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    Specific Purpose: To educate my audience on sugar and its effects on the body. Central Idea: Many sugars have detrimental effects on our body and it is important that we pay closer attention to avoiding these foods. Intro: I. Did you know that the average American consumes around 130 pounds of sugar per year? I’m going to assume that you are surprised by this fact‚ as you should be‚ because this is way above the amounts that we should be consuming. II. Sugar is all around us in many different forms

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    Jamestown Tobacco Bride

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    If I were coming to Jamestown as a Tobacco Bride‚ I would only pick things that I think are most important for the journey and my new life. First‚ I would pack my two best dresses‚ because I would want to look nice when I was being chosen. I would also want to bring a small amount of food that wouldn’t spoil‚ such as dried fruit‚ so that I would have food if I didn’t get enough to eat on the ship. Another thing I would bring would be a coat or jacket‚ because the ship probably wouldn’t be very warm

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    Refined Sugar Effects

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    Effects of Refined Sugar Refined sugar is made from sucrose extracted from raw sugar cane or sugar beets. Often added to processed foods and beverages‚ refined sugar has several forms such as granulated white sugar‚ brown sugar‚ fructose‚ sucrose‚ dextrose‚ high fructose corn syrup and malt syrup. The average American consumes about 22 tsp. of refined sugars each day according to the American Heart Association (Marina). Refined sugars have led to an obesity epidemic in America over the past 30 years

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    The Three Colonial Regions The thirteen colonies were British colonies in North America founded between 1607 and 1732. The colonists who came to the New World were not alike‚ they came from a variety of different social and religious groups who settled in different locations along the Atlantic coast. They were divided up into the New England‚ Middle‚ and Southern colonies. Each group came to the new continent for different reasons and created colonies with distinct social‚ political‚ and economic

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    The colonial strategies of the Spanish‚ French‚ and Dutch were similar in that they all originally began their colonization through unchartered companies and colonized to spread Christianity and to acquire wealth. Each of these peoples also traded with the local natives. Despite their similarities‚ these countries’ strategies differed as well.             The Spaniards began whipping the natives who practiced polygamy and punished the ones that worshipped their traditional gods. They also began

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    DBQ #1: The Transformation of Colonial Virginia In 1606‚ hundreds of settlers went on a journey from England to the Virginia colony. They were in search of a new life‚ and wealth. Early on in their journey‚ they stumble upon many hardships‚ as expressed by George Percy (Doc. B). By the use of the indentured servants and slaves they were able to change the Virginia colony by basing their economy around tobacco. During the beginning of their voyage‚ the settlers met countless poverty. (Doc. A)

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    Sugar And Slave Trade

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    In today’s society‚ sugar is just another product that is used daily but what we don’t know is the bad side of sugar. Sugar was the product that created the slave trade. It was an addiction to people and a nightmare for slaves. It caused a lot pain and killing but it also brought sweet taste in food. Sugar comes from a crop called sugar cane. Sugar can is a native crop to Polynesia and later on moved to China and India. It was widely used in India and in China sugar cane was chewed during 1000

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    Tobacco Road Essay

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    Lest We Forget: Poverty‚ Depravity and Desperation in the Rural South Erskine Caldwell’s 1932 novel Tobacco Road is at once a brute force portrayal of the Depression-era poverty of the Deep South and an exaggeration of rural southern stereotypes. But the story serves as a potent reminder of the despair of the not-to-distant past‚ and how ordinary people were left to fend for themselves at the hands of an indifferent and predatory society that was undergoing seismic change. Caldwell’s book

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    Religion impacted colonial development in seventeenth- century North America by causing social‚ political‚ and economic spheres of colonial life in different regions to be affected by religious expectations. Social expectations created by religion in the Chesapeake colonies and the New England colonies were very different from one another due to the branch of Christianity to settle in the area. In the Chesapeake area‚ Catholics and Protestants settled there. Because they were not interested in

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    Sugar and Slave Trade Dbq

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    Escobedo Sugar and slave trade Sugar is filled with sweetness‚ but the sweetness of sugar was covered up by the saltiness of sweat. Sugar has been started all over the world‚ from the labor from Africa‚ markets from Europe and its origins in Asia. The sugar and slavery trade included Africa‚ Asia and Europe. This was called the triangular trade. Demands‚ land‚ capitol and labor were things that drove the sugar and slave trade. One thing that drove the sugar trade was the demand for sugar. Demand

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