink‚ bathe or any other comforts‚ and the acceptance of the naked earth for a bed‚ and a stone for pillow (Peza‚ 1999‚ 73). During the mourning period‚ the pilgrim receives spiritual instructions through visions and dreams. It lasts from Sunday to Sunday and usually takes place in a special mourner room on the church compound (Laitinen‚ 2002‚ 113). A Baptist may receive a vision to go down on the ground to

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    Julie Andrews

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    Pilgrims “The mythic origin of ‘the country we now know as the United States’ is at Plymouth Rock‚ and the year is 1620.” James W. Loewen stresses this origin as mythic due to the fact that for thousands of years humans had inhabited the land now known as America. Loewen goes on to describe the horrors the native peoples of America went through due to the diseases and other such terrible things the white “settlers” brought to the “New World.” However‚ it is barely mentioned in Loewen’s book‚ The

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    two groups were apprehensive to meet each other. When they first truly met‚ they made agreements with each other. One group of natives‚ the Wampanoags‚ had a strong bond with the settlers. The group effectively saved the pilgrims from starvation and other hostile tribes. The Pilgrims and the Wampanoags had a strong bond and even aided each other against hostile natives. As more puritans migrated to the new world‚ more and more natives were being pushed out from there home land. When Massasoit and his

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    cod. When the pilgrims have landed many of them were amazed by how the forest were so easily domesticated with wide paths that‚” the forest could be penetrated even by a large army”. The pilgrims were in fact the not the first to settle here in this indian village‚ other Europeans such as John Smith who was there a few years earlier around 1614‚ which went by the name of Patuxet. Patuxet was home of the Patuxet tribe. Most of the native americans were killed prior to the pilgrims arriving due to

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    to turn back. However the Pilgrim passengers and sailors work together to repair the timber and continue with their voyage. The passengers consisted of a mix of 102 sailors and Pilgrims. The Pilgrims were considered religious fanatics in England and had to relocate to Leiden Holland. In Leiden they develop their plan to create a new pure Pilgrim settlement in the New World. 2. The Pilgrims reach land with tall sand cliffs easily recognizable as Cape Cod. The pilgrims sail south hoping to find somewhere

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    Technology‚ the pilgrimage center ’s management has been able to dramatically change the pilgrims waiting experience. The pilgrimage location under study is Tirumala located in Andhra Pradesh state in India. The number of visitors to this important location has been steadily increasing over time. As of 2011‚ the location attracted approximately 30 to 40 million visitors a year. The primary objective of a pilgrim visiting Tirumala is to have darshan of the principle deity in the temple. The secondary

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    the teaching process. The first graders have been learning about Pilgrims. Mrs. Levan wanted her class to create their own Pilgrim. The students painted a circle plate‚ the color of their skin‚ for the head of their Pilgrim. Once the students had their circles painted‚ then they drew a face and their hair. Mrs. Levan explained to the girls to draw their hair short because Pilgrim girls wore their hair up. In order to create the Pilgrim hats‚ Mrs. Levan had me cut different colored construction paper

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    when people from England fled their country to escape religious persecution. The pilgrims new that they had to cross the ocean because of stories they heard about explorers finding a whole land only occupied by tribes. More than 100 pilgrims traveled the long treacherous journey on the ship named “The Mayflower.” There were many storms‚ and the travel took months‚ but they finally made it to the new world. The pilgrims landed in “Cape Cod” where it was a good place to start their first settlement‚

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    The First Thanksgiving

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    entirely true. An interesting guy Larsen was. His ancestors witnessed the first official Thanksgiving and what emphasizes this is that his ancestors originated from both the pilgrims and the Indians. It’s a challenge to know a wide spread of knowledge and having to choose the important information to share. It was 1620 when the Pilgrims had decided to venture for unfound land and cross the Atlantic Ocean. They drifted through the seas and stumbled on the rocky shores of a land that they hadn’t know had

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