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History: 19th century America, 2006.
An understanding and evaluation of the growth and expansion of 19th century America.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 3 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper discusses how the basis of expansion into the west relied on a great many factors in the 19th century. America was a nation had land and bountiful resources, which allowed immigration, trade and land grabbing to become prominent. The paper further discusses how America as a young nation, rely on aggressive and often brutal measures to gain land with foreign entities, such as the Native Americans and Mexicans, which helped fuel a cut-throat economy for a white hegemonic population.
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"This historical study will evaluate the critical point that led to American expansion during the 19th century, and why the economic and immigrant related polices that helped to make this country grow. By learning of the westward expansion, one can realize the power of immigration and economics that helped to expand the boundaries of a young country. In essence, the economic and immigrant based trends of the America as a nation to grow into world power beginning at the Atlantic Ocean, and ending at the Pacific Ocean by the end of the century. The economic power of early America in the 19th century was based on trade and through westward expansion. The economic affect that fur trading had on the American west can be found through supply and demand."
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Hopi Kachina, 2006.
A discussion regarding the Hopi Kachina Indians, their traditions, beliefs and lifestyle.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 4 sources, $ 106.95
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This paper discusses the history, lifestyle and beliefs of the Kachina, the ancestral spirits of the Hopi tribe, belonging to the Pueblo Indians who hail from Arizona. The paper further discusses the traditional and religious ceremonies of the Kachina, called Kachinas.
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"What is a Kachina? What do Kachina spirits do? What is a Kachina doll? These questions can be answered by studying about the Hopi Kachina spirits and Kachina dolls. "Kachinas (pronounced kah CHEE nuhs) are the ancestral spirits of the Hopi, a tribe of the Pueblo Indians who live in villages in northeastern Arizona" (Antoniotti). The Kachinas is a part of the history of the Hope tribe. They are loved by the Hopi people because they believed that they would bring good luck and prosperity to the people. "The Hopi believe that spirits exist not only in humans and animals but in all things - including plants and the elements. These katsinam are impersonated in Hope ceremonies called kachinas" (Tefertillar 194). In order to grasp understanding of the kachinas, it is important to look at the Kachina season, Hopi tribe, American Indian art of the kachina and kachina dolls."
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'Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth', 2006.
An analysis of Hayden Taylor's play, "Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth" by Hayden Taylor.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 2 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper argues that the play, "Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth" by Hayden Taylor, though dealing with issues of racial affiliations, accomplishes its goals by depicting the personal transformation of one character--Janice. This character learns a little more about who she is and better understands how lost she has been through the course of the play.
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"Hayden Taylor's play, "Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth," presents an interesting perspective of what it means to be an American Indian in the modern world. Certainly it is a matter of cultural heritage, but it is also a matter of genetic heritage and, essentially, color. The character of Janice represents an individual who stands on the fringe of American Indian culture; although her physical appearance indicates her heritage to everyone she meets, she has spent almost her entire life completely cut-off from her people's culture. As a result, to the outside--white--world, Janice is just as Indian as the people that live on the Reserve. However, she finds that becoming a member of the Native- American community has more to do with one's way of looking at the world than with mere skin color. Fundamentally, Janice undergoes a personal metamorphosis from the..."
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Racism and Borowski and Hemingway, 2005.
A look at the theme of racism in the short stories of Tadeusz Borowski and Ernest Hemingway.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 2 sources, $ 26.95
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Two short tales are examined, "This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentleman" by Tadeusz Borowski, and "Indian Camp" by Ernest Hemingway and the paper offers a social comment on racism. The characters presented must undergo crucial events that define the social problems being implemented between racial divides. The paper looks at how the outcome of death and guilt are the common result of the shame that is constructed through racial domination that devalues life to the lowest common denominator.
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"The theme of racism is important within the events that impart a comment on society within the short novel: This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentleman by Tadeusz Borowski and the short story: "Indian Camp" by Earnest Hemingway. By analyzing how racism affects the main characters in these stories, one can understand how tragedy, guilt, and death often ensue due to the pain of racial alienation in these short stories. In Borowski's This Way to the Gas, Ladies and Gentleman the numerous events of guilt due to surviving the gas chamber at an Nazi death camp impart a stern racism to Jewish people."
