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The Fire Leggings(Native Americans)
Way before time this was a story about the Native Americans, that was about the A spark sprang from the burning sticks, and fell upon Fine Bow's bare leg. They all laughed heartily at the boy's antics to rid himself of the burning coal; and as soon as the laughing ceased War Eagle laid aside the pipe. An Indian's pipe is large to look at, but holds little tobacco.Rubbing his eyes in anger, OLD-man sat up and saw the Sun coming. -
Period: 100 to Mar 14, 1000
Native American
Many thousands of years before Christopher Columbus’ ships landed in the Bahamas, a different group of people discovered America: the nomadic ancestors of modern Native Americans who hiked over a “land bridge” from Asia to what is now Alaska more than 12,000 years ago. In fact, by the time The Subarctic culture area, mostly composed of swampy, piney foreEuropean adventurers arrived in the 15th century A.D., scholars estimate that more than 50 million people were already living in the Americas. -
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The Moon and the Great Snake(Native Americans)
Way before the time of being this was a great Native stroy about the great Snake.continued the storyteller, "once there was only one Snake on the whole world, and he was a big one, I tell you. He was pretty to look at, and was painted with all the colors we know. This snake was proud of his clothes and had a wicked heart. Most Snakes are wicked, because they are his relations."Our people do not like the Snake-people very well, but we know that they were made to do something on this world. -
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Old Man's Treachery(Native Americans)
The sharp sound sent a thrill through the hearts of the boys, and instantly they became rigidly watchful. Not a leaf could move on the ground now--not a bush might bend or a bird pass and escape being seen by the four sharp eyes that peered from the brush in the direction indicated by the sound of the breaking stick. Two hearts beat loudly as Fine Bow fitted his arrow to the bowstring. Tense and expectant they waited--yes, it was a deer--a buck, too, and he was coming down the trail. -
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Retrospection(Native Americans)
They have told me that the white man, in his greed, has killed - and not for meat - all the Buffalo that our people knew. They have said that the great herds that made the ground tremble as they ran were slain in a few short years by those who needed not. Can this be true, when ever since there was a world, our people killed your kind. -
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Old Man Remakes the World(Native Americans)
At last the Beavers' dams broke under the strain and that made everything worse. It was bad - very bad, indeed. Everybody except the fish-people were frightened and all went to find OLD-man that they might tell him what had happened. Finally they found his fire, far up on a timbered bench, and they said that they wanted a council right away. which gave it away that was really the emphasis of the New story of the world. -
Period: Mar 25, 1500 to
Modern Age
The modern age era really began in the 16th century. Many major events like the fall of Constantinople and muslim spain, the protestant reformation of martin luther in 1517. This is often called the tudor period with Henry iiv victory. Many events began the true form of the modern era. -
Period: Jan 11, 1558 to
Puritan
Puritans were blocked from changing the established church from within, and severely restricted in England by laws controlling the practice of religion, but their views were taken by the emigration of congregations to the Netherlands and later New England, and by evangelical clergy to Ireland and later into Wales, and were spread into lay society by preaching and parts of the educational system, particularly certain colleges of the University of Cambridge. They took on distinctive viewChurch. -
Mar 12, 1558
New-World environment(Puritans)
Despite their differences, however, Puritans and Pilgrims agreed on this fundamental concept: Salvation was by God's grace alone, through individual faith alone, in Christ Jesus alone. In that sense, they were all products of Luther's Protestant Reformation. -
The Great Hurricane
Implementing Old-World beliefs in a New-World environment, the Puritans maintained their focus on education and their strict sense of "right behavior." For the first time in recorded history, children were provided with a free education when, in 1635. -
The Costume of Great Britain
Also known as a neck-stretcher, the pillory's purpose was to publicly punish (and humiliate) people for all kinds of offenses. Frequently, a pillory could be rotated, so members of the public could get a good look at the person on display. -
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Enlightment
The Enlightenment was a cultural movement that was really brought up In the 17th and the 18th centuries. That was the first beginning of Europe and then later towards the American colonies. The purpose of the Enlightenment was to reform the society using acumen that the challenge to that fact was to promote scientific thought to skepticism and the interchange that was to tolerate abuses of power by the church and the state. -
The Pillory
The pillory, intended to prevent "the culprit" from looking away, was part of a punishing humiliation process. Anyone "doing time" on that scaffold would have had little, if any, sympathy from a crowd of Puritan on-lookers -
