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    Later Anti-Federalists formed the Democratic-Republican Party headed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. It was through the actions of the members of the Democratic-Republicans‚ through events including The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794‚ and the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798‚ that they were effective in decreasing the size of the federal government‚ ensuring individual rights to the people of the U.S. and stealing power away from the Federalist Party. It is James Madison who is most

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    England. Dearest Friend of England‚ 1776 I know it is hard to believe we (the colonists) would be on the verge of a revolution against our own homeland. My father has explained to me the reasons we deserve independence from God‚ the King‚ and the British people. There are many things going on in the colonies to lead us to our current thoughts. The British people have imposed many Acts upon us colonists. In the year 1767‚ British parliament passed Mr. Charles Townshend proposed taxations

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    a Virginian‚ but an American‚” declared Patrick Henry in 1775. Discuss what united the colonists and what divided them by mid-1770s.  What united the colonists in the 1770’s I think began with the fact that they were all getting started here in the “New World”. They had a chance to make something of themselves and start a new life‚ breaking away from the restraints of British government. Some of the colonists united based on the fact that they wanted their liberities‚ and did not want to have to

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    Everyday life in Colonial Virginia‚ much like society today‚ was shaped by social divisions. It’s influence was seen in almost every aspect of a person’s life: their home‚ their religion‚ their education‚ and their leisure time. Having a certain status was not enough for the gentry of this time‚ it was just as important that the wealthy were able to flaunt how much they had to give away. Events like going to church or going to a tavern were now key social outings that reinforced one’s place in

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    Virginia Woolf Loneliness

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    In Virginia Woolf’s essay A Room of One’s Own‚ Woolf states that Carmichael has gained an advantage that many women lacked: the ability to separate herself from the issues of gender‚ and to be able to write freely‚ instead of trying to fit the mold provided . There are so many aspects of the world that are designed to hinder people‚ in some way or another; if not gender‚ race‚ physical and mental abilities. When one becomes consumed into the expectations of their category‚ it can cause paranoia towards

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    The colonists of the thirteen colonies all struggled to survive and to thrive without the governing of England. They established their own governments ‚ formed their own cultures and religious practices and created entire thriving settlements all without the crowns influence. Then all of colonies feel back under royal control but that taste of independence was there ‚ all it would take would be the right sequence of events for the colonists to realize their desire for independence apart from their

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    the northern government.  The poor Quakers were flying from persecution in England.  They cast their eyes on these new countries as asylums of civil and religious freedom; but they found them free only for the reigning sect.  Several acts of the Virginia assembly of 1659‚ 1662‚ and 1693‚ had made it penal in parents to refuse to have their children baptized; had prohibited the unlawful assembling of Quakers; had made it penal for any master of a vessel to bring a Quaker into the state; had ordered

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    APGAR SCORES Professor Virginia Apgar (1909-1974) • American paediatric anaesthesiologist • Founder of neonatology field • Also founder of Apgar score (1952) ← “designed first standardized method for evaluating newborns transition to life outside the womb” ← Further related Apgar score to labour‚ delivery and anaesthetics ← Apgar score at 5 min can predict neonatal survival and neurological development • In 1949: she was the 1st woman at Columbia

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    The colonist and the Indians faced each other with many prejudices‚ many times leading to war. Most of their problems were due to the misunderstanding of cultural differences between the two people. Each side struggled with trust amongst one another making it easier to not to work with each other. The problems between the colonist and the Indians are exemplified in two different stories‚ “A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary” written by Mary Rowlandson and the film The Last

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    that represent constituents of a sentence. Then the functions of the major word classes will be described and a distinction will be drawn between content and structure words. The text being analysed is an extract from the novel To the Lighthouse‚ by Virginia Woolf. The text is therefore narrative. The literary technique used in this text is very rare‚ it is known as the stream-ofconsciousness. This suggests that most of it is written as an unbroken flow of perceptions‚ thoughts and feelings. What is

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