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    The Puritan Society Imagine having to leave your home because you cannot practice your religion freely. This was reality for the Puritans in England before they took a long journey to an unknown land in Salem‚ Massachusetts. There‚ they struggled to settle into a strict‚ religious lifestyle. They followed their Bible and went to Church. They also had harsh punishments for treason as well as other forms of crime. The Puritans were people with a strong belief system that led to irrational

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    affairs of the western Hemisphere‚ announced by President Monroe in 1823. Nationalism = A devotion to the interests and culture of one’s nation. Cult of domesticity = A belief that married women should restrict their activities to their home and family. American system/plan = A pre-civil war set of measures designed to unify the nation and strengthen its economy by means of protective tariffs‚ a national bank‚ and such internal improvements as the development of a transportation system. Cotton

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    Yonatan Zeff Thelonious Johnson Block B English 3 Honors October 14‚ 2012 Ignominy in the Puritan Community The title of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter refers to the literal symbol of ignominy that Hester Prynne’s community forces her to wear as a reminder of her sin. Though the word “ignominy” is used in sympathetic passages that describe Hester Prynne’s disgrace as an adulteress and out-of-wedlock mother‚ its use at the same time reveals an extremely critical description

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    AP US History English Colonies in North America Before the seventeenth century‚ countries such as Portugal and Spain had controlled the rich lands of the Americas‚ and England was left out of the race due to religious conflict back home. However‚ when Queen Elizabeth came into power‚ England’s power also rose in the colonial game in the America. Some of the first colonies they gathered are the ones of Virginia and Carolina. They also acquired the colonies of Massachusetts Bay and Rhode Island

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    A.   Conquest by the Cradle 1.     The common term thirteen original colonies is misleading as Britain ruled thirty-two colonies in North America‚ including the Caribbean Islands by 1775 but only thirteen of them staked a rebellion 2.     Among the distinguishing characteristics that the eventually rebellious settlements shared was lusty population growth; in 1700 they contained fewer than 300‚00 people; by 1775‚ there were about 2.5 million people a.     Of the 2.5 million people‚ about half

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    Family Assessment Assignment Cheryl Shelton Family Assessment Goldfarb School of Nursing Instructor: Jan Holbrook Family Assessment Assignment A family nursing assessment was done on the Lois G. family during three nursing visits over a period of one month. The family lives at 1234 Main St. and their home phone number is 314-987-6543. This is a lower- middle class (Friedman‚ Bowden & Jones E.G.‚ 2003)‚ African American‚ Baptist‚ single-parent‚ career‚ divorced family that is child-oriented

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    How effective is Homework? Homework has been a popular topic of debate in education. Throughout the 20th century‚ educators commonly believed that homework helped create disciplined minds. By 1940‚ growing concern that homework interfered with other home activities sparked a reaction against it. This trend was reversed in the late 1950s when the Soviets’ launch of Sputnik led to concern that U.S. education lacked rigor; schools viewed more rigorous homework as a partial solution to the problem

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    Plato’s Democracy Plato’s Republic covers many topics from the purpose of a state to the many forms of government can have from aristocracies to democracy and philosopher kings. These discussions that Socrates has with the many people he meets describes greek culture and it political system. By defining and disregarding imperfect government systems the Greeks established on the first mass democracies‚ fostering a symbiotic relationship between the state and its citizens in hopes of creating the

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    The Puritan Family Number of male and female inhabitants were unequal which caused fatherly authoritative figures to only take place in Chesapeake at the end of the 17th century Puritans wanted male authority; common law tradition that restricted women’s rights Women were only equal in relation to spirit and religion; could become official church members; divorce was legal; marriage = two-sided love; Man = God in church & governor secularly; magistrates (law enforcers) supported male superiority

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    work ‘Six Books of the Commonwealth’ raises four different ways in which individuals become slaves. He states that slaves can arise through being born of an enslaved mother‚ by acquisition after a successful conquest‚ by punishment for a criminal offence‚ or by an individual relinquishing their liberty to another entity. Bodin contends that evidence of slavery being a natural institution is derived from its ubiquitous presence across civilisations and cultures throughout history‚ suggesting that it

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