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    The Agrarian Standard, an essay written by Kentucky author Wendell Berry, was published in Citizenship Papers on January 1st, 2002. The book this essay was published in served as a response to 9/11 and a reflection of our country. Berry resides in Port Royal, Kentucky, where he lives with his wife Tanya. His family runs a non-profit organization focused towards practicing agrarianism: a social or political movement designed to bring about land reforms or to improve the economic status of the farmer

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    for workers’ movements due to the drastic nature of change during this time period. The transition from an agrarian society to an industrial empire had challenged old American values such as outwork and interdependence found within rural communities. Specifically, division of labor and technological advancements during this time period had shifted society from being self-reliant (agrarian) to dependent on large businesses (industry). In Who Built America by Christopher Clark, Nancy Hewitt, Joshua

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    John Crowe Ransom was one of the most influential writers of his time. As a poet, essayist, and teacher at Vanderbilt University and Kenyon College, Ransom was one of the prominent leaders of the Fugitive Agrarians and the founder of the New Criticism school of literary criticism and the literary journal, Kenyon Review. His works fall into many different literary movements but the majority of his poems fall within the Fugitive-Agrarianism, now known as the Southern Renaissance, movement that emphasized

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    a dystopian agrarian way of life. Populist Agrarian films emerged during the era of the Great Depression. The urbanization of society is depicted negatively whereas rural areas are associated with paradise; however, the remote town of Panhandle, Texas is consumed with darkness by the protagonist's selfish pursuit of prosperity. Days of Heaven is a critically acclaimed film, primarily due to its unsympathetic characters thereby making it challenging for the audience to relate. Agrarian and Western

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    The Agrarian revolt of the 1920 to 1926 in Naranja occurred well before all other regions of Mexico could gather themselves and demand for such. It was a risky endeavor and it only succeeded because of the historic precedent that favor the Tarascans of Naranja. From their pre-conquistador contact history to their post-Diaz situation, the people of Naranja were pushed towards the front of the queue of people with grievances toward the Mexican government. Their experiences also built up their moral

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    Late Agrarian Era

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    Some people agree to the fact that the period of 1450-1750 is Late Agrarian Era. But I don’t. I believe that 1450-1750, from now on referred to as ‘periodization four’, is an Early Modern Era. This is the period of when the British explore North America, slave trade from Africa to America was born, and the great Columbian exchange initiated. This certainly could not be considered “Late Agrarian” with all the technologies being invented and explorations beginning. The reason I consider this time period

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    The Southern Renaissance was a time during the 1920s and 1930s where there was a change in southern literature. Even though most of the Southern Renaissance took place during the 1920s and 30s it was still affected by WWII. The Southern Renaissance is important because it saw a bunch of new southern writers and affected southern literature. People say that the Southern renaissance ended before WWII but it actually continued after WWII and was Affected by it. One example of how WWII had an effect

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    Troubled Farmers “In the first years of peacetime, following the Revolutionary War, the future of both the agrarian and commercial society appeared threatened by a strangling chain of debt which aggravated the depressed economy of the postwar years”.1 This poor economy affected almost everyone in New England especially the farmers. For years these farmers, or yeomen as they were commonly called, had been used to growing just enough for what they needed and grew little in surplus. As one farmer

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    and to be honest I never really enjoyed learning about western civilization at all, due to failing it in a previous semester. After this semester I found interesting and I was able to learn a lot so far specifically about the hunter gathers to the agrarian society. It really changed my view and I wanted to learn more. While attending more and more classes what I came to realize is that the way college history is taught it was very different from when learning about history throughout my years of high

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    Introduction If Southern writers deny their inner beings, the South can be only an exporter of raw materials, perhaps an exporter of man power, and a consumer of imported cultural products. It will cease to export them. In the creative sense it will be numb and sterile. During the 1920s and 1930s, regionalism played an important part in American art. Throughout the English speaking world, the minority culture of the province was reflecting and criticizing on the dominant culture in society. The

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