Nasrudin The Wise Fool & Hasan the Mystic
Narsreddin Hodja’s were these two wives that were constantly asking about there savors about the love and how they both do the same. But it really didn’t answer the question in the fact and that was finally put into answering that he secretly gavew each of them a blue bead that privately instructing each of the womean that she should tell no one of the gift. Then after shortly it was to become of that thee favor of the wife and the enlightenment gave the favor of the wife shortly after the des -
Zen Master
There were two traveling Monks that were Zen that reached a river that of what they met was a old man. An old man that was wary and the current situation that asked if they could carry her across of the river that was of the monks yet they hesitated. They quickly picked of the person and took her across. That carried on towards that the Zen was a spiritual teacher and his disciples began toward thinking towards that was monastery that make such noise that it distacted them. -
The Old Man in the Himalayas
There was a land in the Himalayas that layed a dark mountain cave that had an old man. A man that was chosen of the holy life and that was deeply involved in spiritual practices that formed a moring until night that really was the base of what they call themselves sadhu. Which is what the man was named, that who had not eaten for 3 years for a thimble full of water and a blade of grass each day. The old man in the cave went on about his day, cooking tea over a fire, tending to a small garden, -
Rabbi
Rabbi that was occord towards that everyone in his community that was enchanted with everything he said. His name was Isaac that was who never missed an opportunity that contradicted with the interpretations and the the point of the teaching. Of the rabbi and that it was resentful towards the enlightenment that still kept him thinking that there was other ways to think this one through so tuff but onless his changes his thoughts and beings of the Rabbi himself. -
The Hermit
Word spread across the countryside about the wise Holy Man who lived in a small house atop the mountain, as a hermit. A man from the village decided to make the long and difficult journey to visit him. When he arrived at the house, he saw an old servant inside who greeted him at the door. -
The Shortest Way with Dissenters
Showered with flowers by a sympathetic crowd. Most, however, endured the more usual barrage of smelly eggs and rotting vegetables, dead cats or animal offal, sticky mud and human waste -
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Gothic Fiction
Gothic Fiction is often referred to Gothic horror which is a genre of the modern literature that combines with the elements of both horror and romance. It originates with the English Horace Walpole in 1764 the novel The Castle of Otranto, that was subtitled as a gothic story. -
The Castle Ortanto
This "ancient Catholic family" is possibly the Percy family, as Walpole would have known the Duke of Northumberland and his wife Elizabeth Percy, though this is not proven. The Italian manuscript's story, it was claimed, derived from a story still older, dating back perhaps as far as the Crusades. This Italian manuscript, along with alleged author "Onuphrio Muralto", were Walpole's fictional creations, and "William Marshal" his pseudonym. -
Horrid Mysteries
He creates a rival society to combat them and finds himself hopelessly trapped between the two antagonistic forces. The book has been both praised and lambasted for its lurid portrayal of sex, violence and barbarism. H. P. Lovecraft, in his lengthy essay Supernatural Horror in Literature, dismissed it and others like it as "...the dreary plethora of trash like Marquis von Grosse's Horrid Mystery. -
Dracula
Count Dracula, has been the novel that really tells a story of horror fiction. An attempt that relocates from Transylvania to England that was a battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women. It is a famous literary genre including a vampire literature and the gothic novel that touches on themes such as the role of women in the Vicorian age. -
Frankenstein
Frankenstein was produced by a unorthodox scientific experiment that was about a scientist that wanted to make something that would change the world and that he could bring some creature back to life and that was Frankenstein. A young scientist that really impacted the way of how much the world put on the way of publishing the world finest person and creating a creature as nice and strong. But in this case Frankenstein had a bad brain. -
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Romanticism
Romanticism was a artistic literary of a movement that originated in Europe that in most areas that of the peak was approximately the aristocratic age of the Enlightenment that gave a scientific rationalization of nature. Embodied the strongest of the arts, music, and literature of the major impact. Its politicians that were conceded the complex of the peak of Romantic period. It was associated with liberalism and radicalism in term with the effect on growth nationally more amazing -
Moby Dick
Herman Melville died penniless and the failed writer who recognized his own brilliance even when others didn’t. Modernists and their reappraisal of the American arts and letters that really symbolized that required close reading and patience. Being well-read himself of the betraying of the history, mythology, and religion. Superficially, the novel is a revenge tale, but over and above the narrative are meditations of madness, power, and the nature of being human. -
