...Mason called these grants ‘New Hampshire’ because he was from the county of Hampshire in England. The Hiltons pushed about eight miles up the Piscataqua River and founded Dover. Mason sent skilled Danes and 22 women so that the settlement would begin to flourish. In 1631 the Hiltons founded a second settlement approximately three miles north of Pannaway. The meadows along the river were lush strawberries, which prompted them to name it ‘Strawberry Bank’. Dover and Strawberry Bank grew slowly. Everything was provided for them by Mason and the Plymouth Council; food, tools, building materials, guns, munitions, and even fine fat cattle. Men were paid wages and owned no land of their own. Only the proprietors benefited from their labor, so the settlers had little reason to strive for improvement. In 1635 the Plymouth Council was forced to give up their charter to King Charles I of England. The King didn’t have time for the colonies. Both Dover and Strawberry Bank took advantage of this and set up their own...
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...Welcome to the amiable town of West Dover, Vermont, home of Mount Snow, the purveyor to the ski and snowboard addict for his fix. It's winter and I am in this placid place to enjoy a favorite pastime of mine. I am not here for conventional skiing, but for the "alternative" version known as cross-country skiing. My sport takes place not on Mount Snow, but across from it, in a comfortable community called Timber Creek. When I cross-country ski at Timber Creek, I experience an inundating sense of euphoria, which makes cross-country my favorite sport. . As I step outside I am amazed at God's creation - everything covered in snow is sparkling with radiance and the sky is as majestic and blue as the oceans of the Seychelles' islands(Don't get excited-I haven't been...
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...Dover, V., Massengale, J. (2014) Street Design: The Secret to Green Cities and Towns. New Jersey, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Summarize literature: Dover and Massengale’s theory consists of creating and improving streets to suit the need of citizens. They support their statements with evidence through examples of successful streets from around the world and provide new theories as a guideline to enhance existing streets and communities. In addition, the authors support their argument by studying their own designs and evaluating historic street examples. They analysed their favourite cities, interviewed their colleagues for their list of favourite cities and travelled to a number of cities around the world to examine the current situation in each city to support their argument. How your study relates to the article: This book includes the principles needed to create better spaces for humans. It reveals key elements that many modern street designs lack by examines hundreds of examples of street designs around the world. For instance, it argues that Kensington High Street is a successful street. It demonstrates how the street can be transformed from a traffic-dominated street to an innovative public space. This book explores the elements of a traditional street and historical urban design. Therefore, it will help in providing background information for the extended essay. Furthermore, it will support the argument of the essay as it examines successful cities. Although this...
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...Intelligent Design is religion disguised as science, and as such, should not be taught in our public schools. Introduction The town of Dover, PA looks like any other small towns in central Pennsylvania, but in October 2004 when the local school board proposed a slight alteration to the high school biology curriculum a fault line erupted between those who think of intelligent design as science and something that should be taught alongside evolution, and those who think of it as religion disguised as science. As a science teacher myself, I was very interested in this subject, and how school districts nationwide are pushing initiatives recently to put intelligent design in their biology classes. These school districts are struggling with the dilemma of whether or not to teach creationism as an alternative view to evolution theory. If, as many scientific creationists believe, God's message is important in defining the content, aims, and conditions of educational practice, then creationism does belong in the classroom. However, those who propose that creationism is not science, and that "creation science" is a misnomer, are opposed to the intervention of religion into the public educational program; after all, public educational programs should be separate from concerns of the church. The Scientific...
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...of this, additional runaway slaves joined them. The two main Maroon groups were the Leeward and the Windward tribes, the former led by Cudjoe in Trelawny Town and the latter led by his sister Queen Nanny (and later by Quao). Over time, the Maroons came to control large areas of the Jamaican interior and they often moved down from the hills to raid the plantations. This resulted in the First Maroon War. In 1739-40 the British government in Jamaica came to an agreement with the Maroons. They were to remain in their five main towns Accompong, Trelawny Town, Moore Town, Scots Hall and Nanny Town, living under their own chief with a British supervisor. In exchange, they agreed not to harbour new runaway slaves, but rather to help catch them. They were paid a bounty for each returned slave. This last clause in the treaty naturally caused tension between the Maroons and the enslaved black population, although from time to time runaways from the plantations still found their way into Maroon settlements. | | | However, tensions between planters and Maroons remained and a Second Maroon War broke out in 1795. The Accompong Maroons remained neutral and the British left them alone. By the end of the war, all the other Maroon settlements in Jamaica had been destroyed, and Accompong alone remained. The Trelawny Town Maroons were resettled in Nova Scotia for a few brutal winters, and the...
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...Books are a great way of gaining knowledge. Life without books would be very boring and people would have a hard time learning. Montag has a wife whose name is Mildred. Montag ends up getting hunted by a mechanical hound. Montag like many others ends up with a job of a fireman. City Where montag Lives is a very brutal City with the way it's managed, which is why Montag is fighting the government of the city. Montag first meets Mildred when Montag walks home from work. They later marry. Montag begins to bring home books from his work and starts hiding the books. Mildred begins reading books Montag has brought home. Mildred later becomes frustrated with Montag after Montag reads a poem of Dover Beach so she leaves in a taxi after filing a complaint...
