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    What are the different ways stories are told in Ceremony? Find and explain an example of two of the following four: 1. Stories told in memory. 2. Stories inscribed in the landscape. 3. Stories told in mythological time. 4. Stories understood differently by different people. Please respond in a word document by Wednesday. In Ceremony‚ stories are told by memory. His memories are both painful and healing in a way. Painful in the sense that remember Josiah and Rocky makes Tayo feel sad‚ guilty‚ angry

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    friends‚ loved ones‚ anyone‚ fall to human hands. This brutal pain transcends the war itself‚ reaching for victims long after the war has ended. It evolves into a sickness‚ one that is not so easily cured by doctors. Tayo‚ in Leslie Marmon Silko’s‚ Ceremony‚ is haunted by this mind-ravaging mental disease after fighting and struggling for too long in the Japanese jungles. He returns to America‚ no longer a war hero‚ but as the scarred Native who is back to falling prey under the rule of the white community

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    Ceremony novel is full of emotions from the beginning to the end. It started with the trauma of Tayo when he thought he was shooting crowd of Japanese soldiers‚ in which his uncle Josiah was among. This novel portrayed the fearful feeling people show to change. For instance‚ the Night Swan showed a level of prejudice when she described some interracial relationships as “fools”. Also‚ this expression reveal the ignorance of the community toward mixed ethnic group. The lack of appreciation toward earth

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    Informative Speech Study Drugs and College Students I. Introduction A. Attention Getter: "I reached into my backpack‚ grabbed an Adderall‚ and went to the bathroom. I smashed it on the bathroom sink and snorted it. I went back to my class and zipped through the rest of my exam‚ and it made all the difference." This student incident was found in a 2005 article published by Baylor University on the alarming use of “study drugs.” B. Thesis: Many of you may be unfamiliar with such a topic‚

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    Welcome to Lebanon high school “ Welcome to Lebanon High school “ . Emily Gipson‚ a 16-year-old ‚ made the 5 minute‚ 38 second video titled "Welcome to Lebanon High School‚" which was recorded inside a Lebanon High classroom. The video passed 600‚000 views‚ just over a week after it was posted Jan. 22. Gipson begins the video saying: “Welcome to Lebanon High School. Where I walk down blank hallways every day. Where students walk down blank hallways every day." The video comes after

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    Alice Walker who wrote “The Welcome Table” had issues of race and gender that was the center of her literary work and her social activism. She participated in civil rights demonstrations. (Clugston 2010). This short story has a theme of life and death. It shows the plot of the story‚ the point of view and has symbolism used to show the death of the old woman and what the church members thought of her as a black woman. (Clugston‚ 2010‚ Section 7.1 and 7.2) Later in the story‚ she is walking

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    “Frost Point‚ welcome home.” This is what I hear every year for a month. Growing up as an army brat my family moved around a lot. This was the same for my uncle and cousins. It took years for either of our families to find a forever home. During this early time in my life there was only one place that never changed. Frost Point. My grandmother‚ aunts‚ uncles‚ cousins and parents gather with their 12 children to Rideau Ferry‚ Ontario‚ Canada every summer for a month. Every few years my home would

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    Why Wedding Ceremony is Such a Big Event? “Will you love and honor each other as husband and wife all the days of your lives” Introduction As part of the society and culture‚ the tradition especially in wedding ceremonies had fallen into the categories of social anthropology. Wedding traditions is the mirror of the culture‚ and believe it or not‚ a mirror of bank accounts. With the evolving world of modernization‚ the spirit and values of marriage is still in the ceremony‚ and the wedding rings

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    I. [Attention Getter] Did you know in 1971 the US college education cost only $500 (cnbc.com). A. Today even our books cost more than that. According to the College Board‚ the average cost of tuition for the 2016-17 year was around $34000 (collegeboard.com). B. Tuition is increasing at a fast rate; in 2005 public college tuition took up about 35% of a typical family’s income but now costs the equivalent of 47% (time.com). II. [Establish Controversy] The total student loan debt in the US as of

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    Page 1 Leslie Silko’s Storyteller Response After reading the passage Storyteller by Leslie Silko‚ I have become more aware of the conceptual terms brought to us while reading and discussing in class. Cultural assimilation plays a huge part in Native American culture and still occurs today within tribes and families. Acculturation‚ similar to cultural assimilation depicts cultural interactions as happening at different levels and directions. In this response‚ I will analyze both of these

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