American Literature

Enduring Vision 8E Chapter 11 outline

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Walden

James Fenimore Cooper

Herman Melville

CHAPTER 11: Technology, Culture, & Everyday Life, 1840-1860 CHAPTER LEAD-IN, pg 313 Isaac M singer, struggled occupationally, abandoned wife and children, lured Mary Ann Sponslor to living with him in caring for him but he cheated on her and beat her. 1850 ?Singer made significant improvements on a sewing machine and was wealthy within 10 years. Sewing machines were in high demand to cut time manufacturing ready-made clothing, which made clothing cheaper and boosted the ready ? made clothing industry Technology ?term coal and in 1829 to indicate the application of science to improving life?s conveniences Telegraph, cotton gin, steam engine, mechanical reaper, locomotive ? all technological advances

Frederick Douglass

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Social Issues

Name Class Date As you read think about why Douglass argued that former slaves should be given the right to vote. I have had but one idea for the last three years to present to the American people, and the phraseol- ogy in which I clothe it is the old abolition phrase- ology. I am for the ?immediate, unconditional, and universal? enfranchisement of the black man, in every State in the Union. Without this, his liberty is a mockery; without this, you might as well almost retain the old name of slavery for his condition; for in fact, if he is not the slave of the individual master, he is the slave of society, and holds his liberty as a privilege, not as a right. He is at the mercy of the mob, and has no means of protecting himself. . .

criteria for black art

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Beauty

DuBois, Pennsylvania

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Criteria for Negro Art Reading Questions Du Bois believes that audience members may criticize the subject of his speech because he knows that members could find it irrelevant, and probably stupid and unnecessary because it is more unusual than what is usually discussed by the group Because Dubois is predicting that a number of audience members are very interested in the Criteria for negro art because they may recognize it?s significance He uses a metaphor that the Development of Negro Art is like climbing a mountain and soon the ?Vista will widen? and there will essentially be no limit to what can be done with negro art but a direction for it must be chosen

African American Final

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Quicksand Nella Larsen 11/10/14 9:13 PM Lynching As a practice and how it represented Practice of killing people in the extra judicial way Without due process/trial Vigilante mob action Late 18th C through the 19th C Most victims = African American men Chicago Tribute begins to systematically record lynching 1892 especially strong year for lynching Tuskegee University begins to collect lynching statistics 1912 NAACP begins to also collect statistics Lynching reaches a peak: Slavery is deemed unconstitutional 1877 large number of efforts arise to reinstitute slavery Systematic dismantling of the rights gained Rise in terrorism and violence (institutionalized/non) Captured/documented through photography Public spectacles spectacular imagery

American Literature in 17th Century

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American literature American literature,?the body of written works produced in the English language in the United States. Like other national literatures, American literature was shaped by the history of the country that produced it. For almost a century and a half, America was merely a group of colonies scattered along the eastern seaboard of the North American continent?colonies from which a few hardy souls tentatively ventured westward. After a successful rebellion against the motherland, America became the United States, a nation. By the end of the 19th century this nation extended southward to the Gulf of Mexico, northward to the 49th parallel, and westward to the Pacific. By the end of the 19th century, too, it had taken its place among the powers of the

Analysis of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Hollow of the Three Hills"

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The Hollow of the Three Hills In Nathaniel Hawthorne?s The Hollow of the Three Hills, a young woman seeks the help of an old witch to learn what has happened to her parents, husband and child whom she abandoned to commit sin through the use of the witch?s supernatural abilities. Hawthorne uses dark descriptive imagery to draw in his audience into the ambiguous and mysterious setting that characterizes this Gothic fairytale. From the get-go, Hawthorne clearly depicts the darkness, mystery, and evil of the world. The ambiguous diction of the first paragraph sets the eerie atmosphere of the story. The story takes place ?in those strange old times? at an ?appointed hour and place.? This lack of specificity leaves more to the imagination of the reader.

Two Kinds by Amy Tan

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Parodies of My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean

Henry Couchman

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Two Kinds Amy Tan My mother believed you could be anything you wanted to be in America. You could open a restaurant. You could work for the government and get good retirement. You could buy a house with almost no money down. You could become rich. You could become instantly famous. "Of course, you can be a prodigy, too," my mother told me when I was nine. "You can be best anything. What does Auntie Lindo know? Her daughter, she is only best tricky." America was where all my mother's hopes lay. She had come to San Francisco in 1949 after losing everything in China: her mother and father, her home, her first husband, and two daughters, twin baby girls. But she never looked back with regret. Things could get better in so many ways.

Toni Morrison Biography

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Regman 1 Maia Regman Ms. Cepeda English 9 Honors 17 March 2014 ?Toni Morrison? Introduction- 1. Toni Morrison is hailed as one of the most influential African American writers ever due to her emotionally charged, controversial and in-depth view of racism in America. 2. She has had numerous awards and nominations for her writing. 3. She has written music and has even had a movie made based on one of her works. Thesis- What began as a ?dashed-off? pastime evolved into a full-fledged writing career of which earned Toni Morrison world-wide recognition for her works. First Topic (Early Life) Family?s Impact on her Childhood Born Chloe Ardelia Wofford on February 18, 1931 in Lorain, Georgia