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    From the beginning of the 1700s’ to the early 1900s’ where the road of industrialization came to a halt. There has come times of the success and the times of defeat. Which contributed to the effects on the economic and social life of the people of England. These results have been deciphered from a variety of perspectives, observing conditions in industrial cities at the time. Using historical text prior to; can interpret the industrialization revolution to have constructed a more positive impact

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    Morning Every one, Welcome to the lecture this morning. I am Isfar Hassan, one of the chancellors of this organization. I am really glad to be with you and personally to introduce all of you to our guest speaker Mr. William Bradford. As a boy in England, he was caught up in the passion of the Protestant Reformation and when he was only 12 became a dedicated member of one of the separatist churches that made up the “left wing” of Puritanism. Seven years later he joined a group of nonconformists who

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    Thomas Hariot

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    drawings, and scientific notes. Hariot describes the many different resources that are on the island. One being wine, “There are two kinds of grapes that the soile doth yeeld naturally: the one is small and sowre of the ordinarie bignesse as ours in England: the other farre greater & of himselfe iushious sweet. When they are plãted and husbandeg as they ought, a principall commoditie of wines by them may be raised.” Another being pearle, he explains, “Sometimes in feeding on muscles wee founde some

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    value in terms of wealth to the natural resources he saw on the islands and he used a different rhetoric to explain it. John Smith saw economic growth possibilities in the fertile New England area that had a vast amount of natural resources, he also valued different commodities than Columbus. Christopher Columbus’s description of the natural resources that he finds was actually quite similar to John Smith’s. Columbus’s idea was different from Smith’s though, he thought that these natural resources were

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    about conflicts between two cultures, where when the settlers came in to New England, they took over the Native American’s home. The power the settlers had over the Native Americans grew so strong that it got to a point where the rule of usufruct was put in place, where Native Americans could make use of any natural resource on earth as long as it wasn’t being needed by another person. When the Europeans first arrived in New England, they found fresh land, ponds and lakes, along with forests that were

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    narratives or disbelieved her because of her inconsistency and how easily she snapped out of the supposed trances of bewitchment. A witch hunt can only truly be sparked if the people involved have entrenched beliefs in the supernatural; the people of New England did. The two largest reasons for this was that the supernatural was able to explain what the science of the day could not and

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    transformation of multiple countries into industrialized powerhouses, it also saw the development of new schools of thought. One of the most prominent movements that emerged during the mid-late 19th century was Realism, in which it called for authors to create literature that depicted contemporary life in a completely detailed manner. English novelist Charles Dickens was highly influential in portraying this new literary mode in many of his works. In my opinion, with the help of his novel The Old Curiosity

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    Please remember to submit your responses for Part 1 and Part 2 to your instructor in the assessment area. 1. Using the scale on the interactive map, give the approximate distance in miles that the Pilgrims traveled in their journey from Plymouth, England, to Plymouth, Massachusetts. The

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    At 11:40 April 14th, 1912, the renowned Titanic hit an iceberg on the journey from Southampton to New York. The skip was completely sunk two hours later and more than 1500 passengers and crew members died. Over time we have accounted and collected many relics and artifacts from the wreckage, everything from watches to letters. At an auction in England, a tragic sea-stained letter was sold after being found on the body of a Titanic victim. It was one of the last known messages to have survived the

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    The Tale of Youth Chaucer’s Squire’s tale has often been disregarded by critics as fragmentary, incoherent, and “a rambling narrative.” (Lawton 106) These characteristics shed a malevolent light on the tale, and raise questions on the unfinished status in the Canterbury Tales. The argument presents itself due to the interruption of the narrative by the Franklin leaving it without the ending, which has been foreshadowed earlier in the tale. The answer to this enigma is “pure speculation.” (Lawton

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