...What were the major areas of disagreement between the American colonists and the British policymakers that developed during the period 1763 to 1776? “That these are the acts of power assumed by a body of men foreign to our constitutions, and unacknowledged by our laws; against which we do, on behalf of the inhabitants of British America, enter this our solemn and determined protest” (Jefferson). In the years leading up to the American Revolution it was perhaps the case that the paper, not the pen, was mightier than the sword. In affirmation of the law of unintended consequences, the English imposed Stamp Act, which did what the colonists could not do for themselves: It united them. The new peace in Europe caused a fundamental shift in the...
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...o Practice the willies pact disruptions and pressured Bawdy-house to obliterate the Trade name behave oneself. By wager1765, uniform upon possibility far-out agent, the Examine of Rockingham, destined the king’s go aboard and sought a similar to one another to put an end to the Law outspoken inefficient light. o The support came in Prove 1766: The Stigmatize Make believe was repealed, but with the extinguish came the Assertive Act, o Which pseudo Parliament’s pertinent to play for the colonies “in enclosing cases whatsoever.” • Wheatley’s idyllic ideas far release support definite release mid other discontented groups. o Slaves in Boston petitioned Thomas Example, unclouded to liveliness for the British if he would set free them. o Also gage course them down. In Ulster Suave, Avant-garde York, down the Hudson Issue, pair blacks were overheard discussing iffy, and esteem a measure unraveled go involve at smallest twenty slaves in duo villages discovered to crack nourishment stashed...
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...American Revolution Impact on Historical Figures The American Revolution also known as the American War for Independence, took place between 1765 and 1783, a political fight that resulted in the founding of the United States of America. Many different battles were foraged, taxes and laws imposed that contributed to the Patriots wanting freedom from the control of Great Britain. The effects of war along with culture and ethnicity affected many during this time in many different ways due to their position or status during this fight. Abigail and John Adams are important known historical figures from the American Revolution. Abigail and John communicated through letters widely documented and used for the study of the war. The American Revolution affected this couple in many ways individually and as a married couple. John was a member of the Continental Congress, a select group to lobby for American independence. Being a part of this group required John to be away from his homestead while Abigail stayed behind to provide local support of the war and care for their home. Long or short time periods of distance in a relationship can bring many complications and in some cases a greater appreciation of the other. Abigail took on the responsibilities caring for the farm, educating children while dealing with reduced income, lack of goods due to the war and overall difficult living conditions and being alone. In letters between them, Abigail pleads for John to remember the rights of...
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...Three Individuals Who Had a Significant Impact on U.S. History When tasked with the sizable challenge of only picking three individuals to write about who had a significant impact on U.S. history the selection of those individuals is no small task. Given the amazing roots from which this country came through many of the different trials, tribulations, and successes in the early days there are countless well known individuals who played major roles in enabling and shaping that growth. To narrow down such a broad search to only a select three proves to be more difficult than one may think. However, even given the difficulty of this task I have in the end chosen three men, that without, this country may very well have shaped up much differently than the country that we have come to know to this day. The three men of my choice are John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin. The reason for my decision on these three individuals is because they all played crucial roles in the formation of our great country and without their key insight and the driving force that they brought it could have turned out much differently. Each holds a very important place during this time in history which will be more fully understood and unveiled in the coming pages. To better understand these roles, and these men as a whole I believe it best to look at each individually to see what brought them to be such important figures in history and how it was that their fates intertwined. John...
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...of Contents Cover sheet……………………………………………………………………………………………...Pg1 Table of contents……………………………………………………………………………………..Pg2 Plan of investigation………………………………………………………………………………..Pg3 Summary of Evidence.……………………………………………………………………………..Pg3-5 Evaluation of Sources……………………………………………………………………………...Pg5-6 Analysis…………………………………………………………………………………………………..Pg6- 8 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………………………Pg8 Works Cited…………………………………………………………………………………………….Pg9 A. Plan of Investigation The purpose of this paper is to answer the question, “what was the cause and effect of the Boston Massacre?” The body of the summary of evidence will investigate the people of the Boston Massacre. The summary of evidence will also investigate some of the lead up to the massacre. Documents will be analyzed to find causes and the build up to the Boston Massacre. The looking at a primary source and secondary sources will be heavily used. This paper will include the effects of the Boston Massacre such as the propaganda used to over exaggerate the Boston Massacre. In the documents being scoped at in this paper there will be the effects of the Boston Massacre such as The Committee of Correspondence and the 1773 Tea Act. While focusing on these aspects we analyze them into further investigation. B. Summary of Evidence The colonists were angering King George III, so he put taxes on paint and glass and wine. (BostonMassacre.net) While King George was putting taxes on items he also sent 4,000...
