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Oregon Territory White Settlers
1,112 words... using white colonization of the Oregon Country was closing the connections between the Cayuse Indians and the Whitman mission. With the number of whites now living in the former Cayuse land came many diseases that were unfamiliar to the Indians. Common sicknesses that whites were accustomed to were killing the Natives. The Cayuse became unresponsive to the Whitman's because the couple helped the people who were killing them. In 1847, Narcissa said something about the continued white settleme...
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Leaves Of Grass Walt Whitman
413 wordsWalt Whitman was born on May 31, 1819 in West Hills, New York. His mother, Louisa Van Vendor, was descended from a long line of New York Dutch farmers; his father, Walt Whitman, was a Long Island farmer and carpenter. In 1823, the family moved to Brooklyn in search of work. One of nine children in an undistinguished family, Whitman received little in the way of formal education. At the age of 17, Whitman began teaching at various Long Island schools and continued to teach until he went to New Yo...
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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Suez Canal
5,121 words... -joined in their purpose of returning home are the crowds, who arouse genuine curiosity on the part of the poet. The costume-attired crowds become meaningful to Whitman in their crossing from shore to shore, to eternity (a hundred years hence, or ever so many hundred years hence, others will see them as they cross), they share with the poet the weakness, the doubt and the suspicion (The best I had done seemed to me blank and suspicious, My great thoughts, as I supposed them, were they not in...
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Period Of Time Civil War
624 wordsWalt Whitman wrote many poems that contained very strong political and economical aspects, which gave an insight into his own beliefs and values. Among some of the various other themes he wrote about, Whitman frequently used the Civil War as a foundation for his works. Another theme that was presented, which in some way is incorporated with the previous theme, was that of social unity and the importance of each individual. His ideas about the Civil war come about in many of his poems. In "Beat! ...
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Soul And Body Small Things
1,261 wordsForged in the fire of revolution and defined by manifest destiny, America has always been the land of the individual. Although the American dream has not always been coherent, (married with 2. 5 kids, 2 cars, a dog and a satisfying job), the spirit of innovation, individuality and progress remains unchanged. The father of free verse, and perhaps the American perspective of poetry, Walt Whitman embodies these values in his life and work. First published in 1855 in Leaves of Grass, "Song of Myself...
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Nature Of Reality Material World
579 wordsMetaphysical Ambivalence Walt Whitman's Song of Myself explores the philosophical nature of this world. By definition, metaphysics is the study that seeks to uncover the nature of reality and of being itself. In not directly committing to one of the already accepted and more traditional doctrines of materialism or idealism, the poem suggests the existence of a more radical theory that draws its support from both extremes of the metaphysical spectrum. Whitman challenges the notion that the nature...
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Walt Whitman And Emily Dickenson
622 wordsThe relationship between Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson can be drawn from typical kids in school classroom. There is Walt, the popular, sociable, talkative kid in the class who is known by everyone. Then there is Emily, the strange, artistic, quiet girl who sits by herself in the corner with no friends. This comparison is similar to what Whitman and Dickenson are really like. The following is about how Dickinson and Whitman are different and how they are alike. The differences in these two leg...
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Edgar Allan Poe Poe Edgar Allan
1,593 wordsEvil has been described throughout time and in all places of the world in numerous ways. Tradition has taught both scholars and average individuals to appreciate the delicate balance between good and evil; right versus wrong; bad versus good. Hell has long been feared by many as the permanent resting place for tortured souls that committed unforgivable sins on Earth. To some, it is the simple fear, such as a monster underneath one's bed, which lingers from that person's childhood continuing to c...
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Comparing And Contrasting Anecdotes Of Edwards Whitman
930 wordsIf everyone thought the same, if everyones form was alike, if everyone had no distinctions, then life would not be the same. Nothing is ever the same. Our thoughts and ideas differ, as we think in different levels, but even our ideas have similarities. The foundations of our ideas are connected through the various uses of languages and techniques. Though Edwards and Whitman's anecdotes differed abundantly in theme and explanation, they had similarities in regard to tone, imagery, diction, poetic...
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Walt Whitman Young Men
906 wordsHomoeroticism in Whitman The most of so-called homosexual texts written by Walt Whitman were created well before the very term homosexual or homoeroticism was coined. Whitman's texts were written well before the moment when the birth of homosexual species was announced by Foucault (1870). Before homosexuals and before homosexuality Walt Whitman had persistently, insistently, and inquisitively asked questions about love, wondering about young beings, strangers, who seem to touch the fountains of ...
