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- 4361: Cooper's "Deerslayer": View of the Native Americans
- Cooper's "Deerslayer": View of the Native Americans James Fenimore Cooper was born on September 15, 1789 in Burlington, New Jersey. He was the son of William and Elizabeth (Fenimore) Cooper, the twelfth of thirteen children (Long, p. 9). Cooper is known as one of the first great American novelists, in many ways because he ... Deerslayer is simple. It is novel which tells the events which occur in the travels of a frontiersman. His name is Natty, and he is a young man at only twenty years old. Coming from New York of the eighteenth century, he is unprepared in many ways for what he encounters in the frontier. But he survives, escapes, and learns many things over the course of his adventures. The two characters ... two show Cooper's feelings about morality as it relates to the American Indians. As Long states, "The voices of the two men calling to one another at the beginning introduces the idea of a world that has lost its coherence, is already reduced to disjunction and fragmentation. Natty and Hurry search for a point of contact yet move in different directions" (p. 122). Cooper's descriptions of Natty and ...
- 4362: James Cameron
- ... the studio, jumping from one movie to another. Cameron worked as art director on the sci-fi movie Battle Beyond the Stars, he did special effects work and direction on John Carpenter’s Escape from New York. It wasn't until 1981 when Cameron got his first shot at directing. It was an Italian producer named Assonitis who was to make a sequel to the movie Pirahna. It was going to ... when she first met him, becuase of his vision of what this film would look like, but during the production she had wanted to kill him at least a dozen times. The movie also set new standards for underwater shooting. The crew and Cameron had to design a lot of new gear. Cameron then went on to producing and ghost-writing the very successful surfer movie Point Break. It was directed by Kathryn Bigelow, whom Cameron married in 1991, the same year the movie came ...
- 4363: The Theme of Coming of Age in Literature
- ... reach this stage through a tragic, painful event which affects them to such extent that they are completely changed. Other children reach this time by simply growing older and having a better understanding of the world around them. The coming of age really is indefinite and cannot be marked in general overview. This stage in life is one of the most important and most popular themes in literature. The coming of ... known as a universal life crises. Evoking anxiety, these crises often elicit passage rites. Arnold Van Gennep stated that "Passage rituals have three steps: separation from society; inculcation-transformation; and return to society in the new status." (1995, Grolier Encyclopedia) All passage rituals serve certain universal functions. "They serve to dramatize the encounter of new responsibilities, opportunities, dangers. They alleviate disruption in the equilibrium of the community. They affirm community solidarity, and the sacredness of common values." (1995, Grolier Encyclopedia) In addition, cultures use initiation ceremonies to mark the ...
- 4364: Howard Hughes
- ... love of aviation. In 1927 he started his career in acting. Some of his movies were "Hells Angels" in 1930, "Scarface" in 1932, and "The Outlaw" in 1941. Howard’s great achievements broke records. His world speed record of 352 mph, in 1935 ended in a crash. It took him several tries to get that speed. On July 10, 1969 he and his crew took off to fly around the world. Even though he made several stops he was back home 4 days later, he landed at 2:37 on July 14. On July 7, 1946 he took the new XF-11 plane up for a spin. After about an hour he crashed at the LA Country Club golf course. The crash left him unconscious in a burning plane with a punctured lung, fractured ...
- 4365: Universial Themes in "The Return of the Native" and "Great Expectations"
- ... of Pip can serve as the perfect guide not to become a victim of false ideology. Undoubtedly people of my age should come away with a better understanding of life and our place in the world just as I have. It is quite appropriate for people of our education level to be enriched in the world of classic literature. The timeless nature of the stories is reason enough. Regardless of the great amount of reading, I can truthfully say that I enjoyed the experience. Classics hold something for all people so therefore I would recommend it to others being on our grade level or not. Work Cited Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations, New York: New York Scholastic Inc., 1957 Hardy, Thomas. The Return of the Native, New York: New York Nal Penguin Inc., 1987 Thompson, Frank H. Cliff Notes on Hardy's The Return of the Native ...
