John Smith Thesis
JR Bravo
January 08, 2011
English 240-55
Journal 1
John Smith is a well known figure in the initial settlement of what was the English commonwealth of Virginia. Many opinions can be made of Smiths accuracy of his feats or his self righteous or overindulgence of his personal feats, but never the less he is a dominant figure in early America, and many of his explorations and views later would form what the mass opinion of American settlers would inhabit. Smith paints early America as a land of great toil and hardships, with hard work and grave hunger, even as far as to compare to a sort of hell, stating “With this lodging and diet, our great extreme toil in bearing and planting palisades so strained and bruised us and our continual labor
January 08, 2011
English 240-55
Journal 1
John Smith is a well known figure in the initial settlement of what was the English commonwealth of Virginia. Many opinions can be made of Smiths accuracy of his feats or his self righteous or overindulgence of his personal feats, but never the less he is a dominant figure in early America, and many of his explorations and views later would form what the mass opinion of American settlers would inhabit. Smith paints early America as a land of great toil and hardships, with hard work and grave hunger, even as far as to compare to a sort of hell, stating “With this lodging and diet, our great extreme toil in bearing and planting palisades so strained and bruised us and our continual labor