n “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” by Sherman Alexie‚ the main character is a homeless Native American Indian who came to Seattle to go to college and quit after two semesters. Alexie creates a world where the protagonist seems to find help from every turn that he makes. Setting The setting is the 1990’s in Seattle. Jackson Jackson is a Spokane Indian. According to Jackson Squared‚ his "people have lived within a one-hundred-mile radius of Spokane‚ Washington‚ for ten thousand years." Several
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“You need to go to college if you want to succeed in life.” This is the statement that most parents tell their kids in that final year of high school or even sooner. While teenagers are enjoying their final days of high school‚ parents are focusing on the next step. Most of them want their kids to go to a good college and obtain a good education in order to be “successful in life‚” but is this really the case. There is a lot of talk about successful people that didn’t go to college or simply drop
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CELTA assignment 3 Lead-in: Discuss the General Topic A PPT showing the pictures of the ‘bad habits’ from the lesson‚ students work in pairs and discuss what the ‘bad habits’ are and who in their family do such things. After the pair work‚ check with the whole class and see if they have figured out all the vocabulary that they will need in the later parts of the lesson. By doing this activity‚ on the one hand‚ students have the first chance to get familiar with issues that will be mentioned
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I’m Nobody! Who are you?”(poets.org). As I grew up I started to vanish more and more from the outside world. I was never married nor had any kids‚ this is because I for the most part lived in the isolation of my parents peaceful homestead. My older brother William and wife Susan were my main source of social communication due to my lack of connection with the outside world. After my parents death and many major happenings‚ I took it upon myself to stay at home and compile a stack of hundreds of handwritten
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The song‚ I Know I Can"‚ by raper Nas‚ has a positive message that encourages people‚ but mainly children to work hard and stay in school‚ so that they can be what they want to eb in life. his song’s lyrics instill a certain pride‚ fight and determination in the listener to go out and better themselves. From the begingging the song tell children who wants to become a singers or actors to just deal with the positive influence with it and not the negative things about the business. Nas tell the listener
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escape. He uses the examples such as “in the sticks”‚ “unglamorous marriage”‚ and “played out game” to emphasize his point. People fear being in the sticks because it is distant and inaccessible‚ where you are forgotten. You’re excommunicated from society and no one would know or care about you. An unglamorous marriage would imply an unhappy future‚ since marriage is a desirable concept in which a person would have to dedicate their lives to. Fate is already determined in a played out game.
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1010 Things I Hate About You is a American film that is an Shakespearean adaptation‚ one version of The Taming of the Shrew. The film begins in an American high school and then Kat‚ the main character‚ appears. She is a intelligent and attractive girl; the problem is that she has a sister and their overprotective father will just let the youngest date just when Kat gets a boyfriend. The sister‚ Bianca Stratford‚ is following a popular handsome and rich guy in school‚ Joey Donner. He also gets interested
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becomes His nurturer‚ His protector‚ His mother‚ She is his Messiah! 9. Because I Love You Because I love you‚ I don’t mind being patient‚ Because I love you‚ I don’t mind taking naivety‚ Because I love you‚ You are all that I ever think‚ Because I love you‚ I have begun dreaming again‚ Because I love you‚ I have learnt to live with the pain‚ Because I love you‚ I have become compassionate‚ Because I love you‚ I am who I am ! 10. Is This Me? Beads of her thoughts‚ vigorous and profound; Entwined
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In Sherman Alexie’s‚ “What You Pawn I Will Redeem‚” an alcoholic‚ homeless Indian sets out on a quest to win back his grandmother’s stolen regalia. The main character and narrator‚ Jackson Jackson‚ stumbles upon his stolen family heirloom in a pawnshop window and proceeds to spend the next day trying to earn enough money to buy it back. The pawnshop owner tells him he will sell it back to him for $999 and that he has 24 hours to come up with the money. Jackson gains small amounts of money here and
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the 1600’s can still have a strong meaning 400 years later. The poem “I Have News for You‚” by Tony Hoagland is a very recent poem‚
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