Jamie Smith

Bradford’s crew both originate from England and once had the same beliefs, customs, religion, and government, until environmental factors, beliefs, and location distinguished them. Both John Smith and William Bradford suffered great disasters ,however they both faced them with different attitudes. Captain John Smith crossed the ocean to reach the New World for gold, silver, and mineral wealth. His other goal was to claim land for the crown as well as to map out the area. At first they despised the Natives

Sylvia Plath’s writing chronicled a wide variety of subjects; from a descent into mental illness in The Bell Jar to doomed hospitals in the titular short story Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams. She was married to Ted Hughes and had two children with him before he left her and she committed suicide in 1963. Her works shared some common elements that were based on experiences from her own life. Discussions of depression, sexuality, and feminism were prevalent in her writing and were directly inspired

1. What did Adam Smith argue about people and economics? He would discuss the behavior in people, specifically what do they want and how do they go about getting it. He argued that people are rational, in this way he means that the average person will be looking to increase their own wealth. Adam Smith even went so far as to say people are selfish when it comes to economics. He is essentially saying that almost every human will think before they buy something and think “What is this worth to me

Winston Smith struggles to grasp on to any type of rebellion from the Party. He is destroyed by the nightmare that he left his mother and sister when he was young. His passion for Julia is his failures to be loyal to someone different than Big Brother. His loyalty proved to be very weak and it is seen how week when his loyalty falls apart in the Ministry of Love. Winston starts his adventure to freedom as a hard working employee in the Ministry of Truth, early on he secretly promises to put forth

Essential and effective rhetorical strategies, used repetitively throughout by Plath, was simile and metaphor. With the use of these strategies, the reader was able to sincerely understand the complexity and obscurity of Esther’s mindset. For example, Plath creates a very straightforward statement in the form of a simile to capture Esther’s emotions in that exact moment in time “I felt like a hole in the ground”. This certain sentence was meant to express Esther’s feelings, which during this point

John Smith many people over heard the name in the American history . According to the Love and hate in James town book, the Arthur focus on Smith in a lot of points. Smith history and, how he got to be a big part of the colony; also, it tells the reader how Smith become important to the natives. Most Americans watched Pocahontas the cartoon that Disney created and they believed the story as it is; nevertheless, Price shows the reader that Smith was not with blonde hair, as tall, or fell in love with

Symbolism in 1984: The Glass Paperweight In a nation united by hate, filled with propaganda and controlled by the infamous “Big Brother,” Winston needed something to hold on to something as simple as a glass paperweight. George Orwell’s novel 1984 gave Winston a tangible object that ties in and incorporates both the recollection along with the pureness of Winston’s past and the obscure place of Oceania. This glass paperweight symbolizes security and freedom throughout Winston’s life in the unpleasant

Honestly, I never really got into this book and I thought it was pretty pointless overall. It was in no way interesting, hard, or thought provoking. It really made me realize how I’m in 8 grade and I'm not a little kid anymore. Also, reading this book along with “Mindset”, I really started to realize how I took the easy way out by not reading a real classic. “Crossed” had a Lexile of around 650, whereas my Lexile is around 1,200. Right about now I'm really regretting my decision to read this book

Differences In the stories of John Smith and William Bradford with their people they encountered many things when they arrived at the New World. The people with Willam Bradford were mostly Puritans with hopes to find religious freedom . The others with John Smith came to the world for profits which is very different motives from of those with Bradford. Along with their motives and desires the immigrants didn’t know what to expect the strange land. The followers of John Smith and as well as himself arrived

Captain John Smith • Arrived at Jamestown with first English colonists in 1606 • In December, captured by warriors of Powhatan-supreme chief of 14,000 Algonquian Indians • Wrote an account of how Powhatan’s 11 year old daughter saved him from being killed by Powhatan and he was therefore returned unharmed back to Jamestown o In reality, this was most likely an Algonquian ceremony that adopted Smith as a subordinate chief, and • Smith went back to England about 2 years later, and Pocahontas made