Alexandria, Virginia

It went from life to death. In the early year of 1607 English settlers traveled to Jamestown, Virginia by ships in looking for gold as well as a settlement. Why did so many colonists die? Colonists died in early Jamestown for three major reasons bad water, unskilled settlers, and poor relations with the Powhatan tribe. One cause of death in the colony is contaminated water, limited amount of food not enough to go around, and drought which then caused starvation for the people. Research shown…

for international trade, it still was out first settlement. However, there were many mistakes that they had made. In the May of 1607 English colonists settled in a place in the new world located at the mouth of great bay on the coast of what is now Virginia, in hoped that they would permanently colonize new lands. (Overview) However the plan was eventually diverted and the population resorted to violence and consuming anything that they found edible, including cannibalism. This was primarily…

It’s common for readers and critics of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography to immediately categorize her novel as a loose interpretation of a biography. In fact, analyzers and historians have proved the connections between her novel’s characters, as well as, its events. , The parallelism even stated in the title as a biography. However, it is worth arguing that writing a holiday biography was neither Woolf’s first nor only intention. A thorough analysis presents a theme of sexual ambiguity to…

Trauma is a world-wide known phenomenon that people have to live with all their lives. While trauma is mostly seen in the lives of victims of domestic violence or war veterans, it can take any shape and any level of intensity. In Virginia Woolf’s piece, Mrs. Dalloway and Wilfred Owen’s, “Dulce et Decorum Est” trauma is a consistent notion that is prominent in the characters’ lives. In Woolf’s piece, Septimus Smith is a World War I veteran who suffers from obvious trauma in the form of…

leaving people victimized by the sequence of events. In the novel Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf, Septimus Warren Smith is a victim of the war who was living on the edge of insanity. He endures a sort of posttraumatic stress disorder due to the terrifying scenes he experiences at war. As a result, the man exemplifies the common life of a veteran who is constantly defying what’s told to him by physicians. Virginia Woolf exemplifies the struggle of veterans living in British society through…

The First World War took over 16 million lives (“World War I Casualties”); however, the impact was much more immense than the lives taken. On top of this high death toll, over half of the surviving soldiers faced severe psychological damage which was treated incorrectly because of the social stigmas perpetuated by many doctors. The war impacted all aspects of life, not just the lives of the soldiers who fought. Despite the fact that Mrs. Dalloway is set in the summer of 1923, just five short…

This is a good step to take in finding a person’s voice because others should not be given the power to limit individual’s opinions on certain situations. On the other hand, in certain situations limitations cannot be removed, which was proved in Virginia Woolf’s book excerpt “In search of a Room of One’s Own” because it broke past the fictional predisposition of how women were idealized in the 16th century by identifying the truth behind the inequality women faced, which led to their lack of…

For years upon years, major public universities in the United States have utilized funds provided to their institutions to award various scholarships to qualifying students. In most cases, many of the universities put this money to use by giving students merit-based scholarships depending on their high school achievements. Some of these awards are based on achievements like grade point average, standardized test scores, or community service projects with which the student has worked. For many…

Huntington is a quaint city in southwestern, West Virginia along the Ohio River. Although several community leaders and organizations have implement programs to improve the health of the community, there are still several public health concerns in our community. The purpose of this paper is to document a windshield view of the community’s population, the environment, and the health status of the city’s population. After completing the assessment of the community, I will discuss the city’s…

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…