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"The Unredeemed Captive", 2002.
A review of ?The Unredeemed Captive? by John Deemos about the adoption of a Puritan child by the Indians.
1,651 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 53.95
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This paper analyzes John Deemos' ?The Unredeemed Captive? about the adoption of Eunice Williams by Indians at a time when the Puritan settlers of New England Colonies did not get on with their neighboring Indians. It discusses the Puritan's stereotype views of the Indians and how the only way to 'redeem' oneself if captured was by escape or by being freed. It tells the story of Eunice's capture and evaluates how this stereotype only increased Eunice's repulsion of how her father viewed the Indians,. making her adopt their way of life and marry an one of them and thus remaining "unredeemed".
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"The Mohawk Indians attacked the frontier village of Deerfield in 1704, taking a number of Puritans captive. The whole Puritan ? Indian cross-cultural encounter brought out the Puritan?s view of other societies and how their lack of Puritanical beliefs made them savages, uncivilized and wild. On release, some captives decided to remain behind with the Indians, one of them being Eunice Williams, daughter of the Puritan minister John Williams. This horrified the other Puritans, as they could not understand how one would be willing to turn away from God and adopt heathenic ways ensuring their souls would never attain salvation."
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Who is the Captive in 'Captivity'?, 2008.
This paper discusses who is the captive in Sherman Alexie's world, focusing on his work "Captivity'.
1,200 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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In this article, the writer examines "Captivity," a stream-of-consciousness piece by Sherman Alexie. The writer points out that this work explores Alexie's reaction as a Native-American who grew up on a reservation, amid squalor, alcoholism, poverty, and hopelessness, to one of the classic narratives of a brave white woman enduring the grim experience of being held captive by Native-Americans. The writer discusses that Sherman Alexie, in touch with his tribal past and all of the imagery that it entails, also steps out to do his own dancing, the prolific author of novels, stories, poetry and pieces such as "Captivity," as well as the director of the movie versions of his books.
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"In "Captivity," Mary Rowlandson is a recurring image: the white, especially the white girl, alone on the reservation. One version of Mary Rowlandson is the daughter of a white reservation worker. Stepping into her first classroom filled with young tribal members, she carries with her a "memory" distilled from the captivity her namesake endured three centuries earlier, at a time when the Wampanoags might well have thought that they had a chance to clear their traditional lands of the grasping colonists. Terrified, the modern Mary Rowlandson flees the school, envisioning each boy as her would-be captor."
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"A Family Story from Early America", 2005.
A review of the book "An Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America" by John Demos.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper analyzes John Demos' work entitled "An Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America". It is a response of sorts to John Williams publication of A Redeemed Captive, written in the early 18th century. The paper discusses the writing style, as well as the effect the author's use of dates and statistics has on the reader's enjoyment of the book.
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"John Demos' The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story From Early America is a narrative history regarding captivity by Indians in 18th century New England. As thus, it is written in a fictional manner, with the historical facts being processed as they likely were through the central characters. The writing style makes the book an appealing read, as the statistics, dates and facts are interspersed with a lively account of the situation at hand. In Chapter One, Demos begins by relating the Deerfield, Massachusetts Massacre, which occurred in February of 1704. Accounting first for the motives that spurred this incident, Demos then focuses on the Williams family, most of whom are taken captive to Canada by their French and Indian enemies."
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Czeslaw Milosz' "The Captive Mind", 2006.
This paper analyzes Czeslaw Milosz' position on the philosophy of John Stewart Mill and Karl Marx as presented in his 1959 collection of essays "The Captive Mind".
1,470 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 48.95
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The paper explains that, in "The Captive Mind", dissident Polish author Czeslaw Milosz relates that Karl Marx and John Stewart Mill stand as polar opposites in the history of modern Western thought. The author points out that Marx is the defender of modern international communism; whereas, Mill is the defender of modern, parliamentary democracy. The paper states that, like Mill, Milosz defends the rights of the individual over that of the collective by saying that all governments must acknowledge what is most fundamental to the human condition, a desire for liberty.
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"In short, the individual can be deluded the farther he or she moves away from his or her sphere of knowledge. Individuals must have the allowance to learn from the different frames of reference of others, rather than have their interests assumed to be the part of something larger. Milosz makes critical defense of how associations of common persons, even oppressed persons, must be chosen and not imposed in terms of overarching theories like Marxism, as the individual's interests and frame of reference may vary from moment to moment in historical time and also in terms of place."
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"The Captive Mind", 2007.
A debate over the book "The Captive Mind" by Czeslaw Milosz, from the view point of Karl Marx and John Stewart Mill.
1,916 words (approx. 7.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 61.95
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This paper is written in the form of a debate over the book "The Captive Mind" by Czeslaw Milosz. The paper describes the book as exposition of the horrors generated by both the European tyrannies of the left and the right. It goes on to discuss the book from the point of Karl Marx and John Stewart Mill, who view the book from different angles.
