Babe Ruth

In Sherman Alexie’s “The Approximate Size of my Favorite Tumour”, the author uses humour to illustrate allusions of stereotypes in regards to the Indigenous people, based on ideology in North American society. Alexie uses metaphoric imagery to connect the main character coming to terms with his cancer diagnosis, and to magnify how behaviours caused by stereotypes can be detrimental to a person’s self-worth or identity. The story is told in first person narrative, which is being expressed by the…

I was excited to see my sister after not seeing her for more than two years. I was waiting outside my apartment, in my black, sleeveless dress that barely went past my knees, for about ten minutes before the dimbox pulled up in front of me. All the while many traditional folks gave me some dirty looks for showing off my gam. When I entered the taxicab, Ellie was wearing a full length dress in which I could only see her hands and her face, we hadn 't been talking for more than five…

Hubert Cecil Booth. The triple AAA (American Automobile Association) was started in 1902. The international morse code signal for SOS (...---...) became the worldwide standard. Thomas Edison was alive during this time. He created the light bulb. Babe Ruth was only a rookie at this time. Theodore Roosevelt became president during this decade. Mark Twain was alive at this time. He wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. There was mass production of the automobile. Karl Benz invented the…