Cinderella is one of the American Indian myths and legends fairytale which tells the story of a rich man’s daughter whose mother died after promised her to be a pious and good. Interpreting in ancient mythology, especially monomyth, the character of the story, Cinderella represents as a heroine. In the fairytale, a call to adventure, supernatural aid, crossing the threshold, an ultimate boon, and meeting with the god has been reflected. And all the mentioned above are a hero or heroine journey that…

frontier and western history, Native American borderlands, and the Native American history. Faragher has written many books, including: Women and Men on the Overland Trail, Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie, Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer, The American West: A new interpretive History, A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland, Frontiers: A Short History of the American West, and his newest Eternity Street:…

some individuals are primed to perceive beauty as deriving from physique, clothing, and accessories; neglecting more important traits such as honesty and kind-heartedness. Aaron Shephard portrays in his short story, “The Hidden One: A Native American Legend”, that neglecting such traits results in failure. Any woman who makes deceitful attempts at proving they’re capable of seeing the Great Hunter is cast away. Little Scarface’s unpleasant older sister would “hold[] her down and burn[] her arms and…

The American Dream in The Lost Beautifulness and The Gilded Six-Bits The America Dream is defined in general as a dream of a land that is better richer for everyone based on accomplishment and opportunity. This dream is usually sought after by people who have been deprived of their social and human values. People who have not been able to achieve this dream based on restrictions of their situations that plague their lives. These situations can be different for everyone, race, sex, handicap, etc…

American Dream and Identity “The Legend” by Garrett Hongo was written in 1951 and “Mexicans Begin Jogging” by Gary Soto was written in 1995. For a short background, in the 1950’s, America is at its peak. The economy is booming larger than ever before. This was the time where the American dream starts to grow for the American people, and also for immigrants that tries to make a better living in a great country. A few decades later, in the early 1990’s, America was starting to enter one of the greatest…

Lost and Found of American History There is a conflict going on in America. The youth of America are being taught false and inconsistent facts about the history of the country they call home. The conflict is between those who want a more patriotic history taught to children and young adults, while the other side wants the whole truth, including the ugly details of terrible times, of the foundation of this country taught in schools as well as in children’s literature that claim to be historically…

Bradley Staudt 08/25/15 American Civilization I Book chosen: American Legends: The Life of Aaron Burr By: Charles River Editors About the Author(s): Charles River Editors is an independent team comprised of college alumni from schools such as Harvard, and MIT, with all different degrees, located in Massachusetts and founded in 2010. This team publishes, edits, and creates books. They also have expertise in republishing books as well. College degrees that the team members have achieved include…

All humans are interested in their origins and trying to account for their existence through creation stories. Native Americans tribes are no different from the rest of humanity. The tribes’ stories explain how people came into existence, how they came to be live on the lands they do and the how people interact with nature and each other. These trends can be seen in the legends of three tribes hailing from New England to the Great Lakes Region. The Iroquois creation story there exists two planes…

values of individualism, namely independence (i.e. the separateness of different beings) and how natural resources can be beneficial to humans. Whereas the examples of American Indian myths and legends are part of an expansive knowledge keeping system that expresses a relational accountability between humans and all other beings. American Indian stories about corn express themes of interconnectedness and interdependence, where each member of a relationship is reliant upon and thankful to the other members…

Introduction The American folk music legend Sixto Diaz Rodriguez known as Rodriguez. A Motown session musician Dennis Coffey, compared him to the Godfather of socially conscious rock, Bob Dylan. Rodriguez is a Mexican American, born in Detroit, U.S.A in 1942. His parents were working class Mexicans that immigrated to Detroit to work for the automobile companies that were offering large salaries at the time. In this period the Mexican immigrants in America especially in this area of Detroit were…