Their family structure was also different. While the majority of the Puritans who settled in New England had well developed families with many children, Chesapeake Bay settlers were mostly single men and adventurers who soon faced starving because they did not plant crops to survive. ... The long, cold winters and rocky soil that characterize the New England region discouraged settlers from creating crop plantations and shifted the focus of the economy towards small family farms, seafaring and fishing. ... C) The development of small family farms as opposed to the large plantations in the Ches...

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They would operate vegetable farms in the interior and coastal cities and some even ended up working for wealthy white families. ... They would work hard for whatever amount of money they were given, and try to provide as much as possible for their families in China. They always had the hope of going back to China too see their families and return to their Country. ...

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The British responded by cleaning up the war' , these tactics which involved destroying livestock and crops, burning farms and containing women and children in the original concentration camps, were heavily criticized back home and internationally. ... In response to the blacks land ownership, who had previously been tenants on the white owned land, laws were passed restricting the number of African families who could live on any single farm. ... This caused a great problem for the British, as it resulted in a shortage of labor in the white owned mines and farms. ...

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My store that has been in my family for generations has been vandalized merely because I sell imported British tea. ... Without the major cities America would be fighting an impossible war over a few farms and plantations. ...

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But slavery was less profitable in the North, there economic activity centered on small farms and industries The southern plantation owners were not willing to follow in the north's footsteps because their income would decrease a considerable amount. ... The victims included the family of Joseph Travis, Turner's owner. ...

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These were people who were content with their simple lives, people whose religion preached pacifism, those who did not want to see their homes, families and lands ravaged by war, and those who felt that the colonial armies where not strong enough to defeat the British and did not want there land and possessions confiscated. ... Fur traders did not want to compete for land with expanding farms. ...

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These were people who were content with their simple lives, people whose religion preached pacifism, those who did not want to see their homes, families and lands ravaged by war, and those who felt that the colonial armies where not strong enough to defeat the British and did not want there land and possessions confiscated. ... Fur traders did not want to compete for land with expanding farms. ...

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The poster in figure 2 was concerned with exploiting male pride in the face of family expectations. ... My father was no coward, but had been reluctant to leave his family. ... With all the men away at war it was up to the women to take over their duties on the farm, in the factories. ...

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British Imperialism And the Boer War European politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries endured controversy and problem over the ideas of imperialism and nationalism. Changes in Europe politically, intellectually, economically, and socially, radically conditioned new response to the issues of imperialism, nationalism, and war. Britain, at its imperial zenith, faced a war that sprung from both ideologies of imperialism and nationalism. The Boer War (1899-1902) would change imperialistic relations between England her colonies, and open their eyes to the country's m...

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They went together with their families, carts and black slaves. ... He exhausted the enemy devastating the Boer farms which sheltered the guerrillas, taking the civil populationmainly women and children to concentration camps and building an extraordinary strategic chain of small iron forts for his troops. ...

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Like Beatrice, she wants to be recognized by a man who gives her true love and a family; she searches for the recognition from men and hope that they would agree on her attractiveness and fight for her. ... Though she misses home and wants to get back home and get recognition from her family, she suffers from nostalgia and pressure since she cannot earn enough money to face her parents. ... The author describes her as having a new power, confidence even' (Ngugi, P.1454, line 44) At the end of the story, Beatrice goes back to the bar and plays a song which contrasts the life of rural gir...

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ABSTRACT This dissertation aims to study development and broadcasting in Zambia, to draw conclusions as to the present situation of broadcasting and the direction it should move in the future. The study of the development of broadcasting in Zambia and its current structure are outlined together wi...

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In scenes mirrored across Europe over this period in history the majority of the wealth generated from the slave trade was held by a capital owning elite in France, one family that prevailed in this industry was the Montaudoinsm's, a trading family that alone were responsible for the sending of 357 ships to cultivate slaves to be used in plantations across the Americas10. ...

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Kenyans were so angry of this because farmers who used to grow coffee, the profit they made out of the coffee are what they used to feed their family. ... Some examples of what they did are: They slaughtered a young boy whilst sleeping They mutilated a home guard of a white family horribly, (his skull was cut into 2 pieces, his hands and feet were cut off up to his wrist and ankle). ...

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Under the colonial system, the rents became extremely costly, in which individuals were often faced with a choice to pay rent or buy food for their families. ... Quality lands were being used for grain, livestock, and flax forcing many families to use the barest lands for subsistence. Irish farmers were forced to farm on wastelands and marginal croplands, and the potato was the only crop that would flourish in these conditions. ...

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