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==Close Reading== | ==Close Reading== | ||
| − | + | Nine issues of Scribner's Magazine highlight Theodore Roosevelt's journals of his hunting expedition in Africa. Our close reading analyses both his writing and its effect on the rest of the magazine | |
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| − | In each of the issues of the series, his articles precede all other authors besides the many pages of advertisements. Typically, he begins with a geographic description of his location which continued throughout the issues highlighting the different towns, villages, and tribes he and his troop interacted with. However, it was never more than a fleeting reference to the people. His greater focus was on the many different hunts he conducted. In the series, Roosevelt chronicles many of their daily forays which lead them to much less inhabited regions. He waxes eloquently about the multitude of creatures he kills with a fervor that may have sparked the endangerment of many species in Africa | + | In each of the issues of the series, his articles precede all other authors besides the many pages of advertisements. Typically, he begins with a geographic description of his location which continued throughout the issues highlighting the different towns, villages, and tribes he and his troop interacted with. However, it was never more than a fleeting reference to the people. His greater focus was on the many different hunts he conducted. In the series, Roosevelt chronicles many of their daily forays which lead them to much less inhabited regions. He waxes eloquently about the multitude of creatures he kills with a fervor that may have sparked the endangerment of many species in Africa. |
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As the former president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt was a very influential figure and his influence can be seen within the pages of Scribner's Magazine. Scribner's advertised Theodore's journals within the advertising sections every issue. They also contain many advertisements for guns and hunting supplies, especially in the latter issues. While the first few issues might contain on average one or two gun ads, the last ones contained up to three. | As the former president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt was a very influential figure and his influence can be seen within the pages of Scribner's Magazine. Scribner's advertised Theodore's journals within the advertising sections every issue. They also contain many advertisements for guns and hunting supplies, especially in the latter issues. While the first few issues might contain on average one or two gun ads, the last ones contained up to three. | ||
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| − | Advertisements change. We observed an increase in the amount of advertisements for rifles and shotguns in the later issues. | + | Advertisements change. We observed an increase in the amount of advertisements for rifles and shotguns in the later issues. |
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| + | Though no other articles in the magazine directly referenced ''The African Trails'' for the killings which took place, the effects of the image created by a former president of the United States killing thousands of big game animals in the African wild cannot be ignored as many of these animals are currently heavily endangered. | ||
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