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Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,4 (B), http://www.uni-jena.de/ (Institute for Anglistics/American Studies), language: English, abstract: Since the early days of American discovery by Christopher Columbus and its Nativepeoples, the European settlers have never stopped learning about Indian life, culture,personality and how to cope with the cultural differences that seemed so difficult to reconcile. Since then, there have always been various opinions about the cultural differences betweenthe New and the Old World s civilization. Confusion, scepticism, denigration and war havealways accompanied the relation between Native people and European settlers until presenttime. Within this paper these perceptions of the Indian life, as well as the Indian view of thestrangers from the Sea shall be examined and evaluated. The most interesting question to askwill be: how and most of all why did the image of the Indian people develop from the 15thcentury and the discovery of American Natives to Benjamin Franklin s Remarks Concerningthe Savages of North America in 1784 and who or what reason caused this change in theminds of the people? [...]

Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,3 (B), http://www.uni-jena.de/ (Institut fur Anglistics/American Studies), language: English, abstract: "e;A Worn Path"e; written by Eudora Welty was first published within her volume ofshort stories A Curtain of Green in 1941.1 It is a story about life in its purestnaturalism. Welty s main character is the old Negro woman Phoenix Jackson. With her tremendousself-sacrifice and the love for her little grandson she frequently goes on an adventurousjourney from the old Natchez Trace into town to get some medicine for her grandchildwho swallowed lye some years ago and is frequently suffering from sore throat. But more than one could think of the story is a metaphor for the way of life thateveryone of us has to go. The story s path expresses the hard journey of life thejourney, even Eudora Welty speaks about when being asked about the unsolved fate ofthe grandson: But it is the journey, the going of the errand, that is the story, and thequestion is not whether the grandchild is in reality alive or dead. 2 This can be easilycompared to the path of life and to the fact that it s result is less important than the pathitself. 1 Kreyling, Michael. Understanding Eudora Welty. Columbia: University of Southern CarolinaPress, 1999. 6. 2 Welty, Eudora. Is Phoenix Jackson s Grandson Really Dead? The Story and Its Writer An Introduction toShort Fiction. Ed. Ann Charters. Shorter 2nd ed. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin s Press, 1990. 750.