Monday, January 21, 2008

Four short essays

These are some of my best academic work, written for various classes at Sonoma State University when I was living in California.

Media Portrayal and Anthropologists' Treatment of Ishi, the Last Yahi is about the last wild Native American, Ishi.

The Choctaw Trail of Tears describes the history of the Choctaw trail of tears, which predated and was a trial run for the more famous Cherokee trail of tears.

Cultural Analysis of Ernest K. Gann's In the Company of Eagles looks at a famous novel about World War One aviation from a cultural perspective.

It's the Same Thing describes the "base metaphor" of the Mescalero Apache people.

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