Topic – Claim – Reasons Each reason (or argument) will be a paragraph. You will create an outline of how you would write those paragraphs. “Reasoning” is different than the “reasons” – it is the logic that you use to make sense of the evidence. Evidence means little without the reasoning behind your conclusions. Argument – Evidence – Reasoning For instance: I. Claim Statement: Most of the colonists died from sickness, disease, starvation, and native attacks. II. Argument #1 A) (Evidence) Source G 1) (Evidence) The quote says this “Summer sickness kills half the colonist Capt… Disease returns, 100 at Jamestown ‘sickened and half the number died’. (The starving time) kills some 110 colonists from famine and disease.” 2) (Reasoning) This supports the …show more content…
III. Argument #2 (Evidence) Source G 1) (Evidence) The quote says this “(The starving time) kills some 110 colonists from famine and disease.” 2) (reasoning) this supports the argument because during the “Starving time” there was famine which means there was a shortage of food. B) (Evidence) Source B 2) (reasoning) In Source B it talks about brackish water, water that has salt but is still drinkable and usable for growing crops, but it's not the best for it. 3) (reasoning) So some of the crops must of died from the brackish water, and some colonists must of gotten sick from it as well. IV. Argument #3 (Evidence) Source C 1) (Evidence) The quote says this “I, therefore, exhort you to peaceable councils, and above all I insist that guns and swords, the cause of all our jealousy and uneasiness, be removed and be sent
In her work, Apathy and Death in Early Jamestown, Karen Ordahl Kupperman argues that the “high mortality rate” of Jamestown was caused by apathy, which formed from “a combination of psychological and physical factors” of disease, malnutrition, and despair. She supports her argument by making parallel connections between the source of death of those at Jamestown to the deaths of American prisoners of war in World War II and the Korean War. Although her claims are interesting to read due to the engaging comparisons she makes to the death rates in Jamestown, her analogy between prisoners of war and colonists is weak due to the two vastly different situation that the people of both times went through.
For starters, there was many illnesses and diseases that went around multiple times in Jamestown’s history. In Document E, it says between August and October of 1607 “Summer sickness kills half the colonist”. This supports my claim because half of the original
In document F, you can see that there is such a shortage of food that people resort to stealing their fellow colonists' clothes to pay for things like “butter and beef out of a ship”. You can also use the example of a resource shortage in document B, which shows a graph of the average rainfall during the first few years that the colonists lived there. From 1605-1612, Jamestown went through it’s longest, harshest drought. This meant there was very little food and water during that time. When you remember that the time period we are looking at is only from 1607 to 1610, it seems like that drought could have been a major factor in why a lot of the colonists died. Lastly, document D shows us that it was not just the colonists struggling. Native people also were having trouble finding food. An expedition of colonists was sent out to try to trade with some of the natives, but they had to force them to give anything. All the colonists got was a small shipload of grain and some very angry natives. The crew of that ship determined that the amount of grain they had would not do anything substantial for the colony, so they headed back to England, eating the grain along the way. So the colony never even got the grain, but they did have to deal with some very angry natives, which on its own is another reason that a lot of them didn’t
Some consequences of the exchange are the spread of disease to the Native people and settlers, the destruction of the Native population, and the disappearance of the Natives custom’s, beliefs, and way of life. Columbus’s arrival to the Americas, land that had already been established by the Natives, resulted in a spread of fatal diseases. Disagreement between the Europeans and the Natives and the enslavement of Native people helped to wipe out the population. Document 5 illustrates the fighting that occurred between the Natives and Europeans.
We have had to deal with, “poor food- hard lodging- cold weather- fatigue, “(Document B). In this diary by Dr Waldo, a doctor we have at camp, he has accurately described what life is like at camp. The factors that we undergo make us sick both physically and mentally, these factors make us lose all sense of empowerment to win this war that we once felt, these factors make us want to go home more than anything just to hear our mother’s voice just once more. The absence of encouragement from other colonists and countries, and how I have to go to bed with my stomach empty every single night pushes me over the edge to give up and just
While obtaining food seemed to be the entire purpose of life for the people imprisoned in the camps, it often killed more people than it saved. Though focusing on food seemed like a logical thing to do when you are being starved, it was not always very effective in helping people survive. There are many situations in the book illustrating how living for the sole purpose of acquiring food—under any condition—could turn out to be lethal.
The harsh conditions of the Chesapeake colonies indiscriminately killed anyone who lived there. According to Taylor, “Despite the importation of fifteen thousand indentured servants between 1625 and 1640, Virginias population increased by only seven thousand…the extremes of the Chesapeake environment shocked English bodies...”
Later in the essay, Hardin writes about the differences in the population growth between rich and poor nations. Poor nations multiply much more quickly than richer nations. The essay then goes on to explain what the consequences would be of setting of a national food bank. It explains that only the rich nations would be able to contribute to the food bank and the poor nations would only draw. This would only add to the problem of the poor nations as they would have no desire to save of food for themselves since they know they will be taken care of anyways. Giving poor nations food would be bad a...
