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The Mohicans, 2001.
This paper is an historical study of the Mohicans based on the film "The Last of the Mohicans" and a book called "Betrayals: Fort William Henry and the Massacre".
1,500 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 34.95
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This paper details the story of "The Massacre" that was held during a battle between the Britain and France's Indian allies at Fort William. The book "Betrayals: Fort William Henry and the Massacre" by Ian Steele, took a close look at the old stereotypes, balancing out and combining contradictory accounts to forge one coherent and accurate tale. The film "The Last of the Mohicans", directed by Michael Mann, paid intricate attention to such historical details as style, language, and muzzle-loader mechanics. The paper details the event in respect to these two works and analyzes this terrible tragedy.
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"In 1757, the British outpost of Fort William surrendered to the French forces that had besieged it. Terms of surrender were granted that promised safe passage to the warriors and civilians living within the fort, and the British moved out. On the trek back to noncombatant territory, the surviving garrison was attacked by France?s Indian allies. The ?massacre? that followed was to go down in infamy, as wildly speculative and differing reports made their way back to the press. The episode was seen as an ultimate symbol for the perfidy of savage Indians and their treasonous European counterparts, and was perpetuated through endless literary retellings. Well over 300 years later, the story of this massacre is still being told. In 1990, a historical book Betrayals: Fort William Henry and the ?Massacre,? by Ian Steele, took a close look at the old stereotypes, balancing out and combining contradictory accounts to forge one coherent and accurate tale. Shortly thereafter, the legend was told once again, this time in full Technicolor. . The Last of the Mohicans, directed by Michael Mann, paid intricate attention to such historical details as style, language, and muzzle-loader mechanics. However, the film also took distinct liberties with the actual situations and reasons surrounding the Fort Williams massacre."
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"The Last of the Mohicans", 2002.
A literary review of James Fenimore Cooper's novel "The Last of the Mohicans".
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 27.95
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This paper presents a brief overview of the book ?The Last of the Mohicans? by James Fenimore Cooper. The paper pays special attention to the role of women and how they were treated in those days, as well as their contribution to warfare as compared to present times. "The Last of the Mohicans" takes place in the midst of the French-Indian war. It focuses on one battle in a war that lasted for many years. This was the last and most important conflict over French and British possessions in North America.
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"This book depicts the battle of Fort William Henry and adds the fictional kidnapping of two sisters Cora and Alice who are also the main female characters of this book. It is an account of two opposing tribes; the Delawares and the Hurons. The Hurons (Magua's tribe) are depicted as an extension of Magua himself. They are ambitious to take down the foresters, thereby avenging the warriors they have lost."
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"The Last of the Mohicans", 2006.
This paper is a character analysis of major and minor characters in James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans".
835 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 20.95
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This paper describes each of the major characters in "The Last of the Mohicans": Cora Munro, Alice Munro, Hawkeye, Magua, Heywood, Chingachgook and General Montcalm. The author explains the minor characters -- General Web, Uncas, Colonel Munro and David Gamut -- and concludes that the reader learns about these characters through their actions, language and interaction with the major characters in the book. The paper concludes that the characters in this novel individually are more static than dynamic, but, as a group interacting with each other, they are more dynamic.
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"Cora Munro is the oldest daughter of Colonel Munro. Cora is a very strong willed adventurous character; she more or less protects Alice by staying strong in tough and frightful situations. Cora is of an African decent. He father, Colonel Munro married a woman of African decent who is Cora's mother. Determining her ethnicity to be of a mixed race. By the middle of the novel, Cora and Uncas do have strong feelings for each other creating a romance that was not very accepted during the time this novel took place."
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"The Last of the Mohicans", 2005.
This paper discusses the rejection of miscegenation, inter-racial marriage, in James Fenimore Cooper's 1826 novel "The Last of the Mohicans".
