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    Jamestown it talks about the hard times in early Virginia when the Jamestown settlement was just beginning. The book goes to tell the story of John Smith and the Indian Princess, Pocahontas. He explains the friendship between the two that how there wasn’t any romantic feelings between the two, but how the princess was fascinated with the English settlers and John Smith. In 1607 most of the explorers and settlers, selected Jamestown as the area to make a colony even though the land wasn’t all

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    the late 1500s, John Smith, 1580, and William Bradford, 1590, were both born in England where later on in life they would become something better. John Smith left his house at the age of 16 where he would then fight for the Dutch against Spain and in 1602, he was captured into being a slave, but soon after escaped and returned back to England (Smith). William Bradford joins the Scrooby Separatist in 1609 and later, in 1613, marries a woman named Dorothy May (Bradford). John Smith was interested

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    she is not. In John Smith’s “The General History of Virginia” she is actually only eleven or twelve. The movie makes it seem like she is older; it just seems like a little too much of over exaggeration. When thinking about the fact of how old Pocahontas is does it bring up the thought if she was only eleven or twelve then, how old was John Smith? In that case John Smith was nineteen years old in the movie, in real life he was twenty-seven. What are some similarities that both in John Smith's account

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    John Smith Vs Disney

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    Disney claims that the clip of John Smith being saved by Pocahontas is “responsible, accurate, and respectful.” I believe that the clip is not historically correct and that Disney's claim is wrong. There are many reasons why I believe this. My first reason is that Pocahontas was too young to fall in love with John Smith. Her age in the movie is older than it really was. Pocahontas was born in 1597 and Smith was captured in 1607 then released by Chief Powhatan in 1608. Therefore Pocahontas was only

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    John Smith believed that success in such adventures requires individual initiative and commitment. His journey began working with his dad in his shop up until the age of 16. After his father had passed, he attempted to run it on his own, but that didn’t last long; so he joined the French Army. After a while he started exploring the new world which included Virginia, New England and Summer Isles. Smith had a very prestigious and independent outlook on life and throughout his journey it had brought

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    Willard Christopher Smith Jr., also known as Will Smith, is a very successful rapper and actor in the American film and music Industry. Nominated for four Golden Globe Awards and two Academy Awards, Smith has received four Grammy Awards for his outstanding talent on the big screen. Will Smith is a well-recognized star with power and loads of money. But, it was not easy for Smith to get to where he is at today; He had to endure a long journey. Will Smith was born September 25, 1968 to Willard Christopher

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    1. How do Zinn and Johnson portray the founding and development of Virginia differently? Well, Johnson portrayal of the founding of Virginia was certainly different from Zinn’s perspective. Johnson talks about the failure of colonizing Virginia at the beginning of his argument. He went further to mention that this was probably a god thing because the Spaniards would have found out about the English invading America. The first time the English attempted to colonize the area religion was not a major

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    Smith remembers the suffering him and the other colonists went through and has a small boat prepared with a crew to go search for food. In the meantime, he makes several journeys on his own and discovers the Chickahominy tribe. Still in disgrace, Wingfield and Kendall began to make a plan to alter the course of the boat Smith set up for trade and instead take it to England in order to help repair their weakened authority and reputation. After returning, Smith quickly found out about the plan

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    Pocahontas Research Paper

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    despite differing races but executes the idea by turning Pocahontas into a completely fabricated character. At first, Pocahontas chooses to defy tradition and follow a different route, wondering “what’s around the riverbend,” which turns out to be John Smith. The two eventually develop mutual feelings even though their races are absolutely foreign to each other. However, the movie dismisses Pocahontas’s actualities since she has suddenly grown from a pubescent girl old to a full-figured woman. Pocahontas

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    John Smith and William Bradford were two authors of the 1600s, who wrote journals about the the way they lived in the New World. John Smith's journal was filled with adventure and talked about how heroic he was to persuade people to come to America. William Bradford's journal was about his voyage to coming to America and his spiritual teachings and beliefs. The three main difference between John Smith and William Bradford’s Journals are their styles of writing, preconceived notion of the Native

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