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Author : Ginger Wadsworth
Release : 2003
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 752/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Words West by : Ginger Wadsworth
Download or read book Words West written by Ginger Wadsworth. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are the moving stories of these young pioneers, told in their own words through letters home, diaries, and memoirs.
Author : Lewis W. Heniford
Release : 2014-01-24
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 524/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Westwords by : Lewis W. Heniford
Download or read book Westwords written by Lewis W. Heniford. This book was released on 2014-01-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen-year-old Weston Newcomb is fairly surprised when he passes the early entrance exam into the university at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in May of 1943. But the escape from his home in Loris is welcome. Skipping his senior year at a small town high school, West is now somewhat at a disadvantage, both in youth and in education at this large university. In his first class, he encounters a strangely antagonistic professor, a specialist in Thomas Wolfe, who complicates his life. However, his classmates give him a much broader education. Each new acquaintance seems to have lived a life startlingly different from his own. Self-centered and solipsistic but hungry for skills to serve others, West encounters a gamut of friendships as he stumbles, fumbles, and struggles toward social and sexual adulthood. Counterpoint to his progress are the guns of World War II. Nazis have invaded Poland, the Japanese have struck Pearl Harbor, and atrocities engulf the planet. Only gradually does West perceive the importance of the war. He integrates personal growth and a discovery of authoritarianism at its worst. He experiences the dark midnight of FDRs death and the bright noon of wars end. He finds his chance for manhood in a world he must help to rebuild. West learns that war is hell, but so is growing up.
Author : James Joseph Buss
Release : 2013-07-29
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 408/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Winning the West with Words by : James Joseph Buss
Download or read book Winning the West with Words written by James Joseph Buss. This book was released on 2013-07-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian Removal was a process both physical and symbolic, accomplished not only at gunpoint but also through language. In the Midwest, white settlers came to speak and write of Indians in the past tense, even though they were still present. Winning the West with Words explores the ways nineteenth-century Anglo-Americans used language, rhetoric, and narrative to claim cultural ownership of the region that comprises present-day Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. Historian James Joseph Buss borrows from literary studies, geography, and anthropology to examine images of stalwart pioneers and vanished Indians used by American settlers in portraying an empty landscape in which they established farms, towns, and “civilized” governments. He demonstrates how this now-familiar narrative came to replace a more complicated history of cooperation, adaptation, and violence between peoples of different cultures. Buss scrutinizes a wide range of sources—travel journals, captivity narratives, treaty council ceremonies, settler petitions, artistic representations, newspaper editorials, late-nineteenth-century county histories, and public celebrations such as regional fairs and centennial pageants and parades—to show how white Americans used language, metaphor, and imagery to accomplish the symbolic removal of Native peoples from the region south of the Great Lakes. Ultimately, he concludes that the popular image of the white yeoman pioneer was employed to support powerful narratives about westward expansion, American democracy, and unlimited national progress. Buss probes beneath this narrative of conquest to show the ways Indians, far from being passive, participated in shaping historical memory—and often used Anglo-Americans’ own words to subvert removal attempts. By grounding his study in place rather than focusing on a single group of people, Buss goes beyond the conventional uses of history, giving readers a new understanding not just of the history of the Midwest but of the power of creation narratives.
Author : Paul West
Release : 2000
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Secret Lives of Words by : Paul West
Download or read book The Secret Lives of Words written by Paul West. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Word-lovers rejoice! This fascinating book reveals the amazing and bizarre histories of language's building blocks. "A sorcerer of language".--"Publishers Weekly".
Author : Ramon Adams
Release : 1997-11
Genre : Reference
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 902/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Western Words: a Dictionary of the Old West by : Ramon Adams
Download or read book Western Words: a Dictionary of the Old West written by Ramon Adams. This book was released on 1997-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western Words has 5,000 words of cowboy language as vibrant now as it was in the old American frontier. "Within the cowman's figures of speech lie the rich field of his subtle humor and strength-unique, original, full-flavored. With his usually limited education he squeezes the juice from language, molds it to suit his needs, and is a genius at making a verb out of anything. He 'don't have to fish 'round for no decorated language to make his meanin' clear, ' and has little patience with the man who 'spouts words that run eight to the pound.' Perhaps the strength and originality in his speech are due to the solitude, the nearness of the stars, the bigness of the country, and the far horizons-all of which give him a chance to think clearly and go into the depths of his own mind. Wide spaces 'don't breed chatterboxes.' On his long and lonely rides, he is not forced to listen to the scandal and idle gossip that dwarf a man's mind. Quite frequently he has no one to talk to but a horse..." -from the author's Introduction
