John Smith It does not take close scrutiny to see that both John Smith's essay "A Description of New England," and the excerpts from Of Plymouth Plantation, by William Bradford, are both a collogue of elaborated ad dilated truths. Obviously, one cannot "kill in one day with his hook and line one, two, or three hundred cods- as John Smith stated on page 21. ... John Smith wrote in his essay on page 21, "Here nature and liberty afford us that which in England we want, or it costs us dearly." ... Luckily for him readers in England at the time knew only what they heard from deceitful en...

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John Smith's "A Description of New England" was a story of America, accounted through a set of rose-colored glasses. ... John Smith was trying to recruit people to come to America, so naturally his account is biased. ... This New World is not a perfect place where all your dreams come true and all your tough problems are solved. ... Because despite the struggles, despite the death and the sickness, you get a new start, in a new place, a New World. ... John Smith's account hands you happiness and success on a silver platter, but it seems to be so much more satisfying to struggle thro...

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It would be a century later before England would approve the formation of the colony Jamestown, where John Smith would become a prominent figure. After the death of the original president of Jamestown, John Smith took over in 1608. ... John Smith wrote A Description of New England in order to try and promote colonization of this new territory. ... Smith, John. "A Description of New England." ...

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Harvey returned to England in 1609, Smith would return again to America. ... Through his detailed description of the land and its people, a portrait of America began to take shape. ... Between 1630 and 1690 there were as many universities in New England as threw were in England itself. While it was the norm in England for most of the educated people to be of the aristocratic society, this was not so in New England. ... "3 Much like Bradford, Captain John Smith, before him used his journal writing to stir the souls of men. ...

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The pilgrims traveled to the new world to escape religious persecution and to start a new life. ... John Winthrop, John Smith, and Benjamin Franklin all demonstrate the American Myth's composition in their writings. ... Long ago John Smith taught Puritans about extreme dedication. In From a Description of New England Smith wrote, " .what to such a mind can be more pleasant than planting and building a foundation for his posterity, got from the rude earth, by God's blessing and his own industry, without prejudice to any?" ... This is demonstrated in Smith's lifetime by peop...

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Jane Yolen was born on February 11, 1939 in New York City and now lives in Hatfield, Massachusetts. ... She attended Smith College and received her master's degree in education from the University of Massachusetts in 1976. ... The best description of her writing is what she says about it herself: "I don't care whether the story is real or fantastical. ... She was on the Board of Directors of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America from 1986 to 1988, is on the editorial board of several magazines, and wa...

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The Romantic Period I. Introduction A. Famous Poets of The Romantic Period 1. William Wordsworth a. British poet, credited with ushering in the English Romantic Movement b. Wrote "Vaudracour and Julia- and "Lyrical Ballads- with Samuel Taylor Coleridge 2. Samuel Taylor Coleri...

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Person: Joseph Smith Facts: Joseph Smith is the founding father of the practice that we know today, Mormonism. ... As time passed people from all societies questioned and criticized Joseph Smith's claims and his construction of this new practice, yet he was naive and constantly reminded of the vast amounts of acclaim he received from adults, as he was a young teenager. ... Aside from Marty's references to Joseph Smith's revelations, he tells Smith's story as he challenges the facts. ... Soon the Church of England banned Whitefield, and denied any ties to him or his work (M...

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Their attitude towards the poor, the "Other Nation", was fundamentally that of horror and fear of rebellion, the contagion of diseases, disgust and sometimes even pity (Smith 203). ... Particularly the lower classes in nineteenth century England were scarred by economic hardship and political turmoil. ... For this reason, Margaret is used to accustoming herself to new living situations. ... Her contact with common people (laborers in Helstone, workmen in Milton) and people from the upper-class (the manufacturer John Thornton) allows her to see both sides of the class conflict. ... T...

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His father John Dickens worked as an 'extra clerk' in the Naval Pay Office. ... After three months John Dickens was released from prison and some time later he took his son from the factory and sent him to Wellington House Academy, a school run by a harsh headmaster. ... The ambition that drove Dickens during these apprenticeship years, he later admitted to this friend and biographer John Forster, "excluded every other idea from my mind for four years, at a time of life when four years are equal to four times four." ... The couple's first child, Charles, was born nine months la...

