...Barton and Pocahontas are women who have been influential throughout history. Pocahontas, was a Powhatan Native American woman and daughter of the Algonquin Chief Powhatan who had a significant role in the Native American population. Also, Pocahontas was the most significant Indian who is recognized for her involvement with English colonial settlement at Jamestown. As equally important to mention about Clara Barton, another symbolic woman who played an important role in the history. Barton was a pioneering registered nurse who founded the American Red Cross and she is remembered as the mainly supporter and who gave medical assistance to thousands of men who served in the military forces during the civil war. Even though these two women had many aspects in contrast, they had the same purpose in their lives, they made many sacrifices to achieve the prosperity of their communities. Pocahontas was born in 1596 and her original name was “Amonute”. Consequently, her famous nickname “Pocahontas” was born because she liked to play all day and suddenly her father called her as “playful one”. At the beginning of her childhood she was living in her mother’s village, but when she turned...
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...particular group” (Brunette). For children to learn the stereotypes so young and to think that that is how a certain group of people really is, only perpetuates the cycle of how some races or ethnic groups are treated, even something as seemingly innocent as Disney’s Pocahontas or Virginia Grossman’s Ten Little Rabbit, can really be a stereotype in hiding. “…Children between 2 and 5 years of age start to become aware of race, ethnicity, gender, and disabilities…Children learn stereotypes and attitudes about race from their parents, caretakers and the world around them” (Brunette). The knowledge that young children hold about Native Americans can vary greatly form child to child. Some children know about a tribe that lives in their area, while others just have the images that Disney has put in their heads. Most children believe that Native Americans are a thing of the past, that there are no living Native Americans today, A kindergarten class visits a children’s museum on a nearby American Indian reservation. As they enter the foyer, their guide, a member of the reservation’s Native tribe, greets the group. “When are we going to see some real Indians?” asks one of the children. “You are meeting one. I am American Indian,” says the guide. The children are skeptical. Their host, with his professional, contemporary appearance, looks quite similar to their teachers, families, and neighbors. “You don’t look like one,” ventures five-year-old Katie. “Where’s your horse and headdress?”...
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...out loud what they believe the starting person said. The goal is to be as close to the original as possible, but it never is. That’s what happens when it comes to telling a historical story. Year after year something is left out or miss construed. Sometimes people take things out because it is not something they want to acknowledge or remember. You don’t ever know the original unless it is documented by the person who experienced it first-hand. Pocahontas is a prime example of a story that got lost along the way....
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...POCAHONTAS John Rolfe letter to sir Thomas Dale on his decision to marry Pocahontas who is the daughter of the governor( Powhantan). The letter was written on 18 June 1614. I found the letter in the internet on a website written by Jamestown. Rolfe was a pious man who agonized for many weeks over the decision to marry a heathen. He composed a long, laborious letter to governor Dale asking for permission to marry Pocahontas. The letter reflected Rolfe dilemma. The tone suggested it was intended mainly for official records, but at some point Rolfe bared his true feelings. He wrote “It is Pocahontas to whom my heart and best thoughts are and have been a long time so entangled , and enthralled in so intricate a labyrinth I unwind myself there out, let therefore this my well advised protestation condemn me herein if my chiefest intent and purpose be not to strive with all my powers of body and mind but with the desire of affection” .John is also kind to the indian because he wrote, “Shall I be of so untoward disposition as to refuse to lead the blind into the right way?, or give bread to the hungry?, or uncharitable as not to cover the naked?”. In 1613 the Indian princess Pocahontas was kidnapped by the Jamestown settlers. The colonist wished to trade Pocahontas for Englishmen and weapons captured by the Indians but the trade never occurred. Thereafter Pocahontas learned English and she converted to Christianity. John Rolfe met the Pocahontas after her conversion and fell in love...
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...Pocahontas was the only one in her tribe willing to learn English. Even when Pocahontas was 12, she was curious and helpful to both the tribes and the colonists of Virginia. The Indian Princess was a very important person in her key roles. For instance, she was the daughter of Chief Powhatan of the powhatan tribes. Chief Powhatan had many daughters, but Pocahontas was his favorite daughter. She helped with the negotiations between the colonists and the Powhatan tribes as a result of learning English. While she was in virginia, Pocahontas saved many lives of the colonists from Powhatans’ patrols. Like when her tribe captured John Smith, she saved his life from having his head smashed in. In many ways, Pocahontas helped the colonists survive....
