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    Obstacles In The Antonia

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    the North America’s Western frontier. This novel reveals how immigrants in the late 1800s and early 1900s had to overcome numerous obstacles on the path towards ‘The American Dream’ which those native to the area did not have to face. In the late 1800s, America became more attractive to immigrants as they considered its growing economic opportunity. Many families and individuals packed up their belongings and undertook the life-changing journey to the western frontier of America to pursue the “American

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    Fredrick Jackson Turner explained how the conditions of the frontier formed intellectual traits in people who sought success in a new frontier. In John F. Kennedy’s speech and Steve Job’s speech, both showed traits that Turner described in his speech. The traits made by Turner, made all the speeches comparable because even Steve Job’s and John F. Kennedy’s speech dealt with some type of frontier. Two traits from Turner’s speech which were seen throughout Job’s and Kennedy’s was “inventive mind, and

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    The Talon & Chantry is a series of novels by renowned Westerns writer Louis L'Amour. The Talon & Chantry series of novels has eight novels the first of which was North to the Rails that was first published in 1971. The first novel in the series was so popular that the author decided to write seven more titles in the series culminating in Milo Talon published in 1981. Although the novels are generally known as the Talon & Chantry books they are also known separately as The Talon Books or the Chantry

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    wanted to experience what is like being a cowboy in the Wild West? Experiencing first hand a gritty frontier town, vast unexplored territory, and the endless possibility for adventure. The gaming company Rockstar created the game Red Dead Redemption in order for gamers to see what it was to a dying breed in modernizing world. The game Red Dead Redemption depicts what life was like in the American frontier in the early nineteen hundreds. The game Red Dead Redemption is an open world western created by

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    Unlike Crevecour, Turner believed that American character was not simply a product of English character transported to America, but rather another idea altogether (Faragher 63). He expressed this opinion the best when he said, “In the crucible of the frontier the immigrants were Americanized, liberated, and fused into a mixed race, English in neither nationality nor characteristics” (Faragher 64). How exactly did American character form and what defines

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    as a genre, is subversive of the values that its Christian characters possess. Western films frequently depict social depravity in terms of the mythology that developed during westward expansion. The mythology was inspired by the threat of the frontier wilderness to Puritan culture. In order to preserve their society, some Puritans departed from their ideal Christian lives. Western films portray compromises that cultures make of the values that they define themselves by in order to protect the

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    The American Frontier

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    Q1). What do you learn about life on the American frontier by watching this film? I learn that the American Frontier is dangerous and not safe while the Indians might visit and attack the local villages in the American frontier. For example, the Magua and his Heron’s warrior ambush the British and kill Colonel Munro in the countryside, which showing that the American frontier is always under the threat of Indians. Q2). What do you learn about the nature of warfare in the 1700s? The warfare in the

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    The Western Frontier

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    The subject of the effects of the western frontier on the life of men, women and children was present in many of the movies and readings of this semester. The settling of the western frontier brought on many issues that affected men, women and children. Many of those issues prevented families from thriving. Some of the most common things to do on the frontier were mining, farming and ranching and shooting. Life was hard and family life was affected; mainly marriage and rearing of children. Oh Pioneers

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    According to some, including author Frederick Jackson Turner, the frontier was one of the most pivotal periods to take place in the progression of American history. Bret Harte’s short story “The Luck of Roaring Camp” is one of the best pieces I have read from The Frontier Era. Nature is used on several occasions throughout all of these writings. In “The Luck of Roaring Camp”, the forces of nature are what ended up taking baby Luck and Kentucky’s lives and in the descriptions given about the

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    Frontier Myths

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    The Frontier myth has been a collection of different stories and legends since the American expansion West in the early 19th century. It was a popular entertainment in which the typical gunslinger or outlaw is the hero, he saves a girl, tricks the snobby politician or overcomes the political ideology, and defeats the outlaw villain. The Fronter myth popularity carried on through the 20th and 21st century still exists in many of the entertainment today, such as books, tv shows, movies, and video games

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