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In “The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part Time Indian” the author, Sherman Alexie, develops characters through his use of figurative language. Alexie’s use of figurative language has a considerable impact on characterization and development of a character's personality and background. Alexie uses similes to develop characters’ background and provide the readers an image of a character in the past. Arnold Spirit says, “I started wearing glasses when I was three, so I ran around the rez looking…

Sherman Alexie is by far one of the most controversial authors in American and Native American literature history. His most notorious works focus on the despair, poverty, and alcoholism that were known to circulate amongst the Native American people, some of which he experienced first hand. He is best known for using a bold, outspoken style in many poems, novels, and short stories. At one point in time, the author states that his “only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority…

The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian is about a fourteen-year-old boy, Junior. In the book, we see how Junior deals with loss, poverty and starting a new life away from the reservation. He explains being poor feels so shitty but, he can't do anything about until he realizes he can be better of the reservation. The history behind the Indian reservations with for the poor “uncivilized Indians”. The poor part about it is true because people we're from the reservation did not have the…

A. Norms/pg. 45 Ch. 2: Expectations of "right" behavior. In this video "World 's Most Dangerous Gang" there are many different norms of M.S. 13. There is a norm where if you die the rest of the gang go around town graffiti the walls with cross, tombstones, and the person who died 's name. Another norms is that your protect your territory no matter what. Another one is that you are in the M.S. 13 gang for life, if you leave the gang they will find you and they will kill you. If there is a…

a. Status/pg.96: the position that someone occupies in a social group (also called social status). Status is something that all of us seem to be worried about even though we should not be. What some define status as varies from person to person. Some strive to have a high status in society some people do not care. Gang members care about their status than the average person. A gang member especially in MS13 cares about his or her status because the higher they are in status the more respect…

How, if at all, did your perception of gangs change after watching the video and completing the reading? The video nor the book really changed my perception of gangs. Since I can remember I have been either watching shows like gangland or taking classes on this exact topic or something very similar. I have always been aware that gangs are in place so that groups of men can control different sections of impoverished neighborhoods as well as sell drugs or commit other illegal acts and make loads…

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…

Each totaltraffic graph in the method section shows the server or the client with the above RTT and Window Size as incoming and outgoing traffic. The horizontal axis represents the time in seconds and the vertical axis represents the measured traffic in bytes. The graphs presents the increase of traffic once the experiments starts and ends. Case 3. In comparing the window size and RTT staying the same, the traffic decrease once the window size increase. In comparing RTT and the window size…

Kaempferol is a natural polyphenol, secondary metabolite (flavonol), a type of flavonoid, found in a variety of plant-derived foods. Kaempferol is a yellow crystalline solid with a melting point of 276–278 °C. It is slightly soluble in water and highly soluble in hot ethanol, ethers, and DMSO. Kaempferol acts as an antioxidant by reducing oxidative stress. Many studies suggest that consuming kaempferol may reduce the risk of various cancers, and it is currently under consideration as a possible…

“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.…