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CHAPTER III RESEARCH OBJECT AND METHOD
3.1 Research Object
The opening of American West entitled Undaunted Courage by Stephen E. Ambrose was used as the subject of the research. The object of this research
was colonization.
3.2 Research Method
Analytic descriptive method was used in the research. It is used to answer the research questions and describe the data taken from the essay to be analyzed
using the Post-Colonial theory. Metode deskriptif analitik dilakukan dengan cara mendeskripsikan
fakta-fakta yang kemudian disusul dengan analisis. Secara etimologis deskriptif dan analisis berarti menguraikan, tetapi telah
diberi makna tambahan yang tidak hanya mengurakan melainkan juga memberikan pemahaman dan penjelasan secukupnya.Kutha
Ratna, 2006, p. 53
3.3 Data Collection
I collect data that were found related with the colonization. During the process the data were classified into several parts related with the materials.
The
data are collected based on particular category such as colonization symptoms, culture, politic and economic systems.
3.4 Data Analysis
The data samples were analyzed throughout some issues, such as politic, economics and culture as colonization symptoms or things that led colonization.
Those data were gathered and classified into particular issues. Data next would be analyzed by using the post-colonial theory of Trinh Minh-Ha and Jenny Sharpe.
The scheme below will strengthen the steps of this research:
Figure 2 The process of collecting and analyzing data
Reading Undaunted Courage
Finding out the colonization in the text
Classifying issues
Trinh T Minh- Ha and Jenny Sharpe’s Theory
Analyzing
Authentication of the theory
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CHAPTER IV FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
In this chapter, the writer was presenting the finding and corresponding discussions of the data. The finding of white American and Indian
tribes’ conditions before the expedition were presented in section 4.1, and the
colonization issues were presented in section 4.2.
4.1. The Condition of White American and Indian Tribes
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