...ECO 151 Robin Turner September 10, 2013 Virginia GDP Virginia GDP was ranked 40th in the nation back in 2012. In 1997 Virginia’s GDP was 210.97 billion, and by 2012 it had risen to over 400 billion. From Richmond down to Lee County southwest includes military installations, cattle, tobacco and peanut farming in Southside Virginia. Tomatoes recently surpassed soy as the most profitable crop in Virginia. However, income statistics showed mixed results in FY 2012. Personal income increased by more then 4.0 percent. Wages and salaries, which accounted for 55 percent of total personal income in fiscal year 2012, grew 2.6 percent, lagging the forecast of 3.3 percent growth. Net transfer payments rose 11.2 percent, far ahead of the forecast of 5.8 percent growth. Proprietor's income, and supplements towages and salaries were below forecast in FY2012. Northern Virginia, which is comprised of professional and business services sector, added 7,900 new jobs in FY 2012. This area also represents 36 percent of all jobs within the state. And not to be lift behind is the government jobs, which led all sector of the state economy, contributed over $73 billion in economic development. Also, the shipbuilding industry adds heavily to Virginia’s GDP. They employ over 26,000 Virginians, which accounts for 1.3 percent annually from the industry. Virginia, California, Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi are among the top five states that account for 62 percent of all private employment in the...
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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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...History of Virginia Wineries The first settlers in Virginia had high hopes that Virginia would be the major source of wine for the British Empire. For more than four centuries now, the Jamestown settlers have made wine. The first settlers were very ambitious and in 1619, they signed into law a requirement that stated that each male settler had to grow at least ten grape vines. The initiative taken by these settlers faced major drawbacks as the vines from Europe such as vinifera were attacked by pests such as Phylloxera and several diseases. The tobacco business that was booming at the time made the settlers lose faith in the wine business. Fine wine was a rare commodity only to be sourced from Europe but since brandy, beer and whisky were in plentiful, the settlers saw no need for wine. One settler, Thomas Jefferson never gave up. He cultivated European grapes for a period of more than 30 years in his Monticello vineyards. He never got lucky and never produced a single bottle of wine. George Washington too tried for 11 years and achieved nothing. Success came in 1820s, when wine was made from Native American grapes. At the Vienna World’s fair in 1973, the Virginia Norton wine was identified as ‘the best wine of all nations’. In 1889, at the Paris World’s Fair, Virginia Norton wine received a gold medal. This new discovery that the European and native vines could be grafted gave the Virginia’s wine industry a boost. The Virginia’s wine industry faced a major challenge in the...
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...Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf was born Adeline Virginia Stephen, in 1882. She suffered immensely as a child from a series of emotional shocks (these are included in the biography of Virginia Woolf). However, she overcame these incredible personal damages and became a major British novelist, essayist and critic. Woolf also belonged to an elite group that included Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and T.S. Eliot. Woolf pioneered in incorporating feminism in her writings. “Virginia Woolf’s journalistic and polemical writings show that she made a significant contribution to the development of feminist thought” (Dalsimer). Despite her tumultuous childhood, she was an original thinker and a revolutionary writer, specifically the way she described depth of characters in her novels. Her novels are distinctively modern and express characters in a way no other writer had done before. One reason it is easy to acknowledge the importance of Virginia Woolf is because she wrote prolifically. Along with many novels, she wrote essays, critiques and many volumes of her personal journals have been published. She is one of the most extraordinary and influential female writers throughout history. Virginia Woolf is an influential author because of her unique style, incorporations of symbolism and use of similes and metaphors in her literature, specifically in Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and The Waves. Virginia Woolf’s eccentric style is what causes her writings to be distinct from...
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...Adrion Green Wood, Jennifer Humanities 7, Block ¼ October, 24 From the start, the investors of the Virginia Company in England were unhappy with the accomplishments of the colonists of Jamestown, Virginia. The colonists who founded Virginia, chose a terrible location to start their colony. It’s true, the settlers that established themselves in Jamestown were making considerable amounts of money growing tobacco and trading with the native tribes. But that didn’t last for very long. The settlers were becoming more and more greedy and began stealing women and land from the natives. And due to harsh environmental conditions, the spread of disease, and a lack of strong rule, the settlement began to decline only a year after the charter was awarded....
