The Nova documentary, Pocahontas Revealed: Science Examines an American Legend is an insightful source in revealing the true history of the relationship between the English and the Native Americans in early Virginia. Because all the the facts were proved with the help of science, it adds validity and can confirm many facts and a majority of the information during that time. The documentary provided much insight on the relationship between the English and the Native Americans in early Virginia. I was very interested in some of the Native American traditions.…
Blood on the River and the Disney movie Pocahontas are very similar because both have most of the same characters. Both also had arguments between each other but in the Disney movie Pocahontas near the end of the movie Pocahontas sacrificed herself for one of the main characters John Smith whenever her dad was going to kill him and Chief Powhatan made peace with the colonists. John Ratcliffe wasn’t happy with this agreement so he got a gun and aimed for Chief Powhatan, but John Smith sacrificed his life and got shot, he was immediately brought back to England by ship. In the book Blood on the River, the colonists and Native Americans did have arguments, and did fight and killed many people because the Native Americans felt that the colonists took their land and abused it, “They have robbed the Indians’ temples? Taken the jewels from the bodies of their dead werowances?…
Pocahontas... does it sound familiar? You might have heard of a movie called Pocahontas, right? Well the person who made the movie is named Roy O Disney. Disney released the movie in 1995 this movie was based on a real person who,s real name was Matoaka ,The movie was not fully accurate compared to what happened in real life ,If you have seen the movie it shows pocahontas and john smith falling in love with each other ,well that never happened they never loved each other and another inaccurate part of the movie is age , Pocahontas looks around 18-20 and john smith looks around 20-25 well that's inexact by quite a bit pocahontas was actually only 12-13 and john smith was around the age of 30.…
The movie 300 depicts the legend of the 300 Spartans who were able to hold off the Persian infantry at Thermopylae. Their stand gave more time for the Greeks to develop further plans and evacuate. The movie is able to follow the journey of the Spartan soldiers as described by many historians, while still adding “Hollywood touches” to make the movie more successful. The movie 300 is able to give a fairly accurate account of what happened during the Persian invasion of Greece and the stand of the brave 300 Spartan soldiers. One important piece of the film that is historically accurate, as well as significant to the story is sending the young, spartan men to military camps to make them true soldiers.…
The story between Pocahontas and John Smith is a very popular story that has been changed and exaggerated many time. Lots of events took place around Pocahontas and John Smith, like countries colonizing the new world, and the failure of the Jamestown colony. Pocahontas did save John Smiths life because John Smith would have been killed. Also the document “General History” was published only a few years after the events, making the information provided reliable. Lastly, all of the evidence supporting the claim that Pocahontas did not save John Smiths life is less reliable.…
Camilla Townsend’s book, “Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma,” describes the detailed story of Pocahontas’s life and how the various Natives lived in sixteenth century Virginia. The Natives lives were ultimately altered when English colonists arrived. The English had specific intentions in mind; colonize the area, become great merchant traders, and convert the Natives to Christianity. The colonists were willing to achieve these even if it meant overwhelming and destroying the Indian culture around them.…
In the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the two Jewish boys from the US Olympic team were both pulled out of their race, the 4 x 100 m relay, the day before it happened The Jewish runners were Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller. They were replaced in the relay by Jesse Owens and Ralph Metcalfe, the team's fastest sprinters, despite them not having trained for this event. In the movie “Race”, a biopic about Jesse Owens's life, they were replaced by Jesse Owens and David Albritton, even though stroller says that he was known to be faster than Albritton, he said this because they reason given behind the change was that they wanted their fastest runners. There were multiple theories as to why the switch occurred.…
Some examples of the historical accuracy of this film are the O.K Corral shooting being an exact replica of the real life version and the costumes are historically accurate. However, it wasn’t 100% historically accurate and the things that were inaccurate were the cowboys revenge was more spread out after the O.K Corral shooting and Johnny Ringo’s death was more of a mystery than depicted in the…
The Last of the Mohicans can be used as a historical source is some ways, while in others it cannot. The setting of the movie and how they portrayed the British and the French fighting is accurate. The event in the movie where Colonel Duncan Munro and his British troops were attacked in an open field by the Huron was grisly and not exactly how it happened in the actual event. They also left out the reaction of Montcalm when the Huron disobeyed him, which would have been a disgrace for him. One of the things that were inconsistent with the time and place was how Mann modernized the behavior of the key characters.…
Invictus: :”Is it Hollywood or is it History?” Back in the time there was a lot of history in the world, South Africa however had many major events happen in the past, related to all the other countries. Since the history of South Africa is rather hard to learn for us Americans, books were published along with a movie called Invictus. This movie has great examples from the past of South Africa. It can also greatly benefited our knowledge of learning the past of South africa.…
The American government is going to take Cherokee land by any means possible, especially in Georgia. At this time, the United States is still expanding their territory and so they want the land that legally belongs to the Cherokee, even if it requires breaking laws. The main debate is over the Cherokee’s deciding which path offers the best chance of survival for the Cherokee in the early 1800’s: staying in their original territory or removal to the west. The best option, in regards to survival, is removal to the west. Some may disagree on the fact that the land legally belongs to the Cherokee but the best chance they have is to get away from the American government.…
The movie does stray from the true story, and it does not include everything you must know to completely…
Describe Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a western movie about the Sioux and Americans conflicts, was released in 2007 and was directed by Yves Simoneau. This movie occurs in the western part of America, in many Indian reservations. The main location was Pine Ridge, and the main battle was at Wounded Knee. The movie begins around the time when the Sioux were defeated at Little Bighorn.…
The in-depth book, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma by Camilla Townsend not only vividly describes the interaction of The English and Natives so well but sets explicitly the stage of what might have occurred during the Seventeenth century. Author Townsend approached this striking era in history with a focus on the chronological life story of Pocahontas. Furthermore, Townsend commenced the shortcomings and advantages that Pocahontas alongside her father Powhatan, and even the English encountered. The English had the desire to acquire land and unfortunately, with that obligation, this significantly impacted the Powhatan Confederacy.…
Disney Comparison When we think of Disney princess movies, we always remember the happily ever after that happens in the end. But are those ending all true? Unfortunately, Disney puts its own spin on a lot of those tales to make them that way.…