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Nathaniel Shilbrick's Accomplishments

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Nathaniel Philbrick grew up in Pennsylvania and went on to earn a BA in English from Brown University and an MA in American Literature from Duke University. ( Philbrick has worked as an editor at Sailing World Magazine during his earlier years and is the founding director of Nantucket’s Egan Maritime Institute. He is still a research fellow at the Nantucket Historical Association. Most of Philbrick’s works relate to the sea due to his past experience, these works include: Bunker Hill, Why Read Moby Dick? , The Last Stand, Sea of Glory, In the Heart of the Sea, Away Off Shore, and Mayflower. Philbrick boasts a long list of achievements for these books as well as personal achievements. Some of his books have been named New York Times Notable …show more content…

Part one consists of chapters one through seven describing the Pilgrim’s voyage to America and the building of their community as well as the formation of a long relationship with the local Pokanokets and their leader, Massasoit. Part two details of new faces coming to the colony from England meaning more mouths to feed, adding to their problems was the threat of the Narragansetts, enemies of the Pokanokets. As a result the men of Plymouth colony constructed an eight foot wall around the settlement. Following the death of Squanto, Standish killed two sachems, Wituwamat and Pecksuot, disrupting the balance of power in the area in favor of the Pokanokets, and after Massasoit recovered from his sickness with the help of Winslow. The Plymouth-Pokanoket alliance was stronger than ever. Part three, Community, shows the unfair trial of three of Philip’s men, ultimately acting as a spark that helped to set off King Philip’s War. Part 4, War, depicts King Philip’s war and how Benjamin Church recruits the Praying Indians to overpower Philip and his allies and also as a result of Mary Rowlandson and the important role she played in the war. Through these parts Philbrick’s style stands out mainly as a narrative style because although he is telling a story he is also backing up his claims with evidence and primary

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Overall, as Philbrick closes out the book the tensions in the Native American tribes and the English colonist would lead to King Phillips War. As we continue in Philbrick’s book he goes in great detail of King Phillip or also known as Metacom the son of Massasoit. Phillip began to grow uneasy with the economic balance between the colonist and the Native Americans. This led Phillip to gain followers to aggravate English settlements but, would not kill any settlers during this time and, Phillip would continuing doing this until the English killed one of his own men. This would start an assault by the Native Americans on the English settlements leaving very few survivors to tell about the horrific events.

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To begin with, Fisher analyzes the early years of William Penn’s life, which is the founder of Pennsylvania. Fisher then provides evidence behind the term “Quaker”. It then changes to the subject of the process of sailing to the new world, waiting on King Charles to grant

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In writing A Voyage Long and Strange, Tony Horwitz’s goal is clear, to educate others on early America and debunk ignorant myths. Horwitz’s reason for wanting to achieve this goal is because of his own ignorance that he sees while at Plymouth Rock. “Expensively educated at a private school and university- a history major, no less!-I’d matriculated to middle age with a third grader’s grasp of early America.” Horwitz is disappointed in his own lack of knowledge of his home country, especially with his background history and decides not only to research America’s true beginnings, but to also follow the path of those who originally yearned to discover America.

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Definitively, the last book mentioned was his best publication which made him win awards from the American Historical

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While both settlers were met with Natives of the new land, each had two profound differences as to how they went about communicating and living with them. In order to best answer the question that still is of relevance to today’s nation, “Why did Plymouth, rather than Jamestown, earn pride of

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Tisquantum also known as “Squanto” was a Native American part of the Patuxet Tribe(which later dissipated due to disease) who helped the Pilgrims who arrived in the New World how to survive. Squanto taught the Pilgrims how to tend to crops, catch eels, and how to use fish as fertilizer. Squanto's role in the New World was very important, without Squanto the Pilgrims might have not been able to survive in the New World. Squanto should be continued to be remembered and taught about in school’s around the world like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Christopher Columbus because, he is equally as important and without him they probably wouldn’t even had the roles they had in the world. Born on November 15th, 1585, Squanto was born into the Patuxet Tribe in Patuxet territory, Wampanoag Confederacy (now known as Plymouth Bay).

