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This paper is a report on the book, "Custer Died for Your Sins". It focuses on the revisionist history that White America maintains in regards to the historical relationship between them and the Native Americans. It also focuses on the legal framework that has continually let the Native Americans down.

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This paper examines how Emily Dickinson writes of death in the poem "I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died", choosing her words like a painter would chose his/her colors. It looks at how every word has meaning and how every line signifies a breath and thought of pure philosophy.

From the Paper
""The stillness in the room" represents the awkward instance of death. When death happens the "stillness" is felt by all. We all become aware we are of life when we experience death. "The stillness in the room" is compared with the "stillness in the air". To Dickinson the in death the air become still for the person who can no longer take a breath into their lungs. This stillness becomes death, air no longer exists and life is a memory possessed by those who look on with wonder. The emotion in this poem is great. The second stanza describes the onlookers. This must be the exact time of death, because the group begins to cry and breath "firm". While chests become tight with the onslaught of tears the eyes fix on the death in the room, but she who is dying fix on the small insect in the room. She thinks of all that life has brought and what parts of her are able to be left behind. She has "signed away" the physical world and has entered the final phase of the spiritual."

Tags:air, 465

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This paper reviews and critiques the Tom Wolfe essay "Sorry, but Your Soul Just Died", about how neuro-science has brought humanity to the brink of a final mechanistic and deterministic view of human nature. In the first section entitled "Who's Afraid of Tom Wolfe?", the author thoroughly discusses and then refutes, each of Wolfe's arguments and scientific predictions. In the paper's second section, titled "Into the Abyss," the author assesses Wolfe's views of the divine, comparing it with his own and those of other modern thinkers. The paper concludes with the author's opinion that Wolfe's essay is flawed since it revolves around naive, positivistic notions of "science", which are highly controversial and essentially faulty. Therefore, the author indicates that he does not believe it is time to do away with centuries-old notions of spirituality and human nature.

Outline
Part I: Who's Afraid of Tom Wolfe?
Part II: Into the Abyss

From the Paper
"Wolfe starts his essay with the enthusiastic prediction that, "by 2006, the entire digital universe is going to seem like pretty mundane stuff compared to a new technology." This new technology, he announces, is "brain imaging." Brain imaging allows scientists to "actually see the genes light up inside the brain." Neuroscientists like Edward O. Wilson are about to discover "the physical repositories of such philosophical and religious concepts as "'the mind,' 'the self,' 'the soul,' and 'free will' that are already believed in by scholars." Genetics, argue Wilson and Wolfe, "determine not only things such as temperament, role preferences, emotional responses, and levels of aggression, but also many of our most revered moral choices, which are not choices at all in any free-will sense but tendencies imprinted in ... regions of the brain."

Tags:science, determinism, neuroscience, humanity, human, nature, divine, spirituality, free, will, brain

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One of the more profound developments of the current Native American movement has been an effort on the part of Indians themselves to record their own history in order to help them gain control of their future. When Deloria promulgated his "Indian Manifesto" in 1969 with the title of "Custer Died for Your Sins", it became apparent that he was at the forefront of this movement, and the issues he identifies continue to be at the forefront of Native American concerns today. This paper provides an overview of Deloria's book, followed by a discussion of six of the main points made by the author. A summary of the research is provided in the conclusion.

From the Paper
"According to Deloria, popular myths about American Indians have created a mainstream mentality in American that is based on ethnocentric perceptions that help soothe the national conscious because, after all, the Indians got the short end of the resources and geographic stick. Deloria makes the point that Native American men have been considered virtually subhuman since Europeans first set foot on the continent, but the Indian women were viewed as possessing a sufficient amount of stockiness and attributes to make them worthy of having their bloodlines added to the Euro-American family history through intermarriage."

Tags:native, american, intermarriage, assimilation

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This paper will discuss Gwendolyn Brooks' themes of social protest in the highly complex, moral and personal reflections in the poem "The Boy Who Died in My Alley". By understanding why she wrote the poem, we will see how she developed her style along these lines and what inspired her to do so. This paper will focus on why she wrote this poem and describe what it means in the context of her belief systems.

From the Paper
"It seems as if both historians and ethnographers are again concerning themselves with the diatribe of past events in relation to modern, more pragmatic, communicative efforts. In fact, many of the recent works tend to readdress some of the historical issues so prevalent in ethnographic research, and attempt to merge the varieties of fieldwork with an historical perspective--presumably to reformat some of the issues in a newer, more modern, bent. Within this context, this paper will examine a 1969 work, Custer Died For Your Sins, by Vine DeLoria, Jr.

In brief terms, the book is less of an historical interpretation of the American Indian, for it would be difficult for any book to attempt such a feature in only one volume, than an extended essay-like commentary on the way the American Indian ... "

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Shows how the author's intent to destroy myths surrounding Indians is simplistic and incorrect. Discusses the impact of the over-generalizations of white society on modern Native Americans and the failure of the reservation system and Bureau of Indian Affairs.

From the Paper
"The major purpose of Vine Deloria's 1969 book Custer Died For Your Sins is to destroy the myths surrounding Indians (as Native Americans were called at that time). Deloria particularly attacks the myth of Indians as "noble savages" as not only incorrect ..."

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This paper presents a discussion about the interpretation of a work of art as it relates to the Bible story that it depicts. The writer uses an oil painting of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ to discuss both the art and the Bible story with which it correlates. The paper then argues that the artwork is a good representation of the event.

From the Paper
"In this country there are very few if any people who would not recognize a picture of Jesus on the cross. While they may not be Christian or if they are they may not have been to church in awhile but everybody in America recognizes a picture of Jesus on a cross. Because it is such a common Christian picture we have become accustomed to glancing at it and understanding what it is then glancing away again. We rarely take the time to stop and determine if the picture is a true representation of the bible story or just a close facsimile. All we have to see is someone who looks like Jesus on a cross and we discount the rest of the picture without even looking at it."

Tags:bible, christ, jesus, crucifixion, interpretation, art, oil, portrayal, artist, cross

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This paper discusses and reviews the theme of death and dying in Sherwin Nuland's book, "How We Die". The paper explains that the book looks at the effects that death and premature dying have on the patient and the patient's family. The paper also looks at the psycho-emotional effects of dying described in the book as well as how the book describes the process of dying and death from a medical perspective.

From the Paper
"How We Die" by Sherwin B Nuland is a text describing the mechanisms of a number of diseases or conditions that lead in many instances to premature death and which, in all cases, are accompanied by a number of disabling physical effects and equally traumatic psychological impacts experienced by the patient and his or her family. Nuland, himself a surgeon and medical educator, is as concerned with describing the psycho-emotional effects of dying as he is with describing the..."

Tags:dying, death, book review

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This paper discusses the so-called right to die issue. The paper introduces the issue, explains why it is controversial, and examines the impact of right-to-die cases on nurses.

Tags:right, to, die, Nurses