At first‚ Arnold had no self-confidence at all. He let other step all over him and he believed that he didn’t matter at all. This was proven when Arnold stated “I am zero on the rez”. Arnold let this happen because he was born many problems. He was born with an unusually large head‚ a brain deficiency causing him to have too much liquid in his brain‚ and stuttering problems. All these things lowered Arnold’s confidence gradually
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Junior’s Journey: An Exploration of Marxism On and Off the Reservation By Tony Ventola LIT 650 Junior’s Journey: An Exploration of Marxism On and Off the Reservation By Tony Ventola Introduction Sherman Alexie is Native American poet‚ novelist and filmmaker. He was born in 1966 on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit‚ Washington. Much of Alexie’s body of work revolves around themes of American/Indian relations‚ alcoholism‚ poor living conditions‚ violence and many other challenges that
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In the beginning of the book Junior says‚ “Everybody on the rez calls me retard about twice a day. They call me retard when they are pantsing me or stuffing my head in the toilet or just smacking me upside the head.” (Alexie 4). All the people on the rez have a hard life most are really poor and hate white people. They take that hatred of what other people have done to them out on people or kids like Junior
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is an eye opening book about the life of an Indian boy in the Reservation called Arnold Spirit Jr‚ or just Junior as his people call him. Junior is considered weird by his people because of many reasons. He also lead a hard life with his parents‚ sister‚ grandmother‚ and Rowdy as his only friend. As a baby‚ Junior have too much fluid in his brain that caused his thinking process to slow down‚ and highly susceptible to seizure. Fortunately‚ surgery on his head solved this problem‚ but with some side
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goes outside he gets teased and beaten‚ so he spends a lot of time in his room drawing cartoons. “I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods‚” he says‚ “and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.” To say that life is hard on the Spokane rez doesn’t begin to touch it. “My parents came from poor people who came from poor people who came from poor people‚” Arnold explains‚ “all the way back to the very first poor people.” The kid was born with 10 too many teeth‚ so he gets them pulled — all
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Notre Dame of Midsayap College Graduate Study BA 613 Human Resource Management with Transformational Leadership Submitted to: Engr. Charito Labao Instructor Submitted by: Rez Eliseo D. Padama MBA Case no. 1 Developing Diagnostic and Analytical Skills NINE-TO-FIVE NO MORE 1. What is your reaction to this “no attendance” plan implemented at TechTarget? Do you believe it’s too simplistic? Defend your position. As I Analyze the
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Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked - Cage The Elephant. Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked is a good song choice for this book for may reasons. The song parallels the struggle people in the reservation go through to get money. I think the song message about how poverty affects people gives a nod to poverty and lack of resources in the Spokane Reservation and how Junior sees that affects people’s mindset. Also‚ the light situational humor of the song matches up with the humor found in Sherman’s book Rose
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from everyone else. Another time in the book when Junior experiences being the “only one” is when he shows up at Rearden. He is the only indian boy at Rearden and he is bullied everyday because of it. Junior is going to Rearden to get away from the rez‚ but now he has a another problem to deal with. The first day Junior gets
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie follows Arnold Spirit Junior‚ a young native american boy‚ as he struggles to survive between two different worlds. He must endure his own disability‚ social ostracism‚ poverty‚ and the effects of alcoholism‚ while also dealing with the loss of people he loves due to the very conditions on his reservation that he is fighting to escape. Arnold must go through many trials and tribulations as he learns to navigate the world on his own
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As Junior tries to rise above the life everyone expects him to live‚ he becomes a victim of interpellation through identification and cultural assimilation‚ as well as attitude and behavior reception. While the conditions of whiteness utilize poverty as a hegemonic tool‚ Junior’s transformation into a fully formed hegemonic subject was mainly the result of assimilation. In this paper I will argue why Junior’s assimilation is instrumental in understanding his position of poverty and how it relates
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