MINING FOR MEANING: A STUDY OF MINIMALISM IN AMERICAN LITERATURE by JEREMY ROBERT BAILEY‚ B.A.‚ M.A. A DISSERTATION IN ENGLISH Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Texas Tech University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Approved Wendell Aycock Chair of the Committee Sara Spurgeon Scott Baugh Ralph Ferguson Dean of the Graduate School December 2010 Copyright 2010 Jeremy Robert Bailey Texas Tech University‚ Jeremy Robert Bailey‚ December 2010
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Historical and Creative Literacy Essay The Black Arts Movement and Its Impact From 1954 to 1968‚ Black Americans and other minorities fought for equal rights in what is known as the “Civil Rights Movement” here in America. It all began because of the courage of one woman…Rosa Parks‚ who was arrested in Montgomery‚ GA for refusing to move to the back of a bus. During this period in time‚ blacks were becoming more and more rebellious against the inequality they experienced in comparison to the white
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What Is Literature and Why Do We study it? Literature is Composition that tells a story‚ dramatizes a situation expresses emotions‚ analyzes and advocates ideas Helps us grow personally and intellectually Provides an objective base for knowledge and understanding Shapes our goals and values by clarifying our own identities‚ both positively and negatively Literature makes us human. Literature is literally “acquaintance with letters” (Latin littera meaning “an individual written character/letter”)
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the 19th Century slaves in the South were treated as property‚ worked to almost the brink of death‚ and mentally and physically abused by their masters. The life of a slave on large plantations was daily physical labor from sun up to sun down‚ six days a week. Cultivation of cotton was done year round‚ there wasn’t an off season. Not all slaves were crop workers‚ some dug ditches‚ built houses‚ worked as house servants‚ or any other form of labor their owner saw fit. At times slaves were outsourced
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America and Mexico were in war due to conflicts regarding slavery and territories. Henry Clay (the Secretary of State at that time) tried to end the war by introducing a series of bills called The Compromise of 1850. The Compromise had five laws that were put in place to help the Northern Free States and the Southern Slave States come to a natural balance. In September 9‚ 1850‚ the government passed three of the laws from the Compromise of 1850. The first three bills were regarding territory between
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the 1900s immigration became a very big part of U.S history. While immigrants were coming they all came for one reason‚ because there were hardships in the places they came from. Also when they arrived there were many hardships these immigrants faced. First of all‚ many immigrants came to the U.S because they had many hardships in their native countries. One of the reasons that many immigrants came was because there were “hard times and epidemic in Italy‚” this is shone in document one almost one
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According to the textbook‚ what were some of the characteristic phases of development of pre-historical humanity? Every premature thing goes through different phases of development‚ as far as humans are concerned‚ they have inherited earth more than four thousand years ago and have undergone various phases of development. Homo Sapiens which clearly resemble us‚ can be known as our ancestors disintegrated from Africa and allocated different parts of the earth and this time can be recalled as stone
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interpret the law. However‚ this caused many problems; one such problem was the incident called Shay’s Rebellion. Shay’s Rebellion happened because many of the people that fought in the revolutionary war didn’t receive any sort of compensation as they were promised. To add insult to injury‚ the farmers experienced high state taxes‚ which consequently initiated the rebellion. Congress couldn’t do anything to remedy or suppress this rebellion because they didn’t have an army‚ they couldn’t collect any
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conflict: He suffered two chest wounds and his left hand was completely maimed. Despite his disability‚ de Cervantes continued to serve as a soldier for several more years. In 1575‚ de Cervantes and his brother‚ Rodrigo‚ tried to return to Spain‚ but they were captured by a group of Turkish ships during their voyage. De Cervantes spent five years as a prisoner and a slave‚ and made several failed attempts to escape during his imprisonment. He finally went home after a ransom was
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Ecocriticism is the study of literature and environment from an interdisciplinary point of view where all sciences come together to analyze the environment and brainstorm possible solutions for the correction of the contemporary environmental situation. Ecocriticism was officially heralded by the publication of two seminal works‚[citation needed] both published in the mid-1990s: The Ecocriticism Reader‚ edited by Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm‚ and The Environmental Imagination‚ by Lawrence Buell
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