Notes on the State of Virginia

With the help from Virginian Company, both Virginia and Massachusetts colonies have successfully built a colony in their respective areas of United States, and lived prosperously, even to this day. However, the two colonies are rather distinguishable. Even though both colonies came from the United Kingdom and settled in a land currently known as the United States, Virginia Colony suffered a huge loss in numbers during the settlement, while Massachusetts Bay Colony was able to avoid losing so…

Virginia Beach Emergency Operation Plan ESF 10 Analysis Hazardous materials (HAZMAT) incidents are dangerous types of emergencies that can turn into a major disaster. Despite, many cities that run along the Atlantic Ocean become divested by tropical storms and flooding, HAZMAT related emergencies are a close second. In Virginia Beach, VA hazard risk are delineated into four categories: Critical Hazard – High Risk, Critical Hazard – Moderate Risk, Noncritical Hazard – Low Risk, and Negligible.…

Sanford, Brown v. Board of Education, and Loving v. Virginia. In the first place, the case of Dred Scott v. Sanford was a case of a man that sued for his freedom. As a result many people did not appreciate that a slave should have its freedom and that they are slaves and they don't want them. Dred Scott wanted his freedom with his wife because his owner had harassed him and he wanted it to stop. "Slaves were not citizens of the United States and, therefore, could not expect any protection…

For example, when Jefferson compares the blacks’ imagination to that of the whites, he asserts that blacks are “dull, tasteless, and anomalous” in imagination (381). His words may diminish readers’ intentions to read as some readers may find his words insulting and offensive. Another example in which Jefferson uses insulting language is when he talks about flowing hair. “Add to these, flowing hair, a more elegant symmetry of form, their own judgement in favor of the whites, declared by their…

are working less and less. West Virginia is at the top of the state unemployment and labor statistics list. It has many people asking questions. Is it that hard to obtain a job in Preston County? The worst thing about the whole situation is that West Virginian residents seem like they do not want to work. MarketWatch reported in March of 2015 that less than half adults (18 or older) in West Virginia have a job. Preston is not the only county struggling in West Virginia. This issue has been going…

of the classics. As Governor of Virginia, he wrote in his notes racist views of blacks as inferiors who would need to be treated like children once they were freed gradually. Now, an old man, he worried about the growing dissension over slavery that had flared into a furious debate in Congress over the admission of Missouri as a slave state"(Jefferson 230.) The way Jefferson mentions the Slavery was an inherently violent and coercive system, although Jefferson states “My first wish is that the…

In his Notes on the State of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson outlines his quasi-scientific conducted research on lack people. This document highlights the racially charged atmosphere of the time period. Phillis Wheatley counters these “scientific observations” of the inherent subordinate position of black people through her religiously motivated poetry. This time period highlights how racial inequality was justified and showed the determination and creativity…

this essay, since it has a clearer sense of why Jefferson felt the way he did about agrarian societies. This writing is Query XIX from his Notes on the State of Virginia, the final edition published in 1785. The points maintained in this writing support those contained within his Letter to James Madison, even if he is speaking specifically of the state of Virginia instead of the country as a whole. His main points are such: that the limited land and resources of England forced corruption to…

paying taxes in each state” It still followed the bases of The Virginia Plan, but small states did not feel like it was fair. A New Jersey attorney general by the name of William Paterson proposed The New Jersey Plan as a substitute of The Virginia Plan. The plan proposed an equal amount of votes for all states just as said stated in the Articles of Confederation. They had already partook in plenty of nasty extensive debates over what they accepted or rejected about The Virginia Plan.…

Questions from Problem One: Does Virginia have a militia? Yes, Virginia does have a militia. The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration’s official website details the establishment of a militia in Article 1 Section 13 of Virginia’s Bill of Rights, located within the Virginia Constitution: That a well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to liberty; and that in…