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...of people were doing fine under British rule, the rich Americans knew if they were not onboard then the liberty the rich wanted would be unattainable. This led to many rebellions against the British, but not all of which came from the elite. With that being said, the rich educated men of America used forms of propaganda to bring people to their side. Promises of liberty and equality sounded good to the people. The common folk saw a way to receive more rights under a local government rather than Imperial British control. The Molasses Act was put into place by the British to defer trade with the French for sugar, but this tax did not stop the smuggling of the main product to make rum from outside vendors so it quickly lost its power. “This hurt the British West Indies market in molasses and sugar and the market for rum, which the colonies had been producing in quantity with the cheaper French molasses” (T. Kingdig 95). Thus came the Sugar Act, which eased the amount of tax paid on molasses, but this tax was heavily imposed on not only sugar but also on other...
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...Kraft Foods Dr. Ramble Zompler MGT 599, Module 5 Case June 8, 2013 Kraft Foods Executive Summary Kraft Foods Company, which has been studied in the previous papers, is the largest North American Company providing packaged food and beverages and one of the largest global companies that offer consumer packaged foods. Kraft manufactures and markets products that include coffee, cheese, refrigerated meals, beverages, and other grocery products (SEC Filings). It has invented more food than any other company and can be traced back as far as 1765 (Bellis, 2013). The company is split into two operating divisions, Kraft Foods North America and Kraft Foods International. All the brands and products sold by Kraft today were largely brought together by Philip Morris, which is a merger of Kraft, Inc., General Mills, and Nabisco. 16.1 percent of the shares are public, while Morris retained the remaining shares (Kraft Foods Inc., 2012). Kraft business focuses on snacks, beverages, cheese, grocery items, and convenient packaged meals. Some of the most well-known brands come from Kraft such as Kraft Cheese, Oscar Meyer, and Maxwell House (Chapman & D'Innocenzio, 2013). This study describes Kraft Foods Group’s organizational design, key strategic control systems, primary human resources concerns, and cultural factors, and the effect that these have had on the implementation of the company’s strategy. This study also evaluates the fit or the lack of fit between Kraft’s...
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...History of the United States I AMH 1010 CRN 10800, December 1, 2014 Wood, Gordon. The Radicalism of the American Revolution. Vintage Books, a Division of Random House, Inc., New York, 1991 Gordon Wood describes the American Revolution as a journey from paternal colonialism to an egalitarian democracy. His contention is that the American Revolution does not seem to have the same kinds of causes that Revolutions usually display. There were no big social wrongs, no class conflict, no severe poverty, or gross inequitable distribution of wealth. Wood claims our revolution was not about independence as most history books claim but about the radical transformation of the American society. Monarchy In this section the author describes the structure of colonial America in the 1750s and 1760s. In colonial society, authority and liberty flowed from the structure of personal relationships. Society was held together by networks of personal loyalties, obligations and dependencies. In this hierarchical society, the elite or aristocrats ruled. The aristocrats (also called gentlemen) used their wealth and their hereditary advantages to keep the common people as dependents. The aristocrats lived a life of leisure which meant that they were not expected to labor. Their income was supposed to come from their landed estates. They used these landed estates to control the issuance of government offices and created laws that would keep their estates in the family. Most estates were passed on to...