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Indian Casinos, 2005.
An analysis of the reasons for the resistance to Indian casinos according to anthropologist Darrian-Smith.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 4 sources, $ 62.95
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This paper is an anthropology paper that debates the true reason for resistance to Indian Casinos. The paper wholeheartedly supports the anthropologist Darrian-Smith in asserting that the one of the ultimate reasons for resistance to Indian Casinos lies in the centuries old traditions of non-Native discrimination towards natives, and both traditional and new age stereotyping.
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"Indian Casinos For much of hundreds of years the American people have variously exterminated, stolen from or assimilated their indigenous peoples. In more recent decades this has turned into milder forms of discrimination and stereotypical conceptualizations. The one enduring theme has been the patrimonial dominance over Native peoples, being the most regulated of all people within the boundaries of the United States. Relegated by land appropriations to remote, often worthless plots of reservation lands, the remnants of traditional Native societies have barely been able to eke out a subsistence living. However, taking advantage of laws previously designed against them, a limited number of Native American tribes have turned to Casinos as a source of revenue to alleviate them from their hardship."
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Gambling and Gaming in Religious Culture, 2005.
A discussion of the religious and cultural premise of gambling and gaming in Native American Culture.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 3 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper describes the games of lacrosse and Plum Stone Dice as important examples of the religious and cultural significance of warrior youths and tribal life for Native Americans. The paper discusses the history of the games and the purpose of them being played in the Native-American culture.
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"Religion Studies: Understanding the Religious and Cultural Premise of Gambling and Gaming in Native American Culture This study will examine the nature of gambling and gaming within North American communities and tradition. The current rise of gaming casinos in many Indian reservations has reached an all time high, but this is not without a long religious and cultural tradition of gaming within these communities. In essence, the phenomenon of Native American gaming and gambling has long been a part of their culture through dice games and lacrosse that rely on religious principles and ceremonial tradition."
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"A Family Story from Early America", 2005.
A review of the book "An Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America" by John Demos.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper analyzes John Demos' work entitled "An Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America". It is a response of sorts to John Williams publication of A Redeemed Captive, written in the early 18th century. The paper discusses the writing style, as well as the effect the author's use of dates and statistics has on the reader's enjoyment of the book.
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"John Demos' The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story From Early America is a narrative history regarding captivity by Indians in 18th century New England. As thus, it is written in a fictional manner, with the historical facts being processed as they likely were through the central characters. The writing style makes the book an appealing read, as the statistics, dates and facts are interspersed with a lively account of the situation at hand. In Chapter One, Demos begins by relating the Deerfield, Massachusetts Massacre, which occurred in February of 1704. Accounting first for the motives that spurred this incident, Demos then focuses on the Williams family, most of whom are taken captive to Canada by their French and Indian enemies."
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"Black Elk Speaks", 2005.
An analysis of the book "Black Elk Speaks" by John Neihardt and Black Elk.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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In this paper, Neihardt provides a different historical perspective of pioneer history through the perspective of Black Elk, a Native American. The paper examines how this anthropological dictation not only provides evidence of the genocide and racism that Europeans forced upon the Indians, but also how much more noble and moral Black Elk was though his tradition and honor of treaties. The writer proposes that by getting another perspective to the often-biased American history of how Native Americans are seen, the story of Black Elk resonates the truth of happened during pioneering expansion from the voice of the defeated.
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"In this book review one can analyze the various anthropological dictations of the Native American, Black Elk, who was 'interviewed' by the European John Neihardt. By examining various aspects of the expansionist policy of the Europeans who moved into the Dakota tribal region, one can realize an Indian perspective of how they were treated in the ensuing wars. In essence, Neihardt acts as a anthropological investigator that discovers the non-European point of view of the "Indian" Wars' with Black Elk. The purpose of the John Neihardt's book Black Elk Speaks is to give validity to the Native American side of the story when westward expansion was at is peak in the Dakota regions of the Old West. Neihardt's mission is to convey a different story of early pioneer European expansion than those found in American history books."
