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It should be known that individuals and groups with a cause are going to have their fair share of success and failures because of their actions or pure luck. Some successes might happen because they got extremely lucky, or some might happen because of actual teamwork taking place. This can also be said in their failures they actually get or happen to get sided with (in the sense of luck). In The Jamestown Project, <\/em>the article talks about how Jamestown became a model for success and failures by stating that \u201c[the] little colony struggled through a horrible first decade on the path that would lead to stability, and, eventually, success\u201d (Jamestown Project, 1). The colony of Jamestown is a perfect example of a town that could live this narrative being told.<\/p>\n

Jamestown was able to become a successful establishment because it used unethical methods to become a successful establishment. Mentioned by Robert Deleon<\/a> in another but similar reading, the establishment used slavery and indentured servants to build and expand the economy and status of the location in question. In Robert’s post, he mentions about how Spanish rule used these labor practices to benefit the Spanish. In this article, slaves and indentured servants were used to producing Jamestown cash crop, tobacco, by stated that it had to \u201cinstitute slavery [from] imported Africans to \u2026 search for profits\u201d (Jamestown Project, 1). While this can be considered a success in those days because of the ethics they conducted to get the results they wanted, the establishment would have failed if they did not have those slaves or indentured servants.<\/p>\n

Jamestown could also be considered as a failure because it resulted into lying and greed to get to the position of success. It was mentioned in the article that there were three causes that could of have resulted in a true failure of the establishment, but because of luck, individuals living in Jamestown were able to make it out alive. The three failures were the following: Environmental causes, unrealistic economic goals \u2013 money collection and trade routes, and unrealistic goals in colonization \u2013 organizational efforts (Jamestown Project, 9-10). Due to these errors, it could of been possible that Jamestown would have failed, but after review of Jamestown in today’s perspective, I could say they succeeded, but just barely (in meaning that they did not \u201cGo South\u201d).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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