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...Jefferson practiced law on a circuit, going to the meetings of the colonial court as it traveled to various district seats throughout Virginia(William Freehling,2017,2). Jefferson then met and fell in love with twenty-three-year-old Martha Wayles Skelton eventually they married on January 1st, 1772, and moved into a stark one-room brick house at Jefferson's Virginia plantation. After they got married the couple would go on to have 6 children of their own, but Martha passed away when giving birth the the sixth child. Jefferson who was a member of the House of Burgesses played an active role in the organization of the Virginia committee of Correspondence from 1769 to 1774. After being apart of the Virginia committee, Jefferson went on to write "Summary View of the Rights of British America" in 1774 which led him to be known as the man of immense abilities in articulating the colonial position for independence(William Freehling,2017,2). On Jefferson’s inauguration March 4th,1801 he is the first ever president to take the oath of office at Washington D.C.(Kane, 1959,25). While being president Jefferson was the first president who had been a governor of a state. Jefferson also was the first president to have served in a cabinet before becoming the president of the United States. Besides being the first president to serve as a governor he also has served as a secretary of state. Jefferson also bought the Louisiana territory from Napoleon for fifteen million dollars and roughly 28,000 square...
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...Insight Text Guide Sue Tweg King Lear William Shakespeare contents Character map Overview About the author Synopsis Character summaries iv 1 1 2 4 Background & context Genre, structure & language Scene-by-scene analysis Characters & relationships Themes, ideas & values Different interpretations Questions & answers Sample answer References & reading 6 10 14 24 39 55 59 64 66 iv I ns i g h t T e x t G u i d e ChARACTeR mAp Edgar Legitimate son of Gloucester, disguises himself as ‘Poor Tom’. Leads Gloucester to Dover, fights and kills Edmond, becomes king. Wise fools Companions in storm Kent Truth-teller. Disguises himself as ‘Caius’. Loyal, noble servant to Lear. Offends via discourtesy to Lear Match wits Defends, speaks boldly Defends and helps Teaches patience and saves father’s life Fool Truth-teller; endures the storm. Is possibly hanged. Teaches Lear compassion Cordelia Truth-teller. Youngest daughter, loves Lear and heals him. Loses battle and is hanged in prison. Loves Loves Offers kingdom to Edgar – accepted Gloucester Believes Edmond’s lies about Edgar. Saved from suicide by Edgar after Edmond has cause his blinding by betraying him to Cornwall. Needs Foolish old fathers meet in storm Blinds King Lear Divides his kingdom, rejects Cordelia, rejected by Gonerill and Regan. Goes mad, healed after storm by Cordelia. Dies after Cordelia is hanged. Fails to show Lear how to value Cordelia King of France...
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...Thomas Jefferson By: Jamie M. Narron American History I Instructor Dr. Alan Lamm Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743 at Shadwell, his family’s farm in Albemarle County, Virginia. Thomas was the third child in the family of 10 children, six girls and 4 boys. His father, Peter Jefferson had many jobs during his life; he served as a surveyor, sheriff, colonel of militia, and member of the House of Burgess. His mother, Jane Randolph Jefferson, came from the one of the oldest families in Virginia. [1] Thomas grew up as any normal young colony boy would. His interest included hunting, fishing, horseback riding, and canoeing. All the children learned to play the violin and to appreciate music. Peter Jefferson taught Thomas to read and write, and to keep the farm accounts. [1] At the age of nine Thomas began his studies in local schools, and went to live with a nearby Scottish clergyman, who taught him Latin, Greek, and French. [1] At the age of fourteen Thomas Jefferson’s father passed away. Thomas being the oldest son became the head of the family. His inheritance included Shadwell with its 30 slaves and more than 2, 500 acres of land. John Harvey, Thomas’s guardian, managed the estate. [1] After Thomas’s father died, he entered the school of the Reverend James Maury, near Charlottesville. Thomas Jefferson was a remarkable genius, he enjoyed a large number of pursuits ranging from reading the works of Greek and Roman authors, and he read these in their own...