The Concord Writers
The Concord witers were the intellectural social revolt of the history of the Romanticism. That really told stories of religion and times will be in the history of the tendency. That established a book called the Dial and the Brook Farm Community. Emerson had given significance of volume of that entitled Nature in 1836 which was the transecendentalism. -
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter was written during the age of the Puritans but was in fact Hawthorne wrote a story that was in the distant past even in his own time. This symbolizes the fact that it left multiple interpretations of the discussions of guilt family and honor politics. That the Scarlet Letter was by Moby Dick as on of the greatest novels in the English language. -
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Transcendentalism
Transcendentalism was really developed in the state of intellectualism at Harvard and the doctrine of the Unitarian church that of the core beliefs in the inherent goodness of both people and nature. That transcendentalists believed that society and the insititutions-particularly organized religion of the political parties. That the individual of the faith and the self-reliant of independence of individuals of that true community that can be formed. -
The Tales of King Arthur
The tales of King Arthur were especially resonant to their imaginations. On top of this, there was a clearly mystical quality to Romantic writing that sets it apart from other literary periods. Of course, not every Romantic poet or novelist displayed all, or even most of these traits all the time. That really took place with the Romanticism that gave that vibe of resonant of the imagination that led towards the mystical quality to novelist. -
Civil Disobendance
The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. They are the standing army, and the militia, jailers, constables, posse comitatus, In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgment or of the moral sense; but they put themselves on a level with wood and earth andstones; and wooden men can perhaps be ma -
The American Scholar
The American Scholar was a speech by Ralph Emerson that brang society that invited to speak of the recongnition of his groundbreaking work Nature and the publish of how the American population has banked of. The influence of by the European and Emerson that the first time in the country the framework for escaping of the identity of the possibility that 60ty years of declaring independence. -
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Harlem Renissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke. Though it was centered in the Harlemneighborhood of New York City, many French-speaking black writers from African and Caribbean colonies who lived in Paris were also influenced by the Harlem Renaissance.The Harlem Renaissance is unofficially recognized to have spanned from about 1919 until the early or mid-1930s. -
Leaves Of Grass
The novel was most certainly held sway of the utterly silent of the Romanticism it was arguably the greatest poet in American literary. Which fellows the working of the novel the publication of “Leaves of Grass” in 1855 the was the critical momen of the history of poetry. That corners the Earth that within was the poetic vision. Like the rest of the poets in the Romantic tradtions. -
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Realism
Realism was the art of generally that is deifined as the attempt that of the matter that truthfully without articiality that avoiding artistic conventions that was the most specific sense towards the artistic movement. It revolted against the exotic of the exaggerated of emotionalism that the dramatic movement. -
The Necklace
The Necklace has a sense of realism that goes through that it was believed that is was fiction that should convey the reality of such accuracy as possible. The strive of objectivity that was rather than psychological and explorated. The specific and observable of details that go through the facts and the illusions that were created of particular effects to readers of descriptions. The realistic fiction is that every work of fiction has been believed has an illusion. -
Owl creek Bridge
The owl creek bridge the story is told as a way to elaborate the realistic detail and the begginging of the novel is the revelation of the less jarring fact of realism. That the imagining of his escape torwards Bierce that had failed. That the realism is that in real life you face these hard ways of life and you have to overcome them by realistic feeling -
The Rise of Silas Lapham
This story is shown as a way of telling that the moral susceptibility of the fortune that the paint business of lack social standards of the attain that through his daughter’s marriage into the aristocratic Corey family. That was the moral fact that the lose of his money that makes the right moral that the decision when his partner that proposes the unethical selling of the mills to English settlers. -
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
This story is told in a way of realism because of the way it was detailed that the circumstances by poverty and solitude that was considerd of risqué that by the literary realism that the strong themes of crane that the edition towards the unfortunate poverty and solitude. -
