This was that time, which still to this day we called the starving time; it were too vile to say, and scarce to be believed, what we endured: but the occasion was our own, for want of providence, industry and government, and not the barrenness and defect of the Country, as is generally supposed...we endured all that is said, and chiefly lived on what this good Country naturally afforded. – John Smith, 1609

Read the underlined text. What does Smith dismiss as a cause of the starvation?

the willingness of the colonists to work

the inability of the land to support the colonists

the lack of assistance from the mother country, England

The buddha’s teachings were influenced by other religions. select the best answer from the choices provided t f

Pedestrians,cyclists,skateboarders,and highway construction workers are know as?

Voters commonly condemn politicians for being insincere, but politicians often must disguise their true feelings when they make public statements. if they expressed their honest views—about, say, their party's policies—then achieving politically necessary compromises would be much more difficult. clearly, the very insincerity that people decry shows that our government is functioning well. which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines this reasoning? (a) achieving political compromises is not all that is necessary for the proper functioning of a government. (b) some political compromises are not in the best long-term interest of the government. (c) voters often judge politicians by criteria other than the sincerity with which they express their views. (d) a political party's policies could turn out to be detrimental to the functioning of a government. (e) some of the public statements made by politicians about their party's policies could in fact be sincere.