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Jul 1 2009, 9:46 PM EDT by
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I didn't really find this source to be helpful at all. It is clearly intended for a younger audience, not for a scholarly paper. It is a school website and seems reliable, it just doesn't provide a lot of information.
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Resource 20
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Jul 1 2009, 9:44 PM EDT by
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I learned a lot from this source that I didn't know before (or learned in 5th grade and have since forgotten!). This seems like a reliable source because the student accessed it on MCC's database. The information is also accurate. I would definitely use this source myself. It was very helpful.
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Resource #15
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Jul 1 2009, 6:22 AM EDT by
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I would not consider this source credible because it allows anyone to post opinions on the topics and although the author is stated here he is not actually an acclaimed writer. The source was interesting though in looking at the frontier in terms of the pioneers and imaging yourself in that position.
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Resource #20
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Jul 1 2009, 6:16 AM EDT by
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This source focused the view of the frontier toward the expansion of slavery which was a view i had never considered before analyzing this text. This source is credible because the author is a professor and it was published in a known academic journal.
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Jun 30 2009, 8:59 PM EDT by
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This resource talks about westward expansion by early American presidents and the necessity of it. This reflects the American dream in that they were pursuing a better life and the ability to sub due the land for more fulfillment while providing safety and competiveness for all. This is a credible resource.
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Jun 30 2009, 8:58 PM EDT by
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This resource is very credible and has a very impressive works cited page. This resource talks about the history of the American Frontier and better helps the reader /me to understand what life was life during this period of American historian, and why certain writers would be inspired to write about certain things specifically the American dream later on.
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Resource 19
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Jun 30 2009, 6:10 PM EDT by
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I guess this source is credible. It is provided by a high school. However, I can’t seem to find who wrote the article...
The article lists the main themes in American Literature. The Frontier is one of them. It is explained in a way that is easy to understand, and the comparison of the different themes is interesting. What I found helpful are the examples of how the frontier mentality exists in everyday life. For instance, “hitting the road,” taking a job across country, moving away to college. Americans see opportunity and are more willing to move than in some other countries.
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Jun 30 2009, 5:52 PM EDT by
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As an on-going university project, this source is credible. This page cites Turner, a historian, as pivotal to our current understanding of the American frontier. Turner stressed the importance of the West (as a generalized westward expansion) over the European influences in the eastern colonies. The West was also more important than the pro-slavery South or the anti-slavery North. Essentially, the frontier helped to create American heritage, institution, democracy, and attitude. He explains the frontier’s “meeting point of savagery and civilization” as the reason for America’s growing optimism toward an expanding, capitalist economy. “Free” land was also compared to the “freedoms” in the everyday, common man. The free land soon came to represent democracy. The perspective of Turner is helpful because it explains how the frontier “continues” today through the ideals, attitudes, and culture it nurtured.
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Resource #14
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Jun 27 2009, 2:00 AM EDT by
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This was a very valuable resource for learning about The Frontier. I think the fact that it gave examples of the American Frontier as well as the Canadian frontier was very helpful in understanding the true meaning of the Frontier. It also helped to show me how to adapt the theme to different texts as well as different periods of literature. I also found the related reading links to be helpful in understanding the theme in its entirety as well.
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Jun 27 2009, 1:56 AM EDT by
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I found the definition that this website gave for The Frontier to be very detailed, in fact I found it more detailed than the one I found through my resources. I liked how it looked at how different authors used The Frontier during different literary periods. I am personally very fond of the Helium source and find it very valuable as well as useful.
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Resource 8
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Jul 5 2008, 1:26 AM EDT by
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This resource was credible because it was found on the MCC library database. It also provided a lot of useful info about the frontier... which not many other sites on this page had. It was VERY useful because of that.
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Resource 12
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Jul 5 2008, 1:24 AM EDT by
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I found this site to be not very useful. It was directed at the frontier even though it was in the title. You really had to dig to find the info you were looking for directed to the froniter.
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Jul 3 2008, 12:38 AM EDT by
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I liked this source and the way it discusses how the frontier was first used in literature. I think it is a good source.
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Jul 3 2008, 12:37 AM EDT by
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this seemed to be more focused on what could still be considered the frontier in America. It was quite long and I didnt find the information in the beginning very useful to what we are studying.
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Resource 6
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Jun 29 2008, 10:52 PM EDT by
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This source reminds us that the Frontier was initially just beyond the settled areas in the Northeast. I think people tend to associate the Frontier with the West, but in order to fully understand early American literature, we must remember that the West was virtually everything outside of the colonized areas on the Atlantic coast. One would need to research further, though, to see discussion of more southern colonies and their ideas of the Frontier as well.
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Resource 4
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Jun 29 2008, 10:49 PM EDT by
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This source was very lengthy and I would not recommend it for a quick defintion of the Frontier. However, it did give indepth explanation of how the idea of the Frontier developed and how it compares with the ideas of borders between countries. It seems that it would connect to the American Dream in some ways as well.
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Jun 23 2008, 5:45 PM EDT by
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This posting was the essay by Fredrick Jackson Turner that created the term Frontier. It was interesting to see the term used as it was the first time, but I would have liked to see the term actually described and defined so that you could get a better understanding of what it actually meant. My resource defined the term frontier as the land.
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Jun 23 2008, 5:37 PM EDT by
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This resource when more in depth about the term frontier than mine did. Both my resource and this one talked about frontier being the land, but this website also went on to tell where the term came from. According to this resource the term came from Fredrick Jackson Turner from his essay "The Significance of the Frontier in American History, " publishing in 1893.
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Jun 23 2008, 4:08 PM EDT by
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7: I found this source to be a great place to find information on the American Frontier, and the best part is, it relates directly to the theme in literature. There is a lot of valuable information in this source. I love that it also provides examples of writers from Early America, but from more modern writers as well, such as Hemmingway.
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6: While I understand the link between New England and frontier, This article doesn't make that clear. This site only mentions one direct statement about the frontier in the entire article. The single statement it makes is very general, and I don't feel that this source is appropriate for this theme's posting.
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