Fools Crow Research Paper
Fools Crow Research Paper
"They should have seen it coming": Irony in James Welch’s Fools Crow
High expectations and overconfidence can almost always lead to disappoint. Hindsight biases shed light on the show the clues and signs that made a certain outcome occur before it happened afterward. The hindsight bias is that “I knew it all along” phenomenon that is only ever stated after all the facts have been presented. The basic example of the hindsight bias is when after seeing the outcome of a possible unforeseeable event a person then believes he or she "knew it all along". Historical events upon deep review all show many signs of the ticking bomb that slowly led to what seemed like a spontaneous explosion that underneath have a complex expansive list of motives that provoked it. For instance, Great Depression in review wasn’t one bad stock market crash that spiralled into a huge economic shut down but the result of many factors. Over Speculation of stock and land, overproduction of goods and unregulated banking were just some of many factors at play that now in hindsight seem like obvious red flags but at the time they went unnoticed by most. World War One may seem to have been immediately caused by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand but the long term background of imperialism, militarism, nationalism and intense alliances were really the factors that led up to war, historians and students alike can review information from that time and scholarly work and create a hindsight biased of each factor and what it actually led to yet at the time leading up to actual war it was much harder to tell because the future as so unclear.
The destruction of Native American culture by invading europeans and the eventual adaptation and simulation of Western culture in hindsight was a completely foreseeable and inevitable tragedy that even the possibility went ignored until it was far too late. James Welch’s Fools Crow is an in depth depiction of the Native
"They should have seen it coming": Irony in James Welch’s Fools Crow
High expectations and overconfidence can almost always lead to disappoint. Hindsight biases shed light on the show the clues and signs that made a certain outcome occur before it happened afterward. The hindsight bias is that “I knew it all along” phenomenon that is only ever stated after all the facts have been presented. The basic example of the hindsight bias is when after seeing the outcome of a possible unforeseeable event a person then believes he or she "knew it all along". Historical events upon deep review all show many signs of the ticking bomb that slowly led to what seemed like a spontaneous explosion that underneath have a complex expansive list of motives that provoked it. For instance, Great Depression in review wasn’t one bad stock market crash that spiralled into a huge economic shut down but the result of many factors. Over Speculation of stock and land, overproduction of goods and unregulated banking were just some of many factors at play that now in hindsight seem like obvious red flags but at the time they went unnoticed by most. World War One may seem to have been immediately caused by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand but the long term background of imperialism, militarism, nationalism and intense alliances were really the factors that led up to war, historians and students alike can review information from that time and scholarly work and create a hindsight biased of each factor and what it actually led to yet at the time leading up to actual war it was much harder to tell because the future as so unclear.
The destruction of Native American culture by invading europeans and the eventual adaptation and simulation of Western culture in hindsight was a completely foreseeable and inevitable tragedy that even the possibility went ignored until it was far too late. James Welch’s Fools Crow is an in depth depiction of the Native