I wanted to ask you again. Since it has been almost six years since I have set foot in your classroom‚ I need to ask: “what is good writing?”. I mostly wanted to talk to you about Sherman Alexie’s essay Indian Education‚ and why I believe that this story is good writing. And how Alexie ’s demonstrates content and form perfectly by creating a story that any English teacher would and should have given willingly an “A” to. First off‚ Indian Education pushes the boundaries of what constitutes what
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TRAFFIC SIGNAL DESIGN GUIDELINES Revision: 2.0 September 2010 Document Revision History DATE | REV. | SPCR(s) | SECTIONS | DESCRIPTION | 11/2000 | Rev. 1 | | | Initial release of document | 05/2003 | Rev. 1.1 | | | Draft of first major update | 11/2003 | Rev. 1.2 | | | Final of first major update | 7/2010 | Rev. 2.0 | | | Major update | GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TRAFFIC SIGNAL DESIGN GUIDELINES TABLE OF CONTENTS Section 1 1 INTRODUCTION
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“Indian Education” by Sherman Alexie In the article title “Indian Education”‚ by Sherman Alexie. He attends a junior high school and a farm town high school close-by. “Indian Education‚” follows him through junior high school all the way through high school. He experience being bullied and also stereotype by junior high teachers. Alexie suffers punishment by his teacher where he attends the tribal school on the Spokane reservation. She put him to stand facing the wall with his hands up‚ holding books
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P” tells junior “Son…You’re going to find more and more hope the farther and farther you walk away from this sad‚ sad‚ sad reservation” (Alexie‚ 2007). Junior should not have to transfer schools and go through hell for being Indian. Throughout “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” (Alexie‚ 2007)‚ Junior is ridiculed and neglected for being Native American not only by his peers‚ but his teachers as well. There is a quote that makes one quiver and is much too vulgar to state in an educational
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In SuperMan and Me Sherman Alexie tells the story of his childhood and how he grew up. His use of simple‚ but powerful sentences convey how desperate he truly was to learn and teach others. Alexie uses powerful quotes to emphasize this. One quote that eminently expresses this is “I read with equal parts joy and desperation.” Though this quote is not remarkably complex it gets the point across precisely and clearly. Alexie’s childhood was not one of ease. This quote consummately sums up his life
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Texas Chainsaw Massacre Sherman Alexie has lost his faith in humanity. His poem “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” illustrates a despondent mind that has been shattered by the horror of his reflection upon contemporary and historical events. Alexie explores his feelings about Sand Creek and American history and ultimately realizes that he cannot pretend to be surprised by the past violent crimes directed against Native Americans. Alexie is inconsolable because he believes that the blood‚ violence
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in the world. The first tribe I describe myself as belonging to is the tribe of creative expressionists‚ which thrive in areas of self expression and creativity. "I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited" (Alexie 5). I sometimes find it difficult to express and understant the emotions I feel raging inside. In these moments‚ I enjoy experimenting with vibrant splashes of paint across a canvas or dark scrawling into a notebook to better understand or cope with
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In the text “Green World” by Sherman Alexie‚ windmills were built outside of a small town on a Native American reservation. The windmills were responsible for killing birds and the tribe hired a man to go out to the twelve windmills and pick up the mangled bodies of the birds. At first‚ the man could not complete his job without being physically sick at the sight of the disfigured bodies‚ but as the job progresses‚ the man becomes desensitized to the situation. One day‚ an elderly Native American
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immigrated to Canada in 1992 she had clear sense of who she was‚ her culture and identity had a strong foundation that could not be shaken.As a child of an immgrant understanding who I was and where I belonged was diffcult and at times confunsing. In Sherman Alexie’s “War Dances”‚ the protagonist struggles to understand the national identity of First Nation peoples and his own cynicism of what he sees as a lack of authenticity in First Nation culture. The colonization of Canada and the policy of assimilation
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several of his novels is Sherman Alexie. He takes many of the events or situations he experienced throughout his life and puts them into the lives of the characters in these books. Sherman Alexie illustrates several of the obstacles that he faced in his life through the difficulties his characters encounter‚ particularly in his book The Absolutely True Diary of
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