visits her friends‚ who are not the same people they were before the disaster. The question is‚ how long can Miranda and her family survive with minimal water‚ a dwindling food supply‚ no heat or electricity‚ and subzero temperatures? When so many people are giving up hope‚ starving‚ and dying of diseases we rarely get‚ Miranda is still clinging to normality. She still wants to date Dan‚ her swimming teammate‚ and she fights with her mother about her father and brothers. During this time of disaster
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Indian Education In the short story “Indian Education” by Sherman Alexie‚ the narrator’s life parallels Alexie’s in many ways. The narrator of this story is a boy named Victor who lives on a reservation with his two parents. Like Victor‚ Alexie grew up on a reservation in the state of Washington. Both boys were teased and bullied by their fellow classmates and initially decided to go to school outside of their reservation for greater educational opportunities. “Indian Education” follows an Indian
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Sherman Alexie‚ the author of “Indian Education” writes from his personal experiences as a Native American. He writes about his experience in school at both a Native American school and a white school. His life was greatly influenced by his heritage‚ which led to his writings being influenced by it too. He writes straight from his life and how he felt during that time or event. In “Indian Education”‚ it is evident he writes straight from his life‚ because he does not only write about the good moments
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Danielle Henderson Lamar 1101 Ms. Comer November 13‚ 2012 My Insight on “Flight” Flight by Sherman Alexie was an empowering novel about a boy‚ named Zit‚ who in my opinion never experienced true love. He learned how to shut down and not feel any type of emotion. He learned that if you don’t love anybody then they wouldn’t be able to hurt you‚ if you don’t give your trust to people they wouldn’t be able to deceive you. Zit is fifteen and for the past nine years he has from careless family member
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In the text “Green World” by Sherman Alexie‚ windmills were built outside of a small town on a Native American reservation. The windmills were responsible for killing birds and the tribe hired a man to go out to the twelve windmills and pick up the mangled bodies of the birds. At first‚ the man could not complete his job without being physically sick at the sight of the disfigured bodies‚ but as the job progresses‚ the man becomes desensitized to the situation. One day‚ an elderly Native American
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The narrator is a small‚ disfigured‚ and disproportionate child who is nicknamed Junior. The book’s main theme is about education in Native American youth. Aside from the page by page cartoons and the enthusiasm on adolescent youth humor‚ the book is essentially about the transformation that Junior undergoes by switching from a Spokane Native American Reservational school to a private caucasian “White” school. There is a particular chapter
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“Indian Education” by Sherman Alexie In the article title “Indian Education”‚ by Sherman Alexie. He attends a junior high school and a farm town high school close-by. “Indian Education‚” follows him through junior high school all the way through high school. He experience being bullied and also stereotype by junior high teachers. Alexie suffers punishment by his teacher where he attends the tribal school on the Spokane reservation. She put him to stand facing the wall with his hands up‚ holding books
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Personal anecdotes and repetition are featured very predominantly in Sherman Alexie’s ‘The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me’ to stress the challenges that Alexie had to overcome to not be a stereotype. Alexie immediately begins his essay with a story about Superman comics‚ while some readers may find it to be an unfitting addition to his essay‚ but it actually serves to address the limited resources for early education that he had. It is crucial to address that point so readers could
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The Devil We Knew: Americans and the Cold War H.W. Brands’ book was a pretty solid read. It provided a different outlook on the Cold War‚ as it sought to show that it was not merely an American victory over "communism" and the Russians. There was far more to the Cold War than most Americans would care to admit‚ but Brands puts it out there for the reader to take in. Brands’ purpose for writing this book was to inform the reader of actions taken before‚ during‚ and after the Cold War. After
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Life As We Knew It Time was running out. Stakes were high. It was supposed to be a particular day for everyone including Miranda‚ a typical teenage girl. As usual‚ she went to school‚ then went home with the knowledge that an asteroid was to hit the moon later in the day. At first‚ nothing seemed to have happen until a noise almost like a sonic boom erupted from the sky. The moon appeared closer than ever in an eerie‚ unnatural sort of way. Almost suddenly‚ Earth was hit with tornadoes‚ tsunamis
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