Native American Indian Analysis

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Tony
English-161
Dr.Rossi
12/5/2016
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I would recommend The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian to other International students because we can learn their history, culture, lives, and others. I participated in Oneida fall field trip at Oneida National Museum last month, and I learned a lot of knowledge about American Indian with all international students. The tour guide explained about American Indian tribe to us. We visited a longhouse in the museum and had a lecture. There were furs, food, and other staff. The longhouse can protect them to avoid wild animal attacking, and it's so warm for them in Winter. Then, we visited a model of Native American Indian village, and it has a river, a food store, a forest,
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That school was in the poor area. Mr.P sometimes forgot to come to class, and he taught something that it’s nothing for geometry. I think that he’s a bad teacher. He felt angry about that. One day, he used his old math book to smash his face because of lack of education. He was suspended by Mr.P., and he advised him to transfer to Reardan. It’s twenty miles away from here, and it’s in a wealthier area. Mr.P came visit his home and apologized to him. He was supported by his parents, and he took Mr.P’s advise. He decided to transfer to Reardan, but Rowdy was mad with him. He started to cry and punched Junior’s …show more content…
One day, two American Indian Victor and Thomas waited for a ride because they didn’t have enough money to ride a good car. After the car came, and they made the car stop. They got a ride. After a while, they arrived a place and two people who were sitting in the front of the car reminded them. They got off the car. They waited for another ride. After a while, the coach bus came. He got on the bus. Before they had seats, they said that too much money with each other. They considered, and they rode. When they felt angry, they gave someone a fist or punched someone's face. One day, they argued or with each other in their house, and someone let his dad leave and prevented him from doing that. Before he left, he gave him a fist many times. Finally, his mom said that stop it. On one night, they drove a car, and they argued with each other loudly on the car because they drunk alcohol before driving. Finally, they got crushed in his car and white people's car. The girl yelled at them. Victor was so mad, and he wanted to punch a woman. Finally, Thomas said stop. They talked to whites loudly. After that, the white lady was crying. One day, they asked a white doctor to therapy, but she said tonto to them. I wish to maintain that white lady was bias to them because of their

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