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especially if you are looking for that food at an affordable price. The Harvard Pilgrim Foundation’s Healthy Food Fund is responsible for bringing fresh, affordable food to communities in need throughout Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. This may be one of the most important things Harvard Pilgrim does for their community. Providing ways for families to obtain fresh food that may not be able to afford it is

to 1770, 183 years long. As said before, there were thirteen colonies: four New England colonies, four Middle colonies, and five Southern colonies. The New England colonies were New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, otherwise known as the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The four Middle colonies were New York, Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Maryland made up the Southern colonies. These colonies were located in North

Between the 1840s and 1860s, the movement known as Transcendentalism surfaced and soared. The Transcendentalist movement began as a physiological movement, which then influenced the literature of those who studied it, including its American literary founder, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Transcendentalism took place at the end of the Romanticism era and the beginning of the Realism time period, but it had its own distinct characteristics. Transcendentalists were known for believing in a new way of comprehending

Maura Healy is the candidate from the Democratic party running in the November 4, 2014 election for Massachusetts attorney general against Republican candidate John Miller. Her experience as a prosecutor and her achievements of lobbying for civil rights over the years makes her a prime candidate for our next attorney general. In her early years she attended the prestigious Harvard University, where she majored in government and went on to study law at the equally reputable Northeastern University

Cambodian Immigrants and Health care in the United States Over the last decade more immigrants have traveled to the United States from Asia than any other nationality (Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum [APIAHF], 2015). Understanding the specific needs of this population is important to prevent health disparities. Currently Asians are the only racial group who’s leading cause of death is cancer (Tseng et al., 2010). Asian Americans are also more likely to suffer from hepatitis B

becomes constricted with swelling and excessive mucous. This constriction or narrowing of the airway makes it difficult for the person with asthma to breath (Massachusetts Department of Public Health, 2009). If asthma is left uncontrolled, it leads to further wheezing, coughing, shortness of breath, tiredness, and stress. (Massachusetts Department of Public Health, 2009). How does asthma fit into the Healthy People 2020? As it is stated in Health People 2020, the main goal is to, “Promote respiratory

Throughout the United States the policy process is the same. It starts with extra-constitutional actors, which are political parties, media, public opinion, and interest groups. These actors find a problem or issue and effect policy makers to get it known. These policy makers then use their concerns and create policy. The policy is then implemented by the bureaucracy in some way. The people and these extra-constitutional actors then evaluate this policy. Some may like it and let it be, while others

This was an exchange of people, animals, diseases, plants, technology, ideas, and culture between The Old World, New World and Africa that started in 1492 when Christopher Columbus set foot in the New World, thinking he’d hit India. The triangle trade provided the New World (America) with food, animals, and diseases from The Old World. Africa gave the New World slaves, and the New World gave the Old World gold, silver, and raw materials. 1518- mid 1900s: Middle Passage African slaves were shipped

Samuel Adams once said, "It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." In Bunker Hill, Nathaniel Philbrick chronicles how the conflagration of the American Revolution would erupt from the embers of the past focusing on the great impact that those involved in the infamous battle for which the book is titled and the battle itself would have on the colonies and their fight for liberties. This is a vivid bildungsroman

characterized by excitement or anxiety, irrational behavior or beliefs, or inexplicable symptoms of illness” (dictionary.com). Mass hysteria has been part of history since the beginning of time. It happened in the United States the years 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts. In Salem, two young girls were responsible for starting mass hysteria by showing erratic behavior and accusing other people of witchcraft. This resulted in the death of over 20 people. Salem citizens were very confused and scared because they