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plain old stupidity – these are the main ingredients for most of today’s reality TV shows.” (Cohen 14) Reality shows began with The Real World in the early to mid 1990’s. Ever since, television has grown to broadcast all types of reality shows from Laguna Beach, a show about high School drama and love to The Jersey Shore, which is a reality show casting Italian, Jersey 21+ year olds who party and do things that most people didn’t think would be appropriate to televise. Not only are these shows…

Irrigation in yuma and its significance. Intro: Question 1: Describe in detail how irrigation changed yuma? Yuma has changed in many ways over many years. It is known for a few things such as the sunniest city on earth. This is a big contributor to the success of yuma's agriculture in an otherwise barren and dry landscape yuma has ingenious ways of delivering water to their plants. This is their methods of irrigation they take water from the colorado and divert it by use of canals and dams.…

creates a superiority complex that some people feel the need to succumb to in order to self-preserve as no one wants be to viewed as a partial human. Tayo’s mom succumbed to this superiority complex in order to eradicate her embarrassment over being Laguna. When white men smiled and waved at her, they were validating her existence and humanity. Even then, both cultures eventually ashamed her. Subsequently, she perished. Individualism isn’t inherently a damaging ideal, in fact, unlike…

Throughout Leslie Marmon Silko’s work Ceremony, there are many integral themes. The story focuses on Tayo, a World War II veteran, who is traumatized by his experience over the course of the time he spent on the battle front. He views his cousin, Rocky, being killed, and this loss to him wounds him greatly, both physically and mentally. His family idolized Rocky, from Tayo’s point of view, because, I argue, Rocky seemed to be a successful Native American, and Tayo was just not as successful as…

“How Equality Changed The World” Patrick Kelly Laguna Beach High School How Equality Changed The World The Enlightenment was a philosophical awakening that took place in Europe during the 18 and 17th century, at its origin in Europe the Enlightenment gave citizens stuck in unfair systems of government new ways to think. As History.com once said ,(2016), “Participants thought they were illuminating human intellect and culture after the “dark” middle ages.” (p. 2). Ideals…

my new school, Laguna Creek. It towers above, coating me in shadows. I nervously clutch the strap of my backpack, and, with my other hand, cling to the safety of the car door. "I'll be fine, mom," I say, and release my grip on the car. "See you at 3!" My mom waves as her old, beat-up black Suburban coasts down the school driveway and disappears from sight. I sigh, and walk up to my new school. I'm not alone- many other students are walking in too, but I doubt that they're new. Laguna Creek…

Learning Style Nuval, Cyrhene Ashley Section B71 Malayan Colleges Laguna General Psychology Gerson Francis Tuazon Learning Style “Learning another language is like becoming another person.” - Haruki Murakami -1949 This quotation tells us that learning is not just for information only but also in other language too. This also tells us that if we try to learn a language we somehow turn into another person or persona it is because we think that since we are in another country and we speak…

Research Question #2 Migration Stories: Mapping Cultural Survival Across Stolen Terrains Leslie Marmon Silko, a Laguna Pueblo author, emphasizes the importance of place in indigenous storytelling--identity is “intimately linked with the surrounding terrain,” whether it be a specific geographical feature or the exact location where a story took place (43). When tribes migrated to find subsistence, exchange goods with other native peoples, or complete a holy journey, their stories often served as…

Nationwide Misrepresentation of Native Americans: Politically and Historically Explained As a nationwide problem in the United States, Native Americans are widely misrepresented and misidentified as a group and race of people. Both in the past and in the present, Native Americans have been looked upon as people as well as an ethnical group. Native Americans often have a lower social status in the United States, they are often looked at as people who are exceedingly poor, have many health…

December 2013 was a memorable time for me. My mother and I went to Manila to visit my grandparents for some family bonding time. We took a bus going there and on the way I saw blue skies and acres of farms throughout the highway. It was a long ride, about six to seven hours. Moreover, the traffic was horrendous when we arrived in Manila. Fortunately, my grandparents fetched us at the bus terminal. We were going to stay at my grandparent’s house and it was already late when we arrived at…