Most of the Native American traditions distinguish between songs and narratives. ... During the late nineteenth century and during the twentieth century came personal narratives. ... The sense of community is the idea where an individual is part of a whole. ... Animals, objects, and humans are believed to have a personal spirit or personality. ... It was a book that dealt with personal experiences, character sketches, Sioux tales and history. ...

• Word Count: 1765
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

This narrative is far different than the autobiographical narratives written by former prisoners. ... Such self-aggrandizement filled Williams" narrative in cases of arguing with the Jesuits. He gains a great celebrity among New Englanders after the publishing of his narrative and cannot understand how to react. ... The Unredeemed Captive gives the reader insight into the personal lives of these historical figures, rather than just a listing of dates and events. ... Whether it be flourished with pretty and noble words, or supported by the most powerful of men, those with closed and arrogan...

• Word Count: 1326
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The most well reputed Cooper scholar belongs to a school of thought that fits language of the book into the model set by biblical narratives. ... These ideas coincide with other interpretations of the novel that had already adopted these same biblical motifs to explain its battles between good and evil, its ideas of Indian descent to hell, and its Miltonic flavor. ... Dennis Allen states, "Initially confined to a language of signs and physical objects having natural relations to the ideas expressed," they conjectured, "man developed a highly figurative speech which gradually gave way to conven...

• Word Count: 1482
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

By night, the sun's absence provided slaves with an opportunity to express their personal independence; an opportunity seldom available under a master's supervision. ... " In this excerpt from his narrative, John F. Van Hook reinforces the idea that the sun's absence provided slaves with independence in the form of an opportunity to run away. ... Furthermore, the absence of the sun allowed some slaves to pursue personal independence through improving their quality of life by cultivating their own crops. ... As we can see, the solar cycle, even in the sun's absence, dir...

• Word Count: 1485
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He viewed the idea and act of suicide as being related entirely to social facts and society. ... It was the contemporary theorist Habermas that introduced the idea of communicative action. ... During the beginning of Habermas" career, he expanded on the ideas of Marx. ... Habermas then developed the idea of communicative rationality (Layder 2000:188-189). ... The development of a shared agreement of the idea is not what is important. ...

• Word Count: 3015
• Approx Pages: 12

The combination of a forty-hour workweek, vacations, early retirement and paid holidays provided Americans with leisure time for their families and for personal endeavors. ... Disney's passion for trains gave him the idea to create an amusement park where a train could take families to different lands. ... Historian Warren Susman stressed the importance of Disneyland as an American cultural achievement, an "extraordinary effort to create a collective representation of a utopian and idea! ...

• Word Count: 2184
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

National Elections Beginning in the American Revolution and accelerating after the War of 1812, the people of the United States grew in their sense of country as an important example to the world of a national republic of political liberty and personal rights. ... In the world of 19th century self-made Americans, growing in prosperity, population and expanding westward, "freedom" could mean personal liberty or property rights. ...

• Word Count: 7511
• Approx Pages: 30
• Grade Level: High School