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    Gender Roles in Dry Lips oughta move to Kapuskasing Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing‚ written by Tomson Highway‚ is a play that transports the audience into the mind of the protagonist‚ Zachary Jeremiah Keechigeesik‚ whose community experiences the many obstacles and after-effects inflicted by oppression. The play takes place at Wasaychigan Hill Indian Reserve and starts with a stark naked Zachary in the home of Big Joey. The audience later finds out that Zachary and Big Joey are running against

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    Language as a Highway

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    Language as a Highway There are about five thousand languages throughout the world now‚ and that doesn’t even include the hand languages. As a matter of fact‚ Languages are the most powerful inventions ever. Languages are important highways that allow people to communicate within the world of different nations and cultures. Without language we wouldn’t be able to communicate with one another and spread ideas. Languages are highways that connect the past and the present. Without language there

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    Dry Lips Oughta Move To Kapuskasing is a Native American play written in 1951. Dry Lips is a play pertaining to the events on a reserve‚ though the eyes of seven different Native American men. Micheal Tremblay and Tomson Highway express the role of women‚ and how between two cultures women can ultimately be the same. “Woman was taken out of man; not out of his head to top him‚ nor out of his feet to be trampled underfoot; but out of his side to be equal to him‚ under his arm to be protected‚ and

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    Fur Queen‚ the author Tomson Highway uses literary devices such as imagery and rhetorical fragments to dramatize Okimasis’ experience. These literary techniques effectively convince the reader that this experience was one of the most important in Okimasis’ life. Throughout the excerpt‚ Highway demonstrates that when used properly‚ these devices can contribute much to the meaning of a story. This gripping passage excerpted from the novel Kiss of the Fur Queen by Tomson Highway uses imagery and rhetorical

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    Canada‚ My Canada By Tomson Highway Tomson Highway is Cree‚ born in northwest Manitoba in 1951. He is a musician and an award-winning playwright. His best-known plays include The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing‚ which deal with life on the reservation. ________________________________________________________________ Three summers back‚ a friend and I were being hurtled by bus through the heart of Australia‚ the desert flashing pink and red before our disbelieving eyes

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    The Rez Sisters

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    The Rez Sisters The play The Rez Sisters is written by one of Canada’s most celebrated playwrights‚ Tomson Highway. Highway was born in 1951 in northwestern Manitoba. He went on to study at the University of Manitoba and graduated from the University of Western Ontario‚ with honors in Music and English. Native Literature is inspired by “contemporary social problems facing native Canadians today; alcohol and drug abuse‚ suicide‚ wife battering‚ family violence‚ the racism of the

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    The Rez Sisters Essay

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    Tomson Highway’s The Rez Sisters is the play about seven related women who live on a reserve and go TO THE BIGGEST BINGO IN THE WORLD in Toronto. The play takes place during a summer of 1986‚ on the fictional Wasaychigan Hill Indian Reserve on Manitoulin Island‚ Ontario‚ and provides the portrait of seven Rez sisters who are all related by birth or marriage. The distinct personalities of each character are used to offer the audience a different attitude towards life and their role on the reservation

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    Automated Highway System

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    Chapter 2 Automated Highway Systems A major long-term element of Intelligent Transportation Systems research and development is Automated highway Systems (AHS). The AHS program is a broad international effort “to provide the basis for‚ and transition to‚ the next major performance upgrade of the vehicle/highway system through the use of automated vehicle control technology” [NAHSC96]. The detailed definition of the Automated Highway System is as follows [Plan93]: The term “fully automated

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    California Highway Patrol

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    ENGL 1301 Research Paper The California Highway Patrol Post 9/11‚ I was given the opportunity to work in partnership with the California Highway Patrol (CHP) department. I always had the utmost respect for personnel in uniform and being able to work side by side with police officers has made me respect them even more. To me‚ the CHP is one of the most elite forces that existsthroughout California and our nation. Their history and ability to provide so much security and protection for the citizens

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    Tennessee Highway Patrol

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    The Tennessee Highway Patrol began on December 14‚ 1929 to take the place of the Tennessee State Police Force‚ which was formed in 1926 to be just like the Texas Rangers. In 1957 the Tennessee Highway Patrol was the first to use helicopters and operate patrol work. The Tennessee Highway Patrol is also known as the THP. The Tennessee Highway Patrol is the highway patrol bureau and is state police organization for the United States of Tennessee. The THP is in charge of imposing all federal

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