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This paper offers an analysis of Judge Dee at work which associates the actions of Dee in a social and political scenario and creates evidence of the same.

Tags:judge, dee

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This paper contrasts William Faulkner's character Sarty in "Barn Burning" with Alice Walker's character Dee in "Everyday Use," characterizing Sarty as a rebel with a cause and Dee as a rebel without a cause.

From the Paper
"Sarty in William Faulkner's "Barn Burning" and Dee in Alice Walker's "Everyday Use" are both rebels, but Sarty is a rebel with a cause while Dee is a rebel without a cause. For Sarty, rebellion comes at a heavy cost but he does it because it is the right thing to do. For Dee, rebellion is merely an expression of spoiled selfishness and a lack of respect for her mother and sister. Faulkner establishes Sarty's rebellion..."

Tags:Sarty, Faulkner, Barn Burning, Walker, Dee, Everyday Use, rebel

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The paper analyzes the character of Dee in the short story "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker. The paper explains the characteristics of Dee that make her future oriented and discusses her disregard of her heritage.

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"There is a saying that says "The past is the past, the future the future and the present is just that, a gift to be used today." Yet many people are not only unhappy with the past and where they came from, but they also want to rush so quickly into the brave new world of their future that they neglect the gift of the present that is before them. On the other hand they may glamorize a past that never truly existed."

Tags:Dee, Everyday Use

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This paper takes a look at the book 'Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee', translated from Chinese to English by Robert Van Gulik. The paper discusses Judge Dee's unquenchable thirst for finding the truth, when solving legal cases. The paper further discusses how the Judge Dee novels are grounded in large societal ethical hermeneutic of Confucian and Taoist morals, where finding the truth is a sacred duty of Judge Dee's office and great dishonor would fall upon the head of any judge who accidentally condemns an innocent man.

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"There are some features of Dee's detection are similar to modern police work, and do not cause a non-Confucian reader to raise an eyebrow. Dee deploys psychological insight and observation to come to the root of a mystery, noting that, good Confucian he is, he has studied carefully the ancient handbooks of detection, which values the importance of knowing the character, daily life and habits of the victim and that personality supplies the clues to solve the crime. Know a person's ethics, and know the man or woman. Know the person's place in society, and know how they 'should' behave. Having an upright character is also an essential component to being a good, that is, an ethical Confucian, and defects in character must be scrutinized and used as clues, as they leave a person open to the danger of becoming a victim."

Tags:Confucian, Taoist, hierarchy, social, status, morality, district, magistrate

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This paper explains that Dee Brown's "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" begins in 1860 with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ends thirty years later at the Wounded Knee massacre. The author reports that the book documents the battles and defeats of Native Americans, human beings, who included the Navajo, Nez Perces, Cheyenne, Apache, Utes, the Sioux and many other tribes, who fought against a dishonest and relentless government. The paper concludes that, within just twenty-one years of experiencing contact with the white people, the Great Sioux Nation lost over ninety percent of its land.

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"The Great Sioux Nation, which once comprised almost a quarter of the land mass of the United States, signed the Fort Laramie Treaty in 1868, a treaty that established the Great Sioux Reservation and brought a halt to the Red Cloud War of 1866-1868. Under the treaty's terms, the U.S. military was ordered to keep all unauthorized non-Indian people out of Dakota Territory. Yet in 1874, Colonel George A. Custer, commander of the 7th cavalry, violated the treaty. Custer entered the Black Hills region on a fabricated geological expedition; however, the true purpose was to find a site for establishing a new military post. When gold was discovered, prospectors swarmed into the Lakota lands and by 1874, white settlers out numbered and out armed the Sioux people."

Tags:sioux, custer, dakota, disarmed, treaty

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" This study will examine Tang Dynasty law and courtroom procedures, focusing on the use of torture as a legal tactic, as described in Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee, translated by Robert Van Gulik. Van Gulik, translating this work in 1949, takes an extraordinarily understanding attitude toward his subject, which would seem to call more for horror. The Tang system of justice held that the defendant could not be found guilty without confessing, and if he would not confess, then he had to be tortured until he confessed. In fact, from the moment the defendant enters the courtroom, he has to kneel down on the bare floor in front of the bench, and remain this way for the duration of the case. Everything is calculated to impress the defendant with his own insignificance (xviii)."

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This paper examines the manner in which Dee deals with her family heritage in "Everyday Use". It explains how this novel examines the way in which different members of a family view and deal with their heritage. It focuses on the character of Dee and how she manages to distance herself from her family history to embrace more ancestral customs and accept the freedoms the future harbors.

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"Dee's distinctive character prevents her from dealing with her heritage in the same way her sister and mother choose to. Starting from a very young age, Dee displayed "a style of her own, and knew what style was" (Walker 48). She possesses an overwhelming sense of confidence about her and lacks hesitation. Where her mother struggles to approach white people, Dee has no problem looking them straight in the eye (Walker 49). She is fearless and "determined to stare down any disaster", which she does without batting an eyelid (Walker 50). Quite the opposite, her sister Maggie is of meek character and comparable to a lame animal - walking with a shuffle, eyes glued to the ground (Walker 49). Clearly Dee's character is very different from that of her sister and mother who are quite satisfied with accepting the status quo. Dee is a determined fighter, resolute to make something of herself and unwilling to accept restrictions and boundaries in her life (Farrell 181)."

Tags:history, family, heritage

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Dee Brown's "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" is a deeply researched account of the destruction of the American Indian in the late 1800s, ending at the Battle of Wounded Knee. "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee", opens a door into our past. As with any book of this sort, "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" has a few shortcomings.

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This paper describes the historical genocide and displacement of the Native Americans through Dee Brown's book "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee". It traces the history of the Dakotas and Sioux Tribe during and after the conquest of the West by the American military.

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"Dee Brown's "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" is a fully documented account of the genocide and displacement by the United States government and military of an entire race of people, human beings, natives of the land that spanned from sea to shining sea. This unthinkable inhumane act was done in the name of Manifest Destiny, a name Congress gave to this movement. Brown documents battles and defeats of the Navaho, Nez Perces, Cheyenne, Apache, Utes, the Sioux and other tribes against a relentless and dishonorable government."

Tags:dakotas, sioux, tribe, west, genocide, united, states, government, military, race, native, manifest, destiny, congress, nez, perces, cheyenne, apache, utes

Abstract
Dee Brown's "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" is a fully documented account of the genocide of the American Indian in the late 1800's ending at the Battle of Wounded Knee. The paper shows how Brown brings to light a story of torture and atrocity not well known in American history. It examines Brown's use of personal portraits and detail to force the reader to face the evils of this chapter in America's past.

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"Brown makes prodigious use of the various types of information obtained before writing the novel. His ultimate goal to find the truth is evident in the expansive research contained in his bibliography. It is clear that Brown was looking for informative answers to questions that haunted him about the War at Wounded Knee. He therefore knew that his consistency would lead him to some ultimate accuracy. In order to obtain purposeful evidence of Brown chose alternate forms of investigation including footnotes and bibliography from Congressional Records and U.S. Army treaties and life history texts of President Abraham Lincoln and General Phillip "the only good Indian is a dead Indian" Sheridan. He also sought-out different perspectives of the time which lead him to songs of the day, letters written by children and personal accounts from both sides."

Tags:Abraham, Lincoln, Phillip, Sheridan, plag