Poor Indian Reservation Case Study

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Junior who comes from a poor Indian reservation has always been negative about good things. And positive about bad and depressing things. So did not believe in his potential as a person. Maybe because he thinks he is different. Junior does not have perfect parents or friends. And sometimes that is what makes a person stronger. Better, and allows him to succeed. He had attended a lot of funerals and all the people around him were dying under the influence of alcohol, yet he was looking at them in a positive way. Junior laughs to forget away the pain, which is possibly his way of being positive. Just like when his sister died, he kept on laughing about his father not dying while he was coming to pick him up from school when it was snowing. Another

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