Totem Poles as a Spiritual Form of Ethnic Art A totem pole is a spiritual for1m of cultural art‚ capable of transcending its traditional uses and forms and addressing the current social and political concerns of the artist. For hundreds of years the totem pole has played an important cultural‚ spiritual‚ and religious role in the Native American nations of the Pacific Northwest. Totem poles carver Jewell Praying Wolf James creates totem poles within his native cultural setting and incorporates
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against the white” (191). Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony‚ is an example of Postcolonial literature. The novel focuses on the de-colonization of the Native American culture by white people and the effects it has on the Natives. Rocky is a strong‚ educated Native boy who prefers the lessons taught by the
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Pokémon GO is one of the most popular game on the smartphone. It is became the phenomenon of the world‚ because It is make people to have a new experience to play the game outside. To introduce people to know each other and join to play together. The reason why people have to play this game outside because some creatures that they are called “Pokémon” has been outside‚ so they have to find about 151 of Pokémon to became the Pokémon master. Many reasons Pokémon GO became the famous game around the
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Leslie Marmon Silko is a Laguna Pueblo writer and is a prominent figure in the First Wave of Native American Renaissance. Her writings are grounded in the history of the Laguna Pueblo. The Laguna Pueblo is a federally recognized Native American tribe of the Pueblo peoples who live in the Southwestern United States (Hollrah‚ n.d.)She has a strong interest to preserve cultural traditions and how history impacts modern life. Silko uses her writings to raise awareness of ingrained racism and white cultural
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Family Influence Perhaps the most important factor in a person’s development is his or her family. Family members can shape some one’s thoughts and can make it difficult for a person to fit in one’s environment. In the novel Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko‚ Tayo’s auntie is an antagonistic woman who is concerned about other people’s judgment toward her and her family. Her unfriendly behavior sprang from her low self-esteem and the anger she reproached because her sister’s unruly actions. The
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In today’s society‚ we find ourselves overwhelmed with the proliferation of environmental crises around the globe. The trade off between sustainability and economic growth is still of discourse as mankind has the ability to mass produce more than ever before. With that in mind‚ Sustainability‚ by Leslie Paul Thiele defines and discusses the topic of sustainability. While Thiele’s text is engaging due to the areas of discussion‚ I argue that it is not an adequate guide as he fails to provide a thorough
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Hospice medical care for dying patients : The New Yorker Page 1 of 15 ANNALS OF MEDICINE LETTING GO What should medicine do when it can’t save your life? by Atul Gawande AUGUST 2‚ 2010 Modern medicine is good at staving off death with aggressive interventions-—-and bad at knowing when to focus‚ instead‚ on improving the days that terminal patients have left. • Ql ara Thomas Monopoli was pregnant with her first child when her doctors learned that she was going to die. It O started
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XOPS Paper Presentation Competition Date -21/11/2010 “Progression of our nation towards Go Green” 1. Introduction You only have to look around and think to understand and realize the graveness and urgency‚ of why we need to “Go Green”. The computer you are using to view this document is guzzling up power and generating heat from its processor‚ thus adding to its carbon footprint‚ this is without mentioning the hazardous metals used while making it. The clothes that you are wearing might
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Senior Prize Winner - Katherine McIndoe‚ age 18‚ New Zealand Commonwealth Essay Competition 2013 “To boldly go”: a letter to the lost girls To the lost girls‚ My name is Katherine. I’m a girl‚ just like you. I have grown up in New Zealand‚ and I go to university. Ever since I was little‚ I have had this feeling that I can do whatever I want to do‚ that my future is not my fate but something that I can choose. I see no obstacles‚ only opportunities. No one can force me to do anything that
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Go Globalor No? In my view‚ the answer is "not yet." To survive‚ DataClear has to go global in the future but its current decision-making process and rationale are flawed. What DataClear needs to do is to not panic‚ slow down‚ and take a clearer look at its situation and the business environment and develop some strategic options that will allow it to go global when the time comes. They’ve got some time but not a whole lot of it. As stated in the case‚ they need to focus. Despite VisiDat’s
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