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    Explain why the novel is known as a great American period novel? Gatsby is holding all these parties each weekend to impress Daisy. This can be interpreted as how the values at this time where. The richer you are and the more you show it the better you are off. Even though people didn’t actually get all of these things legally it was fine because they paid the police to shut their eyes and had the mafia in their back. The more people consumed products‚ the richer they were‚ and as it is all about

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    This type of love and support is needed to escape from suffering and lost hope. For this reason‚ Juniors family was the reason he was able to heal and overcome many obstacles in his life. In the novel‚ The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie‚ the author shares the life of a young Indian boy‚ Junior‚ who struggles living in poverty and suffers through the loss of his loved ones. He lives in a hopeless reservation where mostly everyone is an alcoholic‚ gave up on their dreams

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    determine if this theory relates to the Indian American ethnic group. The flourishing geopolitical relationship between the United States and India‚ combined with an atmosphere of increasing competitiveness among the international community in regards to technological advancement and innovation led to the mass distribution of H-1B visas to Indians (Pew 2012‚ 27). This paper will ascertain whether or not the mass distribution of work and student visas to Indians directly affected the strikingly rapid

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    The title of this book “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” fits it very well‚ because it’s about the very real feelings and experiences of a boy that’s trying to fight his way out of poverty while still trying to keep his heritage alive. The protagonist’s name is Arnold Spirit Junior he’s a young Native American boy growing up on a reservation that aspires to change his life by leaving the reservation and its traditions behind to go to school in a neighboring town with white students

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    History of Indian Novels History of novels was endowed with the rare impetus of Indian Freedom Movement‚ flourishing under its colossal umbrella. It would perhaps be just not a mere overstatement if stated that - literature and history are very much intimately linked. Literature is known to represent history without any exaggeration or a biasness of the mind set-up. And history is no better portrayed in Indian literature than the novels that have been rendered life with much pain‚ love

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    She Had Some Horses: The Education of a Poet was a very powerful story. It was a great example of wanting to stand out and trying to figure out why that was not a common thing in Sherman Alexies’ culture. I believe Sherman Alexie wrote this story to show us all how literature changed his life and his was of thinking. He always did have‚ from the beginning‚ curiosities. He was always curious as to why there were no Indian writers in the books he read. All of his questions led him to finding many answers

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    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ by Mark Twain‚ should be considered a great novel and a “central document of American culture”. Over the years‚ many different critics have had different opinions on the greatness of the book based on its significant characteristics such as character development‚ cultural value‚ and the dialect of the novel. Lionel Trilling‚ a professor of literature at Columbia University‚ says that the great power of the novel is that it is a “boy’s book” and can be loved for so long by

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    Jacobs Sherman Indian High School Sherman Indian High School is an off-reservation boarding high school for Native Americans. It originally opened in 1892 as the Perris Indian School‚ in Perris‚ California. The school was relocated to Riverside‚ California‚ in 1903‚ under the name The Sherman Institute. The school was accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges in 1971‚ it became known as the Sherman Indian High School (www.wikipedia.org). Sherman Indian High School

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    A Few Great Personalities of INDIA All of us have seen many presentations floating around about eminent people like Aryabhatta‚ Chankya‚ Srinivasa Ramanujam etc. While we are very proud of the great deeds our ancestors have achieved‚ we believe we should also recognise the present day greats who have contributed in this century and/or contributing today. Below is a list of few such great personalities. This list is not comprehensive‚ many more can be added. A few people might not agree

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    ASIAN AMERICANS The first Asians to move to the western hemisphere were reportedly Chinese Filipinos settling in the area of Mexico. Filipino sailors settled in the United States in the mid 18th century around the area which would be Louisiana. About a hundred years later‚ in an effort to make up for the shortage of African slaves‚ Europeans brought over people in virtual slavery from China‚ India and the Philippines (Ancestors in the Americas). They brought these Asian slaves to the Caribbean

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