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    «The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian” by Sherman Alexie touches upon many different themes like for instance racism and poverty, but most crucial to the story is the search for personal and cultural identity that Junior goes through. Figuring out one’s own identity is hard enough as it is, and even more so for a boy who suddenly finds himself in a situation where he has to walk among two “tribes” simultaneously. Junior knows he will be facing several challenges when he decides to…

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    Absolutely Free by Zane Hodges presents a good representation of the Free Grace position in a response to the Lordship Salvation controversy. There is a wide difference between Free Grace Theology and Lordship Salvation Theology and this book justly explains those differences and should be considered a valuable resource for any person studying salvation and discipleship issues. Hodges begins by defining faith and addresses the impact of words, like “intellectual” and “mental,” that possibly…

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    “55% of students are bullied because of their look” (National Bullying Prevention Center). In the book, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, this is exactly what Junior is experiencing. Junior is bullied a lot in the book because of his identity, specifically his looks and his race. He decides to leave the reservation, his hometown, to go to Reardan which is an all-white school. Junior decides to leave for Reardan, but he struggles with his identity while dealing…

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    see us, and we determine how we want people to see us as. It’s all about you and your choice of character. How you portray yourself is how people will see you. Your choice of behavior determines how you portray yourself. When Junior in “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” started being aggressive towards Rowdy and his old teammates during the basketball game, people started to see him…

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    Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem is a National Geographic book that gives an overview of the Salem Witch Trials from its start to its finish. The author, Rosalyn Schanzer, is complete in her telling of the events, starting from the point where no one guessed that the afflicted girls were being tortured by witches and ending with the stories of how each person lived out their lives after the trials ended. The drawback of recording over a year of time within 131 pages is that…

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    Aveeno Absolutely Ageless Restorative Night Cream "Want to look younger, longer?" According to the September 2016 advertisement Aveeno Absolutely Ageless Restorative Night Cream claims that blackberry complex will provide you with natural younger looking results in just one week. This advertisement captures the radiance of Jennifer Aniston's natural younger looking skin as she is positioned upright on elegant white upholstery. The dark navy star filled moonlit sky gleaming in the background…

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    lives on the Spokane Indian Reservation, in Washington, where the majority of people living there are constantly drunk, gambling, or fighting one another. The education is poor, people are hungry, and nobody ever leaves. In the comedic novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie, the main character, Junior, demonstrates aspects of a comedic hero because as he experiences…

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    =----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------= How hard would it be for you, if you had to leave your school and everyone you knew, to go to a place where you were different and stood out. In the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, Arnold a 9th grader stands up for his culture and takes on a higher academic education. But for him to do this, he needs to leave the reservation and go to a rich white…

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    Deconstructive Theory in Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, a boy named Junior lives on a Spokane Indian reservation in Washington. He chooses to leave the reservation to pursue education at the local public school, Reardan. Reardan is known on reservation for its wealth and largely white student body. In a broader sense, a certain hierarchy exists between life on a reservation and the white society outside of its…

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    The Absolutely True Traits of Junior The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian is a true story. This fact can be found out easily just by reading because the main character Junior has a life that a lot of people can relate to. Junior is a high school aged boy that is very intelligent, but he lives on a reservation that doesn't have much intelligence to fit his needs so junior decides to leave his reservation for better opportunities at another school. Without Juniors character in the…

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