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    non-anglican and in turn they left the church of England for the Netherlands (they became known as separatists due to how they separated themselves from the Church). The Netherlands didn’t happen to work out for the separatists, so they went to the New World and settled in the New England region. Based on this, it could also be said that the separatists were seeking permanent settlement (as they wanted to escape religious persecution) whereas those in the Chesapeake region

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    the Old World in 1492 by accidently sailing to a new land, which was thought to be India but was actually the Americas. He soon found that the goods in the New World were not found in the Old World, and that the New World didn’t have certain goods like the Old World did. People started to exchange goods from the New World to the Old World, and the Old World to the New World. This process was called the Columbian Exchange, and it continued to happen for centuries. When the term, “When Worlds Collide”

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    learn a new language? Learning a language can be a fun experience. A new language means a new culture, a new world, a new way to see the world in which we live. It means peering through the looking glass into a new world; one dominated not by our own prejudices or our old way of thinking, but by the history of another people. It means looking at a new world; or, at least, the old world in a new way. Aside from the many benefits that exist with regards to just learning a language, the benefits of

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    Some were lucky to get into vault or a bunker. I'm Dean Howard my family got into the a vault before I was born. I'm Dean Howard my vault's number was 78 but that doesn't matter. I have two old brothers, Gat and Raul, Gat is mean and hateful and is the oldist brother and tall, red eyes and he is 19 years old. Raul is short and really smart and he is 16 years, and my dad James he is the doctor in vault. My mom well she died when I was born. Well thats history but what happens next was something James

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    The Age of Exploration had a great impact on the world. During this time, the New World was discovered and the New and Old World came together. The colonization of the New World had many positive and negative effects during the Age of exploration. The Europeans were motivated by things such as gold, god, and glory, which led to the start of the Age of Exploration. Many negative effects came from the colonization of the New World such as, mistreatment of Natives, many wars taking place, and slaves

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    think that she could be this bold. She have known about the affair since back in England, but never have had the courage to confront him about it. However, in the Blue Mountains, she is like a different person. “Many times, back home, in that other world where it was the middle of the night, she had thought about having this conversation but if had never, in the head, been at all like this.” (Page 8, line 21-24). She have evolved from an insecure and unassertive girl, she was back in England, into

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    Themes Of Matthew Arnold

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    of the old world. Arnold was a man of the past and disliked the modernization of the world in the 19th century, making it harder for him to find happiness. This struggle to find peace created that hatred for the change and his negative attitudes towards the new world are apparent in his writings. Within his works, Arnold uses constant themes of anti-modernization and faith throughout his poems to portray his attitudes towards humanity’s loss of faith and the reasons modernization of the world during

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    in me. It says in the Holy Torah, ‘No man is too poor to help those that are poorer than himself’…Those societies I belong to are more to me than my life. I’m not living for myself” (90). Mr. Smolinsky places the words of the Torah, words of the Old World, above the wellbeing of his own family. His specific use of the phrase “I’m not living for myself” especially echoes the phrase parents often use with regard to caring for their children. However, Reb’s use of the statement flips the meaning of that

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    Readers of Sandra Cisneros are able to identify major themes throughout her work. She makes these themes evident because growing up she experienced some of the feelings and emotions that her characters do, which is why she is able to write with such passion. Displacement and isolation are two themes that Cisneros makes evident in her work. Readers will see these themes in Woman Hollering Creek, ‘Mericans, and Eleven. In Woman Hollering Creek isolation and displacement play a big part in the main

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    New World that create difficulties and often separate generations in the immigrating family. Anzia Yezierska creates an immigration story based on a Jewish family that is less than ideal. Yezierska’s text is a

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