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Anderson, Fred. The War that Made America. New York, New York: Penguin Publishing Group, 2006. Fred Anderson's work on the Seven Year War center's upon an argument that the events during the conflict led up to and contributed to the American Revolution and the founding of the United States. Moreover, Anderson argues that the seeds of civil strife between England and its colonial possessions were sown at a time when English victory in North America was assured.

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In Paul A. Gilje’s book, To Swear Like a Sailor, Gilje explains how maritime culture shaped our country, but more importantly how life at sea was just as much affected by life on dry land as life and literature on land affected sailors. This is especially since “the majority of Americans lived close to saltwater.” He uses examples from writers like Mark Twain, Herman Melville, James Fenimore Cooper, and even Edgar Allan Poe as sources. But stories such as Moby Dick, The Narrative of Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Red Rover and “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (by Samuel Taylor Coleridge) were not the only sources of information Gilje reminds us of. Sailors themselves would “spin yarns,” keep logbooks and journals, and sometimes sell their works and

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The narrative offers an account which can be used to describe the particularly puritan society based on the ideals of Christianity and the European culture. It offers a female perspective of the Native Americans who showed no respect to the other religious groups. The narrator makes serious observation about her captors noting the cultural differences as well as expectations from one another in the society. However, prejudice is evident throughout the text which makes the narratives unreliable in their details besides being written after the event had already happened which means that the narrator had was free to alter the events to create an account that favored her. Nonetheless, the narrative remains factually and historically useful in providing the insights into the tactics used by the Native Americans

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My Kiowa Grandmother was taken from the book, The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday. Momaday writes about his native tribe the Kiowa’s and grandmother because he wants to live it! He wants to feel, understand his roots, travel back in time. At his grandmother’s death, he decides to learn more about the Kiowa tribe by going to the funeral. The primary aim is Literary aim and secondary aim is Expressive aim.

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The Cherokee, a small tribe of Indians, has been forced to move from their homeland after John Ridge met secretly US official to sign a removal treaty for the selling of Cherokee’s land. Ridge and almost 2000 Cherokee migrated to Oklahoma while the vast majority of the population ignored the illegal treaty and remained on their lands. When the deadline of removal past, the general Winfield Scoot arrived in Georgia with seven thousand soldiers with the orders to remove the Cherokee. And this action was the decline of the Cherokee. After reading the book about writing by John Ehle about the Cherokee nation, we can try to analyze the impact of this removal in the Cherokee’s live.

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The pilgrims were also good friends with the indians the. The indians showed the pilgrims how to plant food. The indians told the pilgrims if you put fish in with the seed it will grow faster. When they settled the temperatures were very cold every winter many men and women died during winter. What they died of were

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Hughes' first life account, The Big Sea (1940), denoted a change from the intense despondency that had described his written work of the earlier decade. Chronicling his initial twenty-seven years, he delineates an engaging human figure, here and there loaded with fears and questions yet more frequently hopeful, who chooses to advance on the planet through composing. Before the finish of the book, the peruser feels that it was an insightful decision. The book is loaded with Hughes' companions and associates, to such an extent, truth be told, that Blanche Knopf scrutinized the over the top references to Van Vechten, Thurman, Toomer, and Hurston. Hughes felt that the general population included were essential, especially in the Harlem Renaissance.

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Moby-Dick is hardly ever integrated into a school's core curriculum. From the 497 undergraduates Lamb has taught the book to, only 19 of those students had previously read the book. The reason for such a few high school students reading the novel is that Moby-Dick is a canonical book written by a “dead,white man” have little relevance, and is pernicious. Another reason is that high school teachers find Moby-Dick to be too challenging to teach to students. It’s difficult to teach high school students using Moby-Dick because of their short attention span which is determined by video games, music videos, and shopping mall culture.

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The arrival of the first Europeans in the Americas is dramatically captured through the many writers who attempted to communicate what they saw, experienced and felt. What is more, the very purposes of their treacherous travel and colonization are clearly seen in their writings; whether it is poetry, history or sermons. Of the many literary pieces available today, William Bradford and John Winthrop’s writings, even though vary because the first is a historical account and the second is a sermon, stand out as presenting a clear trust in God, the rules that would govern them and the reason they have arrived in the Americas. First of all, William Bradford provides an in-depth look into the first moment when the Puritans arrived in the Americas. In fact, he chronicles the hardships they face on their way to Plymouth, yet he includes God’s provision every step of the way.

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