Signal transduction

“Culture is a fluid set of customs, traditions, beliefs, values, and practices developed over time by a specific group or community” is what I had to repeat over and over again throughout this whole semester. Section R class first learned what culture is throughout our eyes and how other cultures see it too. We watched a variety of short clips of different cultures and what they believed in. In some cultures, we thought that they were insane because we did not understand why they would do that.…

Gangs are nothing new. At the turn of the century (the early 1900s), many large police departments on the east coast had gang units to monitor the immigrant gangs who got together to protect their neighborhoods and to gather for social reasons. Gangs as most people think of them today were probably first recognized by the public with the inception of the Los Angeles gangs in the early seventies. Why do kids join gangs? The stereotype that comes to many people’s minds is that kids who join…

far hill to the north. Almost immediately after, another far puff shoed; then two quick ones. Everybody stared at the puffs of smoke. More smoke signals puffed up. Slowly the puffs of smoke bleed off into the mile distance. Above the trees across the lake rose an answering smoke signal” ( 19-20). In our community today we don’t send several smoke signals across town to get a message or to send them a warning or something like that. Today we call, text, send letters, make a speech to send people…

In my Opinion Sherman Alexie wrote “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me” with the purpose of informing the reader of the challenges he faced as a young Indian boy that “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me” by Sherman Alexie was not supposed to be educated by societies standards. Alexie used his own personal experiences as a young smart Indian to express his point of view. His love of books derived from his love and adoration of his father. The purpose of this essay is to…

hroughout his journey from his poor Indian reservation to a neighboring all white school. Arnold Spirit, the main character in “The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part Time Indian”. By Sherman Alexie Junior experiences on and off the reservation helped him understand to ignore all the hate, so you can focus on more important thing and follow your dreams even if other disagree. (Body #1: One of the life lesson that Junior learned through his experience was to follow your dreams even if other…

Sherman Alexie reveals insight into Gordy when he talks about Gordy’s idea about the mysteries of the world. When Gordy and Junior are in the library, where Gordy is teaching Junior how to read, Gordy starts talking about how to properly read a book. He is explaining to Junior how you have to read a book at least three times to really read it. Junior is interested in what Gordy is saying, even if he doesn’t fully understand it. Gordy says, “The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled…

Sherman Alexie and Octavia Butler have very different backgrounds, but the only similarity they share (that we know of) is being the minority. Sherman Alexie went to Reardon High School for a better education than offered to him by the rez. He was the only Indian there besides the school mascot. Octavia Butler is one of the few African American women to write science fiction. Their stories, too, are very different from each other, but they have a few similarities. “Jesus Christ’s Half Brother…

Alexie’s story, Superman and Me was extremely powerful and motivating. The purpose of his essay was to convince and encourage readers to never stop learning, and to always read. He used his own personal struggles to deliver a message. I never knew that school life on a reservation was that unpleasant. I had the assumption that schools on reservations were far more advanced than schools off the reservation. I was also surprised when he talked about how Indian students were not expected to succeed…

Alcoholism in Reservations In Sherman Alexie’s book entitled “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian,” one of the many continuous themes is alcoholism. It shows how alcohol can affect everyone surrounding it, and the destruction is causes within families or personal feelings. Junior (the main character) labels his community as a generally drunk society. The book allows us to witness the tragedies Junior has encountered first hand. Within the short amount of time Junior has lived, he…

The pawn shop is one of the central images in the poem "Evolution". This pawn shop was set up by Buffalo Bill and he had put it right on the border of a Native American reservation. It happened to be right across the street from a liquor store. This would make the Native Americans come inside the pawn shop, after the Native Americans would sell or pawn everything, they had just to go across the street and buy liquor. Buffalo Bill had used this location to prove that the Native Americans were…