In “The Earth on Turtle’s Back” there is a generous attempt in helping the Chief’s wife. When the ancient Chief pulled up the Grand Tree‚ there was a hole in which the Chief’s wife fell in. The plot of the story was to simply help the woman that fell from the Skyland to step on ground in the waters. Many animals helped to dive into the deep waters to find earth. The setting of the story was in the Skyland’s and in the waters. The action was ordered from the woman falling into the waters. Two birds
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Polingaysi Qoyawayma is a great Hopi leader. Polingaysi is dealing with a straggle to live between two worlds‚ her Hopi culture and the Christian culture. Polingaysi is an author of two books called "No Turning Back" and "The Sun Girl". The book "No Turning Back” is an autobiography of her and how it was like living in Old Oraibi. The book "The Sun Girl" is an old folk tale about a young girl wanting to know what is outside of her village. Polingaysi was told this story when she was a little girl
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A flood of memories instantly came back to me. I had written this piece when I was five years old‚ winning an Illinois Reflections award for the composition. Playing the song transported me back to my kindergarten years‚ which I spent trapped inside a classroom with a teacher that clearly didn’t want me to be there. I remember staring down at a lined sheet of paper
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Samantha Delgado Mrs. Shreiner English III: American Literature 9/27/13 When Turtles Walked Upright!? The Earth on Grizzly’s Back!? In the Native American origin myths “Earth on Turtle’s Back” by the Onondaga and “When Grizzlies Walked Upright” by the Modoc many cultural values are revealed. In both stories the indigenous people are able to give insight as to how they feel life begins and their religious beliefs. By doing so they reveal details about their tribes that otherwise would have remained
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The World on the Turtle’s back is an appealing story written by an Iroquois; is about a woman and what could happen when if she did not do what she was supposed to do. But most importantly the story is to teach and inform the younger people how the people were in Native American times. One way he showed how they were is by using literary devices in his short story‚ or in other words: creation myth. First and foremost‚ the Iroquois use allusions to Native American tradition gender roles
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Narrative Essay My Childhood… “Looking back on a childhood filled with events and memories‚ I find it rather difficult to pick on that leaves me with the fabled “warm and fuzzy feelings.” As a first daughter of a workaholic man‚ I actually felt the little sadness of being a child. When my father got home from his work‚ it was always late in the evening and when I wake-up early in the morning‚ his still sleeping until my School Bus comes. It always happened. But when he’s on vacation‚ he never fails
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“Pray the Devil Back to Hell.” Recently we watched “Pray the Devil Back to Hell” in English class. A few of the social issues addressed were: poverty‚ peace and women’s rights. The women were so fed up with how their president has been treating everyone. He got young children to run around with guns and hurt innocent people. Everyone was so below poverty that children were starving to death and there was nothing the parents could do because they themselves were starving. The women wanted so badly
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To the uninitiated‚ the significance of Flannery O ’Connor ’s Parker ’s Back can seem at once cold and dispassionate‚ as well as almost absurdly stark and violent. Her short stories routinely end in horrendous‚ freak fatalities or‚ at the very least‚ a character ’s emotional devastation. Flannery O ’Connor is a Christian writer‚ and her work is message-oriented‚ yet she is far too brilliant a stylist to tip her hand; like all good writers‚ crass didacticism is abhorrent to her. Unlike some more cryptic
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As a wife‚ daughter and mother of two thinking of going back to school was a hard decision. I have many obligations to fulfil‚ but I knew that taking that time get my career would be worth all the struggles that would come. Deciding to further my education was important to me because I wanted to pursue my career with a job that I can enjoy. It is very exciting to think that I will be working on getting my degree and that it will pay off in the future‚ but if I cannot manage my time or have people
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I Ain’t Comin Back After reading this short story‚ I ain’t comin back‚ by Dolphus Weary‚ I have such a different type of appreciation for what I have. My outlook on poverty‚ my lifestyle‚ and what I take for granted has all changed. I see poverty as a very real‚ scary‚ and possible thing for all of us. We‚ as a nation‚ should realize how lucky we are to be living in nation that is free. Free to do ultimately whatever we please. I have always learned about poverty and what the blacks had to deal
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