Virginia Woolf

record and immortalize the life of late 18th century white Virginian gentry in their diaries. In vastly different styles, both men describe the culture, values, power structures, methods of mastery, and relationships between men and women in colonial Virginia. As an outsider to this society, Philip Fithian creates a more complete and colorful picture than George Washington does. While Fithian’s account offers explicit observations about Virginian gentry, Washington’s diary provides firsthand…

To say that WV is the worst place to live in the U.S. is a hyperbole, but many things need to be changed. While W.V. has many good factors, it is also number nine on the list of worst places to raise a child. Unsafe areas, high crime ratings, and drugs are all large factors in everything wrong with W.V. If we were to make some changes, then it would have the potential to be a wonderful place to live. It seems as though almost everywhere a child asks to go their parents reply, “No, that’s a bad…

For at-risk children in the commonwealth of Virginia, early education interventions could result in positive short and long-term outcomes. According to Barnett (2008), “well-designed preschool education programs produce long-term improvements in school success, including higher achievement test scores, lower rates of grade repetition and special education, and higher educational attainment; some preschool programs are also associated with reduced delinquency and crime in childhood and adulthood”…

John Smith, of Jamestown 1607, faced the difficulties of weather, starvation and the new people of the Native American tribes. He wasn’t the only one who had faces these difficulties, for John Winthrop, a man who took the voyage in 1630 to sail on the Arbella across the Atlantic Ocean for nine weeks. Yet, another memorable member of the 17th century colonial literature would be Jonathan Edwards, who encounters weather and natural disaster in a completely different form than the others. John…

Figure 1 – Total Attendance and Membership by Church Size Figure 1 shows the basic total attendance and membership breakdown for the various weekly attendee groupings of the West Ohio Annual Conference. On average, each weekly attendance group has 9,451 attendees. Furthermore, the red bar and blue bar combined represents the total membership per size category. For example, there are 12,641 total weekly attendees and 23,479 members attributed to all churches that fall within Group 1-49. The…

Tom Wolf was born on November 17, 1948 in York, Pennsylvania. He grew up in Mount Wolf, a small borough outside of York in central Pennsylvania, which was named after his ancestor, the town’s postmaster. Tom is the only child of Cornelia Rohlman and William “Bill” Wolf, a business executive. He was raised Methodist but is now associated with the Episcopal Church. Tom graduated from The Hill School, a boarding school in Pottstown, Pennsylvania in 1967. Tom left York County to attend college…

Assignment 3 Jefferson’s vision for the university of Virginia was for it to be separated from the church. The University itself has many different parts to its plan, and was meant to be very symmetrical. On the east and west end of the church there are dormitories that were used for housing the men who attended the University. Each set of dorms had a shower room and outhouse were attendants could shower, and go to the restroom. Along with the showers and dorms there were also dinning halls.…

The Appalachian English (AE) dialect has changed over time. AE developed in the 1700s when Scottish-Irish immigrants settled in the cheap, mountainous territory that makes up the Appalachian Mountains. Isolated from the outside world for centuries, the Appalachian people spoke a distinct dialect that became known as AE. Unique features characterize the speech in Appalachia; the use of these features is fading as the area becomes less isolated. Migration and advances in technology have played…

Last Fall my family visited Shenandoah National Park. It is located in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. It is only 75 miles outside of the nation’s capitol, Washington D.C. The first traces of humans on the land that would later become the park are estimated to be almost nine thousand years ago. Native Americans visited these Appalachian Mountains seasonally to hunt, collect nuts and berries, and to gather stone to construct tools. Europeans did not start to settle the land prior to three…

In 1606 144 men (no women) were sent to North America to acquire gold, silver and Raw goods working for the Virginia Company still under the rule of King James I. These men became known as the Virginians.Crossing the Atlantic in the year 1607 and landing in the Chesapeake Bay they traveled up a river they later named the James and staked claim to land, Jamestown, loosing over 40 men. Then after the first winter and various other problems their numbers were down to 38.The Virginians of the second…