Alexandria, Virginia

he involed a lot at planning colonizing virgina for profit. On Dec. 20, 1606 he became one of member in fleet of three ships. That voyage took 4 months with mutiny with leader “Captain Christopher Newport“ Smith was prisoner when they arrived at Virginia at April 1607, but he was realed when other colony leaders opened Kwon 2…

“The Death of the Moth”, by Virginia Woolf, and “The Spider and the Wasp”, by Alexander Petrunkevitch, had both similar and different ways of expressing tones. Both Woolf's and Petrunkevitch's writing styles are similar. They both use descriptive imagery and details. Some examples of this in Petrunkevitch's essay are "the exasperated spider" and "soft membrane". Another example, this time in Woolf's essay, is "hay-coloured wings, fringed with a tassel of the same colour". These descriptive…

The title character from Kurt Vonnegut’s short story “Harrison Bergeron” and the moth from Don Marquis’ poem “The Lesson of the Moth” have similar philosophies on life. To start with, Harrison and the moth’s deaths had meaningful purposes behind them. Harrison Bergeron met his demise by interrupting the ballet to remove his handicaps and dancing with a ballerina. By doing this, “Not only were the laws of the land were abandoned, but the laws of gravity and the laws of motion as well.” (Vonnegut…

arrived in 1607 before the pilgrims came.The government, language, customs, beliefs and aspirations of these early Virginians are all part of the United States’ heritage today. They came from Virginia company of London. King James I seeking a northwest passage to the Orient, and converting the Virginia Indians to the Anglican religion. The Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery, carrying 105 passengers,one of the 105 passengers died during the voyage. The voyage from London took from…

The battle between our own states was a raging and bloody war for both the north and the south. Throughout the war the officers were often treated like royalty compared to that of the men that, I feel, did most of the hard work. The enlisted men did not get the same quality of goods as the officers and were forced to make good with what they got. I could not imagine sleeping in half of a tent or somehow having to find a way to join two halves together as you can see in the pictures shown at Camp…

The North and the South: Civil War Era In the mid-1800s, turmoil broke between the North and the South states. The Southern Confederate states and the Northern Union states shared different beliefs. There were slave states in the South and free states in the North. These two territories shared many other differences, as well as a few minor similarities. The North and the South shared several variations between their social, economic, and political cultures. Alhough the North and the South…

Virginia Woolf, the author of “Two Cafeterias,” is a feminist advocate who puts herself in the place of the men and women at the University nearby. She analyzes how men and women are treated by the food they are served at the University through the use of rhetorical devices to drive her point. Woolf uses her observations to compare and contrast the way that men and women are treated in the 1900s. The men are given something that can be described as a “luncheon party” with an elegant and…

We see pictures of poverty on the news from many different communities across the nation, but often, little of this news coverage is given to the people living in Appalachia. The ABC 20/20 episode entitled A Hidden America: Children of the Mountains shines a much needed light on the daily struggles people living in Central Appalachia face. Watching Children of the Mountains was a sobering experience for me. The most surprising thing in this video was the drug abuse and drug dealing. It was…

“Two Cafeterias”, by Virginia Woolf, was written showing an underlying message of how different men and woman are treated in this culture. Using words, descriptions, and tones Woolf expresses to the reader how insignificant woman in this day are made to feel. It is shown throughout the entire piece that the men of this society are treated to nothing less than “invariably memorable” luncheon parties with meals that leave Woolf feeling as though they were “going to heaven.” She describes the meals…

Why Did so Many Colonists Die? Many Colonists died in Jamestown. Why couldn’t they survive in Jamestown? What happened to them? Little did the colonists know that most of them would die within only a few years. Why? Colonists died in Early Jamestown because of three reasons. These three reasons were why they couldn’t seem to stay alive. They didn’t have enough food which lead to starvation. They settled in a land with lots of Indians which lead to problems with the Indians.They didn’t have more…