Entry A. William Bradford

Thesis:
In an excerpt from William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation, although the Puritans experience hardship in their voyage to America, in their initial arrival and in their dealings with the Indians, they still maintain their reverance to God and to one another (their initial reason for fleeing England).
Passage:
And here is to be noted a special provedance of God, and a great mercy to this poor people, that here they got them seed to plant them corn the next year, or else they might have starved, for they had none nor any likelihood to any till the season had been past, as the sequel did manifest. Neaither is it likely they had had this, if the first voyage had not been made, for the ground was now all covered with snow and hard frozen; but the lord is never wanting unto His in their greatest needs; let his holy name have all the praise.


http://www.georgetowncollege.edu/Departments/English/coke/bradford.htm


Response:
What impressed me about this passage was that the Pilgrams learned from the Indians how to plant corn.  They praised God for the corn and considered what would have happened if the first voyage had not happened.


Esstential Question:
America is an uncharted wilderness that only the people desperate for freedom or money are willing to brave.


Political Cartoon:

Immigration can be considered as an invasion of our state because there are so many immagrants coming into our country when we only have so much space.  In the political cartoon there are immigrants jumping our boarder and the sign saying welcom to Texas has Texas crossed out and changed to Aztlan.  This shows that Taxas has been taken over my mexicains.