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"Indian Givers", 2005.
A review of the book "Indian Givers: How Indians of the Americas Transformed the World, Volume I" by Jack Weatherford.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, £ 18.95
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The paper explains that Jack Weatherford began to examine the history of the Native American as he discovered that many agricultural products would not have been produced in farming without the knowledge that Indians gave those in the new world. The paper describes how Weatherford further stipulates that it is through these advances in agriculture that the United States has remained a strong contender in the global market ,and that without the influences of the Native Americans on the early settlers those new to America would not have survived. The paper analyzes how, through his work, "Indian Givers: How Indians of the Americas Transformed the World", Volume I, Weatherford brings an insight to a people that most individuals have been negligent in understanding. The paper concludes that it is Weatherford's purpose to demonstrate that Native Americans have been a misrepresented and forgotten people when the history of North America is discussed.
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Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World., 2008.
A Critique of Jack Weatherford's "Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World."
1,495 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 34.95
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The paper discusses that the term 'Indian giver' has come to be a synonym for someone who gives something, only to take it back. The paper further explains that it was the Indians who were forced to give to the Europeans--their knowledge about farming and fishing in the Americas and ultimately their land. The paper discusses that in Jack Weatherford's book, "Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World," the exchange between Europeans and Native Americans was an unequal one, with Europeans taking of the positive benefits of the New World, while the Indians were doing all of the giving. The paper concludes that unwittingly, the Indians found themselves the recipient of the evils of European civilization, like slavery, and a disrespectful attitude to the land.
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"According to Weatherford, the early post-Columbian contact of the Europeans with the native populace actually enabled the Industrial Revolution to change Europe, and ultimately the world. "Had Europe and America not come together through Columbus or some other connection, the industrial revolution would never have happened in the way we know it," because Europeans would never have gained access to the metals of the New World, or to Indian mines (Weatherford 57). This contact also generated the money economy of Europe and fueled a shift to a European economy based upon real, hard, convertible currency. Metal-based currency also was critical in fueling industrialism and world trade. By beginning the book with tales of South American encounters with Europe, which were particularly brutal and unequal from the beginning of the Indian-European relationship, Weatherford initiates a tragic tone, explaining how enslaved South American Indians mining gold and silver in Potosi supplied the precious metals for most of the European coins that generated wealth for the Old World at the expense of the liberty of the New World."
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"Bread Givers" by Anzia Yezierska, 2004.
This paper is a review of the book, which has autobiographical roots, "Bread Givers" by Anzia Yezierska.
1,095 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 1 source, £ 27.95
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This paper explains that "Bread Givers" is a source of cultural and social history because, even though it is fictionalized, it gives rich details of life in the early 20th century and illustrates many social conditions. The author points out that the book is not a primary history source, but rather a secondary source, full of facts that would be of use to just about any researcher who is interested in the period. The paper relates that this book is the story of a young girl's fight to make something of herself, just as the author came to America as a young girl in 1890 with her family, who emigrated from Poland, graduated from college, and wrote six books between 1920 and 1932.
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"Sara's story, and the story of her sisters is not unusual for the time, and provides the historian and interested reader with rich details of how these Jewish immigrants lived and worked in the ghettos of New York. Sara recognized her father's dominance over the family, and struggled to make a life for herself, which her sisters did not have the strength to do. She said plaintively, "I don't want to sell herring for the rest of my days. I want to learn something. I want to do something" (Yezierska 66). She broke away from the family and suffered incredible hardships to educate herself, and in addition, these experiences give great insight into the personal history of the people, and of the time."
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Bread Givers, 2004.
This paper introduces, discusses, and analyzes the book, "Bread Givers" by Anzia Yezierska, which is about the life of a young Jewish woman in Lower Eastside New York at the beginning of the 1900s.