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...1882. Virginia Woolf born (25 Jan) Adeline Virginia Stephen, third child of Leslie Stephen (Victorian man of letters – first editor of theDictionary of National Biography) – and Julia Duckworth (of the Duckworth publishing family). Comfortable upper middle class family background. Her father had previously been married to the daughter of the novelist William Makepeace Thackery. Brothers Thoby and Adrian went to Cambridge, and her sister Vanessa became a painter. Virginia was educated by private tutors and by extensive reading of literary classics in her father’s library. 1895. Death of her mother. VW has the first of many nervous breakdowns. 1896. Travels in France with her sister Vanessa. 1897. Death of half-sister, Stella. VW learning Greek and History at King’s College London. 1899. Brother Thoby enters Trinity College, Cambridge and subsequently meets Lytton Strachey, Leonard Woolf, and Clive Bell. These Cambridge friends subsequently become known as the Bloomsbury Group, of which VW was an important and influential member. 1904. Death of father. Beginning of second serious breakdown. VW’s first publication is an unsigned review in The Guardian. Travels in France and Italy with her sister Vanessa and her friend Violet Dickinson. VW moves to Gordon Square in Bloomsbury. Other residents of this Square include Lady Jane Strachey, Charlotte Mew, and Dora Carrington. 1905. Travels in Spain and Portugal.Writes book reviews and teaches once a week at Morley College, London...
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...1. Notes a. This letter was written by an indentured servant who traveled to Virginia to work on the tobacco plantations. He wrote this letter to his parents to not only explain the terrible living conditions, but also to beg them for help and mercy. His letter details the conditions everyone had to live in and how people reacted according to them. Most importantly, he begs his parents to buy out his indenture so he can return home, or to send food for his survival in Virginia. b. The people are incredibly sick and starving. If they haven’t already died from the indian attacks, they are barely surviving in their current conditions. Not to mention, the people are terrified of another attack from the Powhatan. People are turning on each other because they are all desperate to survive. For example, someone stole Frethorne’s Cloke and would not tell him where it was. However, he was spotted later on receiving food from the ship, so it can be assumed that the Cloke was used to trade. Frethorne also told his parents about the kind hospitality from John Jackson, the gunsmith, who took him in when he traveled to Jamestown for business. Lastly,...
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...from Milwaukee State Teachers College, Virginia Satir decided to enter the field of private practice. She had been working as a babysitter and part-time in a department store and projects work of administration to come up with her school fees. She graduated and was in the top three of the class meaning she was the cream of the class. She had always loved education (Satir, 1991). At the age of three she had taught herself to read. She had also decided from a tender age that she would pursue the dream of being a detective in families. She was sure as she could see from her family that there was a lot behind what each family portrayed to everyone. The first family that Satir visited was in 1951 as she entered in the private practice of family therapy. She had just graduated and was just beginning to establish herself into the profession and in four years time, she became associated with the Illinois Psychiatric Institute. Satir would work with the institution as a motivational speaker to the member therapists. She would focus on ways to rebuild better and stronger families. This desire was mainly based on her experiences with her family. The father was a drunkard and the mother was staunch Christian, these indifferences caused major disagreements with the other family members causing lack of closeness in the family (Satir, 1991). These indifferences make the family unit dysfunctional and hectic to cope with. In the end of the 1950s, Virginia founded the Mental Research Institute...
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...West Virginia's Nickname is Mountain state. West Virginia’s motto is Montani semper liberi meaning mountaineers are always free. The reason west Virginia had its name because they wanted to honor the virgin queen Elizabeth I . The people there were called west Virginians. West Virginia’s Bordering states are Kentucky, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Virginia’s Capitol is Charlestown. West Virginia’s population is 1,854,304, and West Virginia is the 38th state in the Union.. West Virginia's favorite flower is the Rhododendron. West Virginia's favorite tree is the sugar maple. West Virginia’s favorite bird is the Cardinal. West Virginia’s favorite animal is the black bear. West Virginia’s state fish was the brook trout. West Virginia’s state butterfly is the monarch butterfly The...
