...the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party and the Intolerable Acts. Britain wanted to create colonies in what is now America and they were very successful. Britain had power over the colonies and used that to make unfair laws for the colonies to follow. The Seven year was caused Britain to go into great debt and put taxes on the colonists which caused the colonists to become angry with Parliament. The colonists protested which lead to the Boston Massacre, and after that the colonists caused an incident caused the Boston Tea Party where Britain replied with the intolerable acts. The Boston Massacre caused the colonists to be scared and angry with Parliament. “In 1770 Boston crackled with tension, a group of angry colonists confronted twelve red coats and threw objects and dares to shoot at them. One soldier was knocked over by a block of ice and yelled fire and killed five” (Boyer 144). Boston civilians were shot and killed by British soldiers and they were already not getting along. Boston and other colonies became scared of the British soldiers and...
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...referring to the materials provided for this assignment, identify two possible strategies that Thomas Hutchinson or Samuel Adams likely used to develop and improve their thinking as those historical events unfolded prior to taking a stand and acting according to their beliefs. Using the critical thinking skill, “broadened their perceptive,” Thomas Hutchinson and Samuel Adams looked at the whole picture for everyone and what could happen in their future if their situation does not change. They believe in individuality. Hutchinson and Adams, both did not believe that they should just go along with everyone else’s ideas. I believe that they had an open mind to what their situation was. I do think that they believe in somewhat in the other people’s opinions but they had their own unanswered questions and ideas. This way of thinking made them major key figures in our country’s history. 102 words 2. Explain the importance of building a foundation for critical and creative thinking when evaluating historical events such as the Boston Tea Party. There is an importance of a foundation in everything in our life. A child needs a family to form a foundation so, the children can move on to adolescent and on to adulthood. Without a family foundation, child has a problem adjusting as they become older. To build a house, you need a good foundation. Without the foundation, you will have nothing to support the frame of the house. In reference to...
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...Do we all know the meaning of sin? Do we know God and his purposes? Can we differentiate without help what is right or wrong? Would it be fair to be sentenced for not knowing? I believe that a person who does not have knowledge or help to differentiate between good and bad, it would not be fair to sentence him without mercy even when the person demonstrates changes after understanding the mistakes he made. Tsotsi commits crimes that make him guilty, but not 100%. His experience when he was young made him unfamiliar to what was right or wrong. Tsotsi regretted his mistakes and was changing once he comprehended what he had done that was bad. Tsotsi is guilty but deserves alternative sentencing: counseling and community service. According to the book, when Tsotsi's friend, Boston, ask him personal questions, Tsotsi was mad because he didn't know any answers, he...
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...In the NAACP they didn’t have a lot of black people. Jonathan Kozol’s work was written for an education audience as many books focuses on the lives of poor children. His most recent article is “Fire in the Ashes: Twenty five years among the Poorest Children in America.” Jonathan Kozol was a very young college graduate and he was hired by the Boston public schools. When he began his career at the predominantly African American Gibson school in Roxbury in 1965. His traumatic experience schools before desegregation. In Jonathan Kozol story he was walking into a narrow and old wood smelling classroom and he it was thirty five curious, cautious, and untrusting children aged eight to thirteen, of whom about two thirds are Negros. It is not different from sending a little girl from the negro ghetto into an art class near Harvard...
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...affected millions of people and the way they lived their lives. Many who were already afraid to fly, would never consider flying now. A personal experience I had at work , two months after the incident occurred, is proof of the change in attitudes and fears of flying Americans had at the time. My company needed to have a service technician on site in Denver, CO for a presentation they were having of a new product. My supervisor brought me into a private conference with him and asked me if I would be willing to fly from Boston, MA, where our company was located, to Denver. This would have never been handled in this fashion, prior to the bombings. I agreed to step up and told him, “If it happens, it happens, I can't change my life because of what happened.” People still live in fear of another terrorist attack like 9/11. There was an attack at the Boston Marathon on Patriot's Day, 2012, that was allegedly conspired by terrorists. These acts of terrorism did exactly what they were meant to do. They sparked fears in the American people enough to fear future attacks. Most of the country changed the way they look at the safety they believed they were guaranteed to have at all times. We saw that we are not untouchable and...