1,560 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 36.95
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This paper reviews this novel and explains that, although it is a work of fiction, "Bread Givers" is, in truth, based on the real life of the writer, Anzia Yezierska. It compares her life to that of Sarah in the book, who left home to acquire an education, something fairly unheard of for young Jewish women of her time. It discusses how Sara's father, Reb, is a cruel and demanding man who stands in the way of everything his daughter hopes for and how his actions are based on Old World customs rather than New World sensibilities.
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"The author, Anzia Yezierska, came to America in 1890 when she was a young girl. Her family emigrated from Poland, and settled in New York City in the Jewish section of the Lower East Side. Her story is in many ways a mirror image of the young Sara in "Bread Givers," as Anzia left home when she was seventeen to continue her education, and she created a great rift between herself and her father. Anzia began to write around 1915, and published several short stories and books. In fact, her first book was made into a Hollywood movie. She gained fame and acceptance, but in the 50s, her writing feel out of style, and she never regained her popularity. She died in 1970. Her book "Bread Givers" was rediscovered by a professor at Columbia University, and reprinted in 1999 as a classic text of life in the Jewish ghetto in New York."
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"Bread Givers", 2003.
An analysis of Anzia Yezierska?s "Bread Givers" and its connection the the history of Eastern European Jewry.
2,230 words (approx. 8.9 pages), 8 sources, APA, £ 49.95
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While Anzia Yezierska?s "Bread Givers" is a work of fiction, the story of the Smolinsky family is quite typical of the reality faced by many Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Yezierska writes, not only of economic and monetary struggles tackled by countless immigrants, but of a familial dynamic emblematic of Eastern European Jewish culture. This paper explains how, through her account of Sara Smolinsky and family, Yezierska tells a history that recounts past struggles in the Jewish shtetl of Russian Poland, continuing all the way through the Americanization of the second-generation Jewish immigrant. It shows that this powerful tale of Sara Smolinsky helps create a context to further study the rich history of the Eastern European Jews in America.
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"The story of Sara Smolinsky begins well before the first chapter of Bread Givers. One cannot fully understand the direction Sara?s life takes in America without first understanding the heritage and culture from which she came. While Bread Givers is centered around Sara and her family?s experiences in America, the life of Sara?s parents before immigrating to the United States is an integral part of Sara?s story."
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"Bread Givers", 2005.
The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss and analyze the novel "Bread Givers" by Anzia Yezierska.
1,758 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 39.95
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This paper tells that "Bread Givers" is the moving story of one young woman's struggle to make something of herself in a new country. She struggles against the old world ideals of her family, especially her father, who hangs on to his native customs even though he has come to America to better his family's lives. The paper examines the concepts of nativism and nation in the book.
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"Bread Givers," as with most of Yezierska's works, is semi-autobiographical. Like her heroine Sara, Yezierska came to America when she was young, lived on the Lower East Side in the Jewish Ghetto of New York, and constantly pushed herself to work hard, write, and rise above her beginnings. One critic writes, "Yezierska's works chronicle the lives of Jewish immigrants in America, in particular the struggles of Jewish women to escape drudgery and realize their dreams. She was critical of the patriarchal religious culture of Orthodox Judaism that transported old-world oppression to America" (Bloom 160). In addition, the introduction to this new printing of her novel states, "Her constant themes are the dirt and congestion of the tenement, the struggle against poverty, family, and tradition to break out of the ghetto, and then the searing recognition that her roots would always lie in the old world" (Kessler-Harris xvi)."
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"Bread Givers", 2002.
A character analysis of Sarah in "Bread Givers" by Anzia Yezierska.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, £ 31.95
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This paper will examine the role of the Jewish European immigrant when coming to America. By examining Yezierska's book "Bread Givers", we can see how the main character Sarah struggles between old world traditions and new world world America.
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"Bread Givers", 2003.
An analysis of why Anzia Yezierska chose to entitle her most prominent novel, "Bread Givers."
