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Escape and Healing of Indigenous Trauma. The theme of self acceptance plays a crucial aspect in progressing away from past traumas. “Call Me Indian” written by David Giddens and “How hockey offered salvation at Indian Residential Schools” by Duncan McCue provides an insight into the topics of hockey as an escape, self acceptance, and truth towards the path of healing. In the novel, Indian Horse, written by Richard Wagamese, the author examines different forms of escape Saul Indian Horse uses and their role in offering a momentary relief from his reality but also bringing in a baggage of racism, discrimination, and isolation for years. Hockey, alcohol, and music served as major coping mechanisms to cope with childhood trauma, isolation,…

this way much of my freshmen year, but certainly junior year and a little bit of my sophomore year I felt extreme guilt for enjoying myself and relaxing for just a second. The guilt combined with fear that unwinding for just a second would send my GPA down the drain. For instance, one time around a month ago I was watching the movie Call Me by Your Name and I was so stressed about studying during the film, that I do not remember a portion of the movie. I would be panicking when I watched TV or…

Have you ever been scared? Of course you have, everyone has. The book “People Call me Crazy” was written by Gary Paulsen and it is about this boy who was scared of swimming in water. The book “Animal Distress Calls” was written by Eliot Schrefer and is about a girl that gets lost at the zoo. There is a point of freight for the main character in both stories. There are many similarities and differences such as setting and character traits. “People call me Crazy” and “Animal Distress Calls” have a…

The movie I watched for my film assignment is called “Call Me Crazy”. It was like five movies in one, it showcased multiple characters in with different story lines that suffered or dealt with someone with a mental illness. I chose this movie is because it did something different from other movies, “Call Me Crazy” gave the characters family a voice. Mental illnesses does not affect just the people diagnosed, but also the people around them. There were six characters in the movie four of them…

The opening chapter of the novel instantly draws the attention and curiosity of the reader since the opening sentence, “Call me Ishmael” (Melville 3). It suggests that the narrator is not really named Ishmael, instead he asks the reader to call him by that name. This implements a great sense of excitement that pulls the reader to continue exploring the mind of this unknown person since all humans have a tendency to be drawn towards the mysterious. Herman Melville captures this perfectly when…

Since the publication of her picture “Call me Caitlyn”, Caitlyn Jenner faced numerous problems after publicly announcing herself as a trans because many of us lacked the knowledge of how to treat a transgendered. We, as viewers, didn’t know what pronounce to use to refer her or what impact her gender identity will have on her sexual orientation. According to Cohen’s ideas, monster embodies an idea that is outside of our common social norm, thereby, we don’t look deeper into them. Similarly,…

Call Me Zelda, a novel written by Erika Robuck about a woman named Zelda Fitzgerald. Zelda was committed to a Baltimore psychiatric clinic in the 1930’s, struggling with insanity and madness as she tries to form a separate identity from her husband Scott Fitzgerald, who is a famous author. The narrator, and Zelda’s nurse Anna Howard becomes close to her, even though she knew she shouldn’t professionally. Anna, held down by her own past of her husband being MIA in action, becomes increasingly…

Descriptive writing appeal to the reader’s sense which create a vivid picture of a person, place, or thing. The purpose of a description in essay is to reveal the meaning of a subject through detailed, sensory observation. The descriptive essay employs the power in language and all the human senses to bring a subject to life for the reader. In Ann Hodgman “No Wonder They Call Me a Bitch” describes her experience tasting dog food by elaborating on the taste, ingredient, and qualities as human…

Topic: Don’t Call Me Ishmael! Is a novel about the importance of the power of language. To what extent do you agree? The power of language is one of the main ideas that is conveyed by how people speak and treat others verbally, in Michael Gerard Bauer’s novel, Don’t Call Me Ishmael! is a novel about language and words and how they matter. Language is very important in Don’t Call Me Ishmael! And can have multiple effects. To begin with, powerful language is detrimental when used at the wrong…

#5 Ann Hodgman- "No Wonder They Call Me A Bitch" Authors Claim- The author wants to convince the reader to pay more attention to the ingredients in their pet's food and subsequently their own food. She goes with the drastic approach of trying different types of dog food to show the public that their disgust in her for doing eating it is hypocritical. the reader is repulsed by the thought of what's in the food she's eating but they turn around and feed it to the animal that they supposedly care…