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

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

In the late eighteen hundreds, Japan surveyed the islands as "terra nullius," which translates in Latin as "belonging to no one" ("Narrative," 2012). ... The treaty stated that all of the islands around Taiwan belonged to Japan and though the document did not address specific geographical distances, the Senkaku islands were thought to be included ("Narrative," 2012). ... What started as a simple territory dispute turned into a personal confrontation between two historical enemies. ...

• Word Count: 2908
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate