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    The main Spanish motives for colonization were for Gold‚ God and Glory. Many European nations were beginning to look towards new lands after the catastrophic bubonic plague that killed more than a third of the people on the continent and damaged the already weak economy. The first motive of the Spaniards was to become one of the prominent sea faring nations in order to compete with Portugal then the preeminent maritime most powerful seafaring nation in Europe and claim lands for Spain. When the

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    Have you ever wondered how the southeast and southwest regions are alike and different? Well‚ if you do here we go! Both regions are located in North America. I love the southeast region because it is mild and humid. Most of the time‚ it is subtropical. Subtropical means relating to or bring the regions bordering on the tropical zone. The southwest is very cold region in the winter. It also can get very warm in the summer to. The southwest region has many mountains and other landforms such as

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    While the Spanish settlement and the British settlement of the Americas shared some similar characteristics‚ they were also substantially different and carried out in entirely dissimilar manners. They might have had common goals in mind for themselves but these countries took entirely different routes in settling the Americas because of different motivating incentives that pushed their colonization of the New World. The Spanish were settling at first to mine for gold‚ and were successful at it

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    behind the founding of English colonies? It wasn’t just the desire of religious freedom or just the desperation of economic betterment that motivated the founding of the New World; it was both. The development of the colonies in America helped the colonies to decide their own thoughts and ideas. In which Puritans were mostly the founders of the main colonies. Puritans were English people seeking religious freedom in this new life they created. However other English explorers came to America

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    COMPARISON BETWEEN SPANISH COLONY ERA AND PRESENT LIFE OF FILIPINOS I. Introduction The land of the Philippines is composed of more than 7000 islands. These mountainous islands are divided into three: Luzon‚ Visayas and Mindanao. As an archipelago‚ Philippines is surrounded by deep seas such as Bashi Channel‚ Celebes Sea‚ Philippine Deep and South China Sea. Philippines was blessed to be bountiful in terms of natural resources and minerals especially gold. Because of its beauty and richness

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    England‚ especially for its family relations and mortality rates. Being very close to my family‚ I couldn’t imagine living without one of my parents or even my grandparents for that matter. According to The American Pageant‚ families in the southern colonies had problems with spouses‚ especially men‚ dying young and rarely surviving to be in their twenties‚ children not making it to adulthood‚ and girls getting pregnant before they are married; men also had trouble finding a woman to form a family with

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    LaGuardia Community College The English Language Center Zully Katherin Patiño Viviescas Professor Paul Metzger June 8‚ 2013 Saturday Program Level 6- Spring 2013 Spanish versus English Proficiency in a second language involves the acquisition of range of knowledge and skills conditioned in part by experiences lived that will help you in your personal or

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    coexistence dating back to when the colonies were first settled. The Seven Years War generated common and disparate interests within English colonies‚ and the consequences of the Treaty of Paris both helped to unify and further separate the existing British colonies. While coexistence is nothing more than a notion‚ it seems that every action in an effort to unify doesn’t come without separation.

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    out to come to America. However‚ just because many people came together to live in one place doesn’t mean they lived similarly. In fact New England and the Southern Colonies lived much differently from each other. Some of these differences are economic‚ political‚ and their Social. To start with the New England and Southern Colonies economic differed greatly. New England had a very rocky climate and short growing season‚ which internally made farming nearly impossible; The Colonist that did farm

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    Life Differences Between the Colonies Getting to the Americas was a hardship and living in the America was a struggle of itself . The two most know colonies were Jamestown and Plymouth both are famous because of stories have been told at a young age. Those stories that were told had some truth in it but‚ the rest of the story was made up for pure entertainment because the reality is that story is not really entertaining. These two colonies were different in many ways even by the colonist who lived

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