My Life After The Great State Of Virginia

My story isn't quite special really, although I have lived under some unique circumstances. My mother was a single parent raising my little sister and I until she married my Stepdad in 2007. I was five at the time and had no father figure until then. From that time on he became my dad. Our new family moved twice before living in a small city where we stayed for 6 years. This is where I made close friends, achieved academic excellence, went to church regularly, life was great or so I thought. What seemed to be our perfect life was turned upside down as hard times fell upon us. I was now the oldest of five younger siblings, my mom wasn't healthy, and my dad had to struggle to keep things going.

Africans were always seen as slaves rather than free people. It came to a point were generation from generation, people with African ancestry were legally enslaved for life. European colonists’ even committed to legalizing enslavement of hundreds and thousands of people, but it led to Africans being slaves based on race. Slavery was a big part in Virginia and South Carolina. The history of slavery in Virginia first appeared in 1619 where the Africans were indentured servants. As for South Carolina, majority of their population were African Americans. 65% of their population of about 18,000 people were African American slaves. Upon the social, economic and political development of slavery in Virginia and South Carolina, it impacted their race, class and gender.

In the seventeenth century, the populace that left England for America were influenced by the prospects that could either help them personally, or the mother country. The English settled in regions in America based on the religious acceptance of that area and ones that offered a preferable lifestyle.

Notes on the state of Virginia, 1782 was written by Thomas Jefferson. When he was born in 1743, slavery had existed in Virginia for nearly a century. He grew up on a plantation with workers who worked as slaves, and as an adult he owned nearly 200 slaves. Jefferson’s views on slavery and blacks remain complex. He thought blacks were naturally inferior to other races particular time, but he later conceded the service they offered might have had an impact on their inferior abilities. As a Virginia legislator, he advocated allowing private citizens to free their slaves but was unsuccessful (Peden). He later introduced a bill to bar free blacks from staying in the state. His draft of the Declaration of Independence included strong language opposing the slave trade across transatlantic. As the president, he signed a bill outlawing that trade.

In 1606 the Virginia Company was created also known as the New Virginia. The food was supposed to come from two places: occasional supply ships and trade with the local Native Americans. There were a couple issues with this one the lag time from back and forth of each location, and the amount of men that they started off with came back less than they started with because of death. John Smith forced on people a strict control on the colonists "Work or starve." Each colonist was needed/demanded to spend hours per day farming. The winter from 1609-10, was known as the "starving time," was the worst time of all. A large amount of the English colonists, who moved in from another country to Virginia, died of starvation as well as sicknesses destroyed

There are many differences between the states of Virginia and California. Virginia is on the East Coast of the United States, while California is located on the West Coast. The current paper will be a comparison of the two states above mentioned. It will mainly focus on demographic characteristics, migration, age distribution, languages spoken, marital status, housing, energy and transportation. It will also briefly focus on geography, cost and efficiency.

Virginia Union was founded in 1865 to give emancipated slaves the chance to get and education. The school was actually a combination of four different schools, Richmond Theological Seminary, Wayland Seminary, Hartshorn Memorial College, and Storer college. The first founders day took place on Feburary 11, 1899, and the first classes began in 1899. There were nine buildings made designed by John Coxhead. These places were Pickford Hall named after a former trustee board member C.J. Pickford, Kingsley Hall named after Chester Kingsley a former president of the American Baptist Home Mission Society. Coburn Hall named after Maine Governor Abner Coburn, Dr. King preached at the chapel and W.E.B. Dubois and Booker T. Washington gave lectures there, it burned in 1970 but is now restored and holds services each Thursday at 11. The Martin E. Gray hall named

The Southern colony of Virginia was considered one of the primary voices for freedom and liberty around the revolutionary period. Many illustrious liberty-driven figure heads such as Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Patrick Henry, and even George Washington were originally from Virginia. Although the men of Virginia had ideals revolving around freedom and liberty, they ironically had 40% of the population in Virginia enslaved. The idea of equality became apparent for only those of white descent, and people of color were oppressed in order to achieve this “equality” among the white classes. The events in the 16th and 17th century Virginia that lead to equality among white men consisted of the relationship of white and Native Americans in both colonial and revolutionary America, the transition from indentured servants to slavery, oppressing the people of color, deliberately enforcing racism, and the impact of the Declaration of Independence on African-Americans.

History- Virginia was the first colony settled on the coast. Founded by john smith in 1607. Virginia is a southern colony.

Throughout history, minorities have been oppressed, enslaved, and mistreated on several occasions. Many minorities were denied liberty, and they were treated very poorly. In the Historical Narrative by John Smith, “The Generall History of Virginia”, the Native Americans were exploited and forced to alter their culture, and similarly in The Tempest by Shakespeare, Prospero disrespects and abused his slave, Caliban.

The thirteen original colonies were significant to U.S. history and most of them contributed to history in their own way, but Virginia, New York, and Massachusetts stick out the most. The U.S. might be completely different if these three colonies were never created or had never contributed to history.

Virginia is in the coastal lowlands and wooded mountains. The colony of Virginia was the first permanently settled English colony in North America.The colony’s name was named after Queen Elizabeth I. Sir Walter Raleigh discovered the colony and claimed it for England in 1607.

John Smith's The General Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles, it is probably one of the best-known stories of colonial history. For the most part because of the relationship between Smith and Pocahontas. Both book and the film captures Smith’s story well that started in the beginning of the Seventeenth Century, along with the English colonization of North America. Captain John Smith was a young leader, adventurous and an extreme explorer. At twenty-five years old, Smith join ventures to go to Jamestown fort to discover other regions and trade with the Indians.

There are many strengths the Virginia Society of Professional Engineers has, one being the number of elite people in the society there are. These elite people have shown initiative and have done great things in their field. Copious amount of members have not only joined the organization for the benefits it provides but also joined for the networking. This is another strength that VSPE has as a society. Due to their being so many members in this organization there are countless opportunities they have to help one another. May it be a reference letter or even finding a new job. Everyone in this organization are held to a higher standard because of where they went to school and this can also help the members find jobs once they have graduated college or are looking for a new and exciting journey in their field. VSPE can help its members do just that.

My mother relocated to Birmingham, Alabama my first year of high school seeking a better life. Apparently, my father started to miss having his family because he went from being a “ghost father” to a “pop up father”. My father was here one moment and gone the next; he was constantly in and out of our lives. Initially, my classmates scrutinized and ridiculed me for having a fatherless household. I felt destitute and powerless. I needed to find someone or something to influence me in a better way by helping me change from a boy into a man. I became a recluse, never interacting with anyone.