Williamsburg

months after the war began. Henry’s audience was the Members of the Virginia Convention, top-tier government officials who would be responsible to call for war: “By custom, Henry addressed himself to the Convention’s president, Peyton Randolph of Williamsburg.” Paine, on the other hand, aimed his speech as the American public in general: “I call not upon a few, but upon all.” Henry’s speech was the trigger that sent America into the war. It only took a month after his speech that the…

return to England in order to recover. In his absence, the settlement faced a deadly famine that killed thousands. Few survived, but were greatly determined to sustain the colony’s existence. In 1633, other pilgrims traveling from England founded Williamsburg. The settlement was attacked by many natives, but the pilgrims held out and secured the colony. Soon later more pilgrims immigrated over on the Mayflower…

The Inhumane Use of African Americans During the Colonial Era In the early 1600’s the inhumane transporting and enslaving of African Americans in the American colonies began. Although the English settlers required agricultural labor during the Colonial Era, their use of the African American slaves was unjust. The English did not provide sufficient housing, clothing, or nutrition for the African American slaves, nor did the settlers have any regards for their families. The English also overworked…

My cultural field experience was attending a Buddhist Meditation meeting. This was out of my typical culture for two reasons; first, I am Christian, not Buddhist, and two, I have not ever meditated or even witnessed someone meditating to my knowledge. I will admit that I generally look on meditation as a waste of time that can be used to complete something constructive. I was a bit nervous about attending as it was an experience I was completely unfamiliar with and I had no idea of what to…

blue-capped mountains. The mountains were so blue they looked like a picture with a blue filter. We stopped at an aged brick tavern my dad went to when he was in college. It was magnificent, but the food was stuff like what people ate in Colonial Williamsburg. There were three stores that looked like they were aging too. One was a toy store. It wasn't like a toy store today; it was kind of old fashioned. Another store was a metal smith shop. It had guns that date back to about 1865. There…

The Declaration of Independence is one of, if not the most famous and well known documents in American History. Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, was a leading force in changing America for eternity on July 4, 1776. Thomas Jefferson was born in Albemarle County on April 13, 1743 (McGee 251). When Thomas was 14 years old his father passed away leaving him the head of the house hold, which meant caring for his mother and siblings. Not long after his father passed away…

Very few people today, perhaps those who have stared death in the face and lived to tell the tale, can possibly comprehend what it would have been like to stand on the gallows at high tide as the executioner fashioned a noose around the pirate’s neck; the last significant act before his final voyage, a short drop and a quick stop. The evolution of the English political and legal processes that delivered the defiant Captain Fly and hundreds of others of his generation to their final destination,…

Nancy G. Brinker is the founder of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure for breast cancer. Nancy G. Brinker and her sister's Susan G. Komen was diagnosed with breast cancer. Nancy G. Brinker promised her sister that she would have end breast cancer which took her sister life. Susan G. Komen for the Cure is one of the world’s largest breast cancer campaigns. Susan G. Komen for the Cure for breast cancer was found in the year of 1982. The Susan G. Komen for the Cure for breast cancer is in more…

Historic Preservation is often seen as an elite club whose membership is bought by the cities' median income. A cycle of investment and disinvestment is what generates cities today. The lower class is constantly being displaced by economic actors to serve the middle class. Some will leave this cycle having benefitted from it, able to buy the ideal single family home. Others, the renters, will have been pushed to another soon to be or already blighted area. Progress in city growth has come…

English colonists sailed the blue ocean in order to settle. After reaching the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, they found the land that would soon become the first permanent settlement in the New World. Claiming land as their own, the settlers began to inhabit what they would call Jamestown. They began making the land their own, by making their own buildings and using their own tools. This caused tension between the English men and the Native American tribes. Over time, drastic changes altered the…