Puritans and Native Americans
What scholars call the "captivity narrative" has had a remarkable life of its own in American culture: stories about this kind of "captivity" continued to be told as entertainment, in Hollywood films like "The Searchers" or "Dances With Wolves," long after anyone had been abducted by a Native American tribe and held captive. It is worth inquiring why this particular type of story maintains its fascination for an American audience, by returning to where these narratives first came from, and how they were told in the centuries before Hollywood movies existed. In Colonial America, the life of Mary Rowlandson presents an excellent way to examine the clash of cultures. Rowlandson was born in England but came to New England as a Puritan colonist: she was then abducted during the "First Indian War" and held for several months before a ransom was paid and she was released to her husband. An examination of certain facts about Rowlandson's story may enable us to better understand the colonial "clash of cultures" in its larger historical context.
The title-page of Rowlandson's own account of her kidnapping, which was published in 1682, identifies her as "A Minister's Wife in New-England," and it is this fact that governs the way the colonists understood the clash of cultures. The title-page advertises an account of "the Cruel and Inhumane Usage she underwent amongst the Heathens, for Eleven Weeks time" but it also advertises the "Last Sermon" preached by the author's husband, the Reverend Joseph Rowlandson. The subject of that "last sermon" is "the Possibility of God's Forsaking a People that have been near and dear to him." It is crucial to understand the cultural peculiarity of the Puritans that were colonizing New England at this time to understand why Mary Rowlandson's story should be told in this way. Faery...
Culture pervasiveness and the difficulty of defining it is one of the reasons why it is attributed for many merger failures. The problem considered in this study was the unstable operating environment that existed following the acquisition of INTEC Engineering by Worley Parsons which was likely caused by differences in organizational cultures. WorleyParsons acquired SEA Engineering in 2007 and INTEC Engineering April 2008 and combined these organizations to form INTECSEA.
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