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Native American/Creation
~The World on the Turtles Back
- A sky women falls through a hole onto a turtle, and uses dirt to make land, has a baby. that girl gets pregnant from arrows and has twins, but angry armpit baby killed her. Good baby killed evil baby and made night, then decapitated grandma and made the moon.
~This Newly Created World
~I Have Killed the Deer -
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
By Jonathan Edwards, whom used metaphors and terror to drive fear into sinners and prevent sinning. -
Poor Richard's Almanac
Benjamin Franklin's book of aphorisms -
Speech in Virginia Convention
Written by Patrick Henry to persuade people to fight against the crown -
The Crisis
Thomas Paine: political writing criticizing all who do not fight against the crown. -
Olaudah Equiano
~from the Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
- a slave boy is tanken from his home and transfered on a ship to America. On the ship he witnesses the terrors of the slave trade, full of death and pain. -
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Do I have to explain to you? -
Nature
An emerson story about the connection between nature, god, and humankind, and the effects of each other throughout nature. -
The Fall of the House of Usher
Edgar Allen Poe, dude went crazy in his friends house, and there was like a ghost, and then a sharknornado ate the house. -
The Raven
Spoilers: the raven is a symbolic metaphor for the guilt and emotions that Poe has for his lost love, Lenore, nevermore. -
Civil Obedience
A Thoreau story about civil relations against laws and the government, and how citizens should react to these. -
Fireside Poems
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
Symbolism for the inevitable destruction of your presence in the world. -
Walden
A story by Thoreau about living in isolation in a wooded area with a pond. -
Gettysburg Adress
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Book by Mark Twain, the adventures of a boy who runs away with his slave fried Jim. Comedy and adventure insues -
Self Reliance
A story by Emerson about finding your inner self, and following your beliefs. -
The Crucible
Written by Arthur Miller; Buncha' witches in salem and the heartfelt finding of goodness within the heart of a sinful farmer.