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    Early Jamestown: Why Did so Many Colonists Die? Jamestown is most well known for being the oldest permanent English colony in America. Even though it was a thriving colony‚ it was not always this way. The Jamestown colony was extremely unsuccessful for several reasons‚ including their ignorance about colonization‚ lack of essential survival skills‚ and its constantly decaying relationship with the Natives. Jamestown was the first permanent colony set up by the British‚ so‚ as imagined‚ they

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    I was at "Blood River" in Nairobi. My major problem is complaining about small stuff that happen to me now and then. I never had any patience‚ especially when it came to education. My dream was to get everything that I needed without issue. Nuur‚ my closest friend‚ always gave me guidance whenever he saw me getting out of line. He tried to solve other people’s problems before his own. He often took advantage of every opportunity that appear in his life. There was a day he gave me some great advice

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    poetry. Controversy surrounds the interpretation of these and other artifactual evidence‚ and thus how women were viewed. For instance‚ many of the Greek vases depicting women show them handing warriors their helmets as they prepare for battle‚ and so some scholars point to the passive role of women. Reading the plays of the classical playwrights give us evidence of women as strong‚ central characters in Greek tragedies and epics.

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    Negative Effects of War In “How to Tell a True War Story‚” Tim O’Brien presents many themes within his story. One major theme is the negative effects of war on a soldier. Many situations arise in the story that bring out the theme to make it easy to understand for the reader. The effects of war can be very harmful to a soldier’s life‚ and he or she can be scarred forever. When Bob Kiley’s friend‚ Curt Lemon‚ dies at the beginning of the story‚ Kiley takes the time to write Lemon’s sister. He

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    variety of reasons from his good looks to the way he speaks. Reagan lives up to the appraise by considered as one of the most influential presidents in America’s history‚ but how did he get so popular? What might have made him more relatable to the American masses is that in his childhood‚ he grew up in the “normal” American life. He didn’t grow up in wealthy circumstances‚ his father was a shoe salesman‚ whenever he wasn’t drinking. Reagan was able to repress all of the bad from his childhood and focus

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    would be to go from being dirt poor to very rich in life? Gatsby grew up a poor man and his parents died giving him lots of money. He then set goals to make more money. Doing so made him lots more money which made him a goal oriented person. Jay Gatsby from The Great Gatsby does deserve his title. The main reason Gatsby deserves his title is because he is very goal oriented. For over a year he had been beating his way along the south shore of Lake Superior as a calm-digger and a salmon-fisher or in

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    The lowest point is the Andaman Sea (0 m) and the highest point Hkakabo Razi (5‚881 m). Top Climate Myanmar has three main seasons‚ hot season‚ rainy season and cold season. Hot season is from March to May‚ rainy season is from June to October and cold season is from November to February. The tropical monsoon is usually cloudy‚ rainy‚ hot‚ humid summers and less cloudy‚ scant rainfall‚ mild temperatures‚ lower humidity during winter. Natural resources Myanmar is rich in natural resources

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    Do you know why “New School” become so popular in the late 1980s? Hip-hop starts at the 1970s‚ the beginning of hip-hop is starting by DJ Kool Herc. All of the early artists of hip-hop‚ deejays or MCs‚ were named ’Old School’. ’New School’ was a given name to separate the different style of hip-hop depends on when does it born and what was added. New school rap came out and became popular because the new technology of drum machine came out‚ the new generation of musicians‚ and a new type of image

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    One of the methods that Napoleon used to create his empire was his conquest of many territories‚ and then parceling out conquered lands to his family. Napoleon’s older brother‚ Joseph‚ ruled the kingdom Naples which had just been established‚ but then left Naples to take over as king of Spain; Louis (younger brother)‚ was proclaimed king of Holland; Caroline (sister) and her husband‚ General Joachim Murat‚ were made queen and king of Naples; Eugene de Beauharnais (twenty-three-year-old stepson) was

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    all people. Why is this? Why do people read the poems and plays even if they can’t understand them? We all get confused sometimes‚ but William Shakespeare didn’t write his plays just for fun. He wrote them for a reason. So what are those reasons? Why does he not leave a key on the inside of the book to what the words really mean? Maybe we are thinking too hard; however‚ we don’t know if we are thinking hard enough either. Shakespeare had many different themes to his plays and poems. So why do we still

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