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...Wendelin Van Draanen’s book, The Running Dream, is about a teenage girl, Jessica, whos life changed after a bus crash with her whole track team on it. This tragic accident left one dead, and Jessica with an amputated leg. This was an experience that no one could forget. After Jessica loses her leg, she thinks that her life is over, and her dream to win a sponsorship to college can’t happen. With a prosthetic leg, Jessica thinks that she is in the spotlight, but also “invisible”. She feels that one little thing can change how people look at others. When Jessica learns that, she realizes that she has made others “invisible” because she didn’t know what to say to them. She did that to a girl named Rosa who has cerebral palsy. Their friendship sparks a light in Jessica's life and makes her want to give something back to Rosa. With the help of her family and friends, Jessica's dream may come true. On April 15, 2013, the Boston Marathon Bombing occured. This was an event where two men made homemade bombs and set them off near the finish line during the Boston Marathon. This bomb killed 3 people...
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...how the government was set up in the time of the Boston Massacre and how the British believed that all the colony people should support them. The British government worked closely with the Commissioners, giving them the ability to call upon the upper organizations. The Commissioner sent soldiers to Boston to enforce their new rulings on taxation and importation. Once the troops were sent, the colonist began to feel uneasy and they fought back by writing in the Boston Evening Post, portraying Boston as being in a state of revolt. The tensions were high and people of power began to engage in physical altercations. The more the colonist began to go against the British government and attempted to illegally import goods, the more people became involved in this resistance. By this time the children were involved leading to the casualties of two pre-teen children, and causing more uproar. The small outbreaks mentioned are what lead to the main massacre where five men lost their lives....
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...This ideal gives people the ability to get rid of their government if there is lack of authority or reason. “The Tea Party movement takes its name from the Boston Tea Party of the revolutionary era… They support a smaller government, lower taxes, and reduction of the national debt (Doc D).” The Boston Tea Party was caused by government raising taxes on tea which led to a revolt and lots of debt. By having the ability to overthrow the government, breakouts won’t happen like The Boston Tea Party. Being able to abolish or alter the government is a key part in being able to protect yourself and others from careless...
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...During the event of the Boston Massacre, over two hundred colonists had cornered British troops, throwing snowballs with rocks and wielding clubs. They shouted at the troops to fire. Five colonists were killed and six others were injured. To a certain extent, many call this an accident, but with most of the facts given, the colonists deserved what had happened to them. In the Boston Massacre, two hundred colonists had cornered a few British soldiers. With weapons in hand, they threw snowballs, rocks, sticks, and they wielded clubs. Private Montgomery was struck in the head, falling to the ground. When he rose, he was the first to fire back, causing the other troops to fire as well. With the colonists shouting for the troops to fire at them, he could have easily mistaken the command to have came from his commanding officer. This was an act of self-defense. The troops had been...
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...Elisabeth Hood Miss.Vann English 1302 July 18, 2013 Final Draft Analyzing Nora Ephron In the selection The Boston Photographs,” the author Nora Ephron shares one of her selections from her collection Scribble, Scribble: Notes, on the media (1978). This selection was a response to the “The Boston Photos,” that were captured by Stanley Forman, from the Boston Herald American who used a motor –driven Nikon set at 1/250, 15.6-s. Ephron tries to inform and persuade the readers on why those Boston photos should be publish and why all photos make great journalism and she accomplish those things. With that being stated, her thesis and purpose of this selection is that photojournalism is better than written journalism. Ephron explains and give her opinion and others opinion on why and why not these Boston photos that were token around the 1930’s should or shouldn’t be publish for the public eyes. The audience of this selection would be students that major in photography or journalism, and on the other hand people who read the newspaper on the daily. Ephron starts her selection off by giving the reader background information on the Boston photos. She did not leave the audience guessing on what she was talking about. These pictures were taking while a firefighter was trying to save a young women’s and child’s life during an apartment fire. The photographer, Stanley Forman did not know the ending outcome of that failed rescue. As he took the photos you see the firefighter grabbing...
