The Effect of Learning
Two authors that were able to develop initiative about the erudition manner were Walker Percy's "The Loss of the Creature" and Jane Tompkin's "'Indian': Textualism, Morality, and Problem of History." Percy believes that learning through media, we cannot clear up the entire concept of material without any doubt. He believes that we perceive the experience as first-hand accounts allowing us to wrap-up the entire concept. Tompkins notices that learning things through frameworks of resources can sometimes make the reader question whether the information that is presented is accurate or not. She notices that the first-hand account could easily cause the distraction and make reader unable to understand the whole concept. Both believe that we all want to find a better way of learning to be able fulfill the true meaning of what we are looking forward to.
Jane Tompkins, author of "'Indians': Textualism, Morality, and Problem of History," questions the validity of every history book and most facts that have been written.
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Percy Williams of Canada (right) competing in the ...
Percy Williams of Canada on the shoulders of his t...She first writes her perspective as a small child and her own young understanding of American Indians. In the first part of her essay she speaks about her knowledge of Indians when she was a child and how she decided to investigate their history. Then, in the second part of her essay, she tells us about research she did on Indians. She looked at many sources, such as first or second-hand accounts. She quickly realized that historians have different points of view. As far as she was moving forward in her research, she was really confused as to whom to believe because they have opposite stories. She sometimes became upset because there was no unity among them. Everybody relates the same episode in different ways with contradictory opinions. And finally in her conclusion...