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    informed by guidelines set for them by a leading group of nutrition experts, which makes it easy for customers to make great food choices. Founded by Doug Rauch, former president of Trader Joe’s, Daily Table opened its first store June 4, 2015 in Dorchester, a diverse residential community in Boston. There are plans to open additional stores in both the greater Boston area and additional cities across the country. Working together we can help reduce both the effects of poor eating habits caused

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    • Who was the first Norman king of England? (1 pt) • Edward the Confessor D) Stephen Ist • William the Conqueror E) Henry Tudor • Harald the Bold • Who/What initiated the monastic reform? (1 pt) • Innocent III C) Gregory VII • The Dorchester monastery D) The abbey of Cluny • How many crusades were successful from the Westerners’ point of view? (1 pt) • 1 B) 2 C) 3 D) 4 • On what topic did Henri II and Thomas Becket disagree? Be specific. (2 pts) They argued over what to do with

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    Bockhampton, Dosert. He was the eldest son of four children of Thomas Hardy and Jemima Hand. Thomas Hardy’s father as a successful local mason and his mother worked as a cook and housemaid. Hardy grew up in the tiny Hamlet at Bockhampton, three miles from Dorchester. Thomas could read fluently by the age of three. According to Michael Millgate in his book Thomas Hardy A Biography Revised, Thomas Hardy did not attend school until he was eight years old. Hardy was also an outstanding pupil at school and excelled

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    The excerpt above is part of Ronald Reagan's campaign speeches in California on March 31, 1976. Reagan's speech is reflective of the problems that forcing groups of individuals together forcibly and unnaturally. Professor Zoë Burkholder candidly highlights in the journal article "From Forced Tolerance to Forced Busing: Wartime Intercultural Education and the Rise of Black Educational Activism in Boston," that integrated busing was unsuccessful because both white and black students were still working

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    Holland Island is a island in the Chesapeake Bay in Dorchester County in Maryland. It was discovered in 1600s and was home to watermen and farmers. It was one of largest inhabited islands in the Chesapeake Bay. It had 70 homes, stores, post office, two-room school with two teacher, a church, baseball team, community center, and a doctor. The islanders had fleet of workboats to catch food from the sea to support themselves. Wind and tide begun to erode the island, finally in early 1900’s, the islanders

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    Though every community is unique, the complexity of urban environments is something that I am familiar with through my time spent working and studying in Dorchester, MA – a financially diverse urban borough of greater Boston. I have learned that addressing the needs of such a community entails attention to the distinct needs of individuals, and the ability to communicate with the individual about what those needs are. As a Patient Advocate at Codman Health Center, I always listen attentively to the

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    Throughout history, there were many wars. One of them is the Revolutionary War. There were six battles/wars that had happened before the Revolutionary War. One of them is the most important battle that is related to the Revolutionary War. The Battle of Bunker Hill is the most important because it was our first battle in which we won, the people that fought had helped us get to where we are today, and finally, it was the bloodiest battle and the most important battle in American History. The Battle

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    Graphic descriptions and crime scene photos were the focus of the first full day of witnesses testimony in the case against Aaron Hernandez. >> DAY TWO OF THE TRIAL IS UNDERWAY, CLICK HERE TO WATCH LIVE Hernandez is accused of fatally shooting Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado shortly after the encounter on July 16, 2012 as the two men sat in their car at a stoplight. Graphic descriptions and crime scene photos were the focus of the first full day of witnesses testimony in the case against

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    logic, which then formed the basis for much of Harvard’s curriculum. Soon after his slightly contentious graduation at the age of 18, he gave his first sermon in a village near his home. He gave his second sermon soon after in his father’s church in Dorchester. During this time, he had begun to train for the ministry in order to follow in his father’s footsteps. To further his education, he sailed to the Irish city of Dublin to begin his master’s degree. Famously, at his commencement ceremony at Trinity

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    while you’re still doing it and want to turn back before you get in trouble? Well we can all relate to that but out of nowhere have you ever had a revolver to your face and have someone tell you no turning back? Araminta “Minty” Ross was born in Dorchester County, Maryland in appx. 1822 and died 1913. She was born as a slave and grown up as one with her brothers, sisters, mother, and father and had no schooling once so ever. But she later on escaped in 1849 and changed her name to Harriet Tubman to

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