... did not fare well. Many perished on voyages to the colony, or were ravaged by malnutrition and disease. Colonists searched for gold rather than provisions. 3. Virginia was saved by Captain John Smith. Taking over in 1608, he declared that "he who shall not work shall not eat." He was kidnapped by chieftain Powhatan, Pocahontas saved ... to prepare for European contact. They organized themselves into a stronger group, able to withstand colonization. Europeans were forced to accommodate, sometimes taking an Indian wife. G. Virginia: Child of Tobacco 1. 1612- John Rolfe, husband of Pocahont...

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... climate, swamps, and thick rich soil. None of the original settlers of the Southern colonies were use to working; therefore they had no food to eat. When John Smith, a key leader in keeping Virginia alive, said to his colonists "No work, no food" the colonists took control and began a new life. As a ... location of Jamestown, many diseases spread causing the death of some of the settlers. The good soil the colonies had helped the settlers become very rich. John Rolfe found a way for the colonists to succeed when he stole tobacco from the W. Indies. Tobacco became the cash crop for the So...

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... Titanic and the unfortunate deaths of many innocent people was caused in part by the fallacy that the Titanic was unsinkable. The Titanic was under the leadership of Captain Edward Smith. Smith and others agreed that the Titanic was "the ship of dreams." The ship was holding 2,200 passengers and 860 of them was crew (Lord, Remember 30). The Titanic weighed around ... for 962 lifeboats, the actual capacity for the lifeboats was 1,178 (Pellegrino 32). Among the many passengers on board, there were several millionaires that were not forgotten. The millionaires include: John Jacob Astor, gr...

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... write by his English teacher named Catherine Wood. Presently, his mother became distressed by his feminine tendencies and sent him to St. John's Military School. At St. John's the other cadets made his life miserable by mocking his southern accent and mocked his mannerisms. Capote wasn't well respected by his ... story that would be responsible for his most famous work, In Cold Blood. In Holcombe, Kansas, on the evening of November 14, 1959, Perry Smith and Dick Hickock broke into the Clutter's home with the intention of robbing and murdering the family. A fellow inmate, who at one time...

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... he alive, he would be turning ninety. He is one of those people just on the cusp of escaping the contemporary and slipping into the historical-John Coltrane would have turned eighty-eight this year; Martin Luther King, Jr., would have turned eighty-five-people who could still be with us but who ... hot bath and lay neck-deep in the water with my old paperback copy of "Notes of a Native Son." The tinny sound from my laptop was Bessie Smith singing "I'm Wild About That Thing," a filthy blues number and a masterpiece of plausible deniability: "Don't hold it baby when I cry Give me every .....

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... want to discuss is Phillis Wheatley born in Gambia, Africa in 1753. Phillis Wheatley was a slave child of seven or eight and sold to John and Susanna Wheatley in Boston on July 11, 1761. Her first name was derived from the ship that carried her to America, The Phillis. ... African American Woman I want to discuss is Bridget ("Biddy") Mason (1818-1891) was born a slave on a Mississippi plantation. When her owner, Robert M. Smith, became a Mormon convert in 1847, Mason and her three daughters joined his family on a 2,000-mile trek to the Utah Territory during which Mason was ... responsib...

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... run for President and Wilson made FDR the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. "While FDR was Secretary of the Navy the Roosevelt's had two more children: Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. and John. In 1917, America entered WWI on the allies side and "Eleanor did a great deal of war work." (Graves 36) She spent days in the Red Cross near the railroad station ... to Franklin. As tim3e passed, FDR became more and more interested, as did Eleanor. In 1928, Eleanor traveled to the New York State Democratic Convention. There Eleanor met with Alfred E. Smith, who was running for President. Smith wanted to...

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... distinctive signature on such standards as "Night And Day," but she also contributed remarkable originals to the jazz canon, including "Strange Fruit" and "God Bless The Child." Influenced by Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong, Holiday not only sang with passion and conviction, but she also improvised with a trumpeter's sensibility. Born Eleanore Harris on April 7, 1915. Her father Clarence Holiday and mother ... for girls. Billie left the girls home at the age of 12 with the help of her mother and grandfather. Billie loved imitating popular songs by her favorite singer Bessie Smith. By a...

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... and whose right to live is taken away. One example of how the death penalty operates after the Furman case is the story of John Spenkelink, the second person to be executed following the Supreme Court's 1976 decision. John Arthur Spenkelink was a fruit seller of Buffalo, New York. He was convicted of murdering a 24 year old man named Joseph J. Szymankiewicz. The two ... any case, the jury convicted him of first degree murder on November 28th, 1973. Brumm was also charged with first-degree murder but was acquitted. On December 20, 1973, Judge John Rudd sentenced Spenkelink to death. Spen...

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... return to England. However, they were not successful. Times were very bad, because many of the first settlers were English Gentlemen, and were not used to working for a living. Finally, John Smith took control, and said that unless someone worked, they couldn't eat. Because the location of Jamestown was poor many settlers died. Much of the land was swampy and helped spread ... . In 1619, the Virginia company formed a law-making body. It was called the House of Burgesses. This was the first law example of representative government in America. Industries: It was John Rolfe who finally foun...