- 4366: The Revolt of Mother: The Power of Decision
- The Revolt of Mother: The Power of Decision Decisions shape our lives. In history , the decisions of leaders and generals have changed the course of mankind. In today's world , multi-billion dollar corporations rest on the decisions of a few select executives. On a smaller but no less important scale, acting on decisions can liberate people from stagnation. In the story "The Revolt of ... of her situation and weighs the effect on her family. In the end she acts to free herself and her family from forty years of wrong. Mother lives forty years with a suppressed dream—a new house promised to her after her wedding. She lives with the everyday routine of cleaning the house and cooking pies for the family. This shows the stagnation of her everyday existence; an existence brought about ... her own needs. She bakes pies, cooks dinner and it everything else except things that made her happy. Mother discovers disturbing news when she learns that her future house is giving way to Father's new barn. Mother would have probably let her dream die if it were not for a conversation with her daughter. Mother realizes that it's not just her happiness involved. This breach of contract now ...
- 4367: Evaluate Different Socological
- ... have different view on the matter not only weather absolute or relative poverty is the corrected definition but how to solve the problem of poverty if poverty is the problem at all. All thou the new right are not a sociological group in essence it still holds a view of sociological matters. The new right has very definite views on this matter. They feel that the people are only poor if they lack the things that are needed for life. This is food, water, clean air and shelter; this is absolute poverty. In this model very few people within our society are defined as in poverty and only the third world countries have a large amount of the population that are defined as within poverty. The view of the new right is that the work is out there for the poor to build their way ...
- 4368: Henry James
- ... of the nineteenth-century, used typical realistic methods to create an accurate depiction of changing American life Henry James was one of five children of affulent, eccentric parents. While his birth in 1843 was in New York City, his parents were purposly rootless, and by the age of eighteen he had already crossed the Atlantic six times. He avoided participation in the Civil War because of a poor back and began ... 14) For Henry James, the years of 1882 to 1895 brought less success. His novels now took on a more political tone. (Matthiessen 15) In 1886, he published The Bostonians, regarding the feminist movement in New England. Here, "he complained that women who wanted to become just like men were disregarding their own uniqueness." (Norton 616) The Tragic Muse, published in 1890, continues this trend as it contrasts art with politics ... by the dying heroine's tragedy. A year later, "The Ambassadors, which James' called ‘the best, ‘all round' of my productions' describes the initiation of an aging American into the relativistic ethics of the Old World in ‘huge iridescent' Paris. The Golden Bowl verbosly analyses father-daughter and adulturous relations." (Matthiessen 16) Ultimately, James' genius was recognized by those who share his craft. His works explore psychological subtlies; he is ...
- 4369: Henry David Thoreau
- ... and a half (8). He returned to college in the fall of 1836 and graduated on August 16, 1837 (12). Thoreau's years at Harvard University gave him one great gift, an introduction to the world of books. Upon his return from college, Thoreau's family found him to be less likely to accept opinions as facts, more argumentative, and inordinately prone to shock people with his own independent and unconventional ... 696). On August 31, 1839 Henry David and his elder brother, John, left Concord on a boat trip down the Concord River, onto the Middlesex Canal, into the Merrimack River and into the state of New Hampshire. Out of this trip came Thoreau's first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (25). Early in 1841, John Thoreau, Henry's beloved older brother, became very ill, most likely with ... to do with Nature which caused him to receive both positive and negative criticism. Paul Elmer More said that Thoreau was: "The greatest by far of our writers on Nature and the creator of a new sentiment in literature," but he then does a complete turn around to say: Much of his [Thoreau's] writing, perhaps the greater part, is the mere record of observation and classification, and has not ...
- 4370: Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony
- Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony FEAR=DESTRUCTION “They fear They fear the world. They destroy what they fear. They fear themselves.” “They will kill the things they fear all the animals the people will starve.” “They will fear what they find They will fear the people They kill ... The ancient Indian story that the passages are pulled from also explains how Indian witchery led to the invention of the white people and all the evil inside of them, causing them to destroy the world and everything else that inhabits it. When the wind blew the white people across the ocean, thousands of them in giant boats (Silko 136), they were faced with the unfamiliar culture of the Indian people ... he thinks about killing a fly or any animal for that matter. Old Betonie, the medicine man, recalled a time when the white people were extremely fearful of Indians. He said, “I was at the World’s fair in St. Louis, Missouri, the year they had Geronimo there on display. The white people were scared to death of him. Some of them even wanted him in leg irons” (Silko 122). ...
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