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Writers such as William Symonds, Robert Gray, Robert Johnson, John Brereton, Gabriel Archer, John Smith, Ralph Hamor, Samuel Purchas, Thomas Morton, and Roger Williams all shared one common view on religion. According to Read, "Their varied descriptions of Native Americans and tribal lifestyles, with an emphasis on their lack of Christianity, were used by Britain to justify its savior image through the introduction of religion, technology, and civilization."" ... Hariot and Richard Hakluyts teamed up to create writings and illustrations of these new lands in order to better inform their fello...

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General Discussion John Wellborn Root was born in Lumpkin, Georgia on January 10, 1850. ... Root first went to school in Atlanta, Georgia, then near Liverpool in England at Clare Mount School. ... At Renwick & Sands, an architectural firm in New York, Root was apprenticed for a year, then worked for another New York based architectural firm, John Butler Snook, who was then building the vast Grand Central Station for Cornelius Vanderbilt (Zanten, "Root" 137). ... Burnham's reputable New England family moved to Chicago in 1854. ... General Description and Comparison of each of the Buil...

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Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892 in Bloemfontein, South Africa. There he lived with his mother and father until 1895, when he and his mother moved to England. ... This lead Tolkien to be proficient in Welsh, Greek, Gothic, Old Norse, and Anglo-Saxon (Smith 136-138). ... So now with a clear description of a hobbit, I would like to introduce you to the main character, a hobbit, named Bilbo Baggins. ... Tolkien created new races and new species of goblins, trolls, wolves, eagles, dragons, elves, dwarves, hobbits and many more. ...

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The shape and dimension of a particular landscape become more clear into view the more historians bring different perspectives and common skills to the tasks of documentation, description, and narration. ... Of Plymouth Plantation recounts the fate of a tiny band of Pilgrims who fled England for Holland and then for the New World. Also writing this type of history was Governor John Winthrop of Massachusetts and Cotton Mather. ... Among the most provident were Thomas Hutchinson, leading merchant and royal governor of Massachusetts; William Smith, physician, landowner, and lieutenant governo...

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John Welles Lucas-Lucas who immediately saw Rupert's talent for poetry. ... These two men were Geoffrey Keynes and Hugh Russell-Smith. Latter in life Geoffrey Keynes would write a biography containing most of Rupert letters to all of his closest friends showing an accurate description of Ruperts short but very eventful life. ... Another example of Ruperts mother strong wildness is, "Fifty German students who are "seeing England", and taking Cambridge this week, will be there-it's for them, in any way, the show is being got up. ... But I"m certainer than ever that I"m, possibly , ope...

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In America, many leading advertising agencies are concentrated on Madison Avenue in New York City. ... Pharmaceutical and related companies are based in the New Jersey/Philadelphia area. ... Collars and cuffs, localized in Troy, New York; leather gloves, localized in the two neighboring New York towns of Gloversville and Johnstown; shoes, in several cities in the northeastern part of Massachusetts; silk goods, in Paterson, New Jersey; jewelry, in and around Providence, Rhode Island; and agricultural machinery, in Chicago. (1900 Census Monograph The Localization of Industries' in Krugman ...

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"Voyage Through Death / To Life Upon these Shores" symbolizes the apex of the construction of the Middle Passage; this is an emphatic claim to life, signifying the arrival of a new people on the scene of the New World. I mention about new people because, as we will see, the crossing of the ocean is the opportunity to transform in something different, something "new". ... There are also various critical comments, for example Gilroy who speaks about Turner's painting of 1840 called Slaves Throwing Overboard the Death and Dying: Typhoon Coming on, better known as The Slave Ship, or John ...

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Lawrence could not escape that almost universal law according to which what is authentically new meets with public rejection. ... So, when Women in Love came out in England, people were puzzled, aggressive or shocked because they were taken aback by the originality of the novel. ... This is perfectly applicable to most of the incidents we find in Women in Love and there is an obvious similarity between the centripetal unity defined by Daleski and the unity of treatment as defined by Walsh and Smith. ...

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Introduction The idea of `wicked problems' (Rittel and Webber, 1973) is by no means new in terms of social issues in the UK, indeed it has long been recognised that there are a series of problems/issues which, like the poor, and despite the `best efforts' of government, always seem to be with us and appear to be almost impossible to resolve. ... In this paper we seek to describe and analyse the approach to the `problems of the city' as pursued by New Labour with particular reference to three policy areas of unemployment, crime and safety and urban policy. ... What perhaps distin...

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