American Studies 356/History 356K Main Currents in American Culture Since 1865 Fall‚ 2010 Dr. Mark Smith TTh 2-3:30 Burdine 428 Burdine 134 Tues 10-11‚ Th 12:30-2 and by appt. 232-2150/471-7277/e-mail: mcsmith@mail.utexas.edu Teaching Assistant: Jeanette Vaught Office: Burdine 408 Hours: TTh 3:30-5 and by appt. At the end of the Civil War‚ American society became flooded with new technologies‚ ethnic groups‚ ideas‚ and customs. A society‚ which had bewildered earlier
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about the 1857 mutinous Sepoys as victims and British forces as being unnecessarily ruthless in their repression‚ the main protagonists of the 1865 Morant Bay Rebellion greatly divided opinions in Britain. The logic according to which people disagree with what they opponents agree with meant that someone’s hero was someone else’s villain. Paul Bogle‚ a Black Jamaican‚ was depicted by supporters of philanthropy as a pious preacher spreading Christianity and striving for the improvement of the living
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What One Sees Is Not Always What It Seems “Two Views of the Mississippi”‚ by Mark Twain is a very remarkable piece. In this short story he is reminiscing back to a time when he first sees the Mississippi River‚ the beauty he took in that day. Then he looks once more only to find that it is not all that enchanting. He looks back‚ only to find something that contradicts the beauty he is witnessing. When people look at something‚ they only see what they want to see‚ the truth is there is always a darker
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Chapter 2 REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE This chapter states the different literature and studies that were conducted for the research to gain familiarity that are relevant and similar to the present study. Related Literature Ralph M. Stair (1999) emphasized that the development of technology through the years have enabled us to do more with less effort. From the orientation of the light bulb to the industrial revolution and beyond‚ we have continuously tried to in a more efficient means of doing
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sink at an estimated rate of about an inch per year. This sinking is due to several different factors. The flooding of the Mississippi river has been controlled by levees since the late 1800’s. The river used to leave sediment when it flooded. When levees were put in to prevent flooding‚ the delta downstream was starved of sediment and nutrients. This sediment that the Mississippi river brought during floods used to settle and make more land over time. The sediment also used to formed a buffer between
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Code Meshing and Code Switching Code Meshing is a strategy for blending many varieties with privileged standard language‚ it combines the ordinary language with non-formal conversations. Code Switching is the practice of alternating between two or more languages or varieties of language in conversation. When people switch codes they do not have to make the same cognitive effort as when they try to integrate communitive devices for code meshing. Many people use both code switching and code meshing
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Figurative language and the use of literary techniques have been used for hundreds of years to improve writing style and to begin focus to the central idea of a story. In an excerpt from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain‚ a narrator tells about their experience with life on the Mississippi river‚ and how the river seemed to capture many moods and reflects the different aspects of his life as he came to face it. Throughout the passage the narrator uses striking imagery to characterize the river
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my oral topic is based on comparing Atticus’ and Agent Ward’s authority in their respective plots. Atticus Finch and Agent Ward are both very similar characters that play the same roles in their respective plots in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ and ‘Mississippi Burning’. Both characters share the same authority in terms of the way they try to establish justice‚ they also resemble in their characteristics and beliefs. The occupations of Atticus Finch and Agent Ward both aim to establish justice and maintain
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readers powerful stories that they can divulge in. Mark Twain wrote “Life On the Mississippi”‚ which gives a vast trove of details about where he used to live‚ in a small town of Hannibal‚ Missouri. In this literature he talks about a wide variety of key aspects‚ but what stands out the most was the town. He takes us through the town describing it as boring and dull. He reminisces about how beautiful the Mississippi river was; it was right next to the town. He also describes the people who lived
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