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    Scouts of America Introduction: A. Did you know that Boy Scouts of America has over 2.7 million youth members and over 1 million adult volunteers who participated in service projects adding up to 13‚449‚017 service hours in 2012? B. That being said‚ my goal for today is to inform you on what the Boy Scouts of America do as well as some of the benefits that the community receives from youth scouts. My name is ______ _____ and today I am going to be talking about the Boy Scouts of America C

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    Enlightenment period effect on the future of Latin America Two political revolutions arose from the Enlightenment philosophy: the French Revolution and the American Revolution. The motto of the French Revolution‚ “liberté‚ egalité‚ fraternité‚” captures of the ideas they were fighting for: liberty‚ equality‚ and rights.1 News of this overthrowing of the government reached many places‚ one of those being Latin America. During the colonial period‚ a great social gap developed between the peninsulares

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    Native Americans had the earliest experiences with textile-making in North America. Dating back to the 1600’s‚ they showed the English settlers how to make fishing nets using a process of cord wrapping. Over time‚ the Native Americans grew to depend on European trade materials or imports. By 1640‚ the production of handmade textiles‚ such as woven‚ knitted‚ and embroidered material began. In these early American times‚ Colonial textiles made an appearance as well. Colonial Americans traditionally

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    Thematic Learning Objectives (Focus of Exam Questions) MIG 1.0- Explain the causes of migration to colonial North America and‚ later the United States‚ and analyze immigration’s effect on US society. WOR 1.0- Explain how cultural interaction‚ cooperation‚ competition‚ and conflict between empires‚ nations‚ and peoples have influenced political‚ economic‚ and social developments in North America Key Concept 2.1: Europeans developed a variety of colonization and migration patterns‚ influenced by different

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    In Colonial America the level of opportunity available for each resident depended upon how much money they had‚ where they live‚ and what position they held in the social hierarchy. In this time as well as in today’s society money rules over everything. Colonists leave their homelands not only to gain religious freedom‚ but to free themselves from the poverty they live in everyday in Britain. Colonial America offered an opportunity to start fresh. In Colonial America the more money you had the

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    two different cultures view and carry out gender‚ specifically related to how their culture previously developed ideas of gender. In order to look specifically at how gender roles are a creation of culture I will contrast women’s soccer in North America versus Europe‚ and how the roles of females are created differently within each culture. This framework allows me to divulge into the much deeper issues of what influences gender practice‚ how it is performed and how ideas of gender are culturally

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    River Systems The Amazon is the longest river in the South America. It originates in the Peruvian Andes‚ and flows approximately 6‚ 450km (4‚ 000 miles) to its mouth in the Atlantic Ocean. It is the world’s second longest river. No other river approaches its volume of flow‚ which exceeds that of the world’s 10 next largest rivers‚ combined. Another large river system in South America is that of Parana‚ Paraguay and Uruguay rivers‚ the waters from which empty into the Plata estuary. The Parana

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    Bank of America Corp.: Fortune 500 Company Cristina Robinson Florida State College at Jacksonville Organization Brief History Bank of America Corp.‚ also known as Bank of America‚ has a history that dates all the way back to July 5th‚ 1784! Before the corporation was found by Amadeo Peter Giannini or known as Bank of America the company had taken quite a journey to be at today’s successful status. The BofA predates five years before America’s first president was inaugurated but at the time

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    John Murrin is currently a history teacher who specializes in the field of Colonial American History‚ Revolutionary America‚ War and Society in the Modern World. He wrote an article ​ entitled “Beneficiaries of Catastrophe: The English Colonies in America.” ​In this article Murrin reveals his belief that “losers far outnumber winners”. American history is a history of struggle and in the midst there have been more losers than winners. ​ What Murrin tries to demonstrate is that ​ the founding of our

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    Insights on De Tocqueville’s Democracy In America It has been said that a French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville‚ who visited the United States in the 1830’s‚ "understood us" in a way that few observers (foreign and domestic) have. Furthermore‚ Tocqueville’s Democracy in America is often cited by present-day critics because so many of the observations in it seem extraordinarily suitable even more than one hundred and fifty years later. Alexis de Tocqueville was born 1805 into a minor noble

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