Pocahontas Research Paper
I’ve known about Pocahontas ever since I was a little girl. I used to sit in front of the TV and watch it over and over again until I finally got bored. I think the directors, Eric Goldberg and Mike Gabriel, did a wonderful job on putting this movie together. Pocahontas is a Disney animated film about romance between a young American Indian woman, Pocahontas, (Irene Bedard) and Capt. John Smith (Mel Gibson), who journeyed to the New World with other settlers to begin fresh lives. Her father, Chief Powhatan, disapproves of their relationship and wants her to marry a native warrior. Meanwhile, Smith's fellow Englishmen hope to rob the Native Americans of their gold. This movie deals with Peopling because Pocahontas and John Smith journeyed to the New World together, or immigrated, changing the world today. Pocahontas is possibly the reason that settlers survived; she brought them food, supplies, and warned them of possible ambuscades. She learned
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They had come on large ships and created a colony, ransacking the countryside for gold. The inadequate relationship between the natives and the Europeans degenerating, Pocahontas begins to fall in love with John Smith, one of the head white men. She educates John about the living spirit in all things, the wind, the water, and the rocks. A war is soon to break out between the rivaling cultures; Smith and Pocahontas are required to determine what their allegiances are. I think this movie focuses more on the theme Peopling, movement and migration of different populations, relationships between people and the environment they settled in. It’s also how changes in migration and population patterns affected American life. Pocahontas and Smith affected American life now by affecting the society; showing that the whites and reds could be equal and get along. She was kind to the English and helped end the feuding between
They had come on large ships and created a colony, ransacking the countryside for gold. The inadequate relationship between the natives and the Europeans degenerating, Pocahontas begins to fall in love with John Smith, one of the head white men. She educates John about the living spirit in all things, the wind, the water, and the rocks. A war is soon to break out between the rivaling cultures; Smith and Pocahontas are required to determine what their allegiances are. I think this movie focuses more on the theme Peopling, movement and migration of different populations, relationships between people and the environment they settled in. It’s also how changes in migration and population patterns affected American life. Pocahontas and Smith affected American life now by affecting the society; showing that the whites and reds could be equal and get along. She was kind to the English and helped end the feuding between