Anything would be good. I am applying in Arkansas to be a teacher and need a good idea of what a day to day looks like for English classes here.
Hello r/AskHistorians, I’m Nancy Reagin, a European historian of gender and popular culture, and my most recent book is Re-living the American Frontier: Western Fandoms, Reenactment, and Historical Hobbyists in Germany and America Since 1900. Related to that, I’ve also edited a series of historical readers’ companions for a variety of fantasy and science fiction series.
Fandoms emerged alongside the rise of pulp fiction and mass commercial entertainments during the late 19th and early twentieth centuries; the word “fandom” was first used in print in 1903. Although fan communities emerged around sports teams, film and music celebrities, and other commercial entertainments, I am most interested in the development of literary fandoms and (sometimes linked to or overlapping) historically-focused fandoms during the 20th century, and their transition to online communities after the 1980s. Early literary fandoms grew around pulp fiction genres, including detective fiction (especially the Sherlock Holmes stories), science fiction, and Westerns. In these groups, fans participated in many ways; parsing and analyzing their “canon”; recreating scenes and artifacts from the stories; publishing essays and stories that reframed and retold the original stories; creating fan art in a wide variety of media. In each case, their communities used new media formats that emerged in later decades, but also altered and adapted in ways that reflected broader social and political changes. In writing my book, I narrowed my focus to the fandoms rooted in one type of genre literature (Westerns), but these communities show many parallels to other literary fandoms.
Re-Living the American Frontier asks: why have the historic and mythic elements of the Old West exerted a global fascination for more than 200 years; how have fans used, understood, and repurposed stories and artifacts set in that historic world; and how did their fandoms alter over time, reflecting political and social change? My book discusses the differences and similarities in how white Americans and Europeans saw the West and Indigenous cultures, and the fan communities that they built around Western stories, particularly those of best-selling German author Karl May and Laura Ingalls Wilder. In both Germany and the U.S., Western historical narratives based on what was seen as the “inevit
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Recently, I've been cooking a lot of Chinese food, and I have noticed that with recipes written in Chinese, exact measurements are rarely provided. Instead, the recipe will usually provide a broad statement like "a large amount" or "high heat". From what I have seen, this is also the case with many other recipes that originate outside the "Western" sphere.
In contrast, recipes from Western countries almost always seem to include exact quantities (e.g. 500g of chicken breast, cook at 200 C). Is this a real difference in approaches to cooking? If so, how did it originate and how has it developed?
( P.S : PEACE CORP organisation members are NOT included. 🛑 it is NOT a religious organisation !)
🛑🛑 Many people didn t get the point here ! The problem here is NOT converting people or either the religion whatever it is itself, BUT the way and the manipulation they use to get you into it ( especially YWAM members ) :
-DON'T add Moroccans on social media, create new account special for the targeted people ! Or tell them we only use whatsapp ! !! -DON T let them take pictures of you ! Or if you do don t send them ! -Let alone the racist comment you overhear ( and these are mostly heard from US Ywamers from little towns )
I honestly don t mind what they do ! But I hate how they manipulate the targeted people ! ( they make you think you are their best friend when you re not ) !
I've always heard or misheard about John Wayne westerns being very insensitive in their portrayal of Native Americans. So far I've watched 12 of his westerns and that's barely scratching the surface but I've noticed that he's often the voice of reason in those movies. In Fort Apache he respects the Indians and wants to negotiate with them whilst Henry Fonda comes off as an absolute dumbass. Then there's Hondo where he is even part-Indian and has lived among them. This certainly made me think that surely that must've been how he viewed Native Americans.
John Wayne himself has made some insensitive comments for Playboy in the past about Native Americans being greedy about not sharing their land with the settlers. Those comments are certainly wrong but his westerns don't seem to reflect them. Is this because Hollywood westerns moved away from the classic good cowboys and very evil Indians trope as Wayne became a star? Or is this a case of Wayne having different opinions to the films he starred in? Or perhaps he did respect them and just held wrongful beliefs about them being greedy? Are there any westerns of his that do the "cowboys & Indians" trope in which Wayne's character comes off as a bigot to the modern audience? I think it's an interesting discussion. Maybe someone who's seen more of his westerns than I have could chime in on some examples of his westerns that are less progressive and treat Natvie Americans in an outdated manner.
I just thought about it, and I think it's because it has two adjectives (?). It feels like an incomplete sentence.
"This object is extremely dangerously".
"Extremely dangerously WHAT?"
It doesn't apply to say, the Western Bulldogs in the AFL, because that name resolves with a noun.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
EDIT: I also appreciate the fact that there's a typo in my title. Muphry's Law in action.
