John Rolfe

Individual: Up to 1763 John Smith was an English soldier and adventurer and was the first one to draw the map of the Chesapeake Bay and New England. He went to Virginia and Chesapeake Bay in 1608 and 1609. When the settlers and Smith arrived in Jamestown, he taught them how to farm and work to get the colony growing. There were times where the Powhatan Indians attacked the colony, and, because of that Smith was hurt and had to go back to England. Pocahontas was an Indian who was given to the…

Within the historical novel, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, Camila Townsend engenders/recounts the complexity that is the story of Pocahontas and Native Americans within the Americas’, during their horrid enslavement and colonization from the Europeans (specifically the Spanish). Though Townsend’s text is not a primary source, the credibility and importance of the novel is nonetheless very crucial regarding, exclaiming the ‘true’ story of the powerful Pocahontas and the Powhatan. Townsend…

Captain John Smith was born January 1580 they don't know the actually date, in Willoughby, United Kingdom. Cap. Smith decided to have a life of combat and served with the English Army abroad. He eventually had made his way to America to help govern the British Colony of Jamestown. Smith was captured and enslaved, he was sent to what is now Istanbul and served a kindhearted mistress, who didn't want him as her slave, so she sent him to her brothers to do farm work. After receiving harsh treatment…

Kwon 1 Tony Kwon Mr. Rasmussen Language art 12 Octobor 2015 Life About John Smith John smith was a explorer born in January 1580, Willoughby, United Kingdom and died at June 21, 1631, London, United Kingdom. When he was young he attended school like other boys in that time but when he turned 13 he decided to become sailer. But father wanted that John smith become apprentice. In 1596 when his father passed out , he stasted to sail for france, Two years later, he sailed on Mediterranean Sea as…

Smith provides a truthful account of his experiences and explorations, while myths were made up by individuals who wish to establish some emotion and romance into early American history. The myths are created to romanticize the Smith and Pocahontas into a courting couple who fell in love in order to bring the two cultures together. Pocahontas’ age is raised to make the story rich with romance and compatibility between the two. This idealizes the relationship and creates a view of how the…

version of civilization in the new land, whether or not it was approved by the Natives or not. When the settlers decided to fight the Indians, their tribe retaliated by capturing John Smith and then prepared to kill him. Only Pocahontas, who so desperately wanted both sides to get along, can save the day by saving john and almost killing herself in the process. Pocahontas serves here as a heroic symbol of the story, an Indian who falls in love with a handsome blonde hero, saves his life, and…

daughter of a Native American chief who falls in love with the leader of a group of English settlers. The movie sets Pocahontas as a playful, spiritual, waterfalls jumping and living girl that was the daughter of Chief Powhatan. Who falls in love with John Smith, was a Captain that thinks the Indians are “savages” whose lives can be made better by English ways of life. Chief Powhatan is a leader who opens to new ideas. Who does not go charging off into battle at the drop of a hat. Chief does…

discuss, what kind of new learning is possible from reflection, literature related three models of reflections is reviewed. John Dewey (Dewey, 1933, as cited in Rolfe, 2011, p.34), an eminent educationalist and philosopher claimed that knowledge can be built through reflecting upon past and previous experiences. On the other hand, Habermas (Habermas, 1974, as cited in Rolfe, 2011, p.37) argued that knowledge can be constructed through the association of three domains while Kolb’s work (Kolb,…

How/Why: The Double Life of Pocahontas would be a good resource for fifth-grade students to examine as they research the life of a historical figure. It can be one resource among several. This satisfies the Common Core Standard of integrating information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably. Students can begin with this book and research other resources in print or on the internet in order to compare facts or find new information that…

Lester Fuller and Edwin Rolfe once said “You can never tell a book by its cover” (qtd. in gingersoftware.com). In Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible, John Proctor an ordinary farmer in Salem and Reverend Hale, a reputable priest, charged to investigate and expose witchcraft in Salem, both, by the end of the play have been through conflicts and made several difficult choices. Nevertheless, both characters play an important role in the play. To understand the roles of John Proctor and Reverend…