On 4/12/02 11:25:00 AM, Drew Laiche wrote:
>On 4/10/02 3:14:00 PM, Michelle Mc
>Clintick wrote:
>>I do not believe Thompkins got what she
>>had intended on getting from her
>>research paper, but I think she came out
>>with a much bigger picture of truth.
>>She discovered truth sometimes does not
>>exist, and perception does. Thompkins
>>probably intended on just writing a
>>research paper, when really she learned
>>a much more important experience. She
>>was able to learn what truth really is.
>>Maybe Thompkins did not realize at first
>>how much she had learned through her
>>research paper on Indians because she
>>really did not have any information that
>>she knew as truth. However, Thompkins
>>wrote a perfect research paper because
>>it showed many different views.
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>
>Truth always exists, by the individual
>trully taking that perspective.

I agree that she wrote a great paper, but I think that to have a truely great paper what I feel she needed to do was maybe to take the time and meet some real native americans and see what their perceptions of life was like. To me she seemed to be only interested in pulling a bunch of perceptions together from authors of books that they beleave to be factual, although truth is based on perceptions; I personally feel that in order to get all the information needed to do a paper on a subject like this, she should have consolted some people who know what it is like to be native american and listen to the stories that have been handed down from on generation to the next, for in fact their is some truth to every thing.