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    Compare and contrast the New England‚ the Chesapeake/Southern and Middle colonies. The New England region consists of Massachusetts‚ New Hampshire‚ Connecticut‚ and Rhode Island. The Southern region consists of Virginia‚ North and South Carolina‚ Georgia‚ and Maryland. The Middle colonies consist of New York‚ New Jersey‚ Pennsyvlania‚ and Delaware. In the New England Family‚ the Puritans came in large family units‚ about 8-20 in each family. They had a long life span‚ the women aged up to 68 years

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    A New England Nun is a wonderful story about 2 people who fell in love with each other and became engaged 14 years ago. With the hopes of making money separating them for most of their engagement‚ Louisa and Joe decide to stay together with the hopes of eventually becoming married. As time went on the couple noticed that there was a lot of built up sexual frustration from being apart from each other and both had decided to deal with it in their own ways. Louisa used the power of sewing and gardening

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    Absolutism in Europe changed the role of nobility completely in every country. For example‚ in France‚ nobles lost a lot of their power due to Louis XIV and his predecessors; also‚ in Eastern Europe‚ rulers such as Frederick William of Prussia changed the status of the nobility with his polices. In France‚ starting with Henry IV‚ the status of nobility started to fall when Henry started the idea of "nobles of the robe" in which middle class citizens could buy nobility from the king.

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    New Century Case Analysis 1. What appeared to be New Century’s strategic objectives? Describe and evaluate the business model the company had adopted to achieve these objectives. New Century Financial Corporation was founded in 1995 went public in 1996 and was also listed on NASDAQ. New Century’s primary goal was to originate and sell subprime mortgages. The main activities of the company included generating‚ retaining‚ selling‚ and servicing home mortgage loans for subprime borrowers who

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    throughout seventeenth century Europe. It stemmed from earlier centuries and carried the belief that witches were associated with evil and had made a pact with the devil and agreed to worship him. They were thought to have the power to harm humans‚ plants‚ crops‚ and animals. However‚ to offer misogyny as a leading explanation for witchcraft accusations would not be completely accurate. Although misogyny was affiliated with a minority of witchcraft accusations against women‚ that is not to say that

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    of the 17th century motivated more by the pursuit of wealth or faith in their struggle to create a new society in the American colonies? The English colonists of the 17th century came to the American colonies for many different reasons. The one that motivated them the most was their pursuit of wealth because‚ despite the early colonists saying that it was their mission as children of God to go to the new world and spread Christianity to more people‚ the whole idea of going to the new world

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    Status in 19th Century England PART 1: 1792-1840s Introduction: Women’s Status in early 19th century ALTHOUGH feminist ideas have circulated in Britain for over 3 centuries‚ an organised woman‟s movement did not emerge until the mid-19th century. How can we explain this? As we have seen‚ Wollstonecraft‟s 1792 Vindication was an endeavour to apply the liberating ideals of the French Revolution to the position of women in Europe‚ a call to arms to change the subordinate position of women in society. But

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    SOCIETY IN 16TH AND 17TH CENTURIES SOCIETY IN 16TH AND 17TH CENTURIES Page 1 1   FOOD AND  ENTERTAINMENT  Britain Food and Entertainment in 16th and 17th Centuries for rich and poor people Page 3    TRANSPORT  TRANSPORT in 16th and Page 5  17th Centuries   THE  THEATER  Page 6 HEALTH ISSUE AND MEDICINE  Page 7 EDUCATION Page 9  Conclusion Page 8 CLOTHES Page 10 1 SOCIETY IN 16TH AND 17TH CENTURIES In 16th century England most of the population lived In  the  17th  century the population

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    acceptance of or belief in absolute principles in political and other matters. During the 17th and 18th centuries‚ monarchs and rulers sought to increase their power within their own states and internationally by adding to their territories and populations. In the 17th century some European states considered to be great powers are France‚ Austria‚ Spain‚ Netherlands‚ and Sweden. Great powers in the 18th century were Great Britain‚ France‚ Austria‚ Prussia‚ and Russia. King James says “Kings are justly

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    Portrayal of women in the middle ages: By the Middle Ages‚ it was commonly accepted that Eve was principally to blame for the disobedience that led to the fall of humanity. Greek ideas had replaced Jewish in Christian thinking‚ including the notion that the soul was good but the body evil. Heretical though this might have been‚ it didn’t stop sexuality being regarded as somehow evil. One of the few recorded medieval women writers‚ the mystic Margery Kempe‚ aspired to celibacy even within marriage

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