The United States continually reuses the western narrative as a uniquely white American concept. In almost every case‚ they mean a “white wild west” with Native Americans as a single people being the antagonist. Through these stories‚ the United States’ cultural values that so many of the population idealize are created and reaffirmed in these stereotypical narratives. In reality‚ the West was never completely white at all; rather‚ the West had people from all walks of life living and trying to succeed
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Tamarah Phillips SOS: Creative Writing Reader Response # 3 Ranch Girl by Maile Meloy from Contemporary American Short Fiction The story is told in second person‚ which gives the reader a sense of being in the story‚ at the same time being an observer. It begins with telling you where you stand in the socio-economics’ and in the eyes of your peers. “If you’re white‚ and you’re not rich or poor but somewhere in the middle‚ it’s hard to have worse luck than be born a girl on the Ranch
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Table of Content Table of Content ...................................................................................................................................... 2 Film Viewing ............................................................................................................................................ 3 Film Information .................................................................................................................................. 3 Short Film Explanation
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border control has loosened. Advocates for an open border argue that immigrants coming to the United United States illegally are all good people who do not commit crime. However the true facts are best summed up by Breit Bart’s website‚ “Criminal aliens accounted for 38% of all murder convictions in the five states of California‚
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Amanda Carter May 12‚ 2010 Thrower – Eng131 The World’s a Cage Most of us grew up taking family trips to the circus‚ zoo‚ marine parks or rodeos. Seeing animals held captive for human amusement was part of life. We never questioned it. While it is assumed that all humans‚ unless they have committed crimes against society‚ deserve freedom‚ we are not used to making that assumption for members of other species. We should ask ourselves why not. What have the animals in a zoo or marine
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Westward Expansion before 19th Century American history was powerfully influenced throughout the 19th century by the steady push west and the development of the Western frontier. This began of course with the establishment of the first English colonies beginning with Jamestown (1607). At the time the Western Frontier was just a few miles up the James River. Gradually the Western Frontier was seen as the Appalachian Mountains. The British effort to close off the land beyond the Appalachians was one
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families with excessive members or even those excited "soon-to-be" families with a newborn on the way. But what if I were to tell you that in 2008‚ out of these "soon-to-be"mothers "eight percent...we’re illegal aliens" (502)? Our founding fathers would encourage us to welcome these "aliens" as they had accepted those wanting to experience democracy and escape from tyrannical rule‚ however most U.S. "natives" nowadays would be anything but welcoming. As Americans‚ we pride ourselves on our democratic
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Education for Alien Minors Act (DREAM Act)‚ is a proposed bipartisan legislation that is meant to provide amnesty and relief for many young persons who came to the US unwillingly. Senator Orin Harten (R-UT) and Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) pioneered this legislation. (Dreamact.info) Although a Republican is involved in pioneering this legislation‚ the majority of the party has strongly rejected the DREAM Act. The DREAM Act is a bill that “would provide certain illegal and deportable alien students who
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Illegal immigration “Education Benefits for Illegals?”‚ written by Ralph P. Anderson‚ discusses weather or not offer free education to the children of illegal aliens. The author expressed his view for the government should not provide free education to the illegal children because of lack of education fee and space for these children. In this case‚ different people hold different views about whether or not denying free education to the children of illegal immigrants. Some people
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“ We need to know who’s in the United States. We need to know everyone who’s in the United States that comes in here from a foreign country. And we have to separate the ones who are dangerous from the ones who aren’t. To accomplish that‚ we need a fence. We need a technological fence. We need a border patrol.” - Rudy Giuliani What more should America do to protect her borders? I think to protect our borders we should Improve everything that out border patrol security does. Secondly‚ we need to improve
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