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modern day Indians. The narrative of Native American societies has been misconstrued and one explicit example of this is the infamous fourth grade mission project that does injustice to the persecutions and subjugation that the Native Americans faced. Deborah Miranda, the author of Bad Indians, tells the harsh reality of what really happened through pictures, short stories, and poems upsetting the myth of benevolent colonization. In one of the anecdotes, Miranda sits at an airport waiting to…

cooked beans and no bolitas was refried beans. I had a way of commutating with my family but sometimes I would forget what the word was and I used to describe the item itself. They would eventually understand what I mean. Unlike one of the cases in Deborah Brandt’s Sponsors of Literacy, I did not have a tutor or anything like that. However, I did have resources at my disposal, such as my biggest influences. My biggest influences were my mother, my grandma, and school, to put it in a short…

The tribal memoir, Bad Indians by Deborah Miranda is an intricately written body of work that recounts the social and historical story of an entire peoples. The memoir’s use of several different mediums assists in exposing all aspects of Indian life including periods of subjugation through missionization and secularization. The period labeled as “Reinvention” focuses deeply on the wave of immense interest in the study of Indian culture by white men. Miranda includes in this period a section…

In The memoir Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez went beyond to help women to fulfill their dream and empower them. Rodriguez takes us through a journey filled with stories about her own life and how it is interconnected with the Kabul women in such ways. Rodriguez’s struggle and hard work to open up the Beauty school in Kabul has led to discoveries of afghan women as capable, confident, deeply determined and endlessly resilient. In a country where women have very few opportunities to…

Deborah Tannen, in her article “Sex, Sighs, and Conversation: “Why Men and Women Can’t Communicate,” argues that both men and women misunderstand when they try to say something. After an experiment, she came to a conclusion that the problem is one will think or listen differently when other person says something. Utilizing her own exploitations and other sociologists and psychologist experiments, Tannen diagrams that men and women are raised to convey in an unexpected way. Later, she concludes…

in it the author of the passage Deborah Tannen states that men and women have difficulties when having conversations, because men and women’s approach to a conversation differ drastically. believe that while she may be correct some of her ideas are more based in stereotypes than in reality when it comes to her statement that men and women are different when it comes to having a conversation. I will be using the show Rick and Morty to support my claim that Deborah Tannen is Partially correct in…

stream denominations continue to shrink and modern day evangelicalism has morphed into something more politically and conservatively centered, I found “Rescuing Jesus; How People of Color, Women and Queer Christians are Reclaiming Evangelism”, by Deborah Jian Lee, enlightening, profound and hopeful as it centers on new, out of the box ways in which people generally pushed into the margins, are redefining their evangelical Christianity. “Evangelicalism is anything but a monolith; it is a vastly…

In her article, “’But What Do You Mean?’ Woman and Men in Conversation”, by Deborah Tannen she discusses the difference in talking between men and women. The distinction between how women communicate and how men communicate. The difference is striking because one does not realize how different women and men talk unless it is revealed to them somehow such as reading this article. Tannen started by apologies. Women apologize way more than men. Women apologize sometimes when they have not even…

Parvana is a text written by Deborah Ellis, that follows the storyline of a young girl set amidst war-torn Afghanistan. The text weighs heavily on the role of gender and how it affects both the characters and plot of the text. Parvanas gender has the most intense affect throughout the course of the text. This is followed closely by the laws surrounding her Father. Parvana’s sister Nooria has a similar intensity throughout the course of the text. Whilst the text is not solely reliant on gender,…

This book “Aren’t I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South” by Deborah Gray White was a great book. Deborah Gray White talks about the struggles the African black slaves had to suffer. The great thing about this book is not only the excellency of Deborah Gray White report and vivid imagery as she for tell the struggle that these black women slaves had to face, but I firmly believe that she can do these women justice because she herself is a black women who will not be biases toward the…