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Sheffield, Caroline C.; Carano, Kenneth T.; Berson, Michael J. – Social Education, 2008
This article describes the Frank Reade dime novels, published in 1882, that are now recognized as the beginnings of the modern science fiction novel in the United States. They illustrate the hope that Americans of the time held for the future that newly invented technology could offer. Although the Frank Reade stories highlighted the promise of…
Descriptors: Literary Genres, Science Fiction, Novels, Social Studies
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Adjaye, Joseph K. – Journal of Ethnic Studies, 1987
The perception and organization of time are basic to the internal ordering of culture. This article demonstrates that the Akan observe precise time structures although these are largely unrecorded. Their time related institutions form a coherent system that orders life, but they are very different from those in Western perceptions. (Author/VM)
Descriptors: African Culture, Cultural Activities, Cultural Context, Cultural Influences