Literature's Role in Shaping the Americas
America: The Most Unpredictable Ending Ever! Language has proved itself to be the single most powerful force in history. Hurricanes, gale force winds, dictators, floods, fires, nor nuclear weapons carry a fraction of the energy--energy that can destroy, construct, and manipulate-- that words can carry. Words are a modern world's connection to the past; through documents, books, and letters, society in modernity analyzes, interprets, and reconstructs events of the past and then either writes some more about that event, makes it into a historically inaccurate movie, or throws the facts into a "dramatic recreation" and calls it a documentary. Language is the first manipulation humans make on anything; from when we first give something a name, we have manipulated what it is in our minds. Of course, going through life, not giving things names, would be very confusing for all of us, so we name things and do not think much of it. We put language to experiences and, many times, do not think much of it. But, other times, t! he language we use is very structured and controlled in order to shape a situation or place. When the Americas were "discovered" by Christopher Columb
Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Nuņez. Relacion. University of California Press. While on the ship, sailing for America, the Brownists drafted a document, called the Mayflower Compact, which would become the basis for a cultural mood that would turn into revolution. In William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation, he describes the need for the document: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bradford, William. Of Plymouth Plantation.
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