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Walt Whitman This Compost
1,363 wordsWalt Whitman's This Compost Walt Whitman's This Compost, similar to most of his poetry, is written is free verse; therefore, instead of using rhyme and meter to create an underlying rhythm, he creates a rhythm with his gradual flow of thoughts and abundant use of repetition. Also similar to many of Whitman's poems, This Compost emphasizes nature, the physical body, sexuality, and the phenomenon of common, ordinary things. The poem is written in first person and is merely the thought process of t...
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Death And Rebirth Days And Nights
848 wordsThe Search For Immortality In Whitman's OnThe Search For Immortality In Whitman's On The Beach At Night And Stevens Sunday Morning The search for immortality is not an uncommon one in literature. Many authors and poets find contentment within the ideals of faith and divinity; others, such as Whitman and Stevens, achieve satisfaction with the concept of the immortality of mortality. This understanding of the cycle of death and rebirth dominates both Walt Whitman's On the Beach at Night and Wallac...
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Environmental Protection Agency Drinking Water
525 wordsChristine Whitman: Environmental Protection Agency Essay, Research Christine Whitman: Environmental Protection Agency WASHINGTON (AP) The Bush administration, under fire for scrapping Clinton standards for arsenic in drinking water, announced plans Wednesday to tighten the standards within nine months. Christine Whitman, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, said she was asking the National Academy of Sciences to examine the impact of a range of possible reductions. Bush had draw...
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Quot Quot Poem Quot
4,882 wordsReprinted from the book, FROM MODERN TO CONTEMPORARY: AMERICAN POETRY 1945 - 1965 by James E. Breslin published by the University of Chicago Press, copyright? 1983, 1994 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. This text may be used and shared in accordance with the fair use provisions of US and international copyright law and agreement, and it may be archived and redistributed in electronic form, provided that this entire notice, including copyright information, is carried and provide...
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Booker T Washington Coalhouse Walker
2,379 wordsJess Brock American History Script Ragtime Tape Recorded Book Report March 20, 1999 Jess Brock This is Jess Brock, with Real News. I am in front of the Pierpont Morgan property in Manhattan where Coalhouse Walker and a troupe if young Negroes have moved into the Morgan Library after escalating events in the past few weeks. Im going to tell you the scene here. There is an enormous crater in front of the library stairs, caused by a blast during Mr. Walkers break in. It is oddly quiet here. Most of...
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Walt Whitman Mother Figure
1,020 wordsKerry C. Larson Legislated Union, in the wake of failed resolutions and bloody compromises, seemed more than ever a contradiction in terms, a premonition given added vehemence in " For You O Democracy" ... It goes without saying that these pious exhortations count as little more than stop-gap measures, wishful prophecies whose inflated optimism is portentous in its own right. from Whitman's Drama of Consensus (U of Chicago P, 1988), 16 Carol M. Zapata-Whelan " Echoing the eugenics...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Leaves Of Grass
949 wordsWalt Whitman was one of the greatest poets of the eighteen hundreds. Most of his poems can be found in his short book Leaves of Grass. He is one of the best known America? s poets and set the standard for intellectual patriotic poems. Walt was born on May 31, 1819 in Long Island, New York. His father was an English carpenter and house builder whom was very strict. While his mother was of Dutch descent and of Quaker faith, and could barley read. It is doubtful that either of his parents would rea...
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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Persons Life
863 wordsOne and the Same Walt Whitman asks himself and the reader of the poem, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, what significance a persons life holds in the scope of densely populated planet. The poem explores the difficulties of discovering the relevance of life. The methods that helped Whitman grasp his own idea of the importance of life are defined with some simple yet insightful and convincing observations. By living under and for the standards of others, a person can never live a fulfilling life. Distingu...
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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Play A Role
974 wordsRecurring Images And Motifs In Walt WhitmansRecurring Images And Motifs In Walt Whitman's Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Recurring Images and Motifs in Crossing Brooklyn Ferry In the poem Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, by Walt Whitman, there are many recurring images and motifs that can be seen. Whitman develops these images throughout the course of the poem. The most dominant of these are the linear notion of time, playing roles, and nature. By examining these motifs and tracing their development, ones unde...
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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Modern American Poetry
644 wordsTwo Poets, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson are probably two of the most influential people in American poetry. They are regarded as the founders modern American poetry. Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), for the time was breaking new ground with his diverse, energetic verse with regards to subject matter, form and style whether talking about overlooked objects in nature such as a single blade of grass or even our own hearing. Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) while living a life of seclusion, never really...
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