Tobacco has been prevalent throughout western culture since it’s introduction to Europe in the fifteenth century by Christopher Columbus. From English cigars to Native American pipes‚ tobacco’s popularity came from it’s recreational use. It wasn’t until the twentieth century that tobacco‚ specifically cigarettes‚ were identified to have a direct correlation with cancer. CNN’s Brief History of Tobacco chronologically displays the events: “in 1930‚ researchers in Cologne‚ Germany‚ made a statistical
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May 24th‚ 1606‚ about 100 settlers set foot on "American" soil. They had founded Jamestown. This just didn’t come out of anywhere‚ King James I had proposed a charter for them to do so. The charter allowed the joint-stock company of England or also known as the Virginia Company to colonize (1.) Later after about two years a guy named Captain John Smith emerged as basically the savior of the colonists. He set the colonists straight. HE did this by forceful leadership. He knew that if they didn’t
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unique economic‚ geography‚ and social structures. The settlements in the Chesapeake region‚ such as Virginia were only settled to increase wealth. The colonists wanted to gain riches. After the settlement of Jamestown‚ they didn’t attempt to gather or grow food for the winter to come. They were too engulfed by their desire for gold. The Virginia Company of London‚ which was a joint-stock company‚ sent a colony to dig for gold‚ and half of the colonists perished. Captain John Smith took control
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Katharine Concepcion Document: Sending Women to Virginia (1622) Source: Susan Myra Kingsbury‚ ed.‚ The Records of the Virginia Company of London (Washington‚ D.C.‚ 1906-1935)‚ Vol. I‚ pp. 256-57. 1. Who produced the document? How much do we know about the author? What are the assumptions and biases of the author? This article was written by Susan Myra Kingsbury. From what we can tell‚ Kingsbury put together a series of records from the Virginia Company. From this article‚ we can tell that she
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Context Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was first performed in New York City in 1962. The play stunned and pleased American audiences‚ seemed to provide a vital insight into American life. The country was coming out of the 1950s‚ when Dwight "Ike" Eisenhower was a conservative‚ well-loved president and television shows like Leave it to Beaver and Father Knows Best were popular. The importance of a happy family was emphasized by both politicians and popular culture. Many Americans considered success
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London Company‚ 102 passengers began their historic sixty-five-day voyage aboard a single ship‚ the 180-ton Mayflower. They were headed for Virginia but got blown off course and instead decided to found their colony in Cape Cod in what would become the Massachusetts Bay Colony. They called the colony Plymouth after the harbor in England from which they departed for the New World. Since the new location for their colony was outside the areas claimed by the two chartered joint-stock companies‚ they
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During the 1600s‚ British citizens left England and began settling in the Chesapeake and New England regions‚ yet these regions developed differently. Migrants came to the New World with distinct motives that‚ in effect made the regions develop differently; the New Englanders came in search of religious freedom while the Chesapeake settlers came in search of economic prosperity. The New Englanders search for religious freedom caused them to develop a diverse economy‚ societies with tightly bound
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A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN was printed in 1929. It was written by Virginia Woolf – whose life was a tragedy in itself and finally ended in her suicide in 1941.The highly experimental characters of her novels established her as an important figure of British modernism. In 1928‚ Woolf was invited to deliver lecture at the women’s colleges of Cambridge - Newhem and Girton. The theme of her lecture was WOMEN AND FICTION.These lectures were expanded and complied into A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN. In her lectures‚ Woolf
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There are many differences between New England and the Chesapeake. This was because there were a lot of culture differences between the two. Whether it was coming to america to search for gold like the chesapeake or escaping religious injustice like new England. The chesapeake’s hot and humid climate tended to drive people away so they came to New England for dry and mild weather. Farming was a huge part of the Chesapeake’s economy unlike the New England people who had a very diverse economy even
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Terms: Joint Stock Company -- Anne Hutchinson Review Questions: 1 - 5 Joint Stock Company: an incorporated business with transferable shares and with shareholders having either limited or unlimited liability for debts of the business. i. Essentially lead to Britain’s courage to invest in colonies/ get the wealth to do so. Virginia Company: joint stock companies chartered by James I with the purpose of establishing settlements off the coast of North America. ii. When settlement ultimately
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