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...Since the establishment of the Old Kingdom, big stones and boulders were a preserve of temples and tombs leaving bricks for other uses such as temple precinct walls, town buildings, fortress, palace, temple complexes and annexes (Reich and Cunningham, 35). For the pyramids, mudbricks, gravel, quarry stones and sand were used to build its core. The ancient Egyptian architecture was main massive structures with thick sloping walls based on religious monuments. The walls were sloping with wide base for stability of the mud structures (Dieter, et al., 46). Use of arches in buildings was introduced in the fourth dynasty to replace the post and lintel building structures with flat roofs and massive supporting walls or closed placed pillars (Gates, 102). Commonly on the walls both internal and external and on the columns were hieroglyphic, carvings and pictorial frescoes in visually fascinating colors. Some of the famous buildings and structures of the ancient Egyptian architecture include; The Giza pyramid complex The complex of Egyptian pyramids was built in the fourth Dynasty to act both as tombs and make the name of the reigning Pharaoh last for eternity (Gates, 100). Therefore, they signified the power and mighty of pharaonic state and religion. The Giza Necropolis today stands on the Giza plateau, about 8 km from the town of Giza and approximately...
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...uke William of Normandy attacked England in October, 1066, and at Hastings crushed the Saxon military pioneer, Harold II, who quickly had been designated by the Saxon Witan to guard the country. With the passing of Harold II at Hastings, sorted out Saxon resistance fallen. William of Normandy, driving less than three thousand Norman knights, moved north parallel to the drift, took Dover, then judiciously went to Canterbury, where he threatened Archbishop Stigand into giving his approval for Duke William to proceed onward to Westminster and claim the crown. Along his way toward London, William's aptitude, as a military strategist for fulfilling this objective with constrained ground support, is appeared in the way he encompassed and disconnected towns with least showdown. In any case, when he touched base at the south shore of the Thames opposite London, he mercilessly crushed the land. He exhibition to nationals of London that he could be absolutely brutal, and that he implied business. In this, he was successful to the point that the Saxon pioneer, Edgar the Atheling (the main living male beneficiary of Alfred the Great) and other Saxon nobles in London met William outside the city entryways, where they offered him...
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...The Industrial Revolution: A Means to an End Capitalism is the result of constant revolutions led by a lower class. Karl Marx states that the “modern bourgeois is itself the product of a long course of development of a series of revolutions in the modes of production and of exchange”(Marx, 160). The bourgeoise are the group of people who were able to seize control of the means of production for their community. They control the manufacturing of all the resources the people might need. The bourgeois maintain command of the production while the proletariat are the ones who carry out the actual work. Marx believed the only limiting factors of the proletariat’s status beneath the bourgeois were the current level of technology available and, although that technology is keeping them down, it will advance to the point of giving the proletariat a chance to shrink the gap between themselves and those above them, “but with the development of industry the proletariat not only increases in number, it becomes concentrated in greater masses, its strength grows and it feels that strength more”(166). The Industrial Revolution was the gateway to modern economics and ushered in an age of poorer working standards, profit based business models, and the end to artisanship. The Industrial Revolution was the beginning of a new type of economy. The machines and inventions spawned during this time allowed people to perform certain tasks much more efficiently and increased the level of production...
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...the effectiveness of a trebuchet. "It relies on the principle that stored potential energy of the counterweight can be converted into kinetic energy of the payload, launching it into the air," (Science Buddies Staff 1). The trebuchet was a very advanced weapon long ago, when there were no guns or bombs, and it was a huge step toward modern war. The trebuchet was invented in China in 300BC. It dates back to antiquity, or the ancient past. Developed from the stave sling, the trebuchet was introduced to England during the Siege of Dover in 1216 (Medieval Weapons - Trebuchet 1). "The trebuchet reached Europe during the Medieval era in 500 AD and was used extensively by the French and the troop of men were replaced with a large fixed, or pivoting, counterbalance weight," (Trebuchet 1) This weapon was used in warfare against castles, and had two uses: high trajectory fire and artillery duels. These were mainly used as a terror-weapon against castles and towns, or trying to disable other weapons of enemies (Vick 1). Trebuchets could provide high angle shorts, which was very useful in sieges against castles with tall walls. Nicknamed Malvoisine (‘the bad neighbor’), the trebuchet was well-respected (Farrell). The use of these war machines was very universal, and it could eject anything imaginable from its sling, including stones, sharp wooden poles and darts, fire casks of burning tar sand, dead or disease ridden, sometime mutilated, bodies, and any rotting matter (Trebuchet 1). There...
