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    A Voyage Long and Strange written by Tony Horwitz is a novel in which he shares he thoughts and discoveries as he retraces the steps of some of the first people to ever set foot in North America. He retraces the steps of Christopher Columbus‚ Eirik the Red‚ John Smith‚ and many explorers in between. Vinland I found the first view chapters of this book to be very informative and easy to understand. I found it interesting to learn about Eirik the Red because in kindergarten we are taught the

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    Scottish botanist‚ David Douglas‚ was one of the history’s most successful explorers. He made three separate trips from England to North America in the early 19th century when air travel was but a distant dream. His second expedition was his most successful‚ in 1824. The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) sent him on a plant-hunting expedition in the Pacific Northwest‚ which was not yet part of the United States. After this trip‚ he introduced the Douglas Fir into cultivation‚ in 1827. Additionally

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    the armchair fanning himself ... The ’genuine’ story with its starting‚ center and end could never be told‚ on the grounds that it didn’t exist. (A Strange and Sublime Address‚ 57-58) With all modesty‚ Chaudhuri avoids coordinate authorial interruption and gives Sandeep a chance to portray the story. The local space‚ customarily called ’the internal space’ is a key site of culture. The portrayal of Chhotomama’s home‚ the way it is cleaned‚ the puja rooms‚ and the depiction of different houses in

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    The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward gives a complete historical analysis of the beginning of the impact on race relations within and outside of the South‚ and its legal end in 1965. After the Brown v. Board of Education decision‚ Woodward wrote lectures about the basis of segregation and slavery and such. Woodward’s lectures were originally directed to a local southern audience‚ but as his lectures developed into a wide-ranging text they extended towards national recognition. Woodward

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    The poem “Strange Fruit” was written by Abel Meeropol not a southern black man‚ but instead a Jewish-American high school teachers. “Strange Fruit” was published in 1937. The poem conveys a message about the brutal past about racism around the 1900’s. The poem was inspired by a photograph that Meeropol had seen‚ the picture took place in a lynching‚ the victims were two innocent black men that were hanging from a tree‚ The picture haunted Meeropol for days. This poem was very chilling and terrifying

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    In Owen?s poem‚ ?Strange Meeting‚? the theme of war is heavily emphasized‚ as the poet expresses complete disgust concerning the nature of war. Yet‚ rather than describing the violence of war in the battlefield‚ the poet chooses a most unconventional route to attack war by instead placing the soldiers in Hell‚ centering the poem around the civil conversation between two dead enemies. In doing this‚ the poet strips away the barrier between these two enemies‚ and as a result‚ he evokes not anger‚ but

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    switches from being a boy to a girl‚ he realizes the hardships and restrictions of being a woman during his time period. Orlando is not too happy about the gender roles he has to coincide by while he was a female. In the article “Is It Really That Strange For a Guy to Wear a Dress?” by Miles Robbins explains how the gender expectation is that guys should not wear dresses and if they do they automatically identify as the opposite gender or are judge. Society has put this label that guys should not wear

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    Still‚ Mr. Macomber could not understand how those humans born in that strange world of freedom would be happy if they did not have anybody to provide food for them‚ to take them to poo and pee‚ and to take a whole care of them. However‚ they were not unwillingly and painfully neutered like me and they could kiss another person if they like‚ they can talk with the other people as much as they want and they could play with their siblings freely‚ he was thinking… Then he felt that he even understood

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    The Negative Influences the European Explorers Showed the Native Americans “Our hearts were low.” Stated by Saukamappee in 1787. These European explorers took the Indians culture‚ land‚ and spirt. The explorers treated the men‚ women‚ and children of the land brutally. While the Indians were trying help the European explorers‚ they were negatively influencing them when it came to the spread of diseases‚ the traditions being changed‚ and treaties along with land distribution. To begin‚ the diseases

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    org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/StateLibQld_1_140295_Portrait_of_a_wedding_party‚_1930-1940.jpg/640px-StateLibQld_1_140295_Portrait_of_a_wedding_party‚_1930-1940.jpg Title: Age-Old Wedding Practices with Very Strange Beginnings Getting married and living together may already bring some strange discoveries in itself. But here are some marriage practices‚ which many might think normal but in fact had odd histories. Diamonds Are Forever There was a time when diamond engagement rings weren’t common

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