Abstract This paper provides a brief biography of American author, JamesFenimoreCooper, a review of some of his major works, and a discussion of their influence on modern American society. The paper concludes with a summary of the findings of the research.
From the Paper "As noted above, Cooper was also able to draw on the inspiration of an unspoiled American wilderness that few people today can imagine without his help. It is this aspect of Cooper's early works, perhaps, that continue to make them popular today just as they did in his own time. As Ringe advises, though, this is unfortunate because Cooper matured as a writer over the years and some of his best work was during the last part of his career. "Ironically, Cooper is best known for what is essentially his apprentice work," Ringe writers. "Except for the Littlepage series, the late novels are all but unknown to the non-specialist, yet they include some of his most vigorous books" .
Abstract This paper focuses on the subject of morality as depicted in JamesFenimoreCooper's novel "The Deerslayer." The writer of this paper describes the plot and main characters of the novel, including Deerslayer and Hetty Hutter who both struggle to maintain their moral conscience while adhering to divine law. This paper illustrates the author's use of moral and religious ideas throughout the novel. This paper also discusses the critics who have praised as well as derided Cooper's novel.
From the Paper "In The Deerslayer, Cooper sought to give final expression in the "Leatherstocking Tales", to his reactions and fears about America, especially after his long stay in Europe. Cooper is also preoccupied with the role of Christianity and Christian teachings in the American experience. Although he is a moralist and a defender of Christian ideas, Cooper is not necessarily optimistic about the acceptance of the religious message by his countrymen. He particularly expresses the dilemma between the lofty ideals of ethical and moral teachings and the present practices on the frontier."
Tags: literature, morality, religion, christianity, america
Abstract This paper explains that JamesFenimoreCooper's "The Last of the Mohicans" has two romantic plots: (1) Duncan Heyward's quest for Alice and (2) Cora's struggle between Uncas and Magua, which is foiled thus promoting purity of the white race. The author explains that white women who were forced into marriages with Indian men, were no longer considered white, but rather Indian, which clearly set boundaries between the two civilizations, thereby rejecting any sort of miscegenation. The paper relates that Cooper further demonstrates his detesting of miscegenation with his graphic description of the massacre at Fort William Henry.
From the Paper "The hint of African blood that Cora has explains her affinity for Indians as well as her unacceptable sexuality (to white men, i.e. Heyward). Since Indians are of a darker color, they would be more likely to find a woman of darker color more attractive. The "impurity" in Cora's blood is supposed to represent what Cooper would have thought of as a moral impurity. This meaning that her conception was immoral; or that blacks should not have sexual relations with whites. Cooper, however, did not want readers to think that Cora was morally flawed in any way. If she were morally flawed, her loving, self-reliant, and overall protagonist
character would not be realistic."
Abstract The paper attempts to show how the morality of the main character in JamesFenimoreCooper's "The Deerslayer", Natty Bumppo, is an extreme morality that involves spiritual communion with nature, a firm opposition to discrimination and hatred and an exaggerated state of divine morality. The paper discusses how Natty represents the embodiment of Cooper's morality in his battles against racism, hatred and killing while at the same time gleaning all the lessons and communion from and with nature that he can. The paper posits that this morality is worthy of aspiration, and the closer we come to achieving it, the closer we come to communing with nature and the Divine.
Outline:
Thesis Statement
Natty's Morality is Guided by Nature
Natty's Morality Derives from the Pure Morality of Nature
Natty's Morality is Exaggerated
From the Paper "As much as any American writer, James Fenimore Cooper's work, is representative of the American frontier and the struggles of Native Americans and pioneers who took the advice of Horace Greeley and "went West." While many criticize the writing style and syntax of Cooper, almost no one denied the value of his work as being representative of "the self-actualized individual. . . . provided a calling for many new Americans who chose the West as a new frontier, a place to prove their individuality and self-worth" (Eberle 2). The Deerslayer is the fifth and final novel in the Leatherstocking Tales, a series of works devoted to the story of Natty Bumppo, who, in this novel, is labeled the "Deerslayer" or "Hawkeye." "The [sic] Deerslayer [sic] deals with racism, hatred, Manifest Destiny, technology/progress, and was the first environmentalist" ("True" 4)."
This paper argues that Hawkeye, a character in JamesFenimoreCooper's "The Last of the Mohicans", survives through humility and respect for nature and other human beings.
