Similarities Between John Smith And William Bradford

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Recently, we have learned the dairy which wrote by 2 heroes during colonial time period: John Smith and William Bradford. They are such important figures, the story of them gives us a great picture of the arduous life in early America during 16 century. The two characters share a lot of common ground; but in the mean while they also have distinct differences. In the following couple paragraph we are going to discover and scrutinize their personal belief and creed, I believe we would see the great distinguish between John Smith and William Bradford.

I would like to introduce the similarity first. John Smith and William Bradford are both great leader in “New World”; they both attracted settlers with their documents; they both writers; they

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