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    I wanted to ask you again. Since it has been almost six years since I have set foot in your classroom‚ I need to ask: “what is good writing?”. I mostly wanted to talk to you about Sherman Alexie’s essay Indian Education‚ and why I believe that this story is good writing. And how Alexie ’s demonstrates content and form perfectly by creating a story that any English teacher would and should have given willingly an “A” to. First off‚ Indian Education pushes the boundaries of what constitutes what

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    Compare and Contrast In Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian‚ Junior is a young American Indian that is shy and has low self-esteem‚ and has a few issues physically and his surroundings. He has a best friend named Rowdy. Rowdy is rude and has no emotion to any situation. What many people at the reservation don’t know is that Rowdy and Junior have real problems at home with their parents. The differences between Rowdy and Junior are the family and the personalities.

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    districts. This increases property value and drives out lower-class families.This causes economic problems because wealthy white people run lower-class families out‚ benefitting from the property value increase. Racial inequality occurs as a result. Sherman Alexie’s “Gentrification” uses isolation‚ emotional appeal and guilt to express the wrongfulness of gentrification. To begin‚ the author uses isolation to prove the wrongfulness of gentrification. The author isolates the white homeowner‚ for example

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    Critical Analysis of "Superman and Me" Sherman Alexie is a Native American man who was raised on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Washington State. His story is one of a small boy who faced many challenges including bullying and oppression from his classmates‚ all for his love of reading. In this paper I shall give a detailed analysis of the essay "Superman and Me" an essay by Sherman Alexie. This will be done by asking a question and giving a detailed answer to said question. Before we begin I

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    Sherman Alexie makes his life seem interesting by telling us‚ in his story‚ the joy of reading and writing: superman and me. In his story he tells us how he grew up‚ what he grew up doing‚ how his life style was‚ and how he became the man he is today. Sherman also talks about teaching himself how to read. He was a very smart Indian boy who loved to read just like his father did. He stated that he loved his father so much‚ and his father loved to read‚ so he said he would love reading too. He was

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    In SuperMan and Me Sherman Alexie tells the story of his childhood and how he grew up. His use of simple‚ but powerful sentences convey how desperate he truly was to learn and teach others. Alexie uses powerful quotes to emphasize this. One quote that eminently expresses this is “I read with equal parts joy and desperation.” Though this quote is not remarkably complex it gets the point across precisely and clearly. Alexie’s childhood was not one of ease. This quote consummately sums up his life

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    Texas Chainsaw Massacre Sherman Alexie has lost his faith in humanity. His poem “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” illustrates a despondent mind that has been shattered by the horror of his reflection upon contemporary and historical events. Alexie explores his feelings about Sand Creek and American history and ultimately realizes that he cannot pretend to be surprised by the past violent crimes directed against Native Americans. Alexie is inconsolable because he believes that the blood‚ violence

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    in the world. The first tribe I describe myself as belonging to is the tribe of creative expressionists‚ which thrive in areas of self expression and creativity. "I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited" (Alexie 5). I sometimes find it difficult to express and understant the emotions I feel raging inside. In these moments‚ I enjoy experimenting with vibrant splashes of paint across a canvas or dark scrawling into a notebook to better understand or cope with

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    Superman and Me by Sherman Alexie is a true story about Alexie in which he learns to read from comic books and tries to help the kids of the Indian community live a better life by teaching them to read and write. In the beginning‚ he did not know how to read and write because he was too young to know how‚ but he was desperate to learn how to read. After learning how to read using his own way of reading‚ he was able to read books meant for adults at a young age. When he grew up‚ he became a writer

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    English 1010 09/20/10 Assignment B Sherman Alexie and Frederick Douglas both have a love of reading which led them both to become notable names in the literary world. Each man was born into a lower class where they were not expected to amount to anything‚ but through their thirst of knowledge from reading‚ both were able to rise up and break the chains that bound them‚ both figuratively and literally. Sherman Alexie was born on an Indian reservation in the United States‚ so

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