...who had their own set of beliefs and religion. But over time wars and government agencies made it extremely hard on these tribes to just live their lives. Crazy Horse, Lt. Custer, and General Crook were very important in the history of the Sioux tribe. The Sioux Native American Tribe is one of the many tribes residing within the United States, who in 1868 signed a treaty at a conference in Wyoming, promising peace between their tribe and the whites. In this treaty the Sioux agreed to settle in the Dakota Territory at the Black Hills reservation (Sioux Nation>Life and Culture-Reservations and Treaties, 2009). There are three major dialects that are spoken in the Sioux and these are Lakota, Western Dakota, and Eastern Dakota. Mythology and beliefs are very important to the Sioux, and some are still practiced today. Within the Sioux tribe are separate tribes and one of those tribes are the Lakota, they also speak the dialect Lakota. One of the things I found interesting is that the dream catcher started with the Lakota tribe, which started from a dream that one of their spiritual leaders had. In the dream he spoke with Ikotomi about the cycle of life and choosing you right path (Crystal, 1995). It is said to remove all the bad visions and dreams so an individual is able to focus on the right path for their life journey. They believe that the dream catcher holds the destiny of their future. One of the things that differs between the way that Native Americans tribes are...
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...According to James S. Olson, Reservations are parcels of land that were managed by native American tribes as their own sovereign nation. By creating Indian reservations, the government hoped