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...Pocahontas Pocahontas is a woman of myth and legend; she has mainly been depicted in fictitious movies such as the Disney version. She does have a small place in history as the one who saved John Smith, an Englishman. There was a copious amount of things that she did in the movies that did not really happen in real life. For one, she did not marry John Smith, but instead she married a man named John Rolfe, a tobacco planter. Pocahontas is a very strong woman with many traits that helps be in the elite ranks of women in the native American community. She put her life on the line to save a white settler so that is what she did that solidified herself in American history because it not only showed the courage of herself, but of her Native American Tribe. She was a brave girl who had quite the history growing up. The story of Pocahontas is an often-told tale. In the telling it has acquired mythological elements shared with other stories of encounters between Europeans and Indians, to such an extent that the original “facts” (if they are certain enough to be worthy of the name) have been distorted or obscured. In 1616 John Smith, one of the early English colonists in Virginia, recounted in a letter that ten years before he had been saved from certain death at the hand of the Powhatan Indians by a young teenage girl, named Pocahontas, who was the daughter of the chief of the Powhatans. Pocahontas grew to be on friendly terms with the colonists, but Smith made no suggestion that...
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...for the colony from 1614 to 1619. He married Princess Pocahontas, the daughter of the Native American chief Powhatan, in 1614, and they had one son, Thomas Rolfe. In 1616, John Rolfe returned to England with his wife Pocahontas. Rolfe returned to Jamestown after Pocahontas’ death on March 21, 1617. Rolfe became a landowner and married Jane Peirce before his death in 1622. Jamestown Settlement, 1607-1625 In 1606, the London Company received a royal charter from King James I to organize an expedition and establish colonies in North America. The Plymouth Company would establish the short-lived colony in Maine (see AJ-042). The Virginia Company set up England’s first permanent colony in Jamestown, Virginia. Their primary goal was profit; investors hoped settlers would find valuable natural resources, such as lumber, herbs, pitch, and even gold, to send back to England. However, the English government also wanted to resist the Spanish colonization of North America (see AJ-077 for the report of a Spaniard on the Jamestown colony.) One hundred and four men and boys came ashore in May 1607-no women arrived until the following year. Over the next three years almost eight hundred settlers would arrive to colonize the Virginia coasts-six hundred of them arriving in 1609. Unfortunately, Jamestown was not an ideal spot for a colony. The low marshy land was not healthy, and clean water could be difficult to find. Attacks by the Powhatan Indians began shortly after the English colonists...
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...Who did not want to ever be in the place of handsome John Smith or Pocahontas herself to revive their love story?, that tender these films, is not it, for example the Little Mermaid and Sebastian the crab song, who does not remember that song from "under the sea”? Has anybody ever wondered why the dwarves themselves did not do the housework when they came home once Snow White "moved in" with them? Or why an Indian as Pocahontas, falls for a murderer of thousands of his countrymen as was John Smith? Or why witches are always bad? Or why women are always in the background in these films (Hubka, Hovdestad & Tonmyr, 2009)? The world of Disney Princess began in 1937 when Snow White entered the world with the Seven Dwarfs (McRobbie, 2008). Since then it continued to add princesses in this world and the most recent movie was Tangled (Rapunzel) in 2011. In the past years, due to the lack of portraying ethnicity, Disney movie makers were highly criticized by their audience. Therefore, Pocahontas appeared in 1995 and after three years in 1998 came Mulan, which created a racially diverse collection of Disney princesses. After a decade The Princess and the Frog was released in 2009. It is important to understand that Disney plays an important role in societies today. The company has many princess films and has portrayed an image of different genders which is very well penetrated in the minds of children (Disney Princess, 2010). According to B. Davies masculinity and femininity are not...
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...Native women have been highly sexualized throughout pop culture and history. There are a number of examples that come to mind–the story of Pocahontas, or Tiger Lily in Peter Pan, or Gwen Stefani in her “Looking Hot” video, or even the Land ‘O’ Lakes Girl–the “Indian Princess” stereotype is far and wide. A current example of an American Indian stereotype happened in 2012. The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show caused some controversy as their model, Karlie Kloss, strutted along the catwalk. She wore a tiny leopard print bikini, high heels with leather fringes around her ankles and hips, a large turquoise pendant, matching rings, bracelets and a belt. Her most alarming accessory, however, was a lofty Native American headdress. Kloss’s garb was designed...
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...Kimberly Clark Professor Mitchell English G099 04 November 2014 Halloween’s Best and Worst It’s hard for me to decide which was the best of the costumes at my house this Halloween. I’ve never seen so many great costumes, mine included, squashed into one place! Between the red riding hoods, Angels, Cheechs, Chongs, Hard Core Swat Cops, Princess Peaches, Marios, Luigis, Unicorns, Devils, Cats, Vampires, and Indian Chiefs, I would have no idea whose was the best but, luckily for me Jesus showed up to my party! Jesus is a symbol of all things holy; he can bless your spirits and your wine all while kicking your ass at beer pong. He can choose whatever kind of attitude to have towards your questions about life. The Jesus at my party his name is Chris, friend of a friend who grew out his beard all year to play the role he was born to play; and that role of course was “Party God Jesus”. Not only did he absolve my guests and I of all our sins but, personally placed his crown of thorns a top this Heathen Pocahontas’ head curing me of whatever ailments may come to me in the future. Then handing me a cigarette he said “no cancer for you my child”. Now for the worst of the best this goes to the sluts that showed up at my party. While I can appreciate the sexy maid costume, or heck even the sexy Freddie cougar girl was at least creative but, I can not stand the girls whose costumes serve no purpose. A mask, and a tight dress does not a costume make. All in all, I can only imagine what...
