Virginia

Colonization in Virginia began in 1606 as an experiment produced by a joint stock company. The idea was to create a colony that would generate profit and become an attribution to the British economy. This was a high expectation and the outposts experienced a considerable amount of challenges before becoming great colonies. Jamestown was the first colony to establish in the Virginia Company; it is well known for being a controversial colony with great prospects but had a lack of knowledge of its…

Disney Pictures decided to create a film called “Pocahontas” which was to be based off of John Smith’s A True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Note as Hath Happened in Virginia since the First Planting of that Colony. In A True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Note as Hath Happened in Virginia since the First Planting of that Colony, John Smith writes the small about of time that he spent in the New World. When the movie begins, John Smith is portrayed as a lively, free…

The target novel for this term paper is To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. Virginia Woolf was a British female novelist born in 1882, who was raised in a family which is full of atmosphere in intellectuals and also literatures. She wrote her first novel in 1915, and until 1927 she has finally made her signature piece, To The Lighthouse, of which it is famous for using consciousness stream. Woolf is also being well-known for promoting modernism and feminism. While To The Lighthouse is the…

When authors write novels they are relinquishing part of themselves to their audience. After Virginia Woolf’s suicide many psychologists analyzed her novels and diagnosed her with manic-depressive and bipolar disorder. In To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf’s applies psychological concepts, such as unconscious motives, oedipus complex, and the stream of consciousness, to give us greater insight into her own ways of thinking, so that we can be more tolerant of those with mental illness. Throughout…

command of the Federal forces in April 1861. Lee declined and tendered his resignation from the army when the state of Virginia seceded on April 17, arguing that he could not fight against his own people. Instead, he accepted a general’s commission in the newly formed Confederate Army. His first military engagement of the Civil War occurred at Cheat Mountain, Virginia (now West Virginia) on September 11, 1861. It was a Union victory but Lee’s reputation withstood the public criticism that…

The Virginia Colony and the Massachusetts Bay Colony were not meritocracies. The definition of meritocracy is an elite group of people whose progress is based on ability and talent rather than on class privilege or wealth. This system of meritocracy only existed for an elite few in the colonies of Virginia and the Massachusetts Bay, those that were white, wealthy males. While the colonies had slightly different ways of going about it, they each had ways they prevented the people in the lower…

In the essay, “The Death of the Moth,” author Virginia Woolf describes a detailed transition from abundant life to tranquil death. On the outside, one would be forgiven for not caring about the demise of a mere insect. The numerous distractions of everyday life seem to exceed the importance of a lady watching a bug pass away. In fact, these criticisms would certainly be valid for most articles on this topic. However, Woolf uses a complex vocabulary and detailed descriptions to add interest and…

For at-risk children in the commonwealth of Virginia, early education interventions could result in positive short and long-term outcomes. According to Barnett (2008), “well-designed preschool education programs produce long-term improvements in school success, including higher achievement test scores, lower rates of grade repetition and special education, and higher educational attainment; some preschool programs are also associated with reduced delinquency and crime in childhood and adulthood”…

Most people are taught that the natives were treated friendly when the Europeans came to explore, this is not the case. Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford and The General History of Virginia by John Smith are novels of settlers and native relations. In both John Smith and William Bradford's texts, the men show themselves as heroes and the natives as lesser by denigrating their language, tricking them with contracts, and, having negative expectations. The Pilgrims, like the settlers at…

Colonial Beach in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Some of Washington's precursors were from Sulgrave, England; his awesome granddad, John Washington, had emigrated to Virginia in 1657. In late 1753 Washington was requested by Dinwiddie to convey a letter requesting that the French clear the Ohio Valley; Washington kept a journal amid his endeavor which was printed by William Hunter on Dinwiddie's request and which made Washington's name unmistakable in Virginia. Together the two brought up…