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    Ever “Every Little Hurricane” From Sherman Alexie’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (Harper Perennial‚ 1994) Although it was winter‚ the nearest ocean four hundred miles away‚ and the Tribal Weatherman asleep because of boredom‚ a hurricane dropped from the sky in 1976 and fell so hard on the Spokane Indian Reservation that it knocked Victor from bed and his latest nightmare. It was January and Victor was nine years old. He was sleeping in his bedroom in the basement

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    Sacagawea Sacagawea was the daughter of a Shoshone chief. Sacagawea was born in 1788 (unknown date of birth) in Lemhi County‚ Idaho. At around age 12‚ she was captured by an enemy tribe and sold to a French-Canadian trapper who made her his wife. She and Touissiant Charbonneau had a baby boy. They named him Jean Baptiste Charbonneau and later on they had a daughter. They named her Lizette Charbonneau In November of 1804‚ she was invited to join the Lewis and Clark expedition as a Shoshone interpreter

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    “Knowledge is Power” an expression that means the more knowledge you gain the more powerful you are as an individual. In the short story “The Birthmark”‚ by Nathaniel Hawthorne and the two poems “English B”‚ by Langston Hughes and “Crazy Courage”‚ by Sherman Alexie‚ the authors describes individual knowledge and power through the same idea‚ but through different methods. The poem entitled “English B”‚ by Langston Hughes begins with the speaker’s English teacher instructing the class to do a writing assignment

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    This book‚ The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. ¨ If youŕe good at it‚ and you love it‚ and it helps you navigate the river of the world‚ then it can not be wrong.¨ This book is about how people can make mistakes and abuse others in a negative way. Things can lead out into violence and to death and heartbreak. Three characters who hope and fear are Rowdy‚ Mary‚ and Junior. Junior both hopes and fears in many ways some can be good and others can be devastating. Junior

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    In the novel‚ The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian‚ Sherman Alexie asserts that regardless of the circumstances that one has to go through‚ there is always hope that they will be able to overcome that. In doing so he focuses on the struggle Arnold faces between attempting to discover his identity between two cultures and overcoming the loss of loved ones. Alexie reflects his values of returning to his origins by expressing the importance of identity and hope throughout the novel. Certainly

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    “If you let people into your life a little bit‚ they can be pretty damn amazing” (129). This is just one of many insightful quotes that Arnold Spirit has to say that makes him and Victor Joseph very similar. Sherman Alexie is the American novelist who wrote The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and the film Smoke Signals. Both of the main characters in each of these pieces are modern day Indians who have had a tough upbringing. While Arnold (Diary) and Victor (Smoke) are different in many

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    transportation. In the book‚ "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie‚ Arnold has a very difficult time getting to school because he lives on the reservation and his school is 22 miles away. In one situation‚ Arnold said "My dad was supposed to pick me up. But he wasn’t sure if he’d have enough gas money...If they didn’t come‚ I’d start walking...Twenty-two miles. I got blisters each time" (Alexie 87-88). Arnold’s biggest struggle everyday is trying to get to school. There

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    Richele Tucker   Stacie Sather English 305          15 November 2013 The novel‚ The Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexi is about a young American Indian boy who decides to leave the reservation to better his life. He starts out finding himself through this change in his life and continues to grow and change into the young man he wants to become. At the beginning of the novel he seems frustrated because he is told he must do as the others on the reservation and he seems to feel mistreated

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    than anyone on the Corps. We learn that she is pregnant but the Corps. Of Discovery and I ask her to come along with us. Her name is Sacagawea. A member of the tribe tells us that we need horses for crossing the Appalachian Mountains or as they call it the shiny mountains. Fortunately‚ the tribe that will give us the horses we need is related to our guide‚ Sacagawea. This tribe is called the Shoshone. Journal Entry 278 The winter is finally over and we are able to begin our journey to cross the

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    The United States Mint primarily produces circulating coinage for the United States to conduct its trade and commerce. The Mint was created by Congress with the Coinage Act of 1792‚ and placed within the Department of State. Per the terms of the Coinage Act‚ the first Mint building was in Philadelphia‚ then the capital of the United States; it was the first building of the Republic raised under the Constitution. Today‚ the Mint’s headquarters is in Washington‚ D.C. It operates mint facilities in

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