From Journal of the First Voyage to America

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From The General History of Virginia

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1.    How does someone's point of view affect how they portray events in a story? They input more things that make them look good to whomever their writing to. So that they can continue receiving their benefits (whatever their purpose is)

2.    What are the advantages of primary sources?  The disadvantages?

The advantages of primary sources is, they was their so they know the best logical answer to whatever question anyone have about their journey.   The disadvantages of primary sources is they could be lying about what really happen

                       

•                 One quotation that you think is valuable to history because only someone who was there at the time could describe the event that way-  I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished. (I choose this quote because you would have to be their to know that they fled their homes and left them completely furnished.)

• One quotation where you feel he is stretching the truth- This Island even exceeds the others in beauty and fertility. Groves of lofty and flourishing trees are abundant, as also large lakes, surrounded and overhung by the foliage, in a most enchanting manner. ( I choose this quote because he would tell his king and queen more then whats really going on he would exaggerate, so that the king and queen would think he doing

great so they send him more money and also send him out on more adventures).  

One quotation that you think is valuable to history because only someone who was there at the time could describe the event that way-   Being thus left to our fortunes, it fortuned that within ten days, scarce ten amougst us could either go or well stand, such extreme weakness and sickness oppressed us. ( I choose this quote because you would have had to be a primary source to know that they was really starving.)

One quotation where you feel he is stretching the truth- to Captain Smith, who by his own example, good words, and fair promises, set some to mow, others to bind thatch, some to build great houses, others to thatch them, himself always bearing the greatest task for his own share, so that in short time he provided most of them lodgings, neglecting any for himself…. ( I choose this quote because Smith tied to make it seem like he did for others, but at the end he did the greatest task of them all and ending him not having a home for himself, I thinking he had the biggest home out of all.

3.    Do you think the fact that these writings are biased in nature take away from their historical importance, or do you feel that the historical importance outweighs the way they were written?  Explain WHY you feel this way. – I think they are biased, because the adventures whatever their writing purpose was they wanted to look good to whomever their writing to, and so they could get good looks from their superior and achieve more things.

4.     Does your work address the standards and essential questions? How?  Give examples. – Yes, because I can identify subjective and objective quotes, A thousand different sorts of trees, with their fruit were to be met with, and a wonderfully delicious odor.

•   Can you provide answers to the essential questions as they relate to the texts you read for this unit? Yes (look at number 1)