The First Thanksgiving Summary

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Kenyatta Miller
DR. K. Byars-Nichols
ENG 233- Final Exam
18 September 2017

1. Puritans
TERM: Puritans were immigrants who wanted to spiritually clean the church.
TEXT: Judy Dow (Abenaki) Deconstructing the Myths of "The First Thanksgiving" Thanksgiving: A Native Perspective by Seale, Doris
EXPLANATION: Majority of the people who traveled from England to this place were religious rebels who had severed their ties with the Church of England and became known as “Saints", while others gave them the name "Separatists." Among these settlers were "Puritans," The Separatists, as well as the Puritans, were unyielding fundamentalists who arrived with the full intention of confiscating the land from its Native inhabitants in order to build a new
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Crane published this traumatic adventure in his report in the New York Press a couple of days later. This event was quickly transformed to be among the best-known and most extensively reprinted American stories called the “Open Boat”. This story brought to the light, the subject manner of Crane’s characteristics in terms of the physical, emotional, and intellectual reactions of individuals who are under extreme pressure, as well as nature’s indifference dominant themes to the faith of humanity, and the ensuing need for collective action that is compassionate. To chime the notes of his emotion a verse which, in a mysterious manner, entered his head . “I never more shall see my own, my native land” (Crane, 1779). The lines are the incorrect quotation that was lifted from Caroline E. S. Norton’s poem “Bingen on the Rhine” …show more content…
Lane which became part of her ideological world perception. It appears that she was espousing on gender matters, and here, its interest and power are found, and its limitations also lie here. The years have seen her increasingly being aware of the injustices which women had suffered and started writing poems that defended women. Her husband is a medical doctor in the Yellow Wall-paper who gives assurance to friends and relatives of nothing being wrong with me except temporary nervous depression which translates to “a slight hysterical tendency” (Gilman 1671). The term hysteria was used in describing a broad range of symptoms believed to particularly common among

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