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    when people from England fled their country to escape religious persecution. The pilgrims new that they had to cross the ocean because of stories they heard about explorers finding a whole land only occupied by tribes. More than 100 pilgrims traveled the long treacherous journey on the ship named “The Mayflower.” There were many storms‚ and the travel took months‚ but they finally made it to the new world. The pilgrims landed in “Cape Cod” where it was a good place to start their first settlement‚

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    entirely true. An interesting guy Larsen was. His ancestors witnessed the first official Thanksgiving and what emphasizes this is that his ancestors originated from both the pilgrims and the Indians. It’s a challenge to know a wide spread of knowledge and having to choose the important information to share. It was 1620 when the Pilgrims had decided to venture for unfound land and cross the Atlantic Ocean. They drifted through the seas and stumbled on the rocky shores of a land that they hadn’t know had

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    about the once struggling Pilgrims making a good life for themselves with the help of the Indians. Leaving all civil parts of the world behind the Pilgrims set off. After 66 days aboard the Mayflower they reached Cape Cod on November 11th‚ 1620. The exhausting expedition brought disease and sickness to the travelers. When they arrived they had no houses‚ towns or welcoming faces to greet them. The natives to the land seemed unfriendly and carried weapons. That winter Pilgrims stole corn and beans from

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    author of "Of Plymouth Plantation" gives a narrative of the voyage to Cape Cod. In the beginning of chapter 9‚ Bradford starts with a story of a young sailor whom had cursed and slighted the pilgrims for their weakness and constant sickness. However‚ that same sailor died from an unstated disease‚ giving the pilgrims peace as they no longer had persecution from any sailor. Bradford also mentions that young John Howland had fallen into the sea. Howland was under the water for a long time and as he held

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    The Pilgrims of Leiden‚ Holland were separatist (those who separated from The Church of England) who came to America in search of "a better life." The Pilgrims separated from The Church of England because the church was too strict. They were told that they had to go to the church the government picked. This form of dictatorship was called "State Church." If one went against the states church they would have been arrested and thrown in jail. They were then tortured in an effort to make them changed

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    The social construction of mental illness Key Words * Career: The gradual change in people as a response to a label e.g. mental patient. * Learned Helplessness: learning how to be dependent. * Life-course model: suggests that the accumulation of social events experienced over a whole lifetime‚ not just individual important events‚ influence people and their mental state. * Presenting culture: a term used by Goffman to refer to how people like to portray themselves to others.

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    were two groups of people who founded Plymouth: the Pilgrims‚ also known as Separatists‚ and the Strangers. The Strangers were called the Strangers because the Pilgrims did not know who they were. The Pilgrims were called the Pilgrims because anyone who took a voyage for religious reasons were called pilgrims‚ however Pilgrim spelled with a capital P is reserved for the The Pilgrims of Plymouth because they were so significant in history. The Pilgrims were also called Separatist because they wanted to

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    Canterbury Tales‚ the pilgrims on their journey rarely do their jobs correctly. Only three of the pilgrims‚ the Knight‚ the Parson‚ and the Plowman‚ do what they are supposed to do. The rest of the pilgrims vary from slightly bad to morally apprehensible. The Pardoner‚ a pilgrim from the Ecclesiastical group‚ falls under the latter category. Chaucer uses each pilgrims appearance to symbolize their personal qualities. The Pardoner‚ as one of the morally apprehensible pilgrims‚ is rather ugly‚ shown

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    Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Slaughterhouse Five shows the life of Billy Pilgrim through a twisted tunnel of reality. Pilgrim is raised in Ilium‚ New York and grows up to become an optometrist but shortly after is drafted into World War 2. This soldier’s life is not shown as a straight line where you’re born in the beginning and die at the end but rather as a scatter plot of time due to Billy’s time traveling ways. “ Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. Billy has gone to sleep a senile widower and

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    Slaugherhouse Five a Lie? Billy Pilgrim demonstrates all of the indicators of PTSD after struggling to deal with the pain and suffering that he went through. This story is actually about a man who went through traumatic experiences and is using aliens as a way to explain them.This lines up very well with the assessment of Billy Pilgrim’s mental health from his daughter. It is safe to say that Billy Pilgrim is at least suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Billy Pilgrim is the main character in

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