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...University of Phoenix Material Influences on the Constitution Table Write one or two paragraphs in each section. Include citations for your sources. |Documents |Summary |What was its influence on the Constitution? | |Magna Carta |The Magna Carta was a set of laws generated by the barons of |When the thirteen US colonies became independent from Great Britain in 1776, it | | |England and the Archbishop Steven Langton of the Catholic |needed to set a central government to pass laws and enforce the laws. During this | | |Church to limit the powers that King John possessed during the |time many British settlers followed the great Britain law that was put in place by | | |12 century and of any king thereafter. The Magna Carta came |the Magna Carta. In 1789 the United States Constitution was ratified and many of the| | |into law on June 15, 1215 and marked the beginning to a |Magna Carta laws were introduced to the foundation of what is the United States | | |constitutional England where the laws were promised to be good |Constitution. Such laws as that of no man should...
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...ndia officially the Republic of India (Bhārat Gaṇarājya), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the south-west, and the Bay of Bengal on the south-east, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north-east; and Burma (Myanmar) and Bangladesh to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; in addition, India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia. Home to the ancient Indus Valley Civilisation and a region of historic trade routes and vast empires, the Indian subcontinent was identified with its commercial and cultural wealth for much of its long history Four religions—Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism—originated here, whereas Zoroastrianism and the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam arrived in the 1st millennium CE and also helped shape the region's diverse culture. Gradually annexed by and brought under the administration of the British East India Company from the early 18th century and administered directly by the United Kingdom after the Indian Rebellion of 1857, India became an independent nation in 1947 after a struggle for independence that was marked by non-violent resistance led by Mahatma Gandhi. The Indian economy is...
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...Occupational lung cancer and smoking: a review in the light of current theories of carcinogenesis ALAN C. CHOVIL, MA, MB, B CHIR MPH, DAB PREy MED This paper considers modern theories of carcinogenesis as they apply to the induction of lung cancer by tobacco smoking and occupational exposure to carcinogens. Some of the known and postulated factors affecting carcinogenesis are discussed, with particular reference to syncarcinogenesis and thresholds. Factors affecting the intensity of smoking exposure are reviewed, and the generally accepted occupational lung carcinogens are listed. Relative risks for the various carcinogens according to smoking status (where known) are presented. The carcinogens are considered individually, and known or postulated interactions with smoking are discussed. It is concluded that the effects of lung carcinogens can be explained on the basis of current theories that support a rational definition of priorities for the prevention of occupational lung cancer. Cette etude s'interesse aux th6ories modernes de Ia carcinogenese telles qu'elles s'appliquent a l'induction du cancer du poumon par le tabac et par les risques du metier relie aux carcinogenes. Ouelques facteurs connus ou postules relatifs a Ia carcinogenese sont discutes, avec un interAt particulier pour Ia syncarcinogenese et les seuils de tol6rance. Les facteurs qui influencent l'intensite de l'exposition au tabac sont revus et on fait l'inventaire des carcinogenes pulmonaires relies au metier...
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...TXN Northeastern State University Table of Contents: Section I: Company History and Environment A.) Company Profile 3 References 8 Section II: Income Statement and Balance Sheet Analysis A.) Common Size Analysis (B.S. and I.S.) 10 B.) Identification & Explanation of Trends 11 References 12 Section III: Ratio Analysis A.) Ratio Profile 13 References 14 B.) Ratio Table for TXN and Peers 15 C.) Ratio Trends and Comparisons 16 Section IV: Valuation A.) Reformulated Balance Sheet 18 B.) Market Value of TXN Stock (ROPI) 19 C.) Spreadsheet Calculations 20 D.) Assumptions 21 E.) Estimate Price to Forecast Price 22 Section V: Summary and Conclusion A.) Summary 23 B.) Company Financial Appearance 24 References 25 Texas Instruments: TXN ) Company History and Environment Company History: Texas Instruments (TI) is a designer and manufacturer of microcontroller semiconductors and two forms of signal processing, analog and digital. It all began when Eugene McDermott, John Erik Jonsson, Patrick Eugene Haggerty, and Cecil H Green founded Texas Instruments in 1930. The company was originally named Geophysical Science, GSI, later it was changed to Coronado Corporation in 1939 before it was finally named Texas Instruments Incorporated in 1951 (History of Innovation). The founders of Texas Instruments originally created their brand of semiconductors...
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