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... leaving Kinderhook for the first time. He was nervous about the change. Van Buren was ready to become a state politician. He was broke weeks after he arrived in the city. John Van Ness sent money to support him and pay his rent. Through Van Ness Mat met Aaron Burr and observed the battle for control of the New York Democratic Party ... their first year of marriage a son, Abraham Van Buren, was born in December 1807. Van Buren tried his luck at Senate and won. During the next 10 years sons John, Martin Jr., and Smith were born. Van Buren's 5th son, Winfield was born the following year. H...

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... at Campobello Island where he was vacationing. Roosevelt made his first public appearance since suffering from polio at the 1924 Democratic National Convention in New York where he nominated Alfred E. Smith as "the happy warrior"," and gave him his support even when running for president against Franklin's cousin Theodore Roosevelt who won in a landslide victory. Roosevelt successfully ran for governor of ... most influential state in the country as well as several important political figures such as Joseph P Kennedy, William Gibbs McAdoo, William Randolph Hearst, and his soon-to-be vic...

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... some of the young musicians in town, including Scott Hayden and Arthur Marshall, with which he co-wrote with later in life. Joplin is thought to have studied, at George R. Smith College in Sedalia. This was a Methodist college for blacks. The school was destroyed by fire in 1925; there is no documentation as to the extent of his studies there. In ... . In 1898 he sold Original Rags. Original Rags was the only ragtime piece of the six pieces" he had sold at that point. In 1899 Joplin and music sore owner John Stark published the greatest and most famous piano rag, The Maple Leaf Rag. Sale...

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... to gray; where our deep-rooted beliefs tend to tangle with the bramble of human emotion. Do ALL Americans deserve to be heard? Did Americans Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, and John Wayne Gacy deserve such a right? What about Americans Charles Manson, Danny Rolling (the Gainesville murders), Ottis Toole (Adam Walsh), Angelo Buono (The Hillside Strangler), Albert De Salvo (The Boston Strangler ... to be heard, but actually be allowed to profit from their words and heinous actions. According to the founding fathers, the First Amendment reached to all Americans?even to Susan Smith, the mother w...

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... 20th century. The definition for capitalism is "a type of social system that separates the economy from the government. "Laissez faire" is another name that was given by a man named Adam Smith. He said it is "better for a government to have "no intervention in the economy at all". Capitalism is based upon private ownership of property and every citizen has the right ... were white males who were astronomically rich compared to the average citizen. They owned a considerable amount of assets, like land, oil, and factories. Two of most famous Robber Barons are John Rockefeller and Andrew C...

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... that played a very important part in the Harlem Renaissance are Billie Holiday, Langston Hughes, and Jacob Lawrence. The future "Lady Day" first heard the music of Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith on a Victrola at Alice Dean's, the Baltimore "house of ill repute" where she ran errands and scrubbed floors as a young girl. She made her singing debut in obscure Harlem nightclubs ... artistic and commercial success came in his genre and history paintings. He painted many different series of works depicting the lives of many different African Americans. Subjects included Harriet Tubman, john...

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... 11, 1939 in New York City and now lives in Hatfield, Massachusetts. Both of her parents were writers, so she always felt that writing was a way of life. She attended Smith College and received her master's degree in education from the University of Massachusetts in 1976. She is a distinguished author of more than 200 books, and when she is not writing ... papercut illustrations by Ed Young, was based on Yolen's relationship with her late father, who was an international kite-flying champion. Owl Moon, winner of the 1988 Caldecott Medal for John Schoenherr's exquisite watercolors, was in...

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... was recruited to work in a brothel where she would scrub floors and turn tricks. All the while she was singing in Harlem nightclubs until that faithful night she ran into John Hammond, big time record producer. With in weeks she was in the studio. At the time she was going by the name Billie Holiday. She got this from her favorite ... at this time she would prove her self worthy of being part of the who's who of Jazz and Swing music. "Holiday hoped to combine Louis Armstrong's swing and Bessie Smith's sound -(Yanow). The result was her own fresh sound. She had a small voice and did not ...

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... ,000 copies within a year and became one of the most remarkable best sellers in American history. The book succeeded in bringing the message of abolitionism to an enormous new audience. John Brown: He was a huge abolitionist who led uprising in Kansas and Virginia. He helped free the slaves. He felt it was God's will for him to help destroy slavery. He ... to lead a war to free slaves. Brown moved to the black community of North Elba, New York, in 1849. The community had been established thanks to the philanthropy of Gerrit Smith, who donated tracts of at least 50 acres to black families...

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... the objections voiced against the fresh new Constitution. They, too, were published in the New York Times under a pen name-- Publius-- and appeared between 1787 and1788. Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay wrote a series of 85 essays that appeared in New York newspapers. In these essays, they argued that the powers of the national government distributed and balanced in a ways that ... , of course. The Constitution was ratified by all thirteen States, and The United States of America was born. In the end, even some of the most outspoken Antifederalists, like Melancton Smith of New...

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