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    1886. Her family was highly educated and very well known in the New England area. Her father started Amherst College. Emily Dickinson was very reclusive and left school when she was a teenager. Emily lived on the family homestead in Amherst‚ Massachusetts where she created hundreds of poems secretly without the knowledge of her family. The Dickinson’s had three children and Emily was the middle child. Both Emily and her sister lived on the family homestead until their death never marrying.

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    specialist. This was not always the case as healthcare insurance has evolved over the years. The history of healthcare insurances in the United was began in the mid 1700s but did not develop until 1850‚ when Franklin Health Assurance Company of Massachusetts began providing accident insurance‚ to cover injuries associated to railroad and steamboat travel.

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    Biography of Henry D. Thoreau Henry David Thoreau is an American who has an legacy that goes on forever from his extraordinary writings. Thoreau’s writings varied different genres. This ability of writing with a different variety of genres gave an positive affect or touched many people in a way that had driven them to do something great. Therefore ‚ his contributions to the world of literature are numerous his works touched a world wide audience. which makes his reputation great as a writer. Consequently

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    lastly‚ to revolution. There were political‚ social‚ and economic causes and consequences of the American Revolution. There were significant political causes of the American Revolution. Firstly‚ the Boston Massacre took place in 1770‚ in Boston‚ Massachusetts. Colonists constantly tormented the British

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    In the 1600s‚ colonists from England decided to leave their homeland to travel to America or “the New World.” The two regions the colonists mostly settled in were the New England area and the Chesapeake area. Although New England and the Chesapeake region were both settled largely by the people of English origin‚ by 1700 the regions evolved into two distinct societies. This difference occurred because the New England colonies was based off of escaping religious persecution while the Chesapeake colonies

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    Throughout history‚ many people from the same country have immigrated to different lands where their new lifestyles had very little in common. This was obvious in the settlement of the New England and Chesapeake colonies before 1700 which caused the development of dissimilar societies. The people of New England and the Chesapeake colonies formed different governments upon arrival to North America. They had different motives and incentives for immigrating to America. The composition of the colonists

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    . . . Document F: Samuel Adams‚ “Declaration of Rights‚” Massachusetts Committee of Correspondence‚ 20 November 1772 Source: Annals of America‚ vol. 2‚ 217–220. By the charter of this province‚ [there] shall be liberty of conscience allowed in the worship of God to all Christians‚ except Papists. . . . All

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    As a whole‚ I believe economic development had a larger impact on colonial settlement than religious concerns‚ but this varies with the individual colonies. Each colony had something different to offer England and a different motive for settling. New England came about because the Puritans and Separatists wanted a place to worship free the original Church of England. Virginia‚ on the other hand‚ was established at first as a trade colony and base for gold and precious metal expeditions. The Maryland

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    1892 a double murder was committed. Abby Borden was discovered dead upstairs and her husband Andrew dead downstairs. Both were axed to death in a matter of minutes. Officially the case is unsolved but what is known is that in 1892‚ in Fall River‚ Massachusetts a Murder escaped from justice. In the Lizzie Borden controversial court case‚ the innocent verdict correctly acquitted Lizzie borden because she had no motive‚ not enough time to commit the act‚ and was wrongly accused. Lizzie Borden did not have

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    The English Colonies alongside the Atlantic Coast in the 1600’s- 1700’s began with the failed attempt to establish the Roanoke Colony in Virginia‚ which was later surpassed by the Virginia Company‚ a joint stock company‚ that established the colony of Jamestown in the Chesapeake Bay. Following the success of establishment of Jamestown was a series of devastation known as the “starving period” as food sources were scare‚ conflicts with natives arised‚ and starvation characterized the lives of the

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