Well it kinda depends on where you gear your essay to.. few tips:
don't start with a question
if you want start with a fact
make it interesting (catching/hook)
Starving Time<span>. The </span>Starving Time<span> at </span>Jamestown<span> in the Colony of Virginia was a period of </span>starvation<span> during the winter of 1609–1610. ... The colonists, the first group of whom had originally arrived at </span>Jamestown<span> on May 13, 1607, had never planned to grow all of their own food.</span>
Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island.
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