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...A Person I Admire I can’t really say that I have an idol. I do have people that I look up to and admire, but I do not have that one person that I idolize or would actually like to be. I think that I prefer to look at more specific characteristics and qualities in a person, rather than a person as a whole. I like to find that kind of qualities in someone else and not copy them, but learn from them. I have had a hard time figuring out who to choose as my idol in this assignment until I thought of a person who had a big influence on me during my childhood. I’ve learned a lot from his works and the wisdom I was given, still has an impact on me today. This person is Walt Elias Disney. I find his work very educational for children all around the world and even to some adults. Walt Disney was born in 1901 and unfortunately passed away in 1966 due to lung cancer. His company, Walt Disney Company, produced cartoon movies, comic strips and other productions of entertainment. Disney started out with the cartoon mouse called Mickey who was the main character in his first shorter movies, which also contained some other famous fictional characters such as Donald Duck, Goofy, Pluto and the list continues almost endlessly. The first traditional animated movie that he made was “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” in 1937. Even though Walt Disney has passed away, the company still produces movies in his name and the latest movie released was “Big Hero 6” in 2014. As a child I was a huge fan...
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...There’s something indescribably gorgeous about how fleeting life is. When I die, I want everyone I love to attend my funeral wearing the brightest and most colorful items in their closet. My cousin Audrey will be wearing her Pocahontas Indian princess outfit of Halloween 1995. My friend Cindy will run around in her furry bear suit and pirate hat. I want my send off to commemorate who I am by retaining every vivid ounce of energy that rushes through my body every time I laugh so hard I can’t breathe. I don’t want to be mourned; I want my end to be a celebration of the life I lived. Passion is what my life is about. As a little girl, every night I was tucked into bed and read a story. Nurtured by a daily dose of literature, I was fascinated with the idea of beautiful princesses and magical creatures and longed for my own Prince Charming to take me away to “happily ever after.” I could not understand what made one book more compelling than another, but I knew that when I read it, I felt it. I didn’t bother myself with the complexities of why I felt the way I did, but now I realize words can be beautiful: from provoking emotions to evoking memories, passionate words can float right off the page, into one’s heart and soul. Words can open people’s eyes by changing their perspective of the world as they know it. I learned about the idea of love from fairy tale romances. I’ve been a hopeless romantic ever since I can remember. When I read The Great Gatsby during the summer before...
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...Many settlers migrated to the Virginia Colony in search of wealth or religious justice, but they did not find it. Nevertheless, after years of efforts, Virginian colonist established an unshakeable economic and social system which made the Virginia colony extremely important. Document four illustrates that Virginia settlers faced one main hardship, disease. Documents one, _ _ _ _ display panaceas for difficulties colonist faced in the 18th century. Along with diseases, Virginia settlers also faced malnutrition which resulted in lack of energy and strength. Settlers that were eager for gold spent an excessive amount searching for their wealth rather than preparing for the brutal winter ahead. Winter eventually arrived which “causth much sickness…which...
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...In 1622, the practicality of English colonialism suffered a devastating blow as fear surged throughout the English population after a devastating attack on the Jamestown colony by the Powhatan Indians. After the Powhatan tribe desecrated the prized English society, Europeans began to question whether or not colonization was sensible, or even a possibility. In The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles, Smith attempts to demonstrate the viability of English colonialism through fabricated recalling of his own adventurous and prevailing experiences with the Powhatan people in light of this recent violence and humiliation. Smith uses his writings to rationalize colonialism, as well as secure his own future political position....
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...Is she a real new “Princess”? Media has grown into the ultimate medium of mass communication, a popular agent used to illustrate a “reflection” of the societies throughout the ages. In general, media has overcome multiple issues of representation of different genders, sexuality, classes, ethnic and racial groups (Hoynes and Crouteau). Nevertheless, these matters are not completely evolved yet. Media producers substitute the blunt way of displaying their demeaning opinions, into a subtler version of prejudice defined as: “modern” racism and sexism. Fundamentally, rather than discriminating and showing direct hatred towards who they claim are “genetically inferior”; producers present a positive evaluation and acceptance towards the “minorities”...
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