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I viewed Gabriels writing on the Women of Edenton and I believed he wrote a very in depth page. I was surprised the way he handled having the words divided into the page was excellent, and he started off the second paragraph with a bang with "You say a picture is worth a thousand words. One thing I would suggest though, is to stay away from cliches like that...sometimes in writing in can make your grade not to well. However, overall I really enjoyed reading this and it was very interesting

http://gcruz.typepad.com/hist_120/

The next blog i read was sophia's. Sophia's tended to be harsh towards the picture of The Women of Edenton and I believe that gave her a strong paper because of the attitude towards the British at the time. I feel that her thesis was strong and set up her paper very well to show that in this paper the British tried to influence heavy propoganda towards the upstarting United States. Believe it or not i would try to work on the way she started sentences and also her punctuation, I wouldnt use so many semi colons and colons, and try not to start off with too many proper nouns in your sentence.

http://sofiamason.typepad.com/first_weblog/

I liked Jaime's but I thought that it could use improvements. He did use vivid descriptions and powerful placements of text, but spelling was one issue i noticed as he looked to spell poked, pocked. But little problems like that tend to not be so crucial to his paper. He did a good job of analyzing the picture and his thesis backed it up well. If he continues to write this way I believe his progress in the class will be a good one.

http://jaime.typepad.com/historyrocks/

#2: Society of Patriotic Women, Edenton, North Carolina: Patriotic Activities

# 2: Society of Patriotic Women, Edenton, North Carolina: Patriotic Activities
By the picture of “Society of Patriotic Women at Edenton,” you get an image that not only portrays a dysfunctional organization of the start to our revolution, but a grotesque scene of carousing drunk American women involved in politics. The British want to make their fellow countrymen understand that at the time we aren’t even close to starting our own country. By closely trying to interpret this piece, you can find that the British are trying to weigh down the attitudes of our patriot activism by showing that we are not only disorganized, but also irresponsible.

When breaking down this portrait into sections, there are many significant details presented. Looking at the top left corner, there is an illustration of three women making an attempt to refill their flasks of gin, which at the time was a very potent, but inexpensive alcoholic beverage. This enables the viewer to focus on the fact that the people have engaged in a festive drunken party. By progressing to the right, an image shows that the theme has not stopped. A lady is plunging her mouth into a grog bowl of alcohol, as her friend encourages, and assists her. Continue to follow to the right and notice an African American servant enjoying her time at the soiree. This poses to be interesting, because at the time African Americans were considered slaves. However, the people in this image are of lower class, and therefore accept the African American woman as a companion rather then a servant. Move down towards the middle left portion and see a woman bending over exposing her butt. Thus displaying that the patriot women carried little care as to how conservative they looked. Leading to this promiscuity, in the main focus of the figure, there is a flirtatious man who is willingly trying to seduce a lady who freely exposes her cleavage. Down center of the depiction, you find a child who is struggling with a plate of food under a table without any parental supervision or care. The baby not only has trouble with trying to eat the food on the plate, but is continuously dealing with a harassing dog that seems to be licking the baby's face. As if this dog is not doing enough annoying damage, you focus on the fact that he is carelessly peeing on an empty container of gin lying on the floor. Through the mixture of all this commotion, a lady holding a gavel seems to be trying to get the attention of the partying patriots to partake in the meeting that is supposed to be taking place. Meanwhile nothing seems to be getting through.

By analyzing the picture through the explanation above, the British are trying to expose the American behavior towards patriotism in a foul and unjust manner. They have done this is numerous ways. Number one, by trying to portray the patriots as manly looking women, and then they take the images of these women and put them in a partying environment, where the men are guiltlessly trying to hit on the women present and the women continue to either pound down grog bowls or heavy flasks of lethal gin. This certainly depicts which is not suitable for trying to form an independent nation. Thus the propaganda in which the British have performed is demoralizing to our up starting government, and therefore would contribute to the anger in which we will fight for our independence.

http://www.picturehistory.com/find/p/981/mcms.html

http://www.americanheritage.com/xml/2004/1/2004_1_dept_histhapp.xml

"Political Women in the American Revolution. Women and Social Movements 1775-2000.”

