Instructor contact information Instructor: | Michael G Kelley PhD | Office Phone: | N/A | | Office: | CASA 225 | Office Hours: | MW 1:00-1:30 pmMW 4:20-5:00 pm | | | | | michael.kelley@lonestar.edu | | | Welcome to Course Title: | U.S. History to 1877 | Semester and Year: | Spring 2013 | Course Prefix: | HIST | | | Course Number: | 1301 | Class Days & Times: | CASA 228Sec. 5023 – MW 1:30 – 2:50 p..m. Sec. 5024 – MW 3:00 – 4:20 p.m. | Credit Hours: | 3 |
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Survival=Anger X Imagination. Imagination is the only weapon on the reservation. --Sherman AlexieThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven Key to Survival Sherman Alexie ’s novel The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven depicts how reservation Indian ’s survive their hardships that mainstream society has put on them‚ with the use of emotion and imagination. Survival for Alexie ’s Indians is‚ "not to slow dance with [their] skeletons (21)." The reservation skeletons are the anger of the
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Survivors of School Bullying: A Collective Case Study Octavio Ramirez This article explores the coping strategies of five junior-high school students with a history of peer victimization and how those strategies help them manage the effects of bullying. The data were collected using observations‚ interviews‚ and a review of school records. The data were analyzed using categorical aggregation‚ direct interpretation‚ constant comparison‚ and identification of patterns. On analysis‚ the following
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Alicia Smith ENG 126 12/14/15 Research Paper Final Draft “Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven: Humor” Throughout “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” the theme of resilience is deliberately presented. Native Americans past and present continue to face stifling issues such as racism‚ alcoholism‚ isolation and suicide. Sherman Alexie makes it his obligation in his stories and poems to show Native American resiliency through humor. By using
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exposed to is human trafficking. The lack of mention that human trafficking gets in the media is often ignored as people continue to pretend that it doesn’t exist. Stories of people disappearing and getting abducted are in an abundance‚ yet when the survivors of human trafficking report their story‚ nobody is willing to listen. In the void of news media reports‚ non-profit government organisations have released videos and articles‚ bringing light to the subject of human trafficking. One of the more well-known
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Lee Harvey Oswald Was No Loner On November 22nd‚ 1963‚ President John F. Kennedy (JFK) was shot and killed in a motorcade running through Dealy Plaza‚ in Dallas‚ Texas. Shortly after‚ a man by the name of Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested and charged with the murder of President Kennedy. Over the years there has been much controversy over if Lee Harvey Oswald was in fact‚ the only man involved in the assassination of JFK. The assassination is still a topic of debate to this day and has spawned many
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How does Genocide affect a survivor? Genocide is something that has been going on for centuries‚ all around the world. The people that experience this kind of violation against their humanity and right to live get scared for life. Most of them die‚ but the once that survive can tell their story to the rest of the world. They can let the world know about the horrible things that have happened. Every group of people have got categories that they put people in to distinguish “us and them”. The
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Rudolf Vrba is a name that will be remembered for decades. He‚ with a childhood friend‚ escaped from one of the most notorious Nazi death camps. Auschwitz. Just the mention of the name can bring back haunting memories from Holocaust survivors. Memories of families being ripped apart‚ mutilated‚ and burned. Memories of a time when Jews were persecuted for doing nothing wrong. A time when they had to fight for every minute of life. A time during which almost unfathomable war crimes were being committed
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In Sherman Alexie’s fiction‚ “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven‚” Alexie narrates some story presented by some unreal events that happened in the reservation‚ but he conveyed these stories with real elements such as emotions‚ facts from history‚ or even what he remembers from his memory as to what he claims as “reservation realism”. On page 18‚ Alexie quotes‚ “Indians make the best cowboys.” This claim makes sense because of the widespread history of Indians in the reservation with horses
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In Sherman Alexie’s short story “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”‚ the Native American narrator struggles to find a place where he belongs in modern white-dominated America. The story structure itself reflects the restless nature of the narrator‚ moving from place to place and from time to time‚ and allows the reader to begin to hone in on the issues that native people face in a contemporary ever-changing world. The narrator’s inner conflict manifests itself in polarizing moments of
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