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    If I had to choose between opening gifts from someone or giving gifts to someone‚ I would choose the giving. I like to give gifts more than receive them. I find it very enriching to have my family and friends enjoy the present that I gave them. The best joy of having my family and friends receive gifts by me is the expressions on their faces when they open the gifts. The main reason why I like gift giving is because of the reactions of my family and friends. I put a lot of effort into finding the

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    it in our surrounding. More are jobless. Only few companies are generated every year as compared fast growth of our population making there would be the difficulty of finding a job. Our population is high if I am not mistaken it is already more than 80 million people. I would try to make it busy of my studies. Yes‚ we are full of assignments and research work. We have no leisure time. But‚ it is okay to me‚ I know it is my preparatory to a college. I am not contented of getting only

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    Religious holidays in Turkey There are two religious holidays or feasts‚ the first is Seker Bayrami (3 days) which comes immediately after 30 days of fasting in the Ramadan and the second is Kurban Bayrami (4 days) which follows 70 days after Seker Bayrami. In Turkish‚ Bayram is "feast" or "holiday"‚ seker is "sweets" and kurban is a "sacrifice". The dates of religious holidays come 10 days earlier each year because of the difference between the Lunar Year (354 days) and the Solar Year (365 days)

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    Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Brenchley History 1700 Davey Vakapuna History 1700 Mr. Brenchley Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27‚ 1858 in New York City. He is the son of Theodore Roosevelt Sr. and Martha (Mittie) Bulloch Roosevelt. He was tutored privately‚ he graduated from Harvard in 1880 and entered Law school that same year but did not complete his degree. He was Dutch reformed‚ though at various points he was affiliated with Episcopal congregations. Married Alice Hathaway

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    Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colonies The Reformation was the driving force behind English Catholic dissenters‚ many of which would eventually form the base of groups heading for new lands to find religious freedom. These people would come to be called Puritans and their goal was to purify the Church of England. They wanted to do away with the “offensive” features such as Church hierarchy and traditional rituals of Catholic worship in order to promote a relationship between the individual and

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    discovered in the sixteenth century‚ England began a campaign to colonize what is now the East coast of the United States. In 1607‚ John Smith arrived in the New World and began an English colony called Jamestown. A little more than ten years later‚ in 1620‚ William Bradford was the governor of Plymouth‚ another colony. You would be hard pressed to find another example in history where two very different men accomplished the same goal. One man was a veteran soldier and a daring adventurer‚ while the

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    main difference between the adventures of the Jamestown settlers and those of the pilgrims lies in the background of the settlers themselves. The settlers of Jamestown were gentleman who lacked labor skills and thought that they would find riches upon arrival. They did not know how to grow crops or hunt. The recorded accounts of John Smith clearly indicate that these men were not

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    Countless amount of people want a better life; More money‚ better environment and the place to get it done was at Jamestown. The Journey was hard such as: “Harsh winter‚ and no fresh water and diseases” (John Smith 72). People saw Jamestown as a place to make it big‚ by using the land it had to grow tobacco which was a cash crop at the time. However‚ these people obviously did look at survival before going there and even when the time came they still made the tobacco! Which was a terrible idea because

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    One of the many speculations of Townsend that I believed in is her theory that one of the possible reasons why Powhatan sent Pocahontas to Jamestown to try to secure Namontack’s release‚ an Indian who were held in captive by John Smith and his people‚ was because Pocahontas was probably the best translator available. Pocahontas was probably able to know the basics of the English’s language growing up since the English has been coming to their town way before she was born. She also learned more from

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    early years‚ Jamestown nearly failed due to the area in which the settlers chose to place their new settlement and the Virginia Company. Colonists set foot in North America in 1607‚ “the colonists established Jamestown on a site they chose mainly for its easy defense” (Hewitt‚ & Lawson‚ 2017‚ p. 46). The Englishmen were only looking out for their best interest in choosing a place that was easy to defend. These new colonists probably did not realize their mistake at first in placing Jamestown in this certain

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