The Southern Company is a utility holding company whose principal subsidiaries provide power in Alabama‚ Georgia‚ Florida‚ and Mississippi. With the gradual deregulation of the utilities industry in the 1990s‚ Southern Company expanded its holdings into New England‚ New York‚ the Midwest‚ and California‚ making it the largest power producer in the country. In addition‚ Southern now owns power generating operations in Europe‚ Hong Kong‚ the Philippines‚ and South America. The early 1980s saw a
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NEW ENGLAND SOUP COMPANY On January 11‚ 1991‚ William Kolander‚ president of the New England Soup Company of Boston‚ Massachusetts‚ was reviewing a research report he had received from a Boston-based research house. The report presented the findings of a study on the firm’s new formulation of Kolander’s Chowder brand of canned soup. The study had also been sent to the firm’s sales manager‚ Kirk George‚ and the production manager‚ Edward Corey. A meeting was scheduled for January 12 with the research
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in 1492 marked a new path for explorers from all over the world. England was one of those countries to explore the Newfoundland and settled into colonial America. By the 1700’s‚ Britain’s settlers divided into three distinct cultures within America. The New England‚ Middle‚ and Southern colonies were formed because of their differences in religious beliefs‚ geographic aspects‚ and occupation types. The variety of religious view in the New England‚ Middle‚ and Southern colonies helped evolve the
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Compare and contrast the Renaissance to the Middle Ages (542 words) By Makayla Barnes: Period four Before we had the music we have now there were periods of time before us that had different types of music. One was the Renaissance. The Renaissance was for the years 1450 to 1600. The word Renaissance means rebirth; it is known as that because it was the time period of human creativity and exploration. For example‚ Christopher Columbus set sail in 1492 to prove that the world isn’t flat.
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and Calvinists flee England due to the monarch’s Catholic belief. Many of these migrants‚ called Puritans would move to New England‚ the North Eastern area of the United States in present day. The reason why Puritans would flee to America was simple: After the English government became a Catholic country‚ many puritans did not want to the Mayflower Compact. However‚ in 1630‚ John Winthrop along with hundreds of puritans would establish a government in the Massachusetts Bay Colony with a representative
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When mentioning southern expansion in the years prior to the American Civil War‚ what places come to mind? While most people think of the west as the closest and quickest place the southern states could have expanded the institution of slavery‚ one does not typically consider Cuba as a likely location. The island of Cuba served as a valid choice for many southern expansionists in the name of slavery‚ not only because its land was well suited and had been exposed to slavery‚ but also it was believed
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learn and become a collective dependant I would earn a stable lively-hood in one of the New World colonies. I suffered losses of loved who fell sick and died with only a few remaining that were as impoverished as myself. I feared there would be no prospect of a better life in Scotland and contracted myself as an indentured servant for passage to the New World colonies. Along with many others I boarded a New World merchant ship that specialized in the trade of textiles and clothing. In exchange
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Prospero who is seen as his conqueror or master‚ and how he is below that of Prospero and therefore the indigenous people of the Americas were below that of the European colonists. This can also be seen as a reflection of William Shakespeare’s view of colonizing North America and what was imagined the American indigenous people were like. Caliban being both the son of Sycorax and the devil‚ also seen as the product of nature‚ is very representative of how European people at the time viewed the natives
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MIDDLE ENGLISH AND NEW ENGLISH VOCABULARY The vocabulary in the ME period shows great instability and constant and rapid changes. Many words became obsolete; a lot of them reflected the ever-changing life of the speakers and were under the influence of contacts with other nations. 1. Internal means of enriching vocabulary. Internal sources of vocabulary growth became less important in ME. It might have been due to great expansion of foreign words (especially French). Beginning with the 15
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Havahd Yahd: Northern New England and the New‚ Old World Some of the oldest cities in the United States can be found along the coast to the Northeast: New York‚ Boston‚ Jersey City. They’ve grown from backwoods settlements to thriving bastions of urban Americana. Yet‚ when one mentions New England‚ an image of “olden times” comes to mind: Brahmin men and women with buckles on their shoes‚ lacking rhoticity‚ using thee/thou/thy. It is interesting then to discover that the New England dialect is in fact
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