"A Society of Patriotic Ladies, at Edenton in North Carolina."

No. 1: The Creation His-Stories of the Tortoise and the Hare, and Goddess

"It sometimes happens when we enter into a curious discourse with them(Indians) that they ask us our opinions on the origin of man, and how they came to this country; and when we inform them in broken language of the creation of Adam, they cannot believe, or will not understand relative to their people and the negroes, on account of their great difference and the inequality of colour." It happens to be that some of our curious discourse is answered in the following three creation stories of the The Indians of New Netherlands, The Ottowa Society, and the Sioux. After analyzing each story throughout time you start to get an understanding that each group has its similarities and its differences toward the creation of Earth. Here from the readings of 'Creation Stories' we will focus on the significance of time change and how each story differed then the Christian creation story of Adam and Eve.

In the first of the three stories you read about the Indians of New Netherlands of 1650 and their mindset of how we were brought on this Earth together as a whole. This tribe's belief was in a powerful woman, so powerful that she would be labled a goddess. The woman possessed the power to give birth to three specific animals, animals that she would nurture and take care of. These three animals were a deer, a bear, and a wolf. As the goddess took care of these animals she continued to breed different species among them grafting out different qualities until all of the world's creatures were created, including human beings. "The woman suckled those animals to maturity, and remained a considerable time upon the earth, cohabiting with those several animals, and bringing forth at every birth more than one of a different species and appearance." Every creature carries the certain personality traits of either the innocence of the deer, the braveness of the bear, and the furiousity of the wolf. This carrying similarities towards the other two stories.

The Ottowa Society of 1720 carries its similarities to the Netherlands tribe as it also has a great almighty creator. This time being an animal, and that animal being a hare, a great hare i might add. When the earth was made certain species of animals were spread throughout the earth. As these animals died The Great Hare gave the birth of man through the bodies of the animals. "When the first ones died, the Great Hare caused the birth of man from their corpses." Also similar to the New Netherlands tribe we find that people get their characteristics from specific distinct animals. In this case a bear and a moose are explained. Traits were passed from other various animals as well. Another important aspect of the Ottowa Society is that when man was made, he was given a woman companion, and that the woman would serve to the mans needs as he would hunt and gather. This is a contrast to the first story because of how they glorify the woman goddess, and instead in this piece she is supposed to serve man.

The third and final story is of the Sioux who originated in 1935. This tribe had a slightly different belief of the origination of man. This story starts out with an already human inhabited earth that was not a perfect world at all, and instead consisted of nomadic men who couldnt really act human in general. The "creator" wanted a more perfect society, and thus made a new world explained in this quote. "He had the pipe bag and the chief pipe, which he put on the pipe rack that he had made in the sacred manner. He tood four dry buffalo chips, placed three of them under the three sticks, and saved the fourth one to light the pipe." In order to start the new world, he sang four songs and stomped the earth to crack it and let water flow over the old earth. In doing this he needed the help of an animal that could swim to the bottom and bring up mud to create the new earth. He tried a number of animals, a beaver, a loon, an otter, and finally a turtle. The turtle being the strong, and life enduring, swam down to the bottom for an ample amount of time and brought up the mud. He then sang and created a vast amount of land. He then got the aide of a crow to serve as a messenger to carry out the flow of land. As a similarity to the other stories a special animal is used to create the earth. Although, in this story the people did not have any relation to characteristics served by animals.

As we see through the three stories that were discussed, we look through the time period of the stories (1650, 1720, and 1935) and notice that they carrie similarities and differences in each tribe's belief. Predominantly though, you realize that each tribe carried more similarities then differences. Learning from the tribes belief you find that their understanding of creation is in fact different from the Christian view of Adam and Eve.

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