carrier vessels would stock up in Canada and Jamaica and drop anchor three miles off the coast in international waters‚ this was called Rum Row. There were over one hundred distribution ships off the coast between Maine and Florida who would sell to any takers. Similar to moonshine the U.S. had to step there game up and beef up the coast guard to catch these rum runners. However the runner’s response to the coast guard was to build bigger and faster boats. Some of these vessels could carry up to
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A floating seat cushion [pic] ( A 7.5 liter can of oil / petroleum mixture [pic] ( A small transistor radio [pic] ( 186 square decimeters of Opaque plastic sheeting[pic] ( Shark repellent [pic] ( 1.1 liters of 160 per cent proof rum [pic] ( 4.5 meters of nylon rope [pic] ( 2 boxes of chocolate bars [pic] ( A fishing kit [pic] [pic]Also‚ you have salvaged a rubber life raft. In your team’s pants pockets there’s 1 package of cigarettes‚ 3 boxes of matches & 3 $20 bills
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Political life in the colonies Why did molasses matter? Molasses Act of 1733 Goal: the law which control the smugglers who made life much harder for British customs officials trying to enforce trade laws The reason why molasses are important: rum which was the most popular drink in the colonies. Function: the Molasses Act made the colonists furious. Consequence: smuggling became so widespread that tax revenues dropped Magna Carta (1215) First document to limit King’s power Mercantilism
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How does Hunter S. Thompson present the culture of Puerto Rico as well as American Culture in his book The Rum Diary? Hunter S. Thompson’s novel The Rum Diary tells the story of Paul Kemp‚ a journalist working in Puerto Rico in the only English language newspaper in town. The book mainly documents his experiences with the violent locals‚ and possibly even more violent and alcoholic colleagues‚ as well as painting a realistic picture of the Puerto Rico of the 1950’s. The excerpt begins
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a valued concept that has transcended through time and has been the subject of a great deal of literature. David Malouf’s appropriation of Homers epic The Iliad explores this notion of heroism through the characterization of King Priam‚ directly battling the contextual hero of the time‚ Achilles. Through descriptive language and stylistic conventions‚ Malouf showcases that it is the emotional and physical struggle that a man must face to ultimately attain glory‚ thus becoming a hero. This statement
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have many differences. These stories are the same because they talk about demon-possessed men. There are two demon-possessed men in Matthew‚ while in Mark and Luke it has one demon-possessed man. The settings are also very similar; the demon(s) come from the tomb to Jesus in Matthew and Mark‚ while in Luke the demon comes from the town to Jesus (it also states that the demon lives in the tomb). As the stories progress‚ the demons each ask Jesus‚ “what do you want with us‚ Son of God?” (Matthew). But
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Culture of Mauritius: I chose the culture of Mauritius because I saw a documentary about the isle some months ago and I was caught by the beautiful landscape as well as the amount of endemic plants and animals from the island. Mauritius is an island state in the southwest of the Indian Ocean near Madagascar. The capital city of the main isle is called Port Louis. The slogan of Mauritius is: “Stella clavisque Maris Indici”. This is Latin and can be translated as “star and key of the Indian Ocean”
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accused‚ sorceress Dorothy Good joined her mother Sarah in Ipswich jail‚ she was five years old. Massachusetts Bay colony was in the midst of another crisis that was playing out across the Atlantic Ocean‚ far from where the people of Salem were battling the devil. In a bloodless rebellion of 1689‚ the royal governor‚ a doddering and senile old man‚ was overthrown by the people. The leading theologian in the colony‚ Increase Mathers‚ journeyed to the court of St. James in London to press King James
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During the two hundred years between 1400 and 1600‚ Europe witnessed an astonishing revival of drawing‚ fine art painting‚ sculpture and architecture centred in Italy‚ where artists began to look back to the way in which Greek and Roman artists had worked. Not many classical paintings had survived‚ but there were descriptions from which artists tried to copy them. Those two centuries which we now refer to as the Renaissance (Rinascimento) was given this name (French for ’rebirth’) as a result of
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An Ethnographer ’s View of the Haitian Culture Haiti‚ a name that means "mountainous country‚" comes from the language of the Taino Indians who inhabited the island before European colonization. After independence in 1804‚ the name was taken by the military generals‚ many of them former slaves‚ who expelled the French and took possession of the colony then known as Saint Domingue. In 2000‚ 95 percent of the population was of African descent‚ and the remaining 5 percent mulatto and white. Some
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