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    Humor And Racism Analysis

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    Throughout the book‚ Sherman Alexie provides many humorous scenes and images to help point out awareness of issues and realties that Indigenous communities face. Alexie (2007) writes “none of those guys punched me or got violent. After all‚ I was a reservation Indian‚ and no matter how geeky and weak I appeared to be‚ I was still a potential killer”

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    When freshman change schools‚ does it impact their identity? The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie is about an young kid named Junior goes through a dramatic change of schools and friends but manages to make it work. “School Days of an Indian Girl” by Zitkala-Sa is about a Indian girl who is forced into a boarding school and has to the teacher they to make her forget about her culture. In The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part Time Indian Junior’s identity has changed by

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    Museum Indians

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    traditional outfits‚ instrument‚ and food are being showcased‚ but the gorgeous tribes do not exist anymore. Their cultures were taken endlessly by the people who built the museums. In the story “Museum Indians” and the poem “evolution”‚ Susan Power and Sherman Alexie wrote about the tragedy of Native American culture and the sorrowness inside the remaining Indians by using negative connotation and figurative language . The story Museum Indians was written from an Indian girl’s point of view‚ the author used

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    The stereotypes are strongly implied in our lives in many spheres of the people’s activities. Racial as well as gender or even age stereotypes can be witnessed at the workplace‚ on the streets or elsewhere. However‚ as the history and people’s experience evince‚ stereotypes usually include the ideas and concepts that have no solid and real life basis. In most cases‚ stereotypes simply prove to be wrong. However‚ as people‚ we are highly subjected to the influence of stereotypes everywhere‚ on the

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    school. This overtime gave Arnold hope. Before Mr.P talked to Arnold “{Arnolds} hopes and dreams floated up in a mushroom cloud”(Alexie 31). When Mr.P talked to Arnold he guaranteed him that he would have more hope if he left the Rez . According to Mr.P “{Arnold is going to find more and more hope the father {...} he walks away from this sad {...} reservation” (Alexie 43). In addition‚ Arnolds hope increases when he was part of the basketball team that won against many teams. When Arnold joined

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    Reservation Blues

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    Moore Junior English 25 Sept. 2014 The Native American Experience Life on the Spokane Indian Reservation is filled with shattered dreams and lost Indian souls drowning the sorrows of their people in alcohol. Reservation Blues‚ a novel by Sherman Alexie‚ depicts the story of an unlikely group of Indians coming together to chase their dreams with the help of a magic guitar‚ Big Mom‚ and their Indian blood as they struggle with the realities of being Indian in a white world. The protagonist Thomas

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    Prose Synthesis

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    Tracey Thompson AP Lang Ms. Ransom 15 Dec‚ 2013 Synthesis Essay In 2013 a study by the US Department of Education showed that only 32 percent of American fourth-graders are reading at or above the proficiency of their grade level. One out of every 3 students in America have scored "below basic" on the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) reading test. the United States was once the leading country in every aspect‚ including education‚ but now it has fallen behind to 17th place

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    Smoke Signals Film Analysis

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    what most of the people think when they say “Indian”. But Sherman Alexie ‚in his volume “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” and then the movie Smoke Signals based on one story from this volume- Thus Is What it Means to Say Phoenix‚ Arizona- try to present the image of the real Indian in the real life and work against this “formerly-held stereotypes to form a new‚ uniquely Spokane identity” all these in a humorous‚

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    Part-Time Indian

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    The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie 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

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    a Part-Time Indian‚ racism lowers Junior’s confidence and it causes him to think negatively about himself. It gives him a form of sadness and regret on how he currently has to live his life. In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian‚ Sherman Alexie explores the existence and negative effects of racism against Indigenous Peoples. This is shown through Junior’s loss of self-esteem‚ the fear he has about not being able to succeed due to his Native status and lastly‚ the isolation he feels.

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