1,744 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 0 sources, £ 39.95
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"Bread Givers" is a novel about a Jewish Immigrant family that moves to America and attempts to make a living in New York. This paper is about how the author uses the title of the book to describe the new role of women in American society, the struggles they faced both in the working world and from fathers unwilling to separate themselves from the old ways of life, and the new complications created by their new-found freedom.
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"The plot of Bread Givers revolves around Sara and her family. Sara being the narrator, taking in everything that happens around her so that the reader practically sees her world in one?s mind?s eye. A big chunk of the story is the relationship Sara has with her sisters and the horrible pain and suffering they go through at the hands of their father, Reb Smolinsky. From the very first few paragraphs, the reader can tell that Sara and her sisters, especially Bessie, are the workers of the household; as quoted here ?One look at her (Sara regarding Bessie), and I knew she had not yet found work. I went on peeling the potatoes, but no more knew what my hands were doing. I felt on the hurt of her weary eyes.? (1). Due to their fathers refusal to get a job as a result of his rigorous religious studies, Sara and her sisters (even her mother) are forced to go out and find jobs or go hungry."
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"The Bread Givers", 2004.
A review of the book "The Bread Givers" written by Anzia Yezierska.
1,124 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 27.95
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This paper discusses Anzia Yezierska's book, "The Bread Givers", depicting the chronicles of the Smolinsky family, Jewish immigrants to the United States in the 1930s. The paper examines how the themes of the novel underline that the American nation as a whole must give up conventional notions of America as a land of boundless opportunity and recognize the sacrifices of culture, life and limb that immigrants make to become a part of the American fabric.
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"The profound cultural shift the Smolinsky family endures is shown early on in the book, whereby the narrator bridles at the control wielded by her father over the family. The Smolinsky women struggle to keep the family economically afloat and to support the scholarly activities of the father. However, this older, European model of the torah-reading scholar supported by the labor of others is really not sustainable in America. In America, money matters more than learning, and there is no wealthy Jewish community or patrons or network of financial support and stability to keep the man in the style that would be customary in Europe. Although the Smolinsky patriarch may wish to keep alive the study habits, support of charities, and manner of life that would be practical, once, in a European Jewish community, in his perhaps equally idealized version of old Europe, he cannot in America. His determination to do so makes life hard for his daughters, and causes Sara to turn away from him first in her heart, and then to seek a new life."
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"The Bread Givers" and "The Great Gatsby", 2002.
A comparison of these two novels by Yzierska and F. Scott Fitzgerald, respectively.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 3 sources, £ 37.95
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While comparing Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" and Yzierska's "The Bread Givers" may seem like comparing apples and rocks, there is always more than what is simply seen. While on the surface "The Great Gatsby" appears to be a novel of love, idealism, and disillusionment, it is readily evident that what lies beneath, the wasteland that exists between New York and West Egg, is the true center and meaning of the book. "Gatsby" is a novel that presents us with one of the great enigmatic characters of American literature. Fitzgerald's novel centers around the very current idea that what lies underneath the surface is a corruption of ideals because elements of human life, such as love, faith, and friendship are forced to put on a false face and to deny themselves when viewed by others. Yzierska's "The Bread Givers" is also a novel of conflict between two equally distant worlds, the "Old World" of Europe and the "New World" of America. Bridging that gap is just as difficult a task as Fitzgerald tackles. The purpose of this paper is to examine how each book takes on the task of jumping between two dissimilar worlds and how the attempts to join them together ultimately fail.
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"Bread Givers", 2002.
A look at this novel by Anazia Yezierska about the life of early 20th century immigrants from Europe.
1,799 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 0 sources, MLA, £ 40.95
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The paper introduces, discusses and analyzes the book "Bread Givers" by Yezierska. Specifically, it includes how the author changes her life, and really becomes American. The novel is an account of how the author goes through the process of immigration and absorbtion into American society and how she moves from being a new immigrant to a true American.
