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The chapter highlights reasons for efforts put in by Captain John Smith and Sir Edwin Sandys. It discusses their struggle for the colony and the reasons why after ten years, Jamestown was still not independent. Serving Time demonstrates the expansion and growth of tobacco in the first American boom country as well as how the cultivators used the peons to work in their tobacco fields despite the fact that colony was falling apart in the background. Sir Edwin Sandys has tried to rebuild the Jamestown in three ways. He attracted the new investors by granting them the head rights for introducing and brining in new tenants. He grabbed the attention of new settlers by introducing lotteries. He tried to make the colony a more peaceful and pleasant

Stephan contemplated before he sat down, pulling the chair out slowly, dreading the family's nightly dinner conversation, what Great Britain was doing wrong. First they moved away to the new land, then Britain gave them grief. The proclamation of 1763, when King George told the colonists not to move westward, and the Indians not to move east, there was almost a hand drawn line. The colonists were not very happy, next year, came the sugar act in 1764. The taxes were high on cloth, sugar, coffee, and wine for the colonists, and the naval officers searched ships carefully to stop smuggling. The colonists were, again, not happy. Now, a year later, was another act, the stamp act, and I bet you can guess, the colonists were not very happy.

That most of the settlers were kicked out of England due to persecuting other Christian groups, then killed the Native Americans to steal their land. After refusing to pay their taxes that they owed, they started a war of independence and then it became the USA. Also, three hundred citizens died by being warned by a Native American and during the second Massacre, four hundred citizens died with no warning in 1608 and persecuted and leaving for the Netherlands. The most that surprised me was that the Tobacco was established in the state of Virginia and the king John Rolfe totaled a half a million pounds of tobacco. That’s how he was getting rich and by making others rich because he had people work 50 acres of land, which was expensive in

Chapter one, pg. 11, last paragraph When a Native American stole a silver cup from Grenville, he burned the whole entire village. This can be an event that is the starting point of where Native Americans are mistreated until now. The Native Americans have been pushed and pushed into places where the living conditions are not very suitable. The Native Americans were always continuously chased out when the Americans wanted to move and expand more into the west. 2.

Ch.1: Christopher Columbus discovered the New World to European migration. Queen Isabella was funding Christopher Columbus voyage. He convinces the Spain that this would open up better trading routes and it would make them wealthier. ¬¬¬¬¬¬ The Indians were all fascinated with the entire product that the Europeans has. Christopher Columbus and the Conquistadors cheated the Indians and kicked them out of their own land. The Europeans mistreated and executed all the Native Americans that they encountered. The large impact of the invasion was The Europeans captured and used the native Americans as slaves and they brought diseases, weapons, and a hostile desire for the land and control over the new world. The diseases that cause million lives of the Indians were small pox, bubonic plague, influenza, and typhoid. Also the Native Americans were no match for the firearms and explosives of the Europeans. The Native Americans were pushed back into the middle of the United States. The accomplishments of the Spanish in opening the New World to exploration, conquest, and colonization were to gain money, lands, slaves and

1. From the perspective of Native Americans, the Spanish and English empires in America had more similarities than differences. Assess the validity of this generalization.

This chapter involved America building itself back up from the year1865 to the year 1877. At the end of the Civil War, Anglo-Americans of the South were upset at their defeat and became spiteful. The first thing the government wanted to do after the war was less of a reconciliation and more of a demanding rehabilitation. Now that the Union had freed the slaves, America needed to be rebuilt. Just two days after General Lee’s surrender in Virginia, president Lincoln was shot dead by John Wilkes Booth.

Throughout the entire essay Bosley uses comparison as a key point. For example, she compares all the girls in the Junior Miss Pageant to each other by pointing out their strengths and weaknesses. She also compares herself to the “North-Side girls.” Bosley says that if you were a north-side girl you had the best of the best and if you were her you got what you could afford. Another main point that Bosley uses is stereotyping. An example of stereotyping is using the term “north-side”. The “north-side girls” stereotype that Bosley labels them with is that they are rich, perfect and they get whatever they want. She also stereotypes her mother and herself as being fat and poor. She believes the reason she did not win the pageant was because of her

At this time, they were getting only a portion of their rights and some of

1-a) Women in African-American clubs in the early 20th century believed their role was to help the black race through the idea of racial upliftment. Uplift is the practice of economic and social self-help, where educated middle class club women taught working class black women how to improve their home life and education. This is achieved through concentrated social services work. Club’s such the National Association for Colored Women (NACW), the Tuskegee Woman’s Club and the Colored Women’s league held lectures that taught young girls virtues temperance and how to run needed community services. Club women such as Mary Church Terrell, Ida B. Wells and Anna J. Cooper called for a “united black womanhood to solve the race’s problem” (Gray White,

Miss Black USA Talks about Pageantry and Being a Black Ballerina Photo Credit: Go Fund Me Daphne Lee, who won the national Miss Black USA this year is also a ballerina. She wears her natural curly hair with proud and is very determined to squash the stereotype when it comes to the black female body. This beauty queen and ballerina confidently identifies herself as an Afro-Latina. As a ballerina, she is constantly exposed to the criticisms of targeting the black woman’s body.

Vanessa Williams was crowned the first black Miss America in September 1983. Thirty years later, Vanessa and her mother Helen Williams tell their story of what occurred before, during and after this milestone in American history through their co-written book, You Have No Idea.

High arched brows, pursed red lips, perfectly curled short hair and the coy side glance is the representation of what most young women strived for in the 1950s. They endeavour to look favourable for men in the hopes of getting married as this was their goal and purpose in life. Media influenced the scale of expectations women had for themselves and this created a misrepresentation of what a young women in the 50’s should strive for. Beauty pageants, Barbie and Marilyn Monroe emphasised on the importance of perfection, beauty, and sexuality. Although these messaged sent strong messages to younger girls, they remain in the era due to, in some way or another, lack of defying normality in the era.

The picture above shows a mother mourning her daughter at the time these news made headlines because the young woman above is miss Honduras a pageant queen her life was tragically taken away from her at the age of 19 due to domestic violence. The fact that she was a well known public figure makes the situation even disturbing because it shows that regardless of how famous you are, as a woman your life still is in danger. Honduras currently is going through

In the Catholic empire, the masters celebrated their carnivals as they had done in their homes in Europe. The Africans were given the same holidays as the masters took and throughout the period of slavery, Carnival was celebrated by both. In the British empire, however, things were different. The enslaved people were given three days’ holiday at Christmas. Rather than joining the masters in a big festival, the enslaved celebrated in their own, African-based way. For whatever reason, these celebrations, which appeared across the British Americas, were called jankunu. They came out at Christmas; they had very particular characters and dances; and they were performed almost exclusively to percussive instruments—drums, bells, and scrapers. Whistles