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"The Lake Gun" is a satirical short story by James Fenimore Cooper first published in 1850. [1] The short story was commissioned by George E. Wood for $100, and published in a miscellany titled The Parthenon. [1] It was reprinted in Specimens of American Literature in New York in 1866.
It also explores the national mythology surrounding "the hunter" which romanticised figures like Daniel Boone and gun use during the period when the U.S. was "committing genocide against Native Americans." [1]: p.26 Chapter Six looks into the ways that the Second Amendment, especially the right to bear arms, is treated like a "God-given ...
American Civil War alternate histories; A Rebel in Time, another Civil War alternate history involving time travel and a racist sending advanced weapons to the Confederacy. "Still Valley", a The Twilight Zone episode focusing on the Civil War. Southern Victory, a series of books by Turtledove focused on a Confederate victory and its aftermath.
The post has been liked more than 700,000 times. Followers commended the poet for putting their feelings of grief, fear and anger into words. "Grateful for your words when words feel impossible ...
I’m sorry. I thought you didn’t care about our sick gun culture because the victims were so often black. After Michigan State, I’ve reconsidered.
Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
[1] Suspense novelist Richard North Patterson referred to the book as a "lucid and penetrating study" and lauded it as "essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the tragedy of gun violence in America". [2] Richard F. Corlin, a past president of the American Medical Association, stated that "Hemenway has produced a masterwork ...
[1] [2] The book was ranked by critics as one of the top books of the year, it was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than 10 weeks, and it won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, the Bancroft Prize for history, the National Book Award and the Hillman Prize. [3] It was published in paperback in 1973 by Vintage Books. [4]