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    As the explorers came to explore the new land‚ they also had an agenda to Christianized the native Americans. When doing so it did not come easily to get everyone to convert‚ and those who did not were brutalized. So if this is done every time‚ is natives going to think that the religion is great? If Europeans wanting to expand Christianity treat people horribly‚ then natives are going to think it is an awful thing and will not want to believe in Christianity. In a lot of explorers works and writing

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    John Williams Lesson Group R John Towner Williams was born on February 8th‚ 1932‚ in Flushing(Queens)‚ New York. John attended North Hollywood High School in Los Angeles and graduated in 1950. After High School‚ he attended college at UCLA. There he studied with Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. In 1952‚ John Williams was drafted into the Air Force where he composed music and conducted the Air Force band. In 1955‚ John’s Air Force service ended and he moved to New York City to study

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    All these events help in johns fall. His character could not endure what he had seen in the world state. What he had faced drives him crazy and that is showed when he knew about his mothers death and the effect of soma on her. He starts to cry and get hysteria; he begins to throw the soma boxes out of the window opening onto the inner court of the hospital. He thinks about people and how soma controls their lives. He called them slaves and babies. By his action‚ he wants to make the creatures free

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    Although Captain John Smith (Jamestown) and William Bradford (Plymouth) held and wrote about similar positions in similar situations‚ they handled these situations differently. Not only did they come to the New World for different reasons‚ they also had different focuses when they wrote the histories of their respective colonies. Captain John Smith’s only apparent reason for coming over to the New World to settle was for the adventure that was sure to arise. In his early days‚ he did a lot of fighting

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    John Smith and William Bradford were two extremely different people who both established colonies in the new world. However‚ both men were similar in certain aspects. They were similar in their faith‚ biases‚ and position. They were different in their personality‚ treatment of others‚ and purpose. One thing that Smith and Bradford had in common was their unyielding faith. Bradford was a puritan; his entire purpose for coming to the Americas was religious. He wrote “and the wind shrinking upon them

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    In “Description of Virginia‚” John Smith describes the geography of Virginia and its native inhabitants. Smith begins by discussing the ideality of the climate and proximity to the Chesapeake Bay‚ saying “no place is more convenient for pleasure‚ profit‚ and man’s sustenance” (Smith). He immediately discerns the ways in which the rivers‚ harbors‚ and other geographical features could be used for military and commercial purposes. He even goes so far as to say that Virginia is as rich in natural resources

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    Jennifer McClure Prof. Kies ENGL 1302.412 June 21‚ 2010 John the Savage in the Brave New World Life in the Brave New World is a completely different world than that in the Savage Reservation. John‚ being somewhat Savage and somewhat civilized is unable to find a place where he belongs and agrees with the central societal norms. Being raised on the reservation and not decanted and conditioned in the ways of the Brave New World John experiences life in a completely different way than that he is genetically

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    There was a perception and a picture that each group had when they left their homelands. Arrival in the new would prove to be an alternate reality from that which was envisioned. The new reality still provided a challenge for each settlement. This was to be a new start. This was an opportunity to establish something new. That would be a chance to be a part of something great. The New World offered opportunities to have success on a different level. Jamestown was a joint venture. People joined

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    the story A Brave New WorldJohn is the one character who would be completely sane in our modern world. He lived in the “Savage Reservation” which is basically a modified version of our world. He also read from Shakespeare‚ which gave him manners and knowledge from our time. He gives us the point of view of someone not unlike ourselves. If the story was from the point of view of a working self­pleasing human robot like everyone in the dystopia‚ nothing much would have happened. John believes in giving

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    John Smith’s Story of Pocahontas The story of Pocahontas and John Smith took place around the early 1600s. This was around the time period of Jamestown. Jamestown is located in Virginia where Pocahontas’s tribe lived. The emperor of Pocahontas’s tribe showed Smith generosity and kindness to him. Advertisement was very popular and was used many times to get people to come to America. No one questioned Smiths story for 250 years‚ so no one knew what happened for sure. Smith exaggerated to bring people

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