John Smith

(noun)

Captain John Smith (c. January 1580 – 21 June 1631) Admiral of New England was an English soldier, explorer, and author. He was considered to have played an important part in the establishment of the first permanent English settlement in North America. He was a leader of the Virginia Colony (based at Jamestown) between September 1608 and August 1609, and led an exploration along the rivers of Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay. He was the first English explorer to map the Chesapeake Bay area and New England.

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Examples of John Smith in the following topics:

  • Jamestown, Virginia

    • The work of two men helped the colony to survive: John Smith and John Rolfe.
    • John Smith, who arrived in Virginia in 1608, introduced an ultimatum: those who did not work would not receive food or pay.
    • In 1612, John Rolfe, an English businessman, discovered that Virginia had ideal conditions for growing tobacco.
    • John Smith, A Map of Virginia: With a Description of the Countrey, the Commodities, People, Government and Religion (1612)
    • Smith's map of Virginia from The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles, 1624

  • The Rise of Adversarial Journalism

    • John Q.
    • Smith is in denial over drugs in school.
    • Smith's quote sides with the reporter's case, the narrator might state, "We asked Dr.
    • John Q.
    • Smith what he thinks of the increase in drug use and he said, 'this trend would be alarming. '"

  • Delivering Bad News

    • Western Union delivery man (knocking on someone's door): I have a telegram for John Smith.
    • Smith: Oh boy—that's me!
    • Smith: Wait.

  • Classical Theory

    • Notable classical economists include Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, David Ricardo, Thomas Malthus, and John Stuart Mill .
    • Adam Smith referred to the market's ability to self-regulate as the "invisible hand" because markets move towards their natural equilibrium without outside intervention.
    • Adam Smith was one of the individuals who helped establish classical economic theory.

  • Classical Liberalism

    • Classical liberalism developed over the course of the 1800s in the United States and Britain and drew upon Enlightenment sources (particularly the works of John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Adam Smith).
    • Classical liberals agreed with Adam Smith that government had only three essential functions: protection against foreign invaders, protection of citizens from wrongs committed against them by other citizens, and the building and maintaining of public institutions and public works that the private sector could not profitably provide.
    • Adam Smith was a Scottish moral philosopher, pioneer of political economy, and a key figure in the Scottish Enlightenment.

  • Al Smith and the Election of 1928

    • He first sought the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination at the 1924 election but was one of a number of candidates eventually defeated by John W.
    • Hoover was the first of two presidents to redistribute his entire salary; John F.
    • Hoover even triumphed in Smith's home state of New York by a narrow margin.
    • In all, Smith carried only six of the 11 states of the former Confederacy.
    • Shades of red are for Hoover (Republican) and shades of blue are for Smith (Democratic).

  • Abstract Expressionist Sculpture

    • David Smith, Dorothy Dehner, Herbert Ferber, Isamu Noguchi, Ibram Lassaw, Theodore Roszak, Phillip Pavia, Mary Callery, Richard Stankiewicz, Louise Bourgeois, and Louise Nevelson in particular were considered to be important members of the movement.
    • The sculptures of David Smith, for example, sought to express two-dimensional subjects that had never before been shown in three dimensions.
    • Prominent artists who worked with sculpture and were associated with Minimalism (though not all agreed with the association) include Donald Judd, John McCracken, Anthony Caro, Tony Smith, Sol LeWitt, Carl Andre, and Dan Flavin.

  • The Rights of Englishmen

    • The Magna Carta, sealed in 1215 by King John after coercion from an assembly of his barons, is an English charter that limited the power of the king by guaranteeing certain rights, liberties, and privileges to the English aristocracy .
    • Adam Smith, a Scottish political economist, extended on some of Locke's arguments by theorizing a relationship between government and trade.
    • According to Smith, government should be limited to defense, public works, and the administration of justice, financed by taxes based on income.
    • Smith saw self-interest, rather than altruism, as the motivation for the production of goods and services.
    • John Locke, often credited for the creation of liberalism as a philosophical tradition.

  • References

    • Commons, John R.
    • Locke, John.
    • Pheby, John.
    • Rawls, John.
    • Smith, Adam, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, 1759, Liberty Classics, 1969

  • Acknowledgements