Lowly life’s by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Lowly life’s by Paul Laurence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar is a series of thirty eight somber and emotional poems dealing with the treatment towards African Americas in the 18th century. He described the pain and the torture that went along each day to please their master. Several of them were anecdotes and some where tales of others facing the cruel reality of mistreatment. -
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Imagism
Imagism was a movement that in the 20th century that was began with poetry that forced a way with precision that imagery and the clear and sharp of language. That really was the influential movement in English poetry since the activity of the Pre-Raphaelites. The modernism that starts with that yet has the remarkanism that accurate to consider of imaginism that not as a doctrine nor even as a poetic principl that is associated with an accurate imagism. -
James Weldon Johnson,Autobiography of an Ex-Colored (harlem)
The work is a novel, but the author hoped that by remaining anonymous he could persuade readers that it was an actual autobiography. The novel, told in the first person, is the story of a man whose parents were a wealthy white Southern gentleman and the “coloured” seamstress employed by the gentleman’s family. -
Jean Toomer, Cane (Harlem)
He sketches, poems, and stories of living as a black man that make up Cane a great novel. Using Southern landscape: the Northern world is pictured as a harsher reality dangerous streets. This novel using mnay literary forms to tell its great story and looks at the world through a harsh perspective. -
Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues
The poem begins with a speaker telling someone about a piano player he heard a couple nights ago. This musician was playing a slow blues song with all his body and soul. The speaker starts to really get into the sad music. Starting at line 19, we get the first verse to the song. This musician is singing about how, even though he's miserable, he's going to put his worries aside. The second verse is more of a bummer: nothing can cure his blues, and he wishes he was dead. -
The Midnight Folk
This novel was a children’s fantasy that set between the discovery of what became the fortune of the seafaring of great grandfather. The treasure is also sought by a coven that is holded by two witches who are also seeking it for their own ends. That the member of the coven are garded with there lives that are led by the witches and are guided by the wizard Abner Brown -
The Box of Delights
The owner of the box is an old Punch and Judy man called This story was told to put a way of devloping imagism the way the author wanted it. Cole Hawlings, whom Kay meets at a railway station. They develop an instant rapport, and this leads Cole to confide that he is being chased by a man called Abner Brown and his gang. For safety, Cole entrusts the box to Kay, who then goes on to have many adventures. -
The Fire in the Flint, Walter White
Using an unconventional writing form, Fauset advanced themes of racial uplift, patriotism, optimism for the future, and black solidarity. This novel focused on the career and then the lynching of a black physician and veteran of World War I. Protesting racial oppression and showing the harsh reality of the world -
Umbrella by Will Self (contemporary)
Disparate timelines swirl around the encephalitic Audrey Death, the brain-dead patient in the center of Will Self's masterful new novel. Shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize, Umbrella is a Joycean free-flow of memories and experiences shared between Audrey, her doctor, and her brother. -
temple of a Thousand Faces by John Shors(contemporary)
Is set in 1177 when Jaya Indravarman IV, King of the Chams, based in what is now modern Viet Nam, attacked the Khmer kingdom centered at Angkor Wat in Cambodia. Of the royal family, only a major prince and his favorite wife, Jayavar and Ajadevi, are able to escape into the jungle. -
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Contemporary
Based on human lifespan, contemporary history would extend for a period of approximately 80 years. Obviously, this concept shifts in absolute terms as the generations pass. In a narrower sense, "contemporary history" may refer to the history remembered by most adults currently living, extending to about a generation. -
Girlchild by Tupelo Hassman(contemporary)
Girlchild is the coming-of-age story of young Rory Hendrix, who is being raised by a her mom in a trailer park in Reno, California. Rory has social pressures to deal with and stereotypes to break as she tries desperately to break the self-destructive cycle she's inherited and live a normal life. -
Open Door by Iosi Havilio
In Open Door, a veterinarian attempts to restructure her life after the mysterious disappearance of her girlfriend. A recent house call led her to a sick horse in a rural town and, in the absence of her partner, she finds herself inexplicably drawn back to the village. The nearby mental hospital and a small cast of peculiar townspeople contribute to create an unsuspectingly complex novel. -
Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell(contemporary)
Vampires,scarecrows, mutant silkworms, and portentous birds and other crazy monsters are told in these short stories. The author using creativity and imagination to a fresh form, She uses a self-inflicted, impossible fantasy and molds these stories into something somehow relatable.