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From the Paper "James Fenimore Cooper, in his novel The Last of the Mohicans, explores issues of survival, including survival of the body, the mind, and the spirit. The argument of the study will be that the element of character which allows Hawkeye to be a figure of survival is his ability to put himself in a position of humility with respect to nature and to other human beings:
Only Hawkeye, of all the whites, is competent to survive, mainly because his experience in the woods has instilled in him the humility he needs to understand the Indian and to interpret the white and red man to each other.
The message of the book with respect to survival is not that an individual must be willing and able to overpower the natural or human forces which line up against him and threaten his ... "
Abstract This paper reviews Caroline's Kirkland's "A New Home"Who"ll Follow?" and JamesFenimoreCooper's "The Pioneers". Both are novels from the nineteenth century that examine the life of the American frontier. This paper shows how the authors achieve their goals by examining the similarities and the differences between the two novels. The predominant theme each author uses is realism, focusing on elements that would create within us a sense of understanding about that era in time.
From the Paper "In addition, similar descriptions of circumstances reveal to us the type of life one might expect in Cooper's The Pioneers. Issues of concern and disputes relevant to that time are discussed in a way that help us understand how the settlers communicated with the natives. For instance, the deer that has been shot becomes a point of attention when an argument arises because no one can say to whom the deer belongs. Cooper demonstrates the ability of two different people being able to communicate with each other."
Abstract This paper presents a brief overview of the book "The Last of the Mohicans" by JamesFenimoreCooper. The paper pays special attention to the role of women and how they were treated in those days, as well as their contribution to warfare as compared to present times. "The Last of the Mohicans" takes place in the midst of the French-Indian war. It focuses on one battle in a war that lasted for many years. This was the last and most important conflict over French and British possessions in North America.
From the Paper "This book depicts the battle of Fort William Henry and adds the fictional kidnapping of two sisters Cora and Alice who are also the main female characters of this book. It is an account of two opposing tribes; the Delawares and the Hurons. The Hurons (Magua's tribe) are depicted as an extension of Magua himself. They are ambitious to take down the foresters, thereby avenging the warriors they have lost."
This paper discusses in detail JamesFenimoreCooper's "The Last of the Mohicans" and Charles Brockden Brown's "Wieland" and their contributions to the development of American literature.
Abstract The author reviews in detail the "The Last of the Mohicans" and "Wieland". She concludes that they are different in style and genre. Both Cooper and Brown contributed greatly to the development of a distinctly American literature. Cooper adapted the Romance; Charles Brockden Brown adapted the European Gothic novel to the American context. Cooper's influence is seen in frontier fiction; Brown's influence, in the works of Poe and Hawthorne.
From the Paper "James Fenimore Cooper wrote in the vein of European Romantic writers like Walter Scott, while Charles Brockden Brown recreated the new form of the Gothic novel. Both adapted the original forms to the American experience, which meant not only embedding them in the land but also shifting the focus from aristocratic European characters to the common man in the democratic social order in America. Both Cooper and Brown elevated the common man over any ideas about the superiority of the aristocracy and did so in the American setting."
Abstract This paper discusses the life and upbringing of Cooper and examines how this influences his writing genre of Western stories. The writer shows how through his book "The Last of the Mohicans" we can learn much about Cooper's life.
From the Paper "Does anyone ever wonder where the great "westerns" originated from? The wild frontier story of the cowboys and their constant conflict with the Native Americans had to start somewhere, and most likely this place was the stories written by James Fenimore Cooper. He wrote the original frontier stories of the settlers and the Indians, much of which took place in upstate New York, between the Finger Lakes and the Great Lakes. The modern "western" movies and novels all have roots in the stories originally told by James Fenimore Cooper. It was Cooper who found the audience that wanted to read about violent conflicts between the Indians and the settlers, but also stories that told of romance between the tow different cultures. By writing novels like this, which had violence, romance, tales of the struggle to survive in the wilderness, Cooper was able to appeal to both male and female readers, giving himself a very broad following."
Tags:cooper, mohicans, westerns, novel, genre, literature, author, movie
Examines and compares the novels "Hope Leslie" by Catharine Maria Sedgwick and JamesFenimoreCooper's "The Last of the Mohicans" and the way they address the question of Native Americans.
Abstract This paper examines two classic 19th century American novels in order to identify the dramatically different manner in which each author views the cultural conflict between whites and Native Americans. This paper examines the role of race, interracial marriage, and the point-of-view of white vs. Indian characters through the characters in the novels.
