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As we grow into adulthood our primary goal in life is to build an education. To figure out what career we want to pursue. The texts by Sherman Alexie, Mike Rose, and Richard Rodriguez have all discussed how their background has influenced their education and upbringing to adulthood. “Blue-Collar Brilliance” by Mike Rose highlights how society determines the intelligence of workers based on their job or career. In Richard Rodriguez’s “Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood,” his education and…

Based on a true story, “Lean on me” tells the story of a principal Mr. Joe Clark, a far from ordinary man, who performs a miracle by saving a high school. The P-G 13 rated film that last for 108 minutes, was directed by John G. Avildsen, written by Michael Schiffer and starred Morgan Freeman in their 1989 drama film. Other supporting characters include Beverly Todd, Lynne Thigpen and Jermaine Hopkins. “Lean on me” is an extraordinary film that should inspire educators and students strictly…

In Zitkala Sa’s short story The Soft-Hearted Sioux a Native American boy goes to a mission school that teaches him that killing anything is wrong. His father is sick and unable to hunt, and he did not kill until it is too late. The young man is born and raised Native American but, is taught Christianity in school which made him a social outcast to both his people and their ways of life. Zitkala story The Soft-Hearted Sioux, portrays that the boy is torn between two faiths. The conflict with his…

The Outsiders Character Analysis I am writing my character analysis about Ponyboy. I will be telling about how Ponyboy acted throughout the story, how he reacted to things, and a summary of his over all personal appearance. Ponyboy is the youngest person in the group of greasers coming in at age fourteen. He lives with his two brothers Darry and Sodapop because his parents died a few years ago in a car crash. He has long brown hair that is always greased and in his face. He is a good kid for…

The movie “Smoke Signals” and the novel “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian” have some similarities and contrasts. The movie is about two indian boys named Victor and Thomas who go on an adventure to retrieve Victor's’ father's’ ashes. In the novel Junior, the main character struggles to find his place in society, he ends up going to a white kids school instead of the indian reservation school. Another thing to notice is that Victor and Thomas were around the age of 18 maybe 19…

The forbidden books all tell stories of love, adventure, friendships and much more that is forbidden by the government; however, there is a way for their legacy to continue on through the art of storytelling. In Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Siji, two boys have to go through re-education on the Phoenix Mountain due to their high status within the community. Luo and the narrator both have an obsession with reading, but they are not able to openly express that so they satisfy…

Life can be hard at times, especially if you are forced to give up everything you know and start a new one. In Joseph Bruchac’s novel, Code Talker, this is exactly the case. Kii Yazhi, a young Navajo boy, has to give up his life as a Navajo to go to boarding school and learn English. There, he must never speak in Navajo or else he will be punished by the teachers. Kii, now named Ned by the teachers, must overcome this challenge and many others if he wants to survive World War II. Upon arriving…

INTRODUCTION - ~ THESIS - When evaluating Arnold “Junior” Spirit from Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and Jin Wang from Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese, similarities radiate in both characters as their disparity in race deem the two of them as outcasts in the entirety of society. In addition to their lack of social interactions, their uniformity in their impulsive decisions cost them each a dear friend. Although Junior and Jin are quite similar, they…

and fiction. Cindy Sherman is one of the photographers who create images that ignite the speculative relationship between reality and fiction. Through her photography, Cindy Sherman develops a new path where she fosters a visual discourse and opens up a discussion on the power of images and the message that the image communicates to the viewer. In many of her images, Sherman serves as her own model breeding documentary and fiction to create a new genre. To achieve this, Sherman takes up numerous…

their capability to express themselves, and give them inspiration in a way that other means cannot. In stories, such as Jeanne-Marie Leprice de Beaumont’s version of “Beauty and the Beast” and “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie, inspire a main theme about finding one’s own fate and identity that is shaped by their poverty, family, and departure that is certain to give inspiration to children to learn and find their own purpose…