2nd Period America was a new start for many people. It was way to get away from past mistakes‚ to get new jobs‚ or many other reasons. The only problem was where to settle. There are many primary motivations for moving to different colonies‚ and in this essay I will focus on the Middle Colonies. The Middle Colonies include New Jersey‚ Pennsylvania‚ New York‚ and Delaware. Each of these colonies has their own special attractions about them‚ but one of the
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correct term to refer to oneself‚ Hispanic or Latino? The word Hispanic has been around for a very long time and it’s a name applied to people of country heritage that speak the Spanish language. The US government began using this term to refer to a person of Cuban‚ Mexican‚ Puerto Rican‚ South or Central American‚ or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race in the 1970’s. Then the term continued to be used and I have never felt offended by the term even though I know that it’s an easy term to
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Ebonics Vs. Standard English For my paper‚ I chose the topic of Ebonics vs. Standard English. I chose this topic because when we read the different articles‚ Jones “What’s Wrong with Black English” and Delpit’s “No Kinda Sense”‚ they talked about the usage of both languages and how we should use them. That sparked my attention because some people don’t know when to turn off or turn on either language. Jones perspective was that we should continue with what we’re doing‚ which is insisting that
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watching TV or reading newspapers were the only ways of gathering news. Nowadays as thanks to the Internet there is one more option‚ the question whether it is best to rely on television news‚ or to follow online news emerged. When set beside‚ those two ways of gathering news seem to be enormously different. The biggest difference between online news and television news is the access to information. While watching news on TV‚ we are dependent on broadcast schedule of any TV station. By
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how our county is run today. Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson debated a political situation that still effects government and industry in our nation to this day. In Theodore Roosevelt’s opinion‚ trusts are inevitable. As said in his 1910 "New Nationalism" speech‚ "There can be no effective control of corporation while their political activity remains. To put an end it will be neither a short nor an easy task‚ but it can be done". Woodrow Wilson had a somewhat different view on how trusts
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The discovery of a new world by Christopher Columbus in 1492 opened up new opportunities for trading‚ conquest‚ and political success and wealth in the later years. Spain and England found their way to the Americas (by crossing the Atlantic‚ etc.) and established their own colonies‚ which were able to give their nations profits. In order to have the imperial power of Spain and England benefit from their colonial establishments‚ the dependent nations would use their surrounding natural resources which
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European Settlement in Latin America Between 1450 and 1750 C.E.‚ Europeans entered Latin America and created new political structures‚ increased trade‚ and brought their religion. This happened because the Spanish conquered the Aztecs and Incas‚ while Portugal took over what is now Brazil. Hernando Cortes conquered the Aztecs while Francisco Pizzarro conquered the Incas. The Aztecs and Incas were two great Native American civilizations. In Latin America‚ slavery remained unchanged. These areas
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The Ottoman Empire‚ or Turks‚ were the longest-lasting remnents of the Mongol Empire; the Spanish Empire re-asserted itself after the Muslim Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula and became a world power through the Age of Exploration. From 1450 to 1800‚ both the Ottoman and Spanish Empires experienced political expanision in the process of empire building‚ but unlike the Spanish‚ the Ottomans experienced diminshing growth and stagnation during the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries after amassing
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Historical background | This section does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (June 2009) | The English language was first introduced to the Americas by British colonization‚ beginning in 1607 in Jamestown‚ Virginia. Similarly‚ the language spread to numerous other parts of the world as a result of British trade and colonization elsewhere and the spread of the former British
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Awakening and the Enlightenment sparked new ideas that lead to important documents such as The Declaration of Independence‚ The Constitution‚ and The Bill of Rights. The Great Awakening swept through the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s. It was a turning point back to religion and away from secular worldly views. People such as Jonathan Edwards George Whitefield presented a new Fire and Brimstone style of preaching. the difference between Old Lights and New Lights becomes prominent; Old Lights were
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