any glorious victory‚ but the dispatch of the Astrea to New England during the War of Jenkins’ Ear was the first case that the Royal Navy attempted to provide the overseas naval base with naval stores from North America directly. Therefore‚ her voyage and the views concerned with the Astrea explicate that the navy’s view about the naval logistics in the 1730s and 1740s and how the navy exploited naval stores production in Colonial America resulting from the naval stores policy in the eighteenth century
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Analyse the impact of Christianity in Australia * The proportion of Christians in the Australian population continues to decline. * Internationally‚ the proportion of Christians in developing countries is tending to increase‚ whereas the proportion of Christians in developed countries generally is decreasing. * This paper first provides a brief overview of the current Australian demographic data and trends in relation to Christian denominations and other religious groups over the
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The unmasking of systematic oppression in America has allowed for great changes in racial constructs. Yet these oppressions are still hidden today. According to John Doherty of UC Berkeley it is a necessity of society to uncover these oppressions and exploit or remove them. If these disparities are not articulated they will continue to perpetuate society‚ and suppress minority groups. All of these topics covered are extremely advanced and difficult to understand‚ but they all relate back to civil right
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The Catholic Church played a large role in colonial Latin American society. The Church served as a unifying institution in a society made up of many different kinds of people - Europeans‚ Africans‚ Indigenous‚ and mixed-raced individuals - from a variety of economic backgrounds. Documents from the colonial period show that the Church was a maintainer of Iberian social order‚ and its officials and priests were expected to serve as exemplars of their religion. The Church maintained order and conveyed
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Colonial government wasn’t so different from how it is now. Sure‚ we’ve changed some things‚ but we still have a baseline from way back when. Today‚ we still have a legislative‚ executive‚ and judicial branch. In the legislative branch they had something in England called ‘Parliament’. Basically Congress but with a different name. Just like Congress‚ Parliament was a bicameral legislature‚ a lawmaking body made of two houses. However‚ in Jamestown the houses were called House of Burgesses and Council
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Colonial African Americans What were the uses of slaves in colonial times? Black slaves were used throughout colonial times. The one we associate with slaves the most is probably field working. The truth is Black people were used for much more than that; their responsibilities included many jobs‚ from farming‚ to being cooks and housekeepers. In the south‚ some people would train their slaves to have trade skills‚ such as cooper (barrel maker)‚ wigmaker‚ and carpenter. This could be helpful to
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Colonial resistance intensified in a matter of years against Britain‚ only adding to the Navigation Acts from the 17th century. This Revolutionary era emerged from England’s debt from the French and Indian war‚ and their political administration of the colonies. The factors that led to intense colonial rebellions. Britain made rational attempts to pay their debts by using the colonies as a cash cow. Amongst the Peace of Paris treaty‚ by which Britain confiscated most of France’s territory‚ expanding
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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 practiced weaving and one interesting fact
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In colonial America‚ the citizens did not know exactly what they wanted for their government. The colonists knew they didn’t want their lives to be like they had been in England. They were open to ideas; they did not know what would work and what wouldn’t. The colonists knew that trial and error was the best idea at the time. The democratic and undemocratic features of colonial America were very apparent in that democracy as it was a work in progress. Although they were working out the issues
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2011 International Conference on Languages‚ Literature and Linguistics IPEDR vol.26 (2011) © (2011) IACSIT Press‚ Singapore Exploring the Post-Colonial Literary Canon Sandhya Rao Mehta Sultan Qaboos University‚ Oman Abstract. This paper addresses some the most prominent problematics of working with an established literary canon‚ including the extent to which‚ when implemented in universities worldwide‚ it represents the emerging concerns of diverse communities across the world. The main argument
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