From the Paper "Almost since the moment white settlers landed on the continent of North America, Americans have grappled with the question of how to coexist with the country’s native inhabitants. The debate on this subject reached a fever pitch in the 1820s as the nation struggled to formulate some type of comprehensive Indian policy. Should the Indians simply be herded westward, or should Americans strive for some type of coexistence? In 1827 Catharine Maria Sedgwick penned her novel "Hope Leslie" to counteract what she saw as the rising support for an aggressive Indian policy caused in part by the stereotypes of Indians presented in such popular novels as James Fenimore Cooper’s "The Last of the Mohicans." By examining these two novels, one can see how the authors present opposing views of the conflict between whites and Native Americans."
Tags: american, conflict, cultural, race, marriage, indian
Abstract This paper explores and analyzes the main theme in James Fennimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans" and explains how he used the symbol of blood to illustrate the seriousness of the change brought upon the New World by the arrival of the Europeans.
From the Paper "Cooper uses blood to stand for a number of different ideas in the book. It serves, first of all, as a symbol for knowledge and even more specifically for the ways in which we come to know our way in the world ? how things come to be "in our blood". When European settlers came to America in the 17th century, they found themselves in a world that was entirely alien to them. They had neither literal maps to the country nor any metaphorical ones to understand their relationship to new kinds of plants and animals, new kinds of soil to be hoed and planted, new kinds of people who spoke in languages unheard to them and prayed to gods that they knew nothing at all about. And in the midst of this disorientation, they turned to the one thing that they knew tied them absolutely and irrevocably to the past ? specifically to their own past but also to the past of the world: The blood that ran in their veins and that connected them to their homes and their families, to the safe and the familiar. By looking to the blood ties, they looked backward to home."
Abstract This paper examines how the great sea tale "The Pilot", by the American author James Fenmore Cooper was written explicitly out of anger, in reaction to a romanticized account of piracy and sea life. In comparison, it looks at how "The Pirate" by the Scotsman Sir Walter Scott was a romantic account of why men took to sea, out of romantic despair, with little concern for the real damage done to the naval code of conduct and safety as a result of piracy on the waters.
From the Paper "Magnus's daughters Minna and Brenda form the main love interests of the tale, and their significance in the plot, such as when Minna is horrified when Cleveland open-heartedly confesses to her that he is a pirate, and Brenda's alliance with Mordaunt also shows how romance, rather than the realities of life at sea drives the plot. In fact, Mordaunt's lack of a corresponding figure in Cooper's subsequent sea tale highlights how issues of great importance to Scott, such as Merton's inability to reconcile himself to his lost wife's faithlessness (and hence Mordaunt's presence as a reminder of her infidelity), do not motivate Cooper's characters."
Abstract This paper discusses the advantages and disadvantages of cooperative learning, an educational method that aims to let the student experience learning not only with the teacher, but with other students as well. The paper describes the goals of cooperative learning, including the very positive aspects of this approach. Additionally, the negative aspects of cooperative learning, which can become impediments to student learning and the teacher's role, are also presented. The author concludes that these conflicting findings in the literature suggest that as a new technique in teaching, cooperative learning still has a long way to go in making a significant improvement to a student's educational development.
From the Paper "Defined as an "instructional method in which students work in small groups to accomplish a common learning goal under the guidance of the teacher," cooperative learning has been applied to educational institutions for its advantages, such as increased interaction among students, collaborative learning, and development of students' interpersonal and group skills as they accomplish a particular task or activity (Lin, 2006:34-5). In the texts that follow, the researcher provides an in-depth discussion and analysis of the advantages and disadvantages that cooperative learning has with regards to student learning and as a teaching method."
Abstract The paper presents a product positioning of the Mini Cooper. This paper includes a positioning strategy and creative brief on the Mini Cooper brand of automobile. It provides a description of the Mini Cooper and how to best classify it for marketing and advertising purposes.
From the Paper "Product positioning refers to the way in which a company sets its product apart and how its products are perceived by the target market ..."
Tags: Strategy, Creative Brief, Mini Cooper, American sales, market niche
Abstract This research paper begins with an introduction to cooperative learning strategy. The author then chose three articles that show how research over the years examine the way cooperative learning in bilingual classrooms benefits limited English proficient students and what activities teachers can integrate in classrooms in order to meet the needs of diverse language learners. The summary of the articles is followed by a discussion, specific examples of the implications for classroom practice, and ways that one can apply theory to practice.
From the Paper "It is a challenge today for educators to meet the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse students. Yet, cooperative learning instructional strategy is found to be one of the most effective ways to promote successful academic achievement, language acquisition, and social development for English language learners. When classroom activities are meaningful, interesting, and relevant, learning is occurring at every level. In successfully organized groups, language minority students will gain proficiency in English, and their native language."
