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32 Cards in this Set
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Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation
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"separatist puritans"
covenant churches vs national church |
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Emerson's Self Reliance
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Transcendentalist
try to create a unique america to separate from England |
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Thoreau: Resistance to Civil government
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Libertarians vs Republicans
also a transcendentalist (b/c individualist and nature minded) |
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Dickinson: Im nobody you are you?
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poem about being a nobody, and that being a nobody is more glamerous.
public is compared to a frog |
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Dickinson: This is my letter to the world
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Dickinson is writing about writing poetry
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Cummings: anyone lived in a pretty how town
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moderist poet
very random, no capitals celebrates the individual |
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Eliot: the love song of alfred j pufrock
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monologue- poem
It is an examination of the tortured psyche of the prototypical modern man— overeducated, eloquent, neurotic, and emotionally stilted. |
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Harriot: a brief and true report of the new found land of virginia
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white guy wanting to teach the native americans religion
"Whereby it may be hoped, if means of good government be used, that they may in short time be brought to civility and the embracing of true religion." |
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Red Jacket: speech to the us senate
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you already took our land, dont make us go by your religion
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Freneau: the indian burying ground
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poem
It describes death in this tradition, which is looked at as rude and savage. Still, the speaker reveals a lot about its strength and beauty as the poem goes on. It is a message inviting people to understand this culture as it is without prejudices. |
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Cooper: the last of the mohicans
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They discuss the historical developments that have caused them to both inhabit the same forest. Hawkeye proclaims his inheritance of a genuine and enduring whiteness, and Chingachgook laments the demise of his tribe of Mohicans. Of the Mohican tribe, only Chingachgook and his son remain
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Black Hawk: from life of black hawk
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chief is persuaded to sign a treaty to give away his land but he didnt understand what he was signing. the whites were very hositile to his people
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Petalesharo: speech of the pawnee loup chief
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speech of a chief to whites government warning the whites who come around his indians because they would probably get hurt.
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Sa: impressions of an indian childhood
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indian girl loves her mother and learns to respect her tribe but then gets persuaded to go east for a white education
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Momaday: the way to rainy mountain
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recalling his memories of his grandmother and the ancient ways of the Kiowas
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Silko: Lullaby
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the sad story of an indian family working in poverty on a ranch. the womens children were taken away b/c of her illiteracy and her husband was later taken because of old age (he went crazy)
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Alexie: At Navajo Monument vally tribal school
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poem
under juxtaposition. one n american doesnt like to speak for all of them they are all people and separate |
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Davis: life in the iron mills
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"people only get wealthy at the expense of someone else"
very impovershed mill town in virginia where many dutch people came to work. |
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James: dasiy miller: a study
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Winterbourne meets Daisy
Winterbourne is intrigued by Daisy's bad girl side and is later discusted by her actions with the bachelor Mr. Geovanelli Daisy dies of the Roman fever |
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Cahan: a sweat shop romance
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novella
Belle works at a coat making shop and is in a relationship with Hayman (who is shy) Belle ends up with David b/c she was tired of waiting on Hayman and David took up for her when the bosses wife was being mean |
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Wharton: Roman Fever
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two american ladies that were once friends in Rome, came back to the city and met to have dinner together
they brought up a past event where Mrs.Slade revealed that she wrote the note to Mrs.Ansley for slades husband to meet her at night. mrs. ansley replied to the letter so mr.slade DID meet her that night, and mrs.ansley got sick b/c of roman fever. |
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Cather: Neighbor Rosicky
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mr. rosicky has a bad heart but a large caring family. he moved west from new york to raise a family and had to buy cheap land because they were poor. his oldest son rudolf married polly and she didnt like country. rosicky was pulling weeds out in the fields and had a heart attack and later died
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Sandburg: Chicago
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poem
talks about negative things at beginning and then talks about the pride of the city |
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Stevens: The emperor of ice cream
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poem
making fun of well to do people at a funeral b/c they just go to the funeral b/c its a social event (ice cream) |
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Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams
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dexter is a golf caddy in a small town in michigan? he is appaled at a snobby rich girl (judy). later he is sucessful b/c i owns lots of laundry businesses and he becomes one of judy jones' beaus. he later gets engaged only to break the engagement and moves to new york to find that judy married a man that abuses her
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Morton: The african chief
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poem
talks about the african chief who is high and mighty (compares to lots of different important figures) and then gets dragged into slavery |
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Wheatly:On being brought from africa to america
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poem
blacks were sad about leaving their country but in america they learned about God and they "may be refined" (neener neener) |
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Longfellow: The slaves dream
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poem
hardworking black man with a family lays down while hes working in the fields and dreams of Africa. then he dies |
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Jefferson: Notes on the state of Virginia
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Thomas Jefferson is actually trying to say that slavery is wrong but in this passage he talks about all the negative things: they werent smart, dont have to sleep, can take the heat, they stink, they cant love, cant write poetry...
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Grimke: Women of the south
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women and slaves are treated about the same way. READ, PRAY, SPEAK, ACT but be respectful and know your place. be an influence
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Truth: Speech to the womens rights convention in Akron, Ohio 1851
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about women not having any rights but they do just as much work as a man, but they will find justice
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Jacobs: Incidents in the life of a slave girl
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Linda, a slave girl in south carolina? is mistreated by her owner Dr.Flint, he denys her everthing: love, freedom, family. she becomes the mistress to a white man mr.sands and becomes pregnant so she wouldnt have to live in a cottege by herself. she runs away and hides in her grandmothers attic for a long time and then escapes and winds up in the city of inquity (new york) where her friend buys her freedom.
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