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Olli at duke9/3/2023 World the colonists could govern themselves provided they maintained an allegiance to the English government & King AND followed established English law and customs.īy 1620 they Virginia colony was flourishing and another group of English citizens began to believe that the “New World” may be the right place for them. (and this is the kicker!!) Due to the distance from the two lands, once established in the New Any raw materials needed by the colonists HAD TO BE purchased from ONLY England 6. Once established in the New World, the colonists had to trade any goods discovered or The colonists had to search for gold AND create a Christian environment 4. The “colonists” would raise funds by creating a “Joint Stock Company” 3. The English government would provide financial and supportive aid (soldiers) 2. The Charter was a contract between the King/Parliament and prospective colonists. The failure of the Roanoke colonization created a fear among many in England that travel to the “New World” would be dangerous so the King and Parliament had to devise an incentive to encourage people to make the journey - so they came up with the “Charter” system. James understood the wealth and power that could be had with successful settlement in the New World so he decided to get back into the game. Spain: under the guidance and influence of Ferdinand and Isabella - and a very favorable ruling by the church in 1494 (The Treaty of Tordesillas/Line of Demarcation) took control of the southern North American, Central American, and South American areas of the New World įrance: began to send missionaries and fur trappers to the northern part of the New World and, after discovering Hudson Bay, navigated rivers and the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River into the interior of the continent and established forts and settlements at Quebec (and placing a claim on all of Canada) and down to Louisiana.Īfter the failure, and mystery, of Roanoke, Elizabeth was reluctant to fund any future endeavors to the New World, but after her death and with James l becoming the King, England was once again ready to set foot in the New World. It was not until the invention of navigational tools, better sailing ships - the caravels - and with more centralized authorities developing under the New Monarchs in England, France, and Spain that Europeans seriously began to explore, and perhaps even settle, the New World.įour European countries began to seriously discover and find ways to gain wealth and power from New World explorations: For more information visit the time of Viking explorations in the 1300’s other Europeans were not prepared to sponsor transatlantic exploration. For more information on Spano and his projects visit The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Duke University is a member of the Osher Lifelong Learning Network, a group of more than 120 institutes across the country dedicated to meeting the needs of older learners and to extending the demographic served by traditional universities. He recently completed a new book entitled Kidding the Moon, which he hopes to see published in 2019. Mark Spano is also the author of the critically acclaimed novel Midland Club, which he has adapted for the screen. The fee is $90 and registration is currently underway. Only 20 students may sign up for the course. In even-numbered classes, the discussion will encompass, but will not be limited to, cinematic technique, the social implications of the films in Italian culture, and the films’ influences on world culture. ![]() The instructor has chosen five films from this era: “Roma,” directed by Federico Fellini “Once Upon a Time in the West”, directed by Sergio Leone “The Leopard,” directed by Luchino Visconti “The Conformist,” directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and “Mediterraneo,” directed by Gabriele Salvatore.ĭuring the 10 classes, Spano will screen the films in odd-numbered classes. Filmmakers from this era gave the world a remarkable assemblage of passionately told stories of survival or the failure to survive. So many of these films from the post–World War II era remain a peculiarly Italian combination of a cinematic lyricism and the harsher realities of life. The Winter 2019 catalog describes Spano’s course:įrom the late 1940s through the 1970s, Italian cinema enjoyed a golden age. in the Galloway Ridge Retirement Community, 3000 Galloway Ridge Road, Pittsboro, NC. Spano’s continuing education class (Course ID 2767) will meet on 10 Thursdays from January 10 through March 21, 2019. Filmmaker and author Mark Spano, whose documentary “Sicily: Land of Love and Strife” and its new companion book Sicily: Land of Love and Strife A Filmmaker’s Journeywere released in 2018, returns to the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Duke University (OLLI at Duke) this winter to teach a course entitled “Five Classic Italian Films.”
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