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    Although New England and the Chesapeake region were both of English Origin‚ they evolved into two different colonies. Major points such as different motives for settling‚ religion‚ and the different geography led to contrasting views. As they continued to evolve‚ the colonies adapted to their own unique economic‚ geography‚ and social structures. The settlements in the Chesapeake region‚ such as Virginia were only settled to increase wealth. The colonists wanted to gain riches. After the

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    Oscar Handlin declared immigrants were alienated from their old country‚ but also America‚ which was their ray of hope. Moreover‚ as they crossed into the U.S.‚ desperately looking for a better lifestyle‚ they encountered multiple atrocious bosses‚ lived in trite poverty‚ and was also treated unfairly from the Americans. Despite hardship‚ “[t]he only adjustment they had been able to make to life in the United States had been one that involved the separateness of their group‚ one that increased their

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    is the beginning of the United States’ domination almost on all fields on the international area. Before the World War II the cultural center of the world was Paris – after the war it was New York. That happened mostly because of the intellectual emigrants from Europe‚ who strengthen intellectual position of the United States. The best evidence of the United States’ domination in literature can be the number of literary Nobel Prizes. First was given to William Faulkner in 1949 and then to Ernest Hemingway

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    taking the lead and pushing the protests. (James Barrett‚ The Daily Beast 2012). In 1850 the Irish Immigrants started a bank called Emigrant Savings and Loans and it was created to help the immigrants coming to America and serve the financial needs of the immigrant population. Within a short period of time it had become the seventh largest bank in the country (Emigrant Bank‚ Emigrant.com). Many of the Irish immigrants helped industrialize America even more. They worked in factories‚ manufacturing many

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    population also rose rapidly‚ from 2.8 million in 1851 to 4.4 million in 1901. Ireland’s population decreased rapidly‚ from 8.2 million in 1841 to less than 4.5 million in 1901‚ mostly due to the Great Famine. At the same time‚ around 15 million emigrants left the United Kingdom in the Victorian era and settled mostly in the

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    Khat is a green-leaved plant grown predominantly in the Horn of Africa‚ and consumed in the diaspora by emigrants from the region – Ethiopians‚ Kenyans‚ Yemenis and most notably Somalis – who report a mild‚ amphetamine-like high. Khat is legal in the UK‚ as are mafrishes‚ but spirited campaigns to outlaw it on health and social grounds have been galvanised in the past year by claims that terror cells are operating wherever khat is chewed‚ and that al-Shabaab is focusing its recruitment efforts on

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    Jewish people were sent to Australia as convicts at the time the next sixty years. Free settlers were arriving in Australia as early as the 1820’s. By 1901 there was an predict that there were over 15000 Jews in Australia. In 1901‚ most of the Jewish emigrants to Australia were from Britain. Following the horrors of the Holocaust‚ the tendency was heightened and the deracination of hundreds of thousands of Jewish population at the time World War II. This then adapted the Australian Jewish

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    It is important to highlight the fact that Winthrop’s phrase a “city upon a hill” is a religious version. Religion has always played an important role in shaping American society and government. The intended audience of John Winthrop’s sermon given on the ship Arabella was the Puritans on their journey to their new home in North America. His purpose was to motivate the Puritans to become a model society based on their strong religious belief. This belief is still so important in the modern world

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    Examine the evolution of the German American identity in nineteenth century America. The German American identity of the 19th century is one that evolved as the century progressed. The German American population was seen as being beneficial to the American economy as this ethnic group was considered to be skillful and hard working. In the early 19th century‚ both the social and political stance of Germans was vastly different in comparison to their position at the turn of the century. Initially

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    I. Muhammad (pbuh) prophesised in Bhavishya Purana According to Bhavishya Purana in the Prati Sarag Parv III Khand 3 Adhay 3 Shloka 5 to 8. "A malecha (belonging to a foreign country and speaking a foreign language) spiritual teacher will appear with his companions. His name will be Mohammad. Raja (Bhoj) after giving this Maha Dev Arab (of angelic disposition) a bath in the Panchgavya and the Ganga water (i.e. purifying him of all sins) offered him the present of his sincere devotion and showing

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