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    A seat in the Garden

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    I’m not the Indian you had in mind; a video that was written and directed by Thomas King challenges the stereotypical image that America has towards Native Americans. King is also the author of a short novel “A seat in the Garden”. This short story also challenges the established perspective that American society has towards the Native Americans. There are various stereotypes and perspectives that a majority of the public has toward a particular group. For example some of the common stereo types that

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    American History 1950's

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    Describe the 1950’s in America. To what extent was this an era of hope? For whom? Why? I) Referred to as Affluent Society or “golden age”. American idea of freedom was economic abundance. This was a time of prosperity for the middle class (60% of Americans). Between 1946-1960‚ American gross national product more than doubled. The Cold War fueled industrial production. This lead to an increase in wages and more jobs. II) American Standard of living increased. Former luxuries became

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    Isabel Metaphors

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    freedom is a metaphor for America’s pursuit of freedom. The first time Isabel had thoughts of freedom is on page 51. “It wasn’t right for one body to own another or pull strings to make them jump.” Isabel realized that it wasn’t right for someone to own another human being. This is metaphoric to the colonists‚ who realized that the taxes that Britain was forcing on them weren’t right. They began having thoughts of wanting to be free from the British. Another place where the metaphor of Isabel’s pursuit

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    football

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    really are. As a child I always watched movies and was deceived by them without even realizing it. I always enjoyed football movies most because I could relate to most of the things and could compare things in the movie to my actual life. They have always drawn my attention and I usually was misled by the way they made the sport in general seem. I wanted to play football at a young age but was always mistaken on the way the game actually was. It was made out to be way harder and worse

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    The Garden Party

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    Thomas C. Foster‚ the author elucidates that several interpretations can be drawn regarding the meaning of a story. For example‚ in chapter 27 entitled “The Test Case”‚ Foster explores this very claim by providing the interpretations linked to “The Garden Party” by Katherine Mansfield. In his novel he states that these interpretations range from the disparities between social classes‚ to a representation of hell and the journey Persephone‚ the captive of Hades‚ goes on. Foster’s novel presents the

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    The American dream I’ve chosen to write about the offensive tackler Michael Jerome Oher jr. He’s an American football player‚ and he plays for the Baltimore Ravens. I also chose to write about him‚ because I wanted to write about a professional sportsman. Michael Oher comes from a poor family like many others who lived out the American dream. Michael Oher did the incredible‚ and won the battle against poverty. When Michael Oher was a child‚ he didn’t have any ‘’real’’ parents. His mother‚

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    Unjustified Many americans were killed due to the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. Americans looked to blame someone so they blamed the American Japanese. These people were to be blamed by the Americans after the horrible deaths of Americans. The Japanese Americans were doing their jobs and going on with their lives but soon thrown into camps. Camps to where they had some type of freedom of governing themselves in these camps. The Japanese Americans did not like it and were innocent. The

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    Sunlight on the Garden

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    ‘Sunlight on the garden’ by Louis MacNeice It starts to become apparent that MacNeice talks about the finality of death. We are shown this in the first stanza where MacNeice states that the ‘sunlight in the garden hardens and grows cold’. . The sunlight‚ which displays a sense of warmth and beauty‚ ‘grows cold’. The phrase ‘grow cold’ clearly shows that we will eventually experience death. This is also a reference to a battle field‚ this image has been used to express the horror and pain war inflicts

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    America as a Land of Prosperity in the 1920’s is the story of Americans who searched for equality. Yes‚ for some individuals America was a land of prosperity in the 1920’s. The First World War sparked Americas rise in prosperity. As no fighting took place on American soil there were virtually no reparations to be paid‚ also America had entered the war late and therefore‚ had not spent nearly as much money as the big European countries such as France‚ Britain‚ and Germany. This left America in a very

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    Transformer Metaphor

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    For many decades‚ the US military has‚ engaged with Hollywood’s movies by giving permission to their production crews to use their military machines and techniques. Black Hawk Down was about the US military‚ Top Gun was about the Navy‚ and Iron Man was about the Air Force (McMillen). These kinds of movies are regarded as joint-military force movies‚ and one of the largest joint-military movies is Transformers‚ which was released in 2007. The third series was recently released‚ which is now being

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