1,715 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 38.95
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This paper explains that James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans" has two romantic plots: (1) Duncan Heyward's quest for Alice and (2) Cora's struggle between Uncas and Magua, which is foiled thus promoting purity of the white race. The author explains that white women who were forced into marriages with Indian men, were no longer considered white, but rather Indian, which clearly set boundaries between the two civilizations, thereby rejecting any sort of miscegenation. The paper relates that Cooper further demonstrates his detesting of miscegenation with his graphic description of the massacre at Fort William Henry.
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"The hint of African blood that Cora has explains her affinity for Indians as well as her unacceptable sexuality (to white men, i.e. Heyward). Since Indians are of a darker color, they would be more likely to find a woman of darker color more attractive. The "impurity" in Cora's blood is supposed to represent what Cooper would have thought of as a moral impurity. This meaning that her conception was immoral; or that blacks should not have sexual relations with whites. Cooper, however, did not want readers to think that Cora was morally flawed in any way. If she were morally flawed, her loving, self-reliant, and overall protagonist
character would not be realistic."
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"The Last of the Mohicans", 2008.
An analysis of the race relations in "The Last of the Mohicans" by James F. Cooper.
1,081 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 25.95
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The paper discusses how the overriding theme in Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans" is really one of the innate belief in white supremacy and that race's need to posses the entire continent. The paper explains that the prevailing consciousness at the time the novel was written was about white privilege and this is represented in Cooper's tales.
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"Residing in the literary genre of the Romance novel, Cooper's work, the Last of the Mohicans' dominant backdrop is that of an adventure in the wilderness and the historical context of the siege and massacre of Fort William Henry in 1757. The overriding theme is civilization versus nature, or the war between instinct and reason. However, the undercurrent Cooper evokes is the feelings of his times regarding the white privilege of manifest destiny."
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Landscape in "Last of the Mohicans", 2006.
This paper discusses the landscape vividly described in James Fenimore Cooper's classic novel, "The Last of the Mohicans."
1,120 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, APA, £ 26.95
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The writer of this paper details why the landscape in this novel is a central character and is described in spiritual terms rather than physical ones. There is an emotional tone of foreboding and the landscape is always described in terms that dwarf the actual characters in the book. The paper shows how the author opts for the factual when describing the landscape, and delves into the mythic symbolism that can be found in certain descriptive passages.
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"These descriptions are in keeping with the nature of a frontier as the area where things come together with their conflicting forces. The force of the colonists is to tame the frontier. The force of the indigenous natives is to keep it as it is. The landscape of the frontier itself becomes symbolic of both groups of characters in opposition to each other. In this way it actually becomes a personification of each."
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James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans", 1995.
This paper argues that Hawkeye, a character in James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans", survives through humility and respect for nature and other human beings.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 4 sources, £ 43.95
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"James Fenimore Cooper, in his novel The Last of the Mohicans, explores issues of survival, including survival of the body, the mind, and the spirit. The argument of the study will be that the element of character which allows Hawkeye to be a figure of survival is his ability to put himself in a position of humility with respect to nature and to other human beings:
Only Hawkeye, of all the whites, is competent to survive, mainly because his experience in the woods has instilled in him the humility he needs to understand the Indian and to interpret the white and red man to each other.
The message of the book with respect to survival is not that an individual must be willing and able to overpower the natural or human forces which line up against him and threaten his ... "
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"The Last of the Mohicans", 2004.
Discussion and analysis of James Fennimore Cooper?s book about the European arrival and occupation of the New World.
915 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 22.95
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This paper explores and analyzes the main theme in James Fennimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans" and explains how he used the symbol of blood to illustrate the seriousness of the change brought upon the New World by the arrival of the Europeans.
