In George Best’s A True Discourse and Thomas Hariot’s A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia, both men share a common goal, which was to get people to America. George Best used a persona that portrays someone logical, or a thinking man; but does not stray from his religious background and the beliefs of the time period. Thomas Hariot presented an authoritarian persona, someone who knows the ways, people, and the commodities of the colony. While both men chose a different persona, they knew to use what would be best for their purpose and their audience. Each persona was chosen for its effectiveness and each came across differently in these works. They both, however, wanted the same thing and that was funding for further exploration and/or colonization.
In the excerpt from George Best’s work, he covers a topic that is a big issue for the time, and that is the natives of the Americas. By first addressing the commonly held theories and then directly showing why they may not be true, he is able to begin explaining his theories to a newly educated mind; he does this with the hopes of replacing the wrong information with what he deems is the right information. While he does try to educate his readers, Best stays true to his British roots; he makes sure to use the pronouns we and us inclusively. For example, in the opening of A True Discourse, he states “Wee have among us in England black Moors, Æthiopians, out of all parts of Torrida Zona, which after a small continuance, can well endure the cold of our Country. And why should not we as well abide the heat of their Country” (Best 54)? This gives him the advantage of the audience identifying with him as one of their own, not an outsider trying to change their beliefs. ...
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...h. Best and Hariot take very different approaches to reaching their intended audience; Best is identified as the traveled and informed British man and Hariot as the “Americanized” expert with British roots and loyalties. Both knew where these distinctions should lie, and were very successful in their representation. They considered all topics and how they should stand in regards to them. Best included himself in every topic, without distinguishing between “me” and “you”. Hariot switched from distant expert, to loyal Brit from one paragraph to the next. He knew that he could not risk drawing a line between the two sides that left him on one or the other. He needed to expertly straddle the line between the new world and the old one. These works show the difference between one who reports the information of exploration and one who makes the discoveries a part of him.
In Woody Holton's Forced Founders, that most revered segment of the revolutionary generation, the elitist gentry class of Virginia, comes across very much as a group of self-serving reactionaries, rather then the idealized revolutionaries of the great patriotic myth of popular history. He sets about disassembling a central portion of the myth created by earlier generations of Consensus historians, by asserting that rather then gallantly leading the charge for independence, Virginia's elitist gentry resorted to independence as their last and only means of saving their elite ruling status, their economic futures, and even their very lives many feared. While this is very much an example of revisionist history, Holton has not so much rewritten history, as he has provided the back story of the complexity and diversity of the Virginia colony on the eve of the American Revolution. For while the book's title may insinuate otherwise, lowly groups like slaves and Indians discussed here are afforded only the status of “founders” by pressing those traditionally thought of in this role to take the plunge for independence. Still the papers and correspondence of the iconic figureheads of the revolutionary generation like Washington, Jefferson, and Madison make up the bulk of primary sources.
Read, D. (2005). New World, Known World : Shaping Knowledge in Early Anglo-American Writing. Columbia: University of Missouri Press
In Thomas King’s novel, The Inconvenient Indian, the story of North America’s history is discussed from his original viewpoint and perspective. In his first chapter, “Forgetting Columbus,” he voices his opinion about how he feel towards the way white people have told America’s history and portraying it as an adventurous tale of triumph, strength and freedom. King hunts down the evidence needed to reveal more facts on the controversial relationship between the whites and natives and how it has affected the culture of Americans. Mainly untangling the confusion between the idea of Native Americans being savages and whites constantly reigning in glory. He exposes the truth about how Native Americans were treated and how their actual stories were
There were a myriad of differences between Great Britain and her American colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but these differences can be divided into three basic categories: economic, social, and political. The original American settlers came to the colonies for varied reasons, but a common trait among these settlers was that they still considered themselves British subjects. However, as time passed, the colonists grew disenfranchised from England. Separated from the king by three thousand miles and living in a primitive environment where obtaining simple necessities was a struggle, pragmatism became the common thread throughout all daily life in the colonies. It was this pragmatism that led the colonists to create their own society with a unique culture and system of economics and politics.
In a lively account filled that is with personal accounts and the voices of people that were in the past left out of the historical armament, Ronald Takaki proffers us a new perspective of America’s envisioned past. Mr. Takaki confronts and disputes the Anglo-centric historical point of view. This dispute and confrontation is started in the within the seventeenth-century arrival of the colonists from England as witnessed by the Powhatan Indians of Virginia and the Wamapanoag Indians from the Massachusetts area. From there, Mr. Takaki turns our attention to several different cultures and how they had been affected by North America. The English colonists had brought the African people with force to the Atlantic coasts of America. The Irish women that sought to facilitate their need to work in factory settings and maids for our towns. The Chinese who migrated with ideas of a golden mountain and the Japanese who came and labored in the cane fields of Hawaii and on the farms of California. The Jewish people that fled from shtetls of Russia and created new urban communities here. The Latinos who crossed the border had come in search of the mythic and fabulous life El Norte.
A Declaration in 1622 is a piece of history that will forever be debated. It was written by Edward Waterhouse who was a prominent Virginia official. In a Declaration in 1622, he describes his first-hand accounts of English genocide and the relationship between the Powhatan and settlers. The point of this paper is to claim that Waterhouse’s portrayal is realistic due to his factual perspective of the time period on the contrasting aspects of the Powhatan and settlers. Diving into Edwards historical accounts can show the hardships of the settlers, the varying characteristics of both groups, the importance of tobacco, and the demonization of Native Americans. The characteristics will conclude the factually sound delineation of Edward Waterhouse.
“Is there a single trait of resemblance between those few towns and a great and growing people spread over a vast quarter of the globe, separated by a mighty ocean?” This question posed by Edmund Burke was in the hearts of nearly every colonist before the colonies gained their independence from Britain. The colonists’ heritage was largely British, as was their outlook on a great array of subjects; however, the position and prejudices they held concerning their independence were comprised entirely from American ingenuity. This identity crisis of these “British Americans” played an enormous role in the colonists’ battle for independence, and paved the road to revolution.
Delving upon the topic of England versus America, Harriot’s elaboration on both are vivid, resulting in equal perspectives on both sides of the pond. Harriot’s constant references to England’s colonization of America and the Algonkians was a large part of the text and as he often did, hinted that while the Algonkians were people of culture, they were terribly naive and “if means of good government be used, that they may in short time be brought to civility and
Another major reason that proves that Thomas Paine was the most persuasive colonial author was his use of Pathos. Thomas Paine introduced pathos into his speech The Crisis to touch upon the emotions of his audience and developed an emotional connection with the audience.. Furthermore, Paine’s use of pathos made it possible to appeal to his audience emotionally, making it easier to persuade and change the opinions of his audience.
Burnham transforms from being an alleged failure to being an ambitious man in charge of the World’s Columbian exposition. When Burnham was young, “the records of the Old Central show his average scholarship to be frequently
Every author has a reason why they write a particular piece. This is known as the author’s purpose. An author may write to entertain, to inform, or even to persuade the reader to agree with their argument. Charles C. Mann, author of “Coming of Age in the Dawnland,” writes about his view of Indian societies in New England. He speaks about the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans. Mann’s purpose for writing this piece is to inform the reader. He succeeded in achieving this purpose through his style and tone, as well as strong and persuasive points.
James Cooper and Washington Irving allow us to perceive the contrast between a new America and the old world different ways; Cooper through new American idealism and Irving via a transitory approach.
In the centre of the humanistic approach stands the subjective experience of individuals, the emphasis is that humans rather choose how to behave based on their free will (Derobertis, 2013). The approach rejects that behaviour is bound by past or current circumstances or ruled by uncontrollable forces, but rather believes that humans make decisions regarding their actions based on their own choices and that people are generally good (Glassman & Hadad, 2009). The main dominator of personality development is the self-actualization (Rogers, 1959). The pioneers of the humanistic approach are Carl Rogers, Abraham Maslow and George Kelly. Carl Rogers named the person seeking treatment a client and not a patient, he established the client-centred
The concept of personality has numerous definitions (Fatahi, Moradi, & Kashani-Vahid, 2016). Schultz and Schultz (2009), define personality in its broad sense as the manner of an individual’s behaviour in different situations. This essay explores the nature of personality, with the intention of highlighting its flexibility. The results of numerous empirical research studies are examined in order to investigate if, and how personality changes over time. It will be argued that an individual’s personality has the ability to change throughout their life.
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