The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a young-adult novel written by Sherman Alexie. The novel itself is on the list of books banned from some schools and public libraries. A few reasons for the ban include profane language‚ sexual content‚ and alcohol use. The novel chronicles the coming of age experience of a teenage boy named Junior. He lives on an Indian reservation where life is less than ideal. Junior’s father is an alcoholic and his family lives in poverty. His mother works as
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Overview of the Indian Garment Industry By: M. K. Panthaki (Clothing Manufacturers’ Association of India) Overview of the Indian Garment Industry By: M. K. Panthaki The Garment Industry of India is an Rs -one trillion industry. Almost 33 % of its knitwear production and about 20% of its woven-garment production‚ both by volume‚ enters export markets. Overall about 25 % of the volume of its garment production goes into export markets‚ leaving 75 % for domestic consumption. The Industry covers
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The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began as a mutiny of sepoys of the East India Company’s army on 10 May 1857‚ in the town of Meerut‚ and soon escalated into other mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in the upper Gangetic plain and central India‚ with the major hostilities confined to present-day Uttar Pradesh‚ Bihar‚ northern Madhya Pradesh‚ and the Delhi region.[3] The rebellion posed a considerable threat to Company power in that region‚[4] and was contained only with the fall of Gwalior on 20
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In Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian‚ Mary is a quiet‚ high-school graduate recluse living on the Spokane Indian Reservation in the basement of her parents’ house. While Mary’s brother Junior has dreams and aspirations of leaving the reservation‚ he views Mary as someone destined to live and die on the rez. But‚ what Junior does not initially see is Mary’s internal need to break the vicious cycle of oppression towards Native Americans. Junior only seeing certain traits
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faired better in that environment. one problem white settlers faced in the west was the great plains indian population. when america was settled‚ most of the indians had been forced westward. those indians were now on land that white settlers wanted. the beginning of the conflict between settlers and indians came whent he transcontinental railroad was being built. the railroad itself not only disrupted indian land‚ but the workers killed millions of the indian’s chief food source‚ the buffalo. the
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West During the time frame of 1860-1890 there was an area in the West known as the Great Plains. Although‚ before it was designated as the Great Plains it was known as the Great American Desert. The Great Plains was originally home to buffalo and Indians labeled as Plains Indians which can be broken down into several different groups such as‚ the Lakota Indians‚ Pawnee Indians‚ and Cheyenne Indians just to name a few. Soon all that changed when the Idea of money and greed came into the minds
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West (434-441) The Western Tribes * Indian tribes were the most important group before the Anglo-American migration in the Far West * Western tribes developed several forms of civilization * More than 300‚000 Indians lived along the pacific coast among them were Serrano‚ Chumash‚ Pomo‚ Maidu‚ Yurok‚ and Chinook * When the Spanish arrived disease and destruction followed for the Native tribes * By mid-nineteenth century 150‚000 Indians remained‚ some lived within the Hispanic society
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historiography view the West? How accurate is Turner’s thesis? What is your historiographical view of the West’s importance in American History? Five Important Groups 1. Miners 2. Railroads 3. Ranchers 4. Farmers 5. Native Americans (Plain Indians) Consider what brought them to the West‚ what brought about the conflicts and why‚ and how those conflicts got resolved 1) Miners California Gold Rush 1849 lead to an influx of miners seeking fortune Placer Mining: wash debris away to get
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The Himalaya Range or Himalaya Mountains : usually called the Himalayas or Himalaya‚ is a mountain rangeimmediately to the north of the Indian subcontinent. By extension‚ it can also refer to the massive mountain system that additionally includes the Karakoram‚ theHindu Kush‚ and other lesser ranges that extend out from the Pamir Knot. Some of the world’s major river systems arise in the Himalayas‚ and their combineddrainage basins are home to some 3 billion people (almost half of the Earth’s population)
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Indian English Literature * Top English Writer & Their Famous Creations * R.K. Narayan: R K Narayan is one of the best known Indian authors of all time. An Indian author of very high repute‚ he is best known for his works of fiction. The setting for most of R K Narayan works is the fictional town of Malgudi‚ first introduced in his semi autobiographical book ’Swami and Friends’. Creations: The Dark Room‚ Malgudi Days‚ Talkative Man‚ The English Teacher. * Kiran Desai: Kiran
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