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My name is Sarah Salas. I am the Hispanic culture Guide for Bellaonline.com. I received my BS from the University of Massachusetts, Boston in 2007 and am currently working towards my Masters Degree in Global History with a concentration Latin american History.

I am also a wide and mother with a passion for writing, shopping anf fashion.

My passion is ...

My son, writing, latino/Hispanic Culture, shopping.

I know too much about ...

How can you know too much?

My parents always told me ...

Never waste what God gave you.

My childhood ambition ...

President of the world (why think small?)

My favorite memory ...

Visiting Italy.

Why I write ...

Because I love to get the thoughts running around my head into an organized thing and know I made that.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Love in the Time of Cholera/True Blood/Kanye West & Grupo de Montez

My first job ...

Pushing carts at Krogers.

My best moment ...

Having my son

My inspiration ...

My Mom.

Arts & Humanities > Colonial & Early American Why did the Puritans settle in Massachusetts?

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In the 1620's, groups of Puritans crossed the Atlantic towards the "New World." These settlers settle in what is now Massachusetts and would be among the first Europeans to settle the American Northeast. But what made these settlers leave everything they knew behind and travel to a strange land? One of the reasons the Puritans fled Europe was to avoid religious persecution. Puritans were a group of people in England who wished to completely purge all semblance of the Roman Catholic Church from the Anglican Church of England. The country had been deeply divided years before under King Henry...

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