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...Section 1: Geography Many of the frightful wars that happened in Virginia were impacted by its jagged geography. Its location changed the results tremendously. Some of these gruesome battles were fought in the flinty valleys and ridges, while other horrendous battles were fought on the coastal plain of Virginia. Some battles were even fought on plateaus. The valley’s and ridges are very vast among Virginia. Some of these great gorges can be found in one of the world's most famous national parks, this extraordinary park in known as Shenandoah national park. In addition, their is on more famous park known as Appalachian park. Many ghastly battles were fought in this part of the state, but many were also fought in the coastal plain area of Virginia....
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...James Madison was born on March 16, 1751 , and died on June 28, 1836. He was born in Belle Grove, Port Conway in Virginia. He also lived there until the Presidential Election. On June 28,1836 James Madison soon dies on his tobacco plantation. James Madison was the fourth president of the United States. He is also considered as the father of The Constitution. Madison advanced his career in national politics as a member of the U.S House of Representatives from 1789 to 1797. After being homeschooled, Madison went to preparatory school and then he went to College of New Jersey at Princeton. Madison was constantly exposed to the Christian religion and was often influenced by the thought of the eighteenth century. During his upcoming graduation,...
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...“Mr. President, it is natural to a man to indulge in the illusion of hope” the words of Patrick henry. Why do I think it’s great because Patrick henry says in his quote that hope can be an illusion to a man under the British control. The time period around the Virginia speech was the colonial times. The people’s interests were inventing things and learning about science. Their desires were begin a country while their struggles were trying to be a free country and their fears were that their country where going down into flames. The Virginia speech by Patrick henry in 1765.the most effective persuasive technique was logos because he built into a lot of trust into the colonist he got a whole state into believing him. The reason why it was...
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...Local and Surrounding Ecologies and Environments of Virginia Introduction to Physical Science, SCI110 December 13, 2012 The Virginia Ecologies and Environments Ecology, as defined by Enger, Ross, & Tillery (2009), is “the branch of biology that studies the relationships between organisms and their environments”. Accordingly, the term environment is very broadly defined as “anything that affects an organism during its lifetime” (Enger, Ross, & Tillery, 2009). With these definitions in mind, it is easy to understand that organisms rely on their environments for sustainment and life. On the flip side, environments rely on organisms as well for survival. The factors that affect a living organism in any given environment can, in turn, be classified as either biotic or abiotic. Biotic factors are other living things that may affect a particular organism, for example predators. In contrast, abiotic factors are nonliving things that affect a particular organism, such as a drought or excessive rain. In reviewing the local ecology and environment of the Commonwealth of Virginia, we must first determine the region’s biome. A biome is the classification of a terrestrial community, primarily determined by climatic factors, such as precipitation patterns and temperature ranges (Enger, Ross, & Tillery, 2009). A biome also provides an indication of the type of plant life and animals that may be present within a particular region. The relationship is interdependent...
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...the Virginia Company permission to begin colonies in Virginia, in hopes of receiving economical profits and having more people convert to their religion. The Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery were the three ships that set sail in their journey towards Virginia, in December 20, 1606 from London, England. The ships landed at Cape Henry, which is now known as Virginia Beach. The voyage lasted 144 days, which is rounded to approximately four and a half months. On April 26, 1607, 104 Englishmen arrived in North America to start their own colony. On May 13, the Jamestown Colony, which was named after their King, James I, was established. The settlement became the first lasting English colony in North America. The captain used a familiar route around south of the equator to undergo better suited winds and a steady flow of water, as well as making continuous stops in the Canary Islands and the Caribbean. After spending six weeks, the English Channel had to wait for better conditioned winds. Later on,...
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...Jamestown, Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in North America. The Virginia Company of London was a sponsorship from King James the first to settle across the seas to the New World. This expedition consisted of one hundred and forty-four men, these men boarded three ships, the Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery heading south to the Canary islands, next they traveled south to the Caribbean,then went north and ended in Cape Henry. Cape Henry is along the Atlantic shore of Virginia located in the North East corner of Virginia Beach. Cape Henry is significant because it is the southern boundary of the entrance of the Chesapeake Bay. Cape Henry and Cape Charles, named for sons King James the first in 1607 make up...
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