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"Born in Poland, Anzia Yezierska came to the United States in 1890, when she was about eight years old. She grew up in New York in a Jewish ghetto, and then later worked menial jobs in laundries and sweatshops. She was an unusual woman for her time, because she finished school and went on to college. She began to write about her experiences, and became a successful and celebrated author for a time. She wrote "Bread Givers" in 1925. While the book is a novel, there is at least a little piece of the author in every book she wrote, and this one is no exception. The struggles Sara experiences in leaving the ghetto and getting an education are surely some of those the author faced in trying to become a "real" American."
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Anzia Yezierska?s Novel, "Bread Givers", 2004.
Summarizes the plot of Anzia Yezierska's novel about a family of Jewish immigrants in New York.
1,021 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 25.95
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This paper is based on Anzia Yezierska?s novel, ?Bread Givers?, which is based on a story of Jewish family who migrates from Russia to New York. The paper covers the trials and tribulations of this family and the difficulties they face as new immigrants in New York.
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"It is only Sara who truly stands out in this family. She is the one who during hours of extreme poverty for the family, takes on the courage to go out and earn. She goes out and sells herring. She is the only one who understands the value of standing on her own two feet, to save herself and her family from reaching a state of misery where no choice is left except to beg. Only she understood and realized that she could not just sit around like her father while all of them starved to death."
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"North American Indian Ecology", 2006.
This paper reviews and examines Donald Hughes' book "North American Indian Ecology" which focuses on a wide range of ecological and environmental issues faced by Native American Indians in the 20th century.
2,310 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 1 source, APA, £ 50.95
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This paper explores and details North American Indian life and culture as portrayed in Donald Hughes' book "North American Indian Ecology." This paper discusses the land issues facing the North American Indian tribes including overgrazing, erosion and assessments of appropriate land usage. The writer of this paper finds Hughes' book to be straightforward and concise in clarifying the characteristics of Indian life such as hunting, food growing and rituals.
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"Tribes are having to mediate the disparate demands of their members and the industrial mindset of the BIA to balance forest use for economic need and preservation for cultural need. Tribes face many of the same problems as non-Native communities held hostage by the timber industry. Replanting has not always kept pace with harvesting on public or trust lands. The push to harvest old-growth timber is constrained by federal mandates to protect endangered species habitats, putting people out of work. Few local communities gain the "value-added" benefits of processing their own timber especially jobs and new businesses and when they do the environmental impact of mill sites has to be factored into any cost-benefit analysis."
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American Indian Boarding Schools, 2004.
This paper discusses the history of the American Indian boarding schools and their influence in developing ?pan-Indianism?, which connected individuals from different tribes.
2,245 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 2 sources, APA, £ 49.95
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This paper explains that the "Friends of the American Indians" believed that education was the only answer to the "Indian problem" to assimilate Native Americans into Euro-American society. The author points out that, whereas, the mission schools were traditionally located on the reservations, the ?retraining? process meant that the government-influenced boarding schools were located off of the reservations, usually many miles away from families, so that many children were not able to see their families for years at a time. The paper relates that, although the tribal traditionalists strongly were opposed to families sending their children to distant schools to learn the "white man's" ways, grinding poverty and the overwhelming hopelessness of reservation life caused many Indian parents to consider the possibility of sending their children to find a more prosperous life.
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"Many times the child was not told ahead of time that they would be leaving home to attend the boarding school. This resulted in a child resisting or fleeing home and hiding in the woods or with sympathetic relatives. The child might also runaway upon reaching the boarding school. One student?s account is recorded at the Clark Historical Library (1999). He remembered that on the day that he left, his mother pack his lunch, simply handed it to him, and sent him off to a day school he was attending. When he arrived at the school, he was then told that he was to leave immediately. He and several other children were told to get into a truck prepared with a wire cage. The cage was to keep them from fleeing, and they were then driven to the nearest railroad station."
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