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    During the 17th and 18th centuries‚ settlement expansion skyrocketed among British colonies with varied immigration pattern creating quite the contrast between the middle and southern colonies. Thousands of Europeans begin flooding the New World for religious freedom‚ in search of wealth‚ or for their own personal exploit. Many came to the Middle Colonies for liberation from persecution and for business ventures that would not be possible with primogeniture prominent in much of Europe; meanwhile

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    More Than a Carpenter The author of the book‚ “More Than a Carpenter”‚ Josh McDowell was once a very lost man. He ridiculed Christians. He had no knowledge of what he was attacking until one day his own search for happiness led him down a road he was not prepared for. When he took on this project more than 30 years ago‚ he did so with the idea of refuting Christianity. He was of the mindset that all Christians must be out of their minds. He found himself accepting a challenge to research the

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    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‚ only had enough food for their families and nothing more. On the other hand‚ New England had

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    Love becomes a major theme in the twelfth century mainly due to the writings of the Cistercian Order. Things like chivalry and courtly love become the norm of this time period. This norm would affect the medieval mindset of people’s identity and sense of selfhood. The idea of love and its connection to chivalry became romanticized by many stories written by Chretien de Troyes‚ like “Lancelot” and “The Knight with the Lion”. In medieval Europe‚ the idea of love became an important theme through

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    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 since men greatly outnumbered women (Kennedy 60) . When you look at family relations in New England‚ families were much more

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    A fact-finding report on the situation & deaths at the Beggars’ Colony (Magadi Road)‚ & Isolation Ward‚ Indiranagar‚ Bangalore Conducted by St. Joseph’s College‚ SICHREM‚ Indian Social Institute‚ Sangama‚ & Global Concern‚ India‚ Ananya The Concerned for Working Children‚ With Inputs from Vimochana‚ Karnataka Kolalagiri Nivasigara Sanghatana Women’s Voice On 19th & 20th August 2010 INTRODUCTORY NOTE There

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    the art and literature of the time period; the “rebirth” in Southern Europe‚ however‚ differed from Northern Europe. As both the North and South had access to newly printed materials courtesy the printing press‚ they did share commonality of thought- both supplied predominant Christian artistic themes‚ had an artistic ‘center’‚ and provided systems of guilds and patrons. The Southern‚ or Italian‚ Renaissance began during the 14th century and “inevitably‚ trade and commerce brought Italian ideas northward

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    album with scrap paper. This image of various artistic elements making up the portrait metaphorically illustrates the idea that T.I. is influenced by many different aspects in the world. If the image of T.I. was merely a straightforward picture taken of him‚ the audience would not get the full effect of his influences coming from many different places to make up who he truly is. One aspect of who he truly is follows traits of a hustler. The use of money along with paper scraps to make up this collage

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    Period Slavery was a major part of southern colonial life between 1607 and 1775‚ and grew exponentially due to the encouragement of the economic‚ geographic‚ and social factors in the Southern colonies during that era. Things such as large plantations‚ cheap labor‚ and misconceptions of the African race greatly affected the way slavery was viewed in the American colonies. Often‚ it was thought of as a necessary evil; or‚ even more often‚ just necessary. There were many factors that gave the colonists

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    particles in indoor air (e.g. Hussein et al. 2006). Fine et al. (1999)‚ found high Organic Carbon (OC) emissions connected to the extinction of the candle and high EC concentrations when the flame was burning unsteady. In the mid 1800s there were two major developments in the candle wax industry‚ stearin wax and paraffin wax. Stearin wax was developed from stearic acid extracted from the fatty acids of animals. This type of candle wax became popular in Europe. Paraffin wax‚ which became popular

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