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Natives and the Exploration of the Canadian North and West, 2005.
This paper explores the role of indigenous peoples in the explorations of Samuel Hearne, Alexander Mackenzie and Simon Fraser.
2,584 words (approx. 10.3 pages), 11 sources, MLA, £ 49.95
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Abstract
This paper examines how the success of the explorations of Samuel Hearne, Alexander Mackenzie and Simon Fraser were dependent on the experience and assistance of natives. It looks at how tools such as canoes, snowshoes, and sledges were essential as travel would have been difficult or impossible without them and how the natives themselves were crucial to the explorers, working as navigators, pilots, translators, protectors, hunters, and advisors. It also examines how native knowledge of local terrain was often exploited by the Canadians in the charting of the North and West.
From the Paper
"In addition to transportation, the subsistence of the explorers can also be credited to Native culture. All three explorers relied heavily on indigenous hunting and food preparation for their survival. Mackenzie wrote, "we depended for our support upon what the [Native] hunters could provide for us...They now, however, very shortly procured us as much fresh meat as we required."4 And later, in the company of friendly locals, he claimed, "on my expressing a desire to partake of their fish, they brought me a few dried trout, well cured, that had been taken in the river which they had lately left."5 The explorers very existence depended on the provisions of Native hunters. But seizure of food was only one aspect of the assistance of the tribes."
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"Les Caves du Vatican", 2004.
A discussion of the duplicity of characters in Andre Gide's "Les Caves du Vatican".
2,344 words (approx. 9.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 45.95
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This paper looks at the various characters and how the characteristics of each are evident in others as well. All of the characters show similar psychological effects as a result of the society in which they live. The paper explains each one's role and the story overall.
Contents
Introduction
Lafcadio
Protos
Amedee
Anthime
Julius
Conclusion
From the Paper
"Les Caves du Vatican" by Andre Gide concerns a variety of characters, and the issue of freedom as exemplified by the main character, Lafcadio. Lafcadio is the main representative of freedom, while the other major characters represent varying degrees of neuroses and bondage imposed by the society in which they live. To demonstrate this, Gide as it were binds each major character to another by providing them with traits at the opposite side of each scale. He does this with the exception of Lafcadio, who being free from convention and all other forms of bondage, is not bound by the author either. Protos, the clever charlatan is then paired with the na?ve and victimized Amedee, while the practically scientific Anthime is paired with Julius, the fanatically religious but also hypocritical novelist."
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