In the story “This It What It Means To Say Phoenix‚ Arizona” by Sherman Alexie‚ there is a character named Thomas. Tomas is an Native American man with ratty old braids and broken teeth. Throughout the story Thomas helps an old friend named Victor get to a certain place to handle business by giving him money and along the way the make mends. Thomas is a generous and traditional man who has no friends nor family. Thomas is very altruistic towards Victor when he noticed that he is going through a
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Important Laws That Affect Your Business Introduction: In the present world business plays an important role in every sphere of life. Business determines one’s life style‚ standard of living‚ education and even cultural standard. So to lead a bette-r life we need to understand business and study business. Business is dynamic – always changing. Coping with both predictable and unpredictable events can be easier‚ more efficient‚ and less traumatic if we understand business. Study of business will
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Conflict Within Thyself Jermaine Kelly ENG 102 072 Prof. Messina Essay 1 October 2nd‚ 2007. 1 Sherman Alexie’s story‚ "This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix‚ Arizona"‚ states mainly how two Native Americans struggle to adapt to modern times and their culture‚ and the conflict they endured within their lifetime. The story focuses on two main characters that embark on a cross-country journey to retrieve a dead father’s ashes and belongings. Victor‚ one of the main characters in the story
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I attended a panel on immigration law and college policy and how it impacts the students of the Alamo Colleges. The panel members consisted of: Don Adams‚ Carmen De Luna-Jones‚ Elizabeth Almanza. The panel member where the Chief of Police for the Alamo College District‚ Student Success Coordinator‚ and Outreach Coordinator for American Gateways respectfully. The presentation for the police and student success representatives were factual and helpful. Ms. De Luna-Jones was informative as to the programs
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responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely‚ one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” (382) Just and unjust; right and wrong is the basic skill that everyone have to learn when they were young. People come to school to learn how to follow the laws‚ and it is true that laws are made to protect people and make things fair for everyone. However base on Martin Luther King Jr‚ I recognized not all laws are ethical and just. Arizona’s immigration law is an unjust law and it should be abolish
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Ties Sherman Alexies short story “This is what it means to say Phoenix‚ Arizona” tells a story about Victor‚ a broken‚ lonely young Indian man‚ who is shaped by the circumstances of the reservation. He not only finds out that he lost his job but also that his father has passed away due to a heart attack. These series of unfortunate events lead Victor his childhood friend Thomas Build-the-Fire to embark on a journey to Arizona to obtain Victor’s father’s ashes. Although the two former friends haven’t
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In Sherman Alexie’s story “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix‚ Arizona”‚ he explores the challenging life of two Native American Indian men named Victor and Thomas on the reservation. The story communicates the childhood memories‚ relationships‚ and cultural aspects of Thomas and Victor’s life in Spokane (an Indian Reservation). In this story‚ Victor appeared to be mentally depressed because his father had died just after he lost his job. Although Victor’s father left Victor at a very young age
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Iowa Falls - Iowa Falls is a small town with about 5‚000 people living in it and around it. This is a town where everybody knows everybody and word spreads like a wildfire. This place was where I was raised and where I grew up. Although I wouldn’t consider this home I do consider this my childhood. After all this small town did treat me pretty good and left some memories with me that will never be forgotten. This town is small enough that it wouldn’t take longer than 10 minutes to get from one
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Reading Log: Alexie – “What Does It Mean to Say Phoenix‚ Arizona” Time started reading: 5:27 Time ended reading: 5:45 Before Reading What do you already know about the author/story? I actually do not know anything about the author or story. I have not heard of either before. Notice the title: does it give you any ideas about what the story may be about? Based on the title‚ “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix‚ Arizona”‚ I was not sure at first whether the story would be a bibliography of his
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Common Law vs. Civil Law There are nearly 200 nations in the world‚ each with their own distinct legal system based on one of the four major legal systems: common law‚ civil law‚ socialist law‚ and religious law. The majority of countries today follow either common law or civil law. Here in the United States we practice common law‚ as opposed to countries like France and Germany‚ which practice civil law. There are several differences between these two legal systems‚ however‚ common law in the
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