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    ●Essential Question: ○How did different values lead to different American subcultures in the Chesapeake‚ Southern‚ New England‚ & Middle colonies? ●Warm-Up Question: ○Based upon the documents provided‚ what are some key differences between the Virginia & New England colonies? Four Colonial Subcultures ●The different values of the migrants dictated the “personality” of the newly created colonies; led to distinct (not unified) colonies ○ The Chesapeake ○ New England ○ Middle Colonies ○ The Lower South

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    Week Thirteen: Postindustrial Society and the end of the Cold War Order‚ 1965-1989 Hunt‚ 987-1027 1. How did the scientific advances from the 1950s and 1960s challenge established patterns of thought and social behavior? -Technological advances during the 1950s and 1960s accelerated scientific productivity and discovery‚ enlightening a variety of information organization and access problems. The most visible of these is the commonness of scientists directly involved in the

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    The movie ‘Ocean’s Thirteen’ is a good resource for the organizational behaviors analysis. And I will focus on the ‘Teams’‚ ‘Leadership’ and ‘Personality’ to analysis some facts in this movie. First I will focus on the teams of Ocean’s thirteen. The team is a highly organized and efficient team. I think they perform all 3 kinds of typical tasks which include production tasks‚ decision-making tasks and creativity tasks. And the team is comprehensive interdependence as all its members’ work will affect

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    Writing Your Own Declaration of Independence The Founding Fathers risked their lives and the lives of their families to make a statement to the empire of Great Britain and the rest of the world. The document they created would have been viewed as treason by the British government‚ and had they failed in their great plight for independence they would likely have lost everything‚ including their lives. Your task is to write your own Declaration of Independence. You must follow the guidelines

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    Not to Be Dispirited In many ways it appears that the Constitution of the United States was meant to abnegate the spirit of the Declaration of Independence. However‚ if one follows the history of our nation’s founding from the first colony to the ratification of the Constitution it is possible to see that the new form of government prescribed therein serves to protect the human rights that were proclaimed as the rights of all men in the Declaration. Recognizing permits a view of the Constitution

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    In 1776‚ the colonies came together in the First Continental Congress‚ to write the Declaration of Independence. The colonies decided to write the Declaration to formally separate and gain independence from Great Britain. They no longer wanted to be controlled by the British. They wanted to declare freedom from all foreign nations‚ and develop their own government. The Declaration of Independence is written out of the want and longing of the colonists to separate from Great Britain. In the first

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    The thirteen colonies struggled for independence in North America. The British made unfair laws without the colonies say in the laws. The colonies had to fight for their freedom. The British treated the colonists very poorly. For example‚ the British soldiers were involved in a shooting into a crowd. They claim that Captain Preston yelled “FIRE” meaning to shoot their guns at the colonists‚ but it turned out to be the colonists yelling “FIRE” because a bell rang that signaled a fire. Five colonists

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    Independence Day What is an Independence Day? Independence Day‚ observed annually on 15 August in India commemorating the nation’s independence from Kingdom of Great Britain on 15 August 1947. India attained independence following an independence movement noted for largely nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience led by the Indian National Congress (INC). Independence coincided with the partition of India‚ in which the British Indian Empire was divided along religious lines into the Dominions of India and Pakistan;

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    The Declaration of Independence is probably the most important document in American History. The Declaration showed all the terrible things that the king had done to the colonists and all the reasons why the United States of America had to become its own country. Great Britain had been violating the rights of the colonists by imposing taxes‚ not allowing them to represent themselves in parliament‚ not allowing them to pass laws‚ and many more things. All the colonists wanted to do was to live peacefully

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    Molad Tamar Baskind 11/13/12 Word Count: 882 Paper 4 Achieving Financial Independence As the Fourth of July should remind us all‚ independence is something worth fighting for. Independence means the ability to make your own decisions and live the way you choose to live. When it comes to financial independence‚ though‚ many people believe it is only a dream. There is no absolute definition for financial independence. The most common sense of the term is that someone has enough wealth to live

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