from American Treasures of the Library of Congress Web Site: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm009.html Slavery Timeline. Retrieved from http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~kmporter/slaverytimeline.htm Smithsonian National Museum of American History. (2010). New tastes, new trades. On the Water Online Exhibition.
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“Civil Disobedience” – refused to pay state tax b/c opposed Mexican war III. The flowering of American literature A. Nathaniel Hawthorne – New England Writer, haunted by Puritan ancestors (Salem Witch trial judge); impossible to remove all sin from human soul B. Emily Dickinson – original & powerful Poet; themes: life, death, fear, loneliness, nature, god C. Washington Irving – proof American could make career of literature, adept imitator D. James Fenimore Cooper – conflict: Man vs. backwoods nature; romances of frontier life; model for cowboy movie, novels E. Edgar Allan Poe – Gothic horror short stories; inventor of detective story; fear most powerful emotion F. William Gilmore Simms – gentleman of letters G. Herman Melville – realistic fiction (based on his adventures at sea), Moby‐Dick H. Walt Whitman – explicit sexual references; homoerotic elements; rejects women’s domestic sphere I. The popular
Chester Chan 29 November 2011 Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, is story of the bombing of Dresden, from living through it, and his attempt at an anti-war book. Once when he discussed his plan for writing with a movie-maker, he was asked, “Why don’t you write an anti-glacier book instead?” (Vonnegut 3) Vonnegut knew how daunting a task it was to write this novel, and even when he was done, he told the publisher, “It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre.” (Vonnegut 18) The name Slaughterhouse Five is for the slaughterhouse in which he was locked up in during the massacre, and alternately titled, The Children’s Crusade to prevent from giving war a glamorous image
Penguin Group: New York, 2005. Bailyn Bernard. Faces of Revolution. Vintage Books: New York, 1992. Bailyn Bernard, The Origins of American Politics.
------------------------------------------------- Vasco da Gama From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Vasco de gama) For other uses, see Vasco da Gama (disambiguation). Vasco da Gama | | Born | 1460 or 1469 Sines or Vidigueira, Alentejo,Kingdom of Portugal | Died | 23 December 1524 (aged 54-64) Kochi, India | Occupation | Explorer, Governor of Portuguese India | Signature | | Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈvaʃku ðɐ ˈɣɐmɐ]) (c. 1460 or 1469 – 24 December 1524) was a Portuguese explorer, one of the most successful in the Age of Discovery and the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India. For a short time in 1524 he was the Governor of Portuguese India, under the title of Viceroy. Contents [hide] * 1 Early life * 2 Exploration before Gama * 3 First voyage * 3.1 Journey to the Cape * 3.2 Mombasa * 3.3 Malindi * 3.4 Calicut, India * 3.5 Return * 4 Rewards * 5 Second voyage * 5.1 Pilgrim ship incident * 6 Third voyage * 7 Descendants * 8 Legacy * 9 See also * 10 References * 11 External links | ------------------------------------------------- Early life Vasco da Gama was born in either 1460[1] or 1469[2] in Sines, on the southwest coast of Portugal, probably in a house near the church of Nossa Senhora das Salas. Sines, one of the few seaports on the Alentejo coast, consisted of little more than a cluster of whitewashed, red-tiled cottages, tenanted chiefly by fisherfolk.
Honors EnglishIII Midyear Study Guide I. Authors i. Arthur Miller -wrote The Crucible -accused of being Communist -blacklisted by Senator McCarthy ii. Dalton Trumbo -wrote Johnny Got His Gun -anti-war novel ->published in 1939;written in 1938 -never served in the war -blacklisted during the McCarthy Era -JGHG was inspired by a Canadian Soldier who lost all of his limbs in WWI iii. Mark Twain -wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -real name, Samuel Langhorn Clemens -Realist author -most of his children died before he did iv. Jonathan Edwards -wrote “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” -preacher in the late 1700s -critical role in the First Great Awakening v. Nathaniel Hawthorne -wrote Young Goodman Brown vi.
127 - 132; 151-153) Paper One due 3/18 ”Memento Mori” 2001 / Memento 2000 (in Adaptations, pp. 137 -153; Nolan’s story is included in this reading); Proposal for Research Paper/Project due today (typed) Horror: 3/25 “Herbert West—Reanimator: Six Shots by Moonlight” 1922 / Reanimator 1985 (Take-Home Midterm-due 4/8) Spring Break: 3/29 – 4/05 (no class) (in Adaptations, pp. 83 -100; Research Paper/Project Bibliography due next week 4/8 “The Fly” 1958 / The Fly 1986 (Midterm due) Research Paper/Project Bibliography due today Theatrical Adaptation: 4/15 God of Carnage 2006/ Carnage 2011 (purchase book in LAMC bookstore) (in Adaptations, pp. 158 – 183; you can skim portion on Soldier’s Story) Graphic Novel: 4/22 Ghost World 1997 / Ghost World 2001 (purchase book in LAMC bookstore) (in Adaptations, pp. 100 - 126); Paper Two due Comedy/Drama: 4/29 “Baster” 1996 / The
HEIDEGGER AND THE WILL Northwestern University Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Founding Editor † James M. Edie General Editor Anthony J. Steinbock Associate Editor John McCumber HEIDEGGER AND THE WILL On the Way to Gelassenheit Bret W. Davis Northwestern University Press Evanston, Illinois Northwestern University Press www.nupress.northwestern.edu Copyright © 2007 by Northwestern University Press. Published 2007. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-2034-1 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0-8101-2034-8 (cloth) ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-2035-8 (paper) ISBN-10: 0-8101-2035-6 (paper) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data are available
Pasadena, Calif: Salem Press, 2006. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost). Web. 21 Jan. 2014. Strickland, Arvarh E., and Robert E. Weems. The African American Experience : An Historiographical And Bibliographical Guide.