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    On a bright sunny day in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, a legend formerly known as John F. Kennedy was born. It was on May 29th when the American philanthropist and socialite Rose Kennedy and her husband who was a well-known businessman, government official and investor, Joseph P. Kennedy, had their second son. It didn’t take a long time after he was born for his family to start calling this blue eyed kid, Jack. Unfortunately, at a very young age Rose was noticing strange things about

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    The Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770 wasn’t a massacre even though many people think it was. In this event the colonist were protesting because British soldiers were taking their jobs away and the British Parliament were taxing them for no reason. The colonist had clubs repeatedly told the soldiers to shoot them. The soldiers fired 5 shots into the crowd in self defense. First, it wasn’t a massacre because only 5 colonist died from this event. The definition of massacre is “Violently kill a large

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    Moving Healthcare Upstream Walter Cronkite, an American broadcast journalist, once stated: “America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.” The structure we use can simply be summarized as capitalistic and inefficient. The United States healthcare system is a constant cycle of an astronomical amount of money wasted on doctors who don’t invest the right amount of care into their patients; however, we need to move healthcare upstream in a way that results in improving health

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    William Bradford’s writing displays his Puritan faith by including many of their ideals throughout Of Plymouth Plantation. Bradford’s beliefs give his writing a simple and unembellished style, like that of Puritan dress. Furthermore, He demonstrates his faith by including the Puritan concept of election. Foremost, Bradford displays his faith by incorporating providence into his writing. For example, he infers that their trip across the Atlantic ended safely only through God’s intervention. Throughout

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    Colonial American society can be described as greatly religious, regardless of the decade or century. However, different political, social and literary eras greatly altered colonists’ view of religion and God. Puritanism and Rationalism were considered the two most significant religious eras during the 17th and 18th centuries. Literature changed with religious and social change. The most influential literary works during the Colonial era were those reflecting the social ideologies at the time. Puritans

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    On April 15,2013 during the Boston Marathon two brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar planted two bombs by the Marathon finish line killing 3 people but injuring more than 260 people and later after the bombing they went and they attempted to robbed a police officer named Sean Collier which led to the officer getting shot down by the two brothers and while the police were on a manhunt to find the shooters of the murder of Sean while still on the hurt for the bombers while the police were looking for those

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    The American Revolution was among the most well-known wars in the historical setting of our nation, a conflict between the thirteen colonies in North America and Great Britain which fuses various of events with a dark or flighty result. A revolution is a movement that brings an incredible impact or potentially remove developed order and society. It involves a rebel against British taxes and trade goods. During the American Revolution, it was the first time in U.S history that American colonists battled

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    Heroism In Louisiana

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    The residents of Louisiana that adhere to the Tea Party highly value Christianity. From the high number of church goers that mark church as a central social space, to the understanding of their time here on earth as limited--the pollution that burdens them here will not carry over to eternal paradise--the Louisiana residents’ lives are replete with embedded forms of Christian identity reproduction (Hochschild 135). This high value of Christianity is one of the reason why the residents hold strong

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    Puritan Pros And Cons

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    In the 1500s, there was a religious group called the Puritans who originated in England. It is known that in England there was the Church of England which preached based on the ideas of Catholicism. Since the Puritans were Protestant, they disagreed with many of their ideas. In order to live holy and pure lives, they moved to America to form new communities outside of English law (Gabriel). Here they lived their lives completed surrounded by God, meaning church attend-ance was mandatory. Those who

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    The Heroes of the East The Sons of Liberty were the men that fought for this country to be the way it is today. With them at the helm nothing seemed impossible, though about half of the colonists were still loyal to England at the time of the Revolutionary War. Some choose to believe these men to be villainous gutter-punks. However they were great men and did many beneficial things for this country, such as they showed others to stand for their own beliefs build the democracy of today. The Sons

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