The girls of the American colonies were educated in order to grow and become fitting wives. After a woman’s homemaker education‚ she was ready for courtship. This took place at about 16 years of age. During this courtship‚ the woman did have full decision on which she was to marry. While it was ultimately up to her which man she would choose to spend her life with‚ her family did have some say. Before a man could date a girl‚ he would have to receive permission from her father. If he did not find
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MODULE 2: LANGUAGE AND COMMUNITY The West Indies coincides with the following territories of the Commonwealth Caribbean: Jamaica‚ Trinidad‚ Tobago‚ Guyana‚ Barbados‚ Grenada‚ St. Lucia‚ St. Vincent‚ Dominica‚ Antigua‚ St. Kitts‚ Nevis‚ Anguilla and Montserrat. (a) Differentiation between ‘language’ (generic) and ‘a language’ (individual). Language is an ability which every normal human being has and it allows him not only to communicate with other human beings but also with himself
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The practice of involuntary labor in Colonial America operated from the early 17th century to late 18th century. The two most popular forms of involuntary labor were indentured servitude and slavery. Often indentured servants are of European origin either carrying out their sentences or paying off their passages. The Experience of Bondage: Gottlieb Mittelberger’s account‚ 1754‚ was written by a German schoolmaster about his voyage to Philadelphia as an indentured servant. In his account‚ he describes
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United States police force had a rocky start. “Crime-particularly crimes like murder‚ robbery‚ rape‚ and burglary…was rare in the earliest colonies…this was largely due to the fact that they were settles by small and fairly homogeneous groups…”(Vila page 2). Not only did the police force have little to now power or structure in the early years‚ but also they were not needed in the colonies. The first city to create a police department was the New York City in the 19th century. As more people migrated
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Shifting Economies The criminal justice system in America exists on a continuum in which theories‚ practices‚ and built form don’t necessarily come to an end‚ but rather still exist in modified versions. If we treat the criminal justice cycle as a continuum‚ then we must also treat its major informing component—the economy—as a continuum. America’s shifting economies provide not a clear-cut‚ start-stop timeline‚ but rather a contiguous sequence punctuated by the introductions of new economies whereby
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During colonial times immigrants from Europe discovered more opportunities in the Northern colonies‚ making immigrant labor less available in the South. As the amount of workers decreased‚ the southern colonies needed a new source of labor to work in the vast fields of the plantations. The large sugarcane and tobacco plantations required more labor than any other place in the Americas. About half of the slaves exported to the colonies went to the sugar plantations. The profits on sugar were high
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due to the participating countries’ motives‚ the determination of the colonists‚ and the religious tensions amongst colonies. An ideal way to understand why the countries did what they did is to analyze their motive. The main objective here was to find an alternate passageway to China and the eastern trade markets. Obviously‚ that is not what they found‚ so hence sparked an interest in the Americas as a replacement of capital. A stock company in England called the Virginia Company was created
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User | Allis Faye Luster | Course | World Cultures II | Test | Week 3 Quiz | Started | 7/17/13 9:53 PM | Submitted | 7/18/13 1:32 AM | Status | Completed | Attempt Score | 72 out of 80 points | Time Elapsed | 3 hours‚ 39 minutes out of 4 hours and 30 minutes. | Instructions | | Question 1 2 out of 2 points | Why did Gabrieli organize his compositions around a single note-the tonic note? Answer
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The colonial period in American history is often described as a stricter period of times‚ especially on things they were not accustomed to. It was a time where men were widely in charge and reason or religion dominated most people’s views. In this unit we talked about a lot of people who have shaped the writing of the past and also we have discussed many of the views of the past as well. Views such as the Puritans‚ who valued religion over all‚ and were willing to give up everything and sacrifice
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How and why did America become a slaveholding nation? Although it was not a planned system‚ it was‚ unfortunately what we ended up with. Colonial America became a slaveholding society by gradual changes in the laws to gain a stable supply of labor. When the word slavery is brought up‚ most people today would think of African Americans working and struggling under the control of a white man. However‚ this was not always entirely true. Slave labor was an American institution. It wasn’t only
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