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    based in a Puritan society. If you look at how people live today and their actions in their everyday life and compare it to how Puritans or the Amish live‚ I believe that some people would be in shock that there are people who live like they do. And these people who live unlike us don’t think that their way of living is strange or weird. In a Puritan society the Bible provided the way of living and the people living in the community wanted to be a city on the hill. The Amish and the Puritans are two

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    mass of English people journeyed to New England as well as the Chesapeake Region. Those who settled in New England were looking for a permanent settlement‚ where they could practice religion freely. However‚ those who travelled to the Chesapeake Region had a different idea for what they could do in this new land. Settlers in the Chesapeake Region had migrated in order to find land and gold. Additionally‚ those who settled in the Chesapeake Region did not plan to stay‚ yet this does change over time

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    Despite New England and Chesapeake regions both having similar English settlers‚ these two colonial areas developed vastly unique identities because of politics‚ economics‚ and the reasons for settling.The Chesapeake region includes the colonies of Virginia and Maryland where the New England colonies were New Hampshire‚ Massachusetts Bay Colony‚ Rhode Island‚ and Connecticut. One of the main differences between the two regions was the reasonings behind the settlements which was the causation of

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    Many different species of SAV are found throughout estuarine waters worldwide and there are seventeen species of SAV that are commonly found throughout the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries (VIMS 2010). SAV is found throughout the Chesapeake Bay. Importance of SAV SAV is very important in helping maintain the health of the Chesapeake Bay’s ecosystem since it provides food for many species

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    Church. Socially‚ the Puritans differed from the Anglicans’ orthodox beliefs of alcohol consumption and paganrelated practices; religiously‚ the Puritans called for change in the structure and abolishment of certain traditions in the Anglican Church; ideologically‚ the Puritans demonstrated their unique way of thinking with their idea of their “City on a Hill;” therefore‚ the Puritans professed change‚ rather than following the orthodox beliefs of the Church of England. The Puritans inspired social change

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    According to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary‚ a Puritan is a member of a Protestant group in England and New England in the 16th and 17th centuries that opposed many customs of the Church of England. These Puritans broke off from the Church of England and started a new church after the Church of England disagreed to the Puritans’ requests. The Puritans held multiple beliefs and were very serious about religion. Puritans believed the community had a responsibility to punish sinners harshly for the good

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    George Sotereanos DBQ 09/15/06 Unit 1 The Distinct Differences of New England and Chesapeake By the year 1700‚ the New England and the Chesapeake regions were both settled largely by people of English origin‚ although the regions had evolved in two distinct societies. The people who made the epic voyage to the new world came here for many different reasons. They wanted to lead the lives they wanted. Some were poor and needed money and saw America as a place to strike it rich. Others did not

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    there was hysteria over finding communist‚ much like the Puritans‚ who were obsessed with finding the devil and his servants. The first act in The Crucible depicts the values‚ fears‚ and actions of the Puritans in Salem who thought the devil existed amongst them. One value the puritans held above all other values was to be very religious. The Puritans thought they had to prove to their neighbors they were the chosen ones because the Puritans believed those chosen to go to Heaven were already picked

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    The Puritan Society Imagine having to leave your home because you cannot practice your religion freely. This was reality for the Puritans in England before they took a long journey to an unknown land in Salem‚ Massachusetts. There‚ they struggled to settle into a strict‚ religious lifestyle. They followed their Bible and went to Church. They also had harsh punishments for treason as well as other forms of crime. The Puritans were people with a strong belief system that led to irrational

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    Chesapeake bay is having problems with recent algal blooms. This paper will discuss the roles of the organisms in the partial chesapeake bay food chain‚ The possible effects of a decrease in the algae population on the plant and animal populations‚ What the causes of this problem is‚ what is being done to fix it‚ and what else could be done. Algae is a floating plant on top of the water; that is at the bottom of the food chain. This plant has no roots‚ and floats freely about the water. According

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