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1. Oral literature: epic narratives, creation myths, stories, poems, songs.
2. Use stories to teach moral lessons and convey practical information about the natural world.
3. Deep respect for nature and animals.
4. Cyclical worldview.
5. Figurative language/parallelism.

Things I Learned about  Native Americans

Native americans Are all over the americas in Canada, Puerto Rico, USA etc.

the growth of the United States resulted in Native American communities being moved, renamed, combined, dispersed, and, in some cases, destroyed.

Many Native Americans died of disease brought over by colonists

Congress, Library of. “Native American  :  Immigration and Relocation in U.S. History  :  Classroom Materials at the Library of Congress  :  Library of Congress.” The Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/immigration/native-american/.

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Important Event: 2200 B.C.—Tower of Babel

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Important Event: 2200 B.C.—Tower of Babel

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Important Event: 1607- Early Settlement at Jamestown

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Important Event: 1607- Early Settlement at Jamestown

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Rationalism "The Age of Reason""The Enlightenment"

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Rationalism "The Age of Reason""The Enlightenment"

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| 1607 Early Settlement—Jamestown

1775-1783 Revolutionary War

| 1. Mostly comprised of philosophers, scientists, writing speeches and pamphlets

2. Human beings can arrive at truth (God's rules) by using deductive reasoning, rather than relying on the authority of the past, on religious faith, or intuition | Benjamin Franklin
—Autobiography

Patrick Henry
—"Speech to the Virginia Convention"

Thomas Paine
—"The Crisis"

Phyllis Wheatley
—poetry

The Constitution

The Bill of Rights

The Declaration of Independence

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The declaration of independence, one of our founding documents contains plagiarism thanks to Thomas Jefferson changing a few words here and there from other famous people's statements and speeches. How original 😒.

John Locke an influential thinker in the enlightenment period was the one who originally said that man has the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, however, instead of happiness, it was originally property. (a prime example of Jefferson's plagiarism in the declaration of independence)

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| 1840-1860
Transcendentalism

| 1. Everything in the world, including human beings, is a reflection of the Divine Soul.

2. People can use their intuition to behold God's spirit revealed in nature or in their own souls.

3. Self-reliance and individualism must outweigh external authority and link conformity to tradition.

4. Important social and political movements include the Abolitionist, Utopian, and Women's Suffrage Movements | Ralph Waldo Emerson
—Nature
—"Self-Reliance"

Henry David Thoreau
—Walden
—Life in the Woods

Louisa May Alcott
—Little Women

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Thoreau's most famous work Walden was named after the pond he lived at.

Thoreau was very ironic he promoted simplicity yet wrote an entire book of metapors.

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A modern day connection to the events we have disscussed:
this is technically from the 80s but its modern enough and i still read it. The comic Doonesbury by Gary Trudeau makes several several references to Thoreau's piece, Walden.  The comic revolves around tons of people but mainly a steady group of friends. In the college years of the comic the gang ends up living at a commune dorm thing called the walden and they have a "pond" called the Walden pond which is really just a little puddle looking sink hole. There are many literary refrences to the ways of Thoreau as these students go through their day to day life in the Walden house.

Here is an excerpt from an article i found that gives some more detail.
"Zonker’s gardening provided what I think is the only explicit link that Trudeau drew between Walden Commune and the man for whom it was named: like Thoreau with his beans, Zonker sees his wheat patch as a mode of self-expression through honest work. “What shall I learn of beans, or beans of me?” asked Thoreau. Zonker “[feels] the same way about wheat. Beyond allowing him to derive a sense of meaning, Zonker’s obsession with his wheat patch – including daily shampooings and feeding it scrambled eggs – marked the an important stage in his development as a character who injected a sense of whimsical fantasy into the strip, a theme Trudeau foregrounded with Zonker’s adventures in Walden Puddle. Zonker and Bernie discovered the puddle shortly after moving to the commune, and it soon became a place where Zonker could indulge his imagination and retreat from a reality that was sometimes just too much to handle."
Hébert, ~ P. (2019, April 15). This Week in Doonesbury: Student poverty and A brief history of Walden House. Reading Doonesbury. Retrieved November 5, 2022, from https://readingdoonesbury.com/2019/04/14/this-week-in-doonesbury-student-poverty-and-a-brief-history-of-walden-house/