beanpole family? A multi-generation extended family‚ in a pattern which is long and thin‚ with few aunts and uncles‚ reflecting fewer children being born in each generation‚ but people living longer. (b) Two reasons for the increase in the number of lone-parent families. Firstly‚ the increasing number of single women choosing to bear or adopt and raise children alone. Technological developments allowing insemination without inter-course contribute to women’s choices in this regard. Women choosing
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Design Rangers: A Marketing Plan for New Jersey Community Design Centers Design Rangers: A Marketing Plan for New Jersey Community Design Centers MKT 500: Marketing Strategies Paul Glassman Southern New Hampshire University December 2‚ 2012 Design Rangers: A Marketing Plan for New Jersey Community Design Centers Executive Summary This plan supports the creation of community design centers‚ to be housed in three New Jersey community colleges and staffed by their architecture faculty and students
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Why did I want to be a airborne ranger right out of high school? Well it’s for one thing very hard to explain because I know some of the reasons but in the end I was honestly just drawn to it for some reason. I do know thou that I wanted to be something more than a regular army infantryman and that I needed to be something more‚ and equally as important I wanted to show my parents I could do it and make them proud. Some of the reasons I was drawn to being a ranger was because I wanted to do what
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dirty little secrets. In the paragraphs that follow‚ I will review Alexie’s life‚ the genre and style in which he writes‚ and the overall themes of his work. I will analyze the short story‚ “Every Little Hurricane”‚ taken from the anthology‚ The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. Sherman Alexie was born on October 7‚ 1966 in WellPoint‚ Washington. He belongs to the Spokane Tribe of American Indians called the Salish Group. At the time of his birth he had hydrocephalus‚ a disease in which
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An American Indian Wilderness A short story by Louis Owens The Reflective Lone Ranger In Louis Owens’ essay "An American Indian Wilderness" the author projects a self-reflective and‚ in the end‚ pessimistic persona. As a young man Owens works as a park ranger in the American Wilderness of Washington State. He has the task of burning down an old log shelter in the wilderness‚ to return the surrounding area back to its natural state. After completing his task‚ he meets two elderly Indian women‚
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Leandro Tane dos Santos Sophomore Seminar September 14th‚ 2000 Analysis on "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven" and "Smoke Signals" Sherman Alexie based on some short stories included in his book‚ "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven‚" wrote the screenplay for the movie "Smoke Signals." Both the movie and the book portray problems that Indians had to deal with‚ and how they dealt with it. The book is far more complex than the movie‚ showing a wider variation of characters
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backwards. A frequently asked question in this book is “why is there water everywhere”. There are four main characters in this novel; Lone ranger‚ Ishmael‚ Robinson Crusoe and Hawkeye‚ they all escaped from a mental institution. All these men are Native American Elders. Each one of these elders is connected to a female character from native tradition: First woman and Lone ranger‚ Changing woman and Ishmael‚ Thought woman and Robinson Crusoe‚ and old woman and Hawkeye. Throughout this novel Green Grass Running
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In his book of short stories‚ The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven‚ author Sherman Alexie explores the theme of Native Americans as outsiders and outcasts. Throughout many of his stories‚ Alexie’s uses the motifs‚ imagery and figurative language to underscore the theme. Three of these stories are “Every Little Hurricane”‚ “A Drug Called Tradition”‚ and “Indian Education”; Alexie uses the motifs of storytelling‚ alcoholism‚ and the warrior to explore how the outsider status of his Native
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Topic: The topic that will be of focus is the consistent stereotyping of Native Americans in Sherman Alexie’s‚ The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. Learning Objective: The focus of the topic is to understand how so much stereotyping occurs and what it signifies towards the Native American community and the narrator. Tentative thesis: Throughout the short story‚ The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie‚ the narrator uses humor as a defense mechanism from the experiences
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In Sherman Alexie’s story‚ "A Drug Called Tradition‚" from his story collection‚ The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven‚ Victor‚ the narrator‚ speaks about what he calls the skeletons of the past and the future: "There are things you should learn. Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you‚ and your future is a skeleton walking one step in front of you … Now‚ these skeletons are made of memories‚ dreams‚ and voices. And they can trap you in the in-between‚ between touching and becoming
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