Mayflower

The Pessimistic Historian The historian is not fully prepared through the bland reading of textbooks written by others. Rather, it takes careful analysis of factual information gathered through the sifting of history itself. Although the myths and legends may speak of a great men and great cities, it can be found that those men were tyrants and the cities corrupt. Throughout history this has occurred: Caesar was said to be a great man, while Brutus, evil. Another example is of the city Rio, it…

The Marvels of Spain‒and America “The Marvels of Spain—and America” portion of “Beginnings to 1700” by Wayne Franklin portrays various point of views between the Old and New World. The Natives experienced “a colonial imitation of Europe developing before their eyes, complete with fortresses, horses... and much else that… could have only been found in Europe” while the settlers from Spain saw the land as opportune as they established slavery, tools, textiles, churches, and new foods as a…

Yes, they are American in the way that they live in America and have documents to prove this, but they all find their roots in different countries. Even those who have families who came right off the the Mayflower, their families haven’t been in America for as long as their ancestors back in England were. Francie’s mother’s side of the family happened to be from Austria and were devout Catholics, while her father’s side was from Ireland. The residents of Brooklyn…

my heart was greatly blessed hearing our babies sing about our brother Ezekiel. Our topic this year is unseen hope! Unseen hope...it is written we are saved by hope, but hope that is seen is not hope…. (Roman 8; 24-25) Many, many years before the Mayflower our people populated the earth. Through the ages the earth shifted and drifted into various land masses that we see on maps today but before the dividing of the earth our land was one and our people was one, but we was not one in language, nor…

Mare Island, Calif. acquired Naval Nurses. In the year of 1910, the Navy Nurses were assigned their first overseas assignment to the Naval hospital at Canacao in the Philippine Islands. The Navy Nurses also served on board ships such as the USS Mayflower and the USS Dolphin. Navy Nurses also were sent to new duty stations in other countries such as Guam and Tutuila. During their overseas assignments, their duty was to educate native women and build…

Many people attempted to overthrow rules and the government, this is known as a revolt. For example, Nat Turner was a African American slave who started a revolt. He and his followers killed 60 white people including women, men, and children. During the Rebellion, 315 people died in total including slaves and people from the white descent. Rebellions are often caused to express your feelings toward something. In the reading, The Underground Railroad for Kids by Mary Cay Carson, it shows the…

grow up in a home with my paternal grandparents and uncle as well as my family. At the time I wasn’t impressed, but as an adult I can see how lucky I was. There was always talk of my mother’s family and the history of them coming to America on the Mayflower, but no one spoke of my father’s heritage. My paternal grandfather Michael Dziadik was born August 31, 1907, in Naugatuck Ct. The only name we could locate was the mother, her name was Mary. Michael’s parents came to America in the early…

land in which to establish a home, a place where they could worship God the way they wanted to. The settlement they created, the colony of Plymouth, would become just the second British settlement in all of America. Though their original ship, the Mayflower, brought just thirty-five people, and only a few hundred lived in the other British settlement, Jamestown in Virginia, these two places were the starting points of an emigration and new society that grew to include millions over the next…

The six goals in the pre-amble are establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote general welfare, secure the blessings of liberty, and form a more perfect union. Locke would agree with the goal to provide for the common defense, he thought that the government should protect the people’s rights, our government did this by creating armies and navies to look over the country. Locke would also be a connection to promoting general welfare, and commonwealth,…

A Deaf Man Becomes President The time is January, in an election year. The setting my first American Sign Language class, in fact my first class at all, in over sixteen years. Before the end of class I would receive my first writing assignment; a research paper on “Deaf President Now”. Having limited experience with the deaf community, I was completely unknowledgeable on the topic. During a year with a plethora of presidential hopefuls, I assumed that “Deaf President Now,” was a campaign slogan…