What am I dreaming? For seventeen years that I lived in this world‚ only few dreams were recollected by my brain. I could not recall having a dream every single night. When I was young I used to think that most of the time I was not having any dream at all. It was so sad to think that the dream fairy did not want to visit me when I was asleep. Until I learned in my Psychology1 subject that remembering a dream depends on waking up in the middle of that dream. I could consider myself
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Ahmad Abdullhadi Shalabi World Literature December 10th‚ 2013 The Quest for Identity in Sherman Alexie’s “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” Sherman Alexie‚ a Spokane/Coeur d ’Alene Indian‚ was born in 1966 on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit‚ Washington.” [He] is a poet‚ writer‚ and filmmaker. Much of his writing draws on his experiences as a Native American growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation” ( Konigsberg). As a Native American‚ Alexie’s main concern is presenting his own culture
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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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I decided to write about Jackson Jackson and his epic Journey in “What you Pawn I will Redeem.” The reason I choose to write this passage because I feel this to be inspiring in some way. I will refer to both literal homelessness‚ cultural homelessness as a Spokane Indian‚ and what the title means to me. Jackson living on the cold wet streets of Seattle notices many things in his journey to desired items. Jackson manages to receive money from people out of pity and they decide to try to help him
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As a Filipino‚ a few of the stereotypes I hear about Filipinos are: we are all nurses who work two jobs‚ we are very kind people‚ or we all own a van. I became a nurse by accident when I realized that I valued job satisfaction‚ but I do not work two jobs. I am a nice person most of the time‚ but so are my white‚ black‚ and other Asian friends. I swore I would never get a van‚ but I gave in when I had kids. I van is roomier‚ quieter‚ and the ride is smoother. I have other siblings who do not fit most
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You and I In life‚ everyone has their own set of moral values and ethics by which they abide. These values are different and original to everyone but just because we have different morals and values‚ does that make us wrong? In terms of Oedipus‚ his morals and ethics are very different from many people and in many ways would be frowned upon. In Oedipus the King‚ Oedipus has to make many hard and difficult decisions throughout the book but there are 3 that stand out to me. They are when Oedipus
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One of the two stories I chose was “What You Pawn I Will Redeem”. In this story‚ there are various themes illustrated but I will only talk about homelessness and heritage. Sherman Alexie shows how Native Americans have been marginalized to the lowest form of everyday life in America. They exist below the poverty line‚ homeless and without the means to live comfortably. It’s an unromantic‚ un-idealistic place‚ where the friends that Jackson has abandon him‚ and as a result of this he finds comfort
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In “What You Eat is Your Business” by Radley Balko‚ emphasizing that our fight for obesity is going about the wrong way. He insists “Our government ought to be working to foster a sense of responsibility in and ownership of our own health and wellbeing.” In making this comment Balko urges us to begin to take responsibility for our own actions for being obese‚ the government is not to blame but ourselves. To further support this claim Balko begins to use our healthcare system and laws passed as examples
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What You Pawn‚ I Will Redeem” 1. How does the narrator know the regalia is his grandmother’s? 2. Why is the story divided by time? 3. Why does Alexie continually present the issue of alcoholism among American Indians regardless of tribe? Final Submitted answers What You Pawn‚ I Will Redeem -Full Answers 1. Jackson‚ the narrator‚ notices the regalia in the window of a pawnshop and recognizes some similarities between this regalia and the one he remembers of his grandmother’s
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of making something easier. What a person decides to do with his/ her life is the persons business and responsibility but no one else’s. The question here is who is blameworthy of obesity in America? It is true we have a lot of unhealthy foods in the market and people make bad choices when they see them. The marketers and manufacturers of these foods come up with new recipes all the time which doesn’t make it easier on the consumers. In the article‚ “what you eat is your business” by Radley
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