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"Cooper uses blood to stand for a number of different ideas in the book. It serves, first of all, as a symbol for knowledge and even more specifically for the ways in which we come to know our way in the world ? how things come to be ?in our blood?. When European settlers came to America in the 17th century, they found themselves in a world that was entirely alien to them. They had neither literal maps to the country nor any metaphorical ones to understand their relationship to new kinds of plants and animals, new kinds of soil to be hoed and planted, new kinds of people who spoke in languages unheard to them and prayed to gods that they knew nothing at all about. And in the midst of this disorientation, they turned to the one thing that they knew tied them absolutely and irrevocably to the past ? specifically to their own past but also to the past of the world: The blood that ran in their veins and that connected them to their homes and their families, to the safe and the familiar. By looking to the blood ties, they looked backward to home."
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"The Last of the Mohicans", 2006.
An analysis of the characters in this novel by James Fenimore Cooper.
1,003 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 0 sources, £ 24.95
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The first chapter of "The Last of the Mohicans" introduces four of the main characters in the novel and one minor one, after establishing the time and setting. The paper shows how the introductions of Gamut, Magua, Heyward, Cora and Alice are all done without using any of these characters' names, but giving careful and thorough physical descriptions of each one.
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"Perhaps the reason the author presents stereotypes is the motif of the piece, the conflict between the needs of man and the natural environment. The group of characters presents a microcosm of mankind, with an emphasis on social status and position in the society.
Thus Heyward is deferred to by the others, despite his lack of ability to fully grasp or control the circumstances around him. The women are presented primarily as catalysts to the actions of men, and not in terms of their own actions and initiative."
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"Last of the Mohicans", 2002.
Questions if the movie was a true reflection of colonial America.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 2 sources, £ 18.95
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This three-page undergraduate paper discusses in what ways the movie "The Last of the Mohicans" is an accurate and inaccurate depiction of colonial America.
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"The Last of the Mohicans", 2002.
Compares the book and film versions.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 2 sources, £ 36.95
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This undergraduate level essay is a comparison of book and film. It looks at The Last of the Mohicans by James Fennimore Cooper and the 1992 film adaptation of the same story. It examines the cultural perspective differences between the two as an explanation for the significant differences.
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"The Last Of The Mohicans" ( Michael Mann ), 1995.
Analyzes the 1992 film version of this 19th Century novel about the relations between American-Indians and British colonists.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, £ 32.95
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"The recent film version of The Last of the Mohicans (1992) takes certain liberties with the original story in an attempt to create a saga far more romantic than James Fenimore Cooper would ever have imagined. The novel was part of a series of novels known collectively as "The Leatherstocking Tales," of which there are five, all produced between 1823 and 1841. The Last of the Mohicans was the second in the series in the order written, though the chronological order of the novels would be different, with the first story chronologically being the last of the five novels produced. Cooper was the first major American novelist, and his books are infused with an understanding of the colonial period, though Cooper himself was born not only after that era but after the founding of the country in 1776. Cooper was born in 1789 and died in 1851. His most popular novel was probably ..."
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"The Last Of The Mohicans", 2002.
Discusses the emotional meanings created in the 1992 film by director Michael Mann.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, £ 32.95
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Discusses the emotional meanings created in the 1992 film by director Michael Mann. Visual means employed. Central relationship between Hawkeye and Cora. Analysis of shots and their visual and narrative impact. Discusses the progression of the plot by detailing varioius shots and how they reveal the tensions and emotional content of the film.
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"Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans is a carefully designed film in which all the visual means at the director's disposal are skillfully employed to create the emotional meanings of the work. These meanings occur at several different levels and are structured so that by the end of the film the central relationship--the love between Hawkeye And Cora Munro--achieves an importance that goes beyond their personal lives. By the end the two stand for the future that the bravest and strongest individuals will be able to carve out of the land and, sadly, for the way these settlers will displace the Native Americans. The film emphasizes the size of the wilderness around the people who act out their story and the degrees of comfort that people feel in the wild, the tamed, and the partially subdued parts of the country. Despite the speed with which the film moves through the ..."
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Native American Stereotypes in James F. Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans", 2001.
An analysis of the novel with emphasis on the use of stereotypes.
2,425 words (approx. 9.7 pages), 5 sources, £ 51.95
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