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...There were many events that lead up to this, such as the Proclamation of 1763 and the writs of assistance, But three very important events were the Townshend Acts, the Boston Tea Party and The Intolerable acts. These three events were central causes of the american revolution. The first of the the was the Townshend acts. After the French and Indian War, England was greatly in debt, and tried to tax the colonies, but the needed new taxes after the Stamp and Sugar acts were repealed....
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...The Boston Massacre was a very tragic event that happened on March 5, 1770. It is a very important part of our history today. The Boston massacre was about the colonists and british throwing and firing things at each other, because the colonists started the event by breaking away from England and throwing objects at the British soldiers, and the British soldiers took it seriously and thought that they were declared to fight back. I think that the Boston Massacre happened as an accident. I believe this because the Boston soldiers were probably thinking the colonists were being cruel and wanting to actually start a war. One of the reasons that makes me believe that the Boston massacre was an accident is because the british soldiers thought that when they heard “Fire! Fire! Fire!” it was their captain and so they started firing guns and throwing snowballs like it says in one of the sources. Also the colonists had no idea that the british soldiers would fire guns and throw snowballs back at them or they never would’ve thrown sticks, rocks, snowballs ,or clubs at the British soldiers in the first place. I think the colonists got killed by an accident because the British soldiers used their instincts and fought back at the colonists before the colonists killed them before they...
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...Ebola is a rare and deadly disease caused by infection with symptoms such as fever and severe internal bleeding which can lead to organ shutdown. People can be exposed to the virus by direct contact of blood or secretions from the body. The Ebola virus came from several African countries. An “ Ebola” outbreak happened in Boston, December of 2014. Lee Gehrke an MIT professor had been working on a test for 2 years prior to the outbreak in MA. to determine which virus is Ebola or another virus so that they could find a way to stop the virus from spreading. He continued his research and work in developing a test, creating a $3 device that screens for the condition by sopping up a drop of blood from a finger prick and analyzing it in under...
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...Case: Boston Beer Company Address the following questions in a 4-5 page write-up of the Boston Beer Company Case to explore the issue of Initial Public Offerings. 1) What do you think of Boston Beer’s business model relative to the traditional beer companies’ business model? Relative to Redhook and Pete’s? (Hint: consider their brewing, production, distribution, marketing strategies. How is each firm attempting to achieve its own sustainable comparative advantage in the market place?) 2) Evaluate Boston Beer’s performance relative to its peers (Compare BBC's ratios to the ratios of its peers in exhibit 4). (Hint: how do differences in operating strategies translate into differences in financial ratios? Are there any downside risks to BBC's contract brewing strategy?) 3) What is your assessment of the intrinsic value of Boston Beer’s stock at the time of the case? What should be its IPO price? (Some hints below: First, you should look at the P/E multiples for Pete's and Redhook around the IPO time for BBC. You should also look at the average amount the price seems to jump on the day of the IPO, and the EPS of BBC for 1994 and 1995. From this, you should figure out what the implied price per share for BBC should be in this market environment. Second, you should try to justify this price per share by doing FCF analysis. Create a ten year pro-forma spreadsheet, projecting out barrels of beer each year, revenue per barrel, revenue...
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...Matthew Smith March 2, 2014 History 2010-012 Defiance of Patriots Paper The Boston Tea Party was shaped by events that occurred inside and outside North America and had nontraditional actors; poverty in Bengal, pressure from New York and Philadelphia, Native Americans, and the youth all played roles in causing the tea protests. In Bengal the East India Company was administrating the country and their greed drove the country into poverty, hardship, and starvation. Pressure from Philadelphia and New York put on Boston to hold true to their non-importation agreement, including a ban on tea, helped motivate actions for the Boston Tea Party. The Native Americans played a nontraditional role for the protesters in Boston because of what they symbolized. The youth of Boston were another example of nontraditional actors that helped shape what the protests became. Boston faced many struggles as a town, from being heavily taxed to having their port shut down. Citizens of Boston never gave up the hope of freedom and they came together as a town to fight for what they thought was just.. The East India Company was in Bengal, today located in India, and they were administrating the colony for the British government on a charter granted to them. In the year 1769 not a single drop of rain fell, rice was 20-50 times higher the normal price, an estimated 1.2 million died, and citizens were driven into poverty, this was called the Fall of 1769. The East India Company was only in Bengal...
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