According to Smith‚ in the past civilization people did not know how to write and read; however‚ they had the ability to create buildings such as churches sculptors and temples. Through this‚ the past civilization got experience‚ and they can learn new skills while people in today’s world can learn from books. What Smith tries to say by this; book learning cannot equate education. Smith believes that Native Americans tribes have legendary memory because they collect all stories‚ tradition‚ and skills
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Earth on Turtle’s Back by the Onodaga‚ there is an Ancient Chief who was the only person able to lift the Great Tree out of the ground showing his incredible strength. The Sky Spirit carved a hole in the sky and pushed all of the snow down to create a new world in When Grizzlies Walked Upright by the Modoc. The Navajo Origin Legend by the Navajo contained Mirage People who were made of corn and could create life. While these events cover the supernatural aspect of myths‚ there are also realistic elements
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The uniqueness of New Orleans New Orleans is nationally known as one of the unique cities ofAmerica. The social construction of this uniqueness began from the city’s establishment by the French. This social identity was progressively built upon when the colony came under the control of the Spanish‚ and then reverted to French power before being sold to America in the Louisiana Purchase. The presence of these different cultural groups influenced the development of New Orleans economically and culturally
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the New Deal. The New Deal attempted to provide recovery and relief from the Great Depression through programs of business regulation. The New Deal posed as a major threat to big businesses and corporations because it symbolized an end to the principle of Laissez Faire. However‚ the New Deal conserved and protected American business because it stabilized businesses‚ helped unemployed workers‚ and protected consumers from inefficient service and exorbitant charges. The first reason the New Deal
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NEW CRITICISM Introduction New Criticism The name New criticism came into popular use to describe this approach to understanding literature with the 1941 publication of John Crow Ransom’s The New Criticism. This contains Ransom’s personal analysis of several of his contemporaries among theories and critics. Here he calls for an ontological critic (one who will recognize that poem is a concrete entity) like Leonardo Da Vinci’s “”Mona Lisa”. In New Criticism‚ a poem can be analyzed to discover
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This is an intriguing response from New York Times. “But where the Whitney show remains largely an attempt by art-world insiders to simulate an outsider art‚ "Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation" is the real thing‚ coming straight from the heart and mind of an entire culture‚ and having
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New Criticism [pic]New Criticism is a name applied to a varied and extremely energetic effort among Anglo-American writers to focus critical attention on literature itself. Like Russian Formalism‚ following Boris Eikhenbaum and Victor Shklovskii‚ the New Critics developed speculative positions and techniques of reading that provide a vital complement to the literary and artistic emergence of modernism. Like many other movements in modern criticism‚ New Criticism was in part a reaction against the
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Latinos in America What is an American? This is a difficult question to address‚ especially concerning Latinos who only speak English. Many Latinos in the United States‚ consider language a point of high controversy. Some consider speaking spanish an essential part of being Latino ‚ while others consider it a barrier that will prevent the assimilation into the American culture. Tanya Barrientos‚ like many other Latinos‚ wrestled with this very issue her entire life. Growing up as a Latina came
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who captured the king’s “passions” and gave meaning to a lifeless thing. Then towards the end of the poem there was an inscription that contradicted itself. Just as the statue in the poem “Ozymandias” has an inscription marked into it‚ the poem “New Colossus” is an inscription to a statue itself‚ being the statue of liberty. “Ozymandias” shows how the statue’s original inscription is contradictory to what it has become‚ similar to what the “Newer Colossus” explains. The inscription in the poem
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for everyone’s sudden interest in Chicano Studies is to integrate it into a larger ethnic study programs. The downfall of integrating the studies is that it places limitations on other courses that intervene with the major academic departments. The new development of Chicano Studies is really an excuse to teach genuine studies and to allow teachers to implement connected programs to receive a permanent status within their careers. Another part of keeping Chicano Studies in succession is to deliberately
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