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American Lit
Mid-term
11
Other
Undergraduate 1
02/21/2012

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Cards

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Chief Joseph
Definition

"I Will Fight No More Forever"

Surrender Speech

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Cochise
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"I Am Alone"

Surrender Speech - Asked for blankets.

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Chief Charlot
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"He Has Filled Graves With Our Bones"

Angry - Protest speech about taxation

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James Fenimore Cooper
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The Last of the Mohicans

Hawkeye is hero, saves Cora.

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Bret Harte
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"The Outcasts of Poker Flats"

Group of misfits kicked out of town, die in snowstorm.

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Mark Twain
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"The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"

Dialect - Jim Smiley "Cow with no tail...."

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Ambrose Bierce
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"An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge"

Man dreaming of escaping while being hung, but actually died.

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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
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"Revolt of Mother"

Mother moved into the new barn.

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"The Yellow Wallpaper"

Woman with postpartum depression thought a woman was creeping under the wallpaper.

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Jack London
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"To Build a Fire"

Man loses war against nature/cold weather.

White Fang

Story of dog/boy.

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Gertrude Stein
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Objects from Tender Buttons

Unique writing, repetition, poetry

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