Pocahontas

river is running with lots of birds around it. It reminded me of Vivaldi’s music because same starting and naming. The melody of this music gets slower at the middle of it and then at the end of it get faster than the middle part. It reminded me of “Pocahontas” and the Disney cartons. It was really a wonderful piece to watch it and hear it. Also the dynamic of this piece was soft and a little bit louder at some parts. The second part of this piece L’Adorazione dei Magi (The Adoration of the…

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Since each colony was separated, it depended on the colony and the people themselves. For example, the Powhatan tribe kidnapped (adultnapped?) John Smith, and planned to kill him. Pocahontas, the daughter of the leader, stopped him from killing Smith. Later, she married John Rolfe (not the same person as John Smith), and had a child with him. On the other hand, some fought for land. King Philip’s War was between the Puritans and Natives…

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unsuitable for the Indian’s way of life.4 This is one of the problems that lead to tensions being high between the Native Americans and the English. Fighting soon started with the Powhatan people and would last until 1614 when Powhatan’s daughter, Pocahontas, married an Englishman, John Rolfe. By 1620 the English had expanded far into the Indians territory and had killed…

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