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- 921: Separation And Survival In
- ... Cowper. Though Northup's stated objective at the beginning of the narrative is somewhat muted ("to give a candid and truthful statement of facts... leaving it to others to determine, whether even the pages of fiction present a picture of more cruel wrong or a severer bondage") as his story unfolds, the language becomes clearer and more decisive, as the facts of what Northup endured and witnessed are set out as ...
- 922: Early America
- ... it did get out to the public the puritans said that none of it had ever happened. They did not write to entertain the public they wrote for themselves, and for God. They wrote no fiction, and they didn't even want to read it. They didn't even write poems because they thought didn't like to violate the theater. Everything they wrote avoided Ornate Style, which is a complicated ...
- 923: Muckrakers
- ... s. Magazines such as Cosmopolitan and Collier's produced some muckraking articles, but were not muckraking magazines in themselves (Hofstadter 190-191). McClure's magazine had already built a very reasonably sized circulation through popular fiction and historical representation. Ida Tarbell, the most popular reporter of the magazine, investigated Standard Oil originally as a way of honoring this great American business. However, Tarbell started to discover the unhappiness of the workers ...
- 924: Roswell
- Science Fiction Final Project: Roswell On the night of July 4, 1947 a thunderstorm filled the sky with loud blasts of thunder and a distinct sound accompanied by a bright flash of light. Giving little thought to ...
- 925: The True American Cowboy
- ... back South, and some, like Nat Love, ended up somewhere in the middle (Porter, 1971). Unfortunately, today the true history of the West has become a nothing more than a myth. History was replaced by fiction, and these falsehoods are perceived by today's society as facts. The true American cowboy, white or black, no longer exists in the minds of Americans. It is only as one delves deeper into the ...
- 926: The Olive Branch
- ... the river. Like a raft they have moved to the edge [of the boat]. Like a raft they have moved to a river bank ” (flood-myth.com, 3/15/00). Whether the above is fact, fiction, myth, or legend it appears that all civilizations have a strong fascination with The Deluge. Bible believers feel that it was an act of God, who intern wanted to cleanse the earth of immoral people ...
- 927: Maurice Sendak
- ... com/nr/1998/Nov/19981105003.html http://www.barclayagency.com/sendak.html http://www.bess.net/whats_new/June2/books_and_theatre.htm http://www.falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/sendak.htm http://www.hasbiniz.com/fiction/children/toddlers/sendak/in_the_night_kitchen.htm http://www.livefromlincolncenter.org/backstage/dec17/sendak.htm http://www.magic.usi.edu/class97/214Lamb12pm/s6/kcoffee3.html http://www.pangaea.org/street_children/world/sendak.htm ...
- 928: Jack London(biography)
- ... him, would destroy the rich cultures of various native groups he had encountered over the years. Although he supported women's suffrage and created some of the most independent and strong female characters in American fiction, he was patriarchal toward his two wives and daughters. His socialism was fervent, but countered by his strong drive toward individualism and capitalist success. These contradictory themes in his life and writing make him a ...
- 929: Henry James And Daisy Miller,
- ... reputation, but make her so American. Daisy Miller is the typical American girl and has become one of the archetypal American characters. Bibliography Barnett, Louise K. "Jamesian Feminism: Women in Daisy Miller" Studies in Short Fiction 16 (1979): 281-87. Bell, Millicent. Woman in the Jamesian Eye. Boston: University Press, 1989. Bloom, Harold, ed. Henry James's 'Daisy Miller,' 'Turn of the Screw' and Other Tales. New York: Chelsea House Publishers ...
- 930: Constructing Settlement Patter
- ... the Crow. The children of a family too their mother's clan name, and it included not only individuals related by blood through their mothers, but also unrelated folk reckoned as kin by a legal fiction. On the other hand, a man could never properly belong to the clan of his children, who were born into the their mother's group; and even if he adopted a child, it automatically fell ...
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