...d in Jamestown kept them from reaching their goal of a better life. The environment was completely different from which they had come from in England. Jamestown’s environment was unexplored and unknown to the settlers. They did not know how to deal with such harsh conditions in the winter and that led to the deaths of many of the colonists. The amount of people who were designated to do physical work and provide for the colony was incredibly small so they could not provide for the colony. Not everyone was expected to work which meant some people were just a burden for others to look after; this lead to more deaths as well. The constant battles and ambushes by the Native Americans also led to the deaths of hundreds of colonists because the colonists had no way of defending themselves from the attacks or the various diseases they contracted from the contact with them.
Jamestown’s first major error that resulted in countless colonists’ deaths was their location. The Jamestown colony was located on an island. (Doc A) The island bordered the James River that was full of brackish water. Brackish water is a mixture of salt water from an ocean and fresh water from a river that often causes dehydration and disease. In the very first summer, half of the colonists perished due to illness. (Doc E) Because of the lack of clean fresh water there were very few animals that lived on the island, which made hunting increasingly difficult for the colonists. It was also shown that this ...
The potential of this colony was significantly hindered by the shortsightedness of those who attempted to govern it. If an adequate farming system would have been put in place the colony could have managed to propel itself in other areas of logistics and industrial expansion, instead the colonists were forced to feed amongst their own deceased. "...they offer the only authentic examples of cannibalism witnessed in Virginia. One provident man chops up his wife and salts down the pieces. Others dig up graves to eat the corpses. By spring only sixty are left alive." Overlooking the potential social and economic gains that were forfeited by this colony, the gruesome truth about what many were forced to do to survive in itself is cause for me to classify the initial expansion of this colony as a
Food is essential to basic life. It provides people with the energy to think, speak, walk, talk, and breathe. In preparation for the Jews deportation from the ghettos of Transylvania, “the (Jewish) women were busy cooking eggs, roasting meat, and baking cakes”(Wiesel, 13). The Jewish families realized how crucial food was to their lives even before they were faced with the daily condition of famine and death in the concentration camps. The need for food was increased dramatically with the introduction of the famine-like conditions of the camps. Wiesel admitted that, although he was incredibly hungry, he had refused to eat the plate of thick soup they served to the prisoners on the first day of camp because of his nature of being a “spoiled child”. But his attitude changed rapidly as he began to realize that his life span was going to be cut short if he continued to refuse to eat the food they served him. “By the third day, I (Elie Wiesel) was eating any kind of soup hungrily” (Wiesel, 40). His desire to live superseded his social characteristic of being “pampered”. Remarque also uses his characters to show to how a balanced diet promotes a person’s good health. Paul Bäumer uses food to encourage Franz Kemmerich, his sick friend, “eat decently and you’ll soon be well again…Eating is the main thing” (Remarque, 30). Paul Bäumer feels that good food can heal all afflictions. The bread supply of the soldiers in All Quiet on the Western Front was severely threatened when the rats became more and more numerous.
With this heat and also a drought that summer, the fresh water around them became saturated by salt and it is believed they also died of salt poisoning. With all these events, deaths, and hardships the colonists were now just fighting for survival. With their store of wheat and barley thin, starvation drove them to cannibalism, eating dogs, cats and other animals. With all the deaths and less and less able bodied men, with about 60 men alive and only 6 months in, they decided to execute a man just because he was believed to be a spy. This shows how they were still weary of a Spanish attack and needed guidance.
Genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. Upon arriving, the colonizers felt threatened by being the minority in the newly found land, and viewed the Natives as an enemy as they were the current majority. The European conquerors did not intend on coexisting with the current residents, and planned to kill the tribes that they deemed the most dangerous. At the time Europeans migrated to the United States, it is estimated that there were at least 10 million Native Americans living in what is now the United States, now there are only 5 million around. By introducing new diseases, which the colonists may have not been aware about, they killed thousands of natives. In many cases tribes went extinct, due to the fact that many were incapacitated by the diseases. Although many will argue that the Europeans could not control the spreading of disease to the Natives, there is evidence showing that once they knew the Natives were not immune to the pathogens, they used them to their advantage. In a quote written by Sir Jeffrey Amherst, who was a commander in the British forces of North America, he shows how the colonists used their knowledge of the diseases to their favor,“You will do well to try to inoculate the Indians [with smallpox] by means of blankets, as well as to try every other method, that can serve to extirpate this execrable race.” Many consider that those who died of introduced disease were as much the victims of genocide as those who were burned, stabbed or shot, in other well recognized
... then five more, one after another… they allowed themselves to eat those bodies… They said, ‘it was the great unbearable famine that did it.’” The struggle to find food was real. It was a heavy burden for people to bear. The need to stay a live became a daily struggle many civilian and soldiers.