Activists and Native Americans: Two different Points of View N.S Momaday and D. Brown both described a similar landscape, but in a different way. They both use imagery, similes, assonances, imageries, etc.… to convey their overall idea about the landscape. Momaday, a Native American from the Kiowa people, describes the land as a beautiful and peaceful place. Brown is actually trying to show how the government took away the land’s beauty by describing the place as more desolate. Momaday’s text is very complex.
In Stay Put: Making a Home in a Restless World, an essay that serves to respond to an essay by Salman Rushdie, Scott Russell Sanders used parallelism and metaphors to emphasize his beliefs that migration causes “disastrous consequences for the earth and for ourselves.” Sanders believes that “by settling in, we have a chance of making a durable home for ourselves, our fellow creatures, and our descendants.” The use of parallelism throughout Sanders’ essay was to emphasize his counter argument made by Rushdie. Rushdie articulates “that uprootings brings tolerance, while rootedness breeds intolerance; that imaginary homelands are preferable to geographical ones; that to be modern, enlightened, fully of our time is to be displaced,” showing that migration is good,in Rushdie’s perspective. Although we don’t know Sanders’ background, it is easy to speculate Rushdie’s perspective since he is a writer who migrated from India to England. If Rushdie believed that he disliked migration and had the same beliefs as Sanders, he would be contradicting his own actions. Sanders believes Rushdie’s beliefs are an “orthodoxy that... [Sanders]... wish[es] to encounter,” stating his belief that migration only harms the environment, not only to the creatures around us, but to ourselves as well.
“There are times when it could save your life, believe me.”’ (Bryson p305) Bryson shows us that it is ridiculous the way we feel the need to “have” things to make our lives complete. This man is convinced that this product could someday save his life and that he absolutely “needs” it to survive in the wilderness. People seem to think that we need gadgets or “state of the art” things, in order to have a meaningful experience. At the beginning of the book, Bryson is attempting to prepare for life on the trail, but trying to be practical about the amount of things he “needs” as well as the cost of all of these items. Bryson’s wit reveals how a person’s “wants” gets in the way of them realizing they don’t need extra man-made items when nature offers so much.
This term is strange to me. It has been a difficult process attempting to put a definition on this word. It is related to the Geographic Information System or GIS which “lets us visualize, question, analyze, interpret, and understand data...that reveal relationships, patterns, and trends in the form of maps, globes, reports, and charts” (What Is). With this said, spatial process may be used in maps using things such as the U.S. Public Land Survey System as well as the other three also found (Metes-and-Bounds, Longlot Survey and Landgrants). Image 6: What the Public Land Survey System looks like from the larger scale.
He realized that what were going to save him were the heavy things that he was carrying; weapons and machinery. Naturalism is evident in the short story when the men tried to hide their natural human emotions such as fear. The men found themselves acting this way because the symbolism in the things they are carrying show their true personalities. They knew that the only way they could survive was to act in ways that were not according to human nature. “As a fiction writer, I do not write just about the world we live in, but I also write about the world we ought to live in, and could, which is a world of imagination”, by Tim O’Brien, author of the short story, “The Things They Carried.” Tim O’Brien lived a normal childhood before he went into the Vietnam War.
Chris believed that by going off on his own in the Alaskan wilderness he would change himself; finally know what his purpose was in life. From what Chris wrote in his journal, he implied that happiness comes from finding yourself, not by how many people you have a personal relationship with. Chris, who had renamed himself as “Alexander Super-tramp”, wrote in his journal “I didn’t really mind the absence of intimacy in my life, the lack of real human connection” (137). Writing this thought down in his journal, he had proven that human connection to him was nice, but not necessary. People need connections with others, but these connections are not always what brings them to their absolute highest level of happiness.
Frankenstein was being written in a time when philosophers and writers such as Rousseau and John Locke where developing their ideas on the human condition. Rousseau’s Theory of Natural Human, which acknowledged that morality was not a societal construct but rather “natural” and “innate”, is questioned throughout the novel. Shelley examines the effect of society and knowledge on the innate goodness of the Creature, suggesting that he has become the monster that Victor sees him as because of the unwillingness of his creator to accept him and nurture him. The idea that humans’ innate goodness is tainted and polluted by society is present when the Creature expresses that his “sorrow only increased with knowledge” and this “increase of knowledge only discovered to [him] more clearly what wretched outcast [he] was”. The relationship between Frankenstein and the Creature is also paralleled with that of Lucifer and God and this is shown when the Creature, a symbol of humankind, acknowledges that “I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed”, suggesting that had it been nurtured/educated, it would have become an
There was a point where the society had to be checked and revaluated and Wallace described it is Six Tasks. The first was restructuring the subsystems and to convey the message to the tribe Handsome Lake talked about world destruction. He said the believers in Gaiiwio would be spared and he also emphasized the meaning of sin and ways to avoid sin. Another aspect of life was the power of dreams and to find meaning in every part because it happened for a reason. Overall the first task was to believe in something bigger and you will suffer if the Gaiiwio is not followed.
He spoke of his belief in the meadow and forest. Thoreau wrote about the air of the mountains feeding the spirit and arousing the senses. Mans thought will be clearer, intelligence will improve, and imaginations will soar (Thoreau 649). John Lame Deer believes that modern life has cut man off from feeling and spirituality. Experiencing the goodness of nature has become hard, because man has made itself a part of it (Lame Deer 687).
He clearly lays out for the reader the events that occurred and the people involved. He does his best to describe the differences and similarities between the various organizations such as the SCLC, CORE, and SNCC. While also broaching the subject that these organizations often suffered by not working together. Sitkoff writes at length, rightfully so, on the pivotal role of Martin Luther King Jr. and the dream of living in a world without racism. Describing ways in which he motivated a nation to rise up peacefully and without violence when possible.