Table of Contents:
Czeslaw Milosz (Moderator)
Karl Marx
Czeslaw Milosz
Karl Marx
John Stewart Mill
Karl Marx
John Stewart Mill
Karl Marx
John Stewart Mill
Karl Marx
John Stuart Mill
Czeslaw Milosz
Karl Marx
John Stewart Mill
Karl Marx
Czeslaw Milosz
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"Czeslaw Milosz: I would concur that it makes no difference. The situation of a writer in a so-called people's democracy is frighteningly similar to an oppressed writer under the tyrannies of olden times. Because of the ills spoken of in Marx's The Communist Manifesto that were suffered by the proletariat, the left may have found the terrible destructive potential of a powerful state initially worth bearing, in exchange for a more equitable society. In a society where religion had lost its power, the ideologies of the unity of the scholar, peasant, and proletarian seemed attractive to the alienated, modern individual in his or her quest for meaning, especially a quest for meaning that afflicted all of Europe after the horrors of World War II. But in actual practice, despite the seductions of intellectual satisfaction offered by leftist tyrannies that were not offered by rightist tyrannies, these leftist tyrannies were still that, ideological tyrannies, wolves in sheep's clothing."
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Mary Rowlandson's Captivity, 2002.
A look at the style of narrative used by Mary Rowlandson who spent three months as a captive with the Naragansett Indians in the seventeenth century.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 53.95
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Mary Rowlandson's description of her experiences being held captive by Indians during the Metacom Wars in17th century New England represent the birth of a narrative genre. What characterizes the Rowlandson's narrative as particular is both the vivid detail of her experience and the ways her survival is woven through the Calvinist doctrine's of New England's Puritan religious communities. The narrative itself represents the sheer trauma of Rowlandson's experiences in a language that appeals relentlessly to salvation discourse and it is apparent that her religious passions sustained her to some degree during her three months as a hostage with the Naragansett Indians. It is also difficult to deny the ways the narrative is written after-the-fact and represents a particular reconstruction of the experience. It is in reading the narrative is a context of post-traumatic writing that it becomes possible to understand how Rowlandson's writing constitutes a particular act of recovery.
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Native American Captivity, 2002.
Discusses the way several American women survived captivity among Native American tribes and their subsequent writings on their experiences.
813 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 28.95
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This paper discusses how Mary Rowlandson, Hannah Dustin, and Mary Jamison, were each in their own way, able to cope with their captivity. The paper discusses whether the captivity strengthened their understanding of Native Americans. It also looks at why some captives were treated harshly and others as family or tribal members. In addition, the paper explores why Native Americans took captives.
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"The story of Mary Jamison?s capture is quite different from the other women?s experiences. Mary Jamison was taken captive by the Shawnee tribe while she was still a teenager. Her family was killed and the tribe adopted her as their own. Jamison actually became a part of the tribe and took a husband and had children. Jamison coped with her captivity by assimilating into the tribe that held her captive. Her ability to be a part of the tribe allowed her to cope with the loss of her family and her captivity."
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Captivity of Settlers, 2004.
A discussion of the captivity of three white settlers by Native Americans.
1,021 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper looks at the captivity periods of Mary Rowlandson, Hannah Dustin, and Mary Jamison and how they each coped with captivity in their own way. It explains how the stories of their captivity revealed the much of the customs among Native Americans, especially through the greatly different treatment afforded to the three women.
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"Mary White Rowlandson, wife of Puritan minister Joseph Rowlandson, was captured by native Americans in February of 1676. During this time, King Philip, the leader of the Wampanoag tribe of southern Massachusetts organized a rebellion against the incursion of white settlers on native land. In total 23 settlers were captured, and 13 people were killed, including Mary's brother-in-law, sister, nieces and nephews. Mary's six-year old daughter died on the trip, and Mary and her other children were sold as a slaves to different masters. Mary made herself useful by sewing and mending clothes for her captors, and was eventually ransomed in May of 1676 for to English settlers for 20 pounds, and reunited with her husband (Lancaster Online; About.com)."
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"Captives, Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850", 2006.
A review of "Captives, Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850" by Linda Colley.
890 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper reviews Linda Colley's "Captives, Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850", a book describing the lives of citizens living in Britain during the period of 1600 to 1850. According to the paper, Colley, a professor of History at Yale University, also includes those Britons living in captivity.
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"Colley describes life for traveling soldiers as "unpredictable" noting that while the landscape "impressed the English occupation" the landscape and interesting surroundings did nothing "to make the soldiers, officials and families feel any more at home" (Colley 23, Yee 1). Rather many of those immigrating to expansive new lands often felt out of place. Many were also however eager as the author points out for opportunity, for the opportunity for example to diversify their income and develop new estates in foreign lands including the Tangier (Colley 24). The lands that Britain expanded into offered what many believed were "limitless potential" (Colley 25). Those held captive however enjoyed none of the spoils of conquest (Colley 187). Colley notes that more than "20,000 British and Irish captives were held in North Africa between the beginning of the seventeenth century and mid-eighteenth century" (Colley, 188; Yee 1). "
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Analysis of the "Captivity Narrative" by Mary Rowlandson, 2002.
A narrative of Mary Rowlandson, a symbol of the New England Puritan Experience, during King Phillip's war of 1675.