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"Indian Givers", 2005.
A review of the book "Indian Givers: How Indians of the Americas Transformed the World, Volume I" by Jack Weatherford.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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The paper explains that Jack Weatherford began to examine the history of the Native American as he discovered that many agricultural products would not have been produced in farming without the knowledge that Indians gave those in the new world. The paper describes how Weatherford further stipulates that it is through these advances in agriculture that the United States has remained a strong contender in the global market ,and that without the influences of the Native Americans on the early settlers those new to America would not have survived. The paper analyzes how, through his work, "Indian Givers: How Indians of the Americas Transformed the World", Volume I, Weatherford brings an insight to a people that most individuals have been negligent in understanding. The paper concludes that it is Weatherford's purpose to demonstrate that Native Americans have been a misrepresented and forgotten people when the history of North America is discussed.
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Apache Placenames, 2005.
An analysis of the book "Wisdom sits in Places" by Keith Basso.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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This paper looks at the cultural, moral and historical importance of place names in Western Apache society, based on the studies by Keith Basso in his book "Wisdom Sits in Places". The paper discusses the morality tales inherent in each named location and the significance of the land on the morality of the people, and the ways in which the society maintains order and accountability.
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"In his book Wisdom Sits in Places, Keith Basso examines the role of Apache placename stories in the community of Cibecue, Arizona. Place names and the stories directly associated with them are extremely important to Apache culture in a number of ways. Not only do they contain the entire history of the Apache people, the phases of their traveling to the land, settling in, and the important events that took place later, but their primary function is to serve as reminders of appropriate behavior and the morality of the culture to anyone who may be breaking those codes of conduct (Basso 50). The placenames form a historical and geographical narrative as well as a moral code couched in the metaphors of hunting, wounding and healing. In a historical context, placename stories are handed down from generation to generation, fixing the events of a story inextricably from the location where the story took place."
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King's "Letters from a Birmingham Jail", 2005.
A review of "Letters from a Birmingham Jail" written by Martin Luther King Jr.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 44.95
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This paper looks at the use of rhetoric in King's "Letters from a Birmingham Jail." The paper discusses the major elements of appeal to logic, emotion and ethics, with detailed examples to support each style. This paper other further mentions other rhetorical elements in the context of supporting these basic elements.
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"In Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," he writes to his fellow religious leaders, ministers and clergymen who had written an open letter asking him and his fellow civil rights activists to stop demonstrating. He writes using incredibly powerful language and demonstrating elegant and precise rhetorical skills. King uses a wide variety of rhetorical techniques, primarily taking the form of an Aristotelian deliberative oratory. His focus is examining the question of whether or not civil rights activists should discontinue their direct actions of civil disobedience for the sake of maintaining order and the status quo, or whether they had an obligation to God and justice for all to continue. King, of course, argues that not only is he right for doing what he has been doing, but that there is a civil, moral, logical and ethical imperative to do so."
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Cultural and Historical Studies, 2005.
An understanding the values and impact of Native North American tribes before and after European colonization.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 3 sources, $ 80.95
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This paper discusses the highly evolved and advanced sense of community and geomancy of Indian religious beliefs. According to this paper, it was vastly superior to the immoral and racially purist Christian doctrine of the Europeans. The sense of sharing the Earth in Native American custom provided a far more metaphysical way of cooperating with Nature, rather than seeking to dominate it. The Europeans mistakenly saw their technological advancement, and even philosophical advancement, as a way to impose a reckless destruction of Indians in North America.
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"The aim of this historical and cultural study will be to examine the cultural and religious development of Native North American tribes that existed before the coming of European colonials. The cultural evolution of North American tribes was not primitive or 'barbaric' by any means, but the technological advancements of the Europeans had allowed for greater dominance of Indian culture after Europeans landed on the east coast of what is know North America. However, the cultural superiority of the Indians was highly evolved through religious practice and the naturalistic values they possessed in community cooperation and respect for nature. In essence, the livelihood, religion, and customs were far more tolerant and spiritual in regards to community and spiritual life than the Europeans."
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