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This is a good artifact and these are two good texts for your final paper. As you develop this research paper, think about what these texts have in common. How do these texts and this artifact illuminate something about American identity or American culture before 1865. It seems to me, these illustrate an interest in Protestantism - the emerging branch of Christianity that emphasizes the believer's experience and their relationship to the Bible (as distinct from worship in the Catholic Church or even the Anglican Church). How is "American" identity being positioned as an encounter with God and the Word of God?   

An encounter is two groups of different cultures meeting; two cultures meeting in America are the Indians and the whites.

These encounters started as early as the late 1400s. We are studying encounters up to the 1900s.  Military, political, economic, religious things are all part of cultural encounters.  Also one of the most important is Art. I mean all of the arts.   

An encounter is either positive or negative. What will happen if the encounter is positive? They will want to learn about each other’s similarities. They also share land, belongings, and food. If the encounter is negative wars for many reasons would start. Reasons include different views about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; distrust of friendship is a way they can have differences.

In this course we are leaning about texts written when all of these encounters were happening. We are looking for answers to why and how we made the decisions with the connections we sought after. 

1.  Doing a Close Reading (10pts)

1. Select one passage from your text (the text you've chosen for the final paper) and do a close reading (3-5 paragraphs). The close reading should tie into the theme for the paper. 

2.  Making Connections: texts and artifacts (10pts)

1. Think about the course theme of American encounters. In 3-5 paragraphs, discuss how you see this theme (or some other theme from the course) developing in both your artifact and one of your primary texts 

Edgar Allen Poe wrote the cask of Amontillado  

1. https://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/symploke/v007/7.1-2davis-undiano.html  secondary source/ connections with Poe and Freemasons

2. http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/p/poes-short-stories/critical-essays/poes-critical-theories  Poe's view of literature and life/ Poe's Romantic Lit.

3. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/edgar-allan-poe-about-edgar-allan-poe/681/     Poe's work deeply involved reality and human desires 

4. http://www.poemuseum.org/about-treasures.php - go here to find artifacts for Poe.

5. http://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2015/07/freemasons-in-america     Whistle blower William Morgan