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...Before the Civil War, legal, political, social and cultural circumstances in American society shaped the lives of African Americans by enslaving the population in fear, illiteracy, and even hierarchy. Many plantation owners preyed upon their slaves with fearful explanations on what would happen to them if they tried to escape to freedom. “A slaveholder once told me that he had seen a runaway friend of mine in New York, and that she besought him to take her back to her master, for she was literally dying of starvation…” (Incidents in the life of a slave girl,pp39). The slaveholder’s would also tell stories of what a horrible death a slave endured after their escape. Much of their stories were fiction and just a tactic to ensure the other slaves would think twice about escaping. Many slaves did learn to read and write and learned of the truth through letters and newspapers. A wise slave would seldom speak of this knowledge, in fear that their master would learn of their ability to read. Slaves would often ‘dumb down’ their intelligence to avoid whatever the consequences might be. “One day he caught me teaching myself to write…. Before long, notes were often slipped into my hand. I would return them, saying ‘I can’t read them sir…” (pp29). Slaves had a hierarchy in which they were placed or born to. Many worked hard and laborious hours in dire conditions. Still some work directly with their Mistress and cared for the children born to the Mistress. This labor was higher on the social...
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...friend Jim, but the other “slaves” had to tell Jim for huck first.”I wasn’t gonn shove off till jack comes and tells me he certen you’s ded”(twain 88).This plays a very important role in the souths part for discrimination becausese the other slaves were all excluded from the current events occurring in the household while they were ignored from society even while others were dieing proving the souths neglect and discrimination. When the king and the duke were selling everything from the small property they swindled from the dead man‘s house they sold the slaves first as if they were property and not just people, they treated them like absalute garbage with no rights.”They hadn’t ever dreamed of seeing the family sold or separated from the town” (twain 138). Mark Twain attempted...
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...Reality Eclipsing Romance The American Cowboy, by reason of his picturesqueness, was a prime subject for entertainments like the Wild West show. However, the limitations of popular entertainment caused William Cody to stress the cowboy’s attractive charm to the exclusion of other qualities. Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, formed in 1883 and lasting until 1913, romanticized versions of a time and place, and shaped the myth of the Wild West, including the glamorized image of the cowboy. When the world spun into the twentieth century, millions of people believed they recalled the American Wild West because “they had seen it, full of life and color, smoking guns and galloping horses, presided over by the most recognizable celebrity of his day: William F. Cody, or Buffalo Bill.” Spectators accepted the vivid personal memories that the Wild West show generated as historical truth. Although William F. Cody claimed that the motive behind Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show was to preserve “The Great West that Was,” his dramatized and inaccurate portrayals belied the true portrait of the American Cowboy to the public. At one time or another, William Cody performed the duties of a U.S. Army Scout, Indian Fighter, rancher, businessman, and world-renowned entertainer, but still, Cody never actually worked as a cowboy. Cody claimed that he staged his memories, “in the hope of giving permanent form to the history of the Plains” However, he contradicts this claim with his account of the obsession...
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...Readings in Humanities 28 January 2012 The Stranger Within Ever wondered why a close friend or relative behaves a certain way around one person and then seemingly transforms into a whole new person when surrounded by other people? The belief that everyone has multiple personalities is one that is very common and can be seen amongst almost all in society. In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde written by Robert Louis Stevenson, the idea of dual personalities is taken beyond the normal circumstances, as the main character frequently morphs into an entire new persona. This new persona commits violent acts and often finds himself in a great deal of trouble. Although, in reality, extreme cases like the one presented in this novella are rarely heard of, the truth still lays in the fact that not everyone is whom he or she appears to be. When initially inquiring about secondary personalities, it makes the most sense to begin with how these second selves come about. The answer is quite simple in that everyone is born with many different “layers” to their personality, many of which either never show up or appear later in life. For that reason, the way in which one thinks or functions is not always discernable. This entire concept plays a large role in why each and every person on this Earth is so incredibly distinct in his or her own way. Having a dual personality is one side of the issue; the other is how one utilizes it. Life can become quite dull at times and this can...
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...Impact of Black Death HIS 103 World Civilizations Donnie Burnette April 4th 2011 The Impact of Black Death Black Death was known by several names such as Black Death, the Bubonic Plague and the Black plague. Regardless of what you call it, it was one of the world’s worst pandemic in history. This plague tore through Europe destroying villages and communities. The immediate impact was fear, chaos, and complete devastation, the long term effect proved to improve economics and societies. Black Death spread through Europe beginning in 1346 and ending in 1353. Seven years of “unexplained” deaths, the plague chose no race, color, age or gender it attacked and killed 50 million people or 60% of the population (Benedictou 2005). Symptoms of the plague began with swollen glands in the neck, armpits, and groin areas. Internal bleeding gave the skin a blackened coloring earning the name “Black Death”. Other symptoms range from red blotching of the skin “rosies” Once bitten these would appear within a couple days and the victim would die within a week. Even a more powerful strain of this plague was the pneumonic plague; this version went directly to the lungs and respiratory systems. Now not only was this spread...
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