an evolved physiological response that helps seals, whales, otters and other aquatic mammals stay underwater for half an hour or more at a time: the diving reflex.

breath-holding efforts of most people on dry land, who may nonetheless find that they, too, can hold out much longer than usual while swimming.

young lads and maidens, not exceeding fourteen years of age, nor under twelve; so great 105 a number of both sexes

buying the children alive, and dressing them hot from the knife, as we do roasting pigs

when he hath only some particular friend, or his own family to dine with 90 him.

the markets will be more glutted than usual

one male

most delicious nourishing and wholesome food

rags having been at least four times that value.

seventy thousand breeders

murdering their bastard children

contribute to the feeding, and partly to the clothing of many thousands.

as those who demand our charity in the streets.

would deserve so well of the public, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation.

These mothers instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to employ all their time in strolling to beg sustenance3 for their 5 helpless infants who, as they grow up, either turn thieves for want of work, or leave their dear native country, to fight for the Pretender in Spain, or sell themselves to the Barbadoes

"Thou shaltnot steal."

whole picture is painted black 

The effort tomake financial or political profit out of the destruction of character can only resultinpublic calamity.

The liar is no whit better than the thief,

 moral color blindness

the Man withthe Muck Rake, the man who could look no way but downward, withthe muck rake inhis hand;

InBunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress"

in which the nation has grown and the sphere of action

I say to you the cry will not be to save the hungry but the cry next winter will be to save this government of the United States.

McGrady was a representative of the American Federation of Labor, oneof the country’s largest labor unions.

positive view of Native Americans and I think that is because of movies such as Twilight, which really has a lot of young people, are looking at natives differently.

will inhibit or narrow the opportunities for that people.

struggling to understand my people and identifying with a current-day role model

media and propaganda portrayed us as “savages, people of ignorance and a lack of sophistication.

Mean and Vile Condition

Persons of a Mean and Vile Condition

Racism was becoming more and more practical

the politicos and landed aristocrats who controlled the colony's government in Jamestown first pushed them westward into Indian territory, and then seemed indecisive in fighting the Indians? That might explain the character of their rebellion, not easily classifiable as either antiaristocrat or anti-Indian, because it was both.

Berkeley administration for unjust taxes, for putting favorites in high positions, for monopolizing the beaver trade, and for not protecting the western formers from the Indians.

After signing the indenture,

Those upper classes, to rule, needed to make concessions to the middle class, without damage to their own wealth or power, at the expense of slaves, Indians, and poor whites. This bought loyalty. And to bind that loyalty with something more powerful even than material advantage, the ruling group found, in the 1760s and 1770s, a wonderfully useful device. That device was the language of liberty and equality, which could unite just enough whites to fight a Revolution against England, without ending either slavery or inequality.

The Indians, they had found, were too unruly to keep as a labor force, and remained an obstacle to expansion. Black slaves were easier to control, and their profitability for southern plantations was bringing an enormous increase in the importation of slaves, who were becoming a majority in some colonies and constituted one-fifth of the entire colonial population. But the blacks were not totally submissive, and as their numbers grew, the prospect of slave rebellion grew.