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    but it wasn’t always that way. In Colonial America‚ a woman’s role was governed by men; it was not acceptable for women to have any interests outside of the home. Their life was focussed on the traditional roles of running the home and raising the children. Men not only

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    A "T-chart" helps you see two ideas side by side. Gender roles are the kinds of jobs and responsibilities that society expects women and men to do. Filling in the T-chart will help you think about how gender roles have changed since the days of colonial America. On one side of the chart‚ list at least four different jobs that women did in the past. On the other side‚ list some jobs they do now. This section is worth eight points. Typical Women’s Roles Early America: House wife‚ Cook‚ Cleaner

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    The colonial times were a very important part of American history. There were many factors that influenced life in the colonies. Some of the most important factors were slavery‚ leisure‚ and family. These factors influenced life in the colonies greatly. There were many slaves in the colonies. Slavery started in Virginia‚ and came from West Africa‚ by slaves going on the Middle Passage. Slavery in the colonies began in Virginia with tobacco planters. From Virginia‚ it spread north and south. African

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    Little Commonwealth describes the everyday life of family in the Plymouth Colony. The author John Demos’ describes in great detail the everyday life of the people in the colony. In his book he writes of family values‚ virtues and roles in the colonial life. He very specifically describes each aspect of life from the houses they lived in the coming of age and later years. It gives you a much better understanding of how the people lived in colonial times. The book’s thesis reflects

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    Women in Colonial Mexico “Subordinate Women” In “Women in Colonial Mexico” Julia Tuñón Pablos analyzes the life of women in colonial Mexico after the Spanish conquest. She specifically analyzes how the Spanish conquest impacted the Spaniard‚ African and Indigenous Mexican women and their loss of power and authority. Pablos compares the Spanish and Indigenous society and proposes the question: “which tradition was more patriarchal? In other words: did women win or lose power and authority with

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    colonies usually become apprentice(Life in the Middle Colonies.). Boy were usually apprentices for shoemakers and printers while the girls were usually learned how to spin and weave thread. At home boys helped plant while girls sewed‚ did house cooking‚ and cleaning(Life in the Middle Colonies.). B. Just like the New England colony the middle colony economy was different from the others. “The Middle Colonies were the big food producing

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    Economic‚ social and political aspects of British colonial life in North‚ America‚ New England‚ Middle colonies and Southern colonies were all different. Each place had their own way of living all depending on the geography‚ government and resources. They all had something in common and something that unite them. Democracy started growing in North America where pilgrims expresses the idea of government. People continued to come to North America to own their own land. Many of them came as indentured

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    One of her most dramatic and radical assertions was to question the role of women as purely domestic beings. The idea that women were intellectually inferior‚ therefor they performed the least stimulating (though in no way easier) duties of colonial life was an idea she utterly rejected. She argued the opposite-that no one can reasonably expect a woman‚ who is continually forced to perform the same mundane tasks day after day to have the same intellectual vigor as an even slightly educated man. “Is

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    Youth is not a Time of Life - it is a State of Mind. It is the temperamental Predominance of courage over timidity. The youth of today are not alien to anyone of us. According to some‚ the way our youth are faring directly classifies them as a serious problem of society. But I would like to ask these people‚that how can modern youth be a problem of society when the same youth is very much a part of society? Something which coexists and relates to our social order is to be called part of the

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