3,290 words (approx. 13.2 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 94.95
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This paper explores the construction and meaning of Mary Rowlandson's famous Captivity Narrative, first published in 1682 which tells how she was held captive during King Philip's War of 1675 by Algonquin Indians. The author explains how her autobiographical narrative reveals her religious fervor and struggles, within the context of New England Puritan thought. Within this paper on the Captivity Narrative, there is an analysis of Calvinist thought, and insight into White New Englander prejudices against the Algonquin Indians, and how those prejudices were influenced by a loathing of the Catholic Church.
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"Mary Rowlandson was captured by the Indians from her home in Lancaster, Massachusetts, during King Philip's War of 1675. She wrote a narrative about her captivity and "restoration" which was so widely read that its popularity lasted for another century and more, after its first publication in 1682. Rowlandson's captivity narrative was reissued in Boston in 1770, 1771, and 1773, and it was also released many more times in various colonies and states during the 19th century. (Slotkin: 1973, p. 96). Thus it became one of the most representative documents by which white New Englanders remembered King Philip's War. But just how representative was Rowlandson's narrative, when it came to the realities of the conflict, on both sides, Puritan and Indian? Having been trapped in the wilderness as a prisoner of war, and surviving, Mary Rowlandson saw herself as spiritually renewed and redeemed. While many of the events in her account are probably true, her narrative is still somewhat mythical and shaped, both consciously and unconsciously, to fit her religious and cultural ideals. "
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Breeding, 2002.
This paper discusses captive breeding.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper evaluates how this process plays a vital role in the survival and maintenance of endangered species. The author reports that captive breeding programs can bring back rare animals from the edge of extinction through the use of correct husbandry and management techniques.
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The Totalitarian System in Literature, 2002.
Compares Hannah Arendt's text, "The Origins of Totalitarianism" to two novels: "The Captive Mind" and "The Joke".
3,400 words (approx. 13.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 124.95
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This paper shall examine the specifics of the totalitarian system in relation to Hanna Arendt's classic text, "The Origins of Totalitarianism". This shall be done through comparing this text to those of "The Captive Mind" by Czeslaw Milosz and "The Joke" by Milan Kundera.
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Elusive Desire, 2004.
An analysis and comparison of "L?Immoraliste" by Andre Gide and "The Captive" by Marcel Proust.
2,987 words (approx. 11.9 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 88.95
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In "L?Immoraliste" by Andre Gide and "The Captive" by Marcel Proust, neither main character attains his desire. This paper shows that the reason for each gentleman?s failure can be found in the theories of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. It explains that, according to the work begun by Freud and continued by Lacan, desire is forever elusive because the object of desire is continually non-existent. This lack of an object for desire is explored by applying the theories of Freud and Lacan to the works in question.
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"The main desire of Michel, the narrator in L?Immoraliste is self-actualization and self-discovery. His own inner soul becomes his elusive Other. The problem however arises when circumstances devastate Michel?s original self, and another takes its place. It is interesting that Michel and Marceline?s positions as they relate to each other change progressively throughout the novel, as do Michel?s own disposition and desire. In the beginning of the narrative Michel is ill, and Marceline is healthy. These positions reverse as the novel continues. The hope of a new baby is lost with Marceline?s miscarriage and things basically deteriorate in Michel?s inner world as they do for Marceline?s physique."
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English Captured by American Indians, 1999.
Examines positive & negative experiences of colonists taken captive, focusing on early 18th Century kidnapping of 7 year-old girl who chose to stay with Mohawks.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 4 sources, $ 63.95
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"The purpose of this research is to examine issues surrounding the story of captivity of seven-year-old Eunice Williams by Indians in early eighteenth-century Deerfield, Massachusetts, as well as her subsequent decision, first made as an adolescent and repeatedly confirmed as an adult, to remain with the Mohawk Indians at Kahnawake instead of rejoining her biological family. The plan of the research will be to set forth the context in which Eunice's captivity became an issue and then to explore possible reasons that she chose to remain at Kahnawake, with reference to Demos's The Unredeemed Captive and to Axtell's analysis of the not uncommon phenomenon of colonial-era Europeans who made choices similar to that of Eunice Williams.
A raid made by Indians on the Puritan settlement of Deerf.."
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Giant Panda, 1991.
This paper discusses the giant panda: Habitat, diet, protected status, captive breeding and endangerment.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 5 sources, $ 63.95
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"According to a story told in China, the giant panda was once all white. Then one day a little girl saw a panda being attacked by a leopard. The girl tried to rescue the panda, but the leopard leaped on her and killed her. The panda escaped but was filled with grief for the girl, and he summoned all the world's pandas to come to her funeral. The sorrowing pandas wore black arm bands, hugged their bodies for consolation, and pressed their arms against their ears to muffle the cries of the mourning. The color from their arm bands dyed their fur, and ever afterward pandas have had black eye patches, ears, arms, and legs and a black band across their shoulders.
These strikingly patterned and dearly loved pandas are now an endangered species. Fossil evidence indicates that the giant panda has been on earth for three million years and once lived in ... "
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