The Mayflower Voyage The group that set out from Plymouth, in southwestern England, in September 1620 included 35 members of a radical Puritan faction known as the English Separatist Church. In 1607, after illegally breaking from the Church of England, the Separatists settled in the Netherlands, first in Amsterdam and later in the town of Leiden, where they remained for the next decade under the relatively lenient Dutch laws. Due to economic difficulties, as well as fears that they would lose their English language and heritage, they began to make plans to settle in the New World. Their intended destination was a region near the Hudson River, which at the time was thought to be part of the already established colony of Virginia. In 1620, the would-be settlers joined a London stock company that would finance their trip aboard the Mayflower, a three-masted merchant ship, in 1620.
This establishment quickly collapsed and the first permanent English colony of Jamestown was established 20 years later in 1607. With over a 100 year head start on England it would make sense that Spain capitalized the most on the New World; however it is quite the opposite. The differences in the colonization process helped England capitalize more by giving them the resources needed to bring them into the Industrial Revolution, and led Spain into a period of decline. There are many differences in how England and Spain colonized the new world. These differences include; the location of the colonized land, the treatment and relationship of the natives, reason for colonization, and the capitalization of the natural resources.
“Unit One Assignment-Focus on Puritanism and Travel Narratives in Colonial America (<1600-1783): The Journals of Captain John Smith, Edited by John M. Thompson” Captain John Smith, was an English soldier and an adventurer, as well as one of the founders of Jamestown, Virginia. Smith also led many expeditions exploring the Chesapeake Bay and the New England coast. Smith was just one of a hundred and five settlers who set sail from England in1606 looking for something new, and arrived in Virginia in 1607. When they reached North America, the group opened sealed instructions and learned that Smith had been chosen to be one of the new seven leaders of the colony. This was also controversial since Smith had been accused of mutiny while on the voyage.
The need for crop production was fueled by the lack of economic prosperity. This occurred right after World War II, which could explain why “more than half the people of the world are living in conditions approaching misery.. Their food is inadequate.” (3) People were faced with little to no food sources and disease. Because of World War II, the lands were fought on and filled with dirt, which was not usable for developing farms. It did not help the prosperity of agriculture in those lands. “The land is tired, worn out, depleted of plant nutrients.”(4) Document 3 is the inaugural address of the US president Harry Truman.
During these few year many considered to be the unhappiest times of Whitman’s life. He was consistently working hard for very little pay. Whitman recorded his sadness in several letters he wrote to a friend by the name of Abraham Leech. In of these letters it became quite evident of his dissatisfaction and no hope for the people of the area when he said, “Never before have I entertained so low an idea of the beauty and perfection of man’s nature, never have I seen humanity in so degraded a shape, as here” (Folsom.) As a result of Whitman’s dissatisfaction he sought to reinsert himself back in the world of Journalism in New York.
Unfortunately, because of such extreme poverty and no resources for food, the Batwa are disappearing. Those that have chosen to integrate into society are faced with constant discrimination and prejudice. “Batwa children say they dislike going to school because other children throw things at them and call them dogs” (Matthews, 2006, Para 12). The degrading has been so horrific that the Batwa people are ashamed of whom they are. In 1906 a young man named Ota Benga, lived one of the most degrading and appalling 12 years any one person could ever live.
However, as evident in both novels, this traditional middle-class family structure does not conform to the conditions that the characters are faced with during the industrialization period. In “Mary Barton”, for instance, Mary lives only with her father after her mother and brother died. Mary’s brother died of hunger due to their very poor living conditions caused by the economic depression (Corey, 1). Mary’s father, John, then becomes involve in the workers’ union to expose the poverty stricken people, and leaves Mary "more of her own way than is common in any rank with girls of her age" (Gaskell, 23). She is without a mother to guide her in life, and to arrange marriage of any sort.
People in the camps had poor diet, what they usually received were gruel, cornbread and vegetable soup that made from the cheapest vegetables available. Some camps have reported two meals a day while others allowed three. The camps were also infested with many types of pest which would cause severe skin problems and lead to dangerous infections and eventually, causing death. Nevertheless, they were still forced to work even if they were ill. Under these extremely bad circumstances, many of them were driven to insanity and in many cases committed suicide.
His father, John Dickens, living beyond his means, received imprisonment for debt, along with his wife and most of their children were sent to the Marshalsea in 1824. Dickens at age 12 was removed from school and sent to work at a shoe dye factory, earning six shillings a week to help support his family. Despite his parents’ best efforts, the family remained poor. He felt abandoned and betrayed by the adults who were supposed to take care of him. His childhood poverty and feelings of abandonment, although unknown to his readers until after his death, has a heavy influence on Dickens later views on social reform and the world he would create through his fiction.
Droughts, floods and disease are all made worse by global warming. My region's poverty limits the ability of my family to recover and adapt to these conditions. In 2006 the government declared a state of emergency after two and a half years of drought. Lack of rain has resulted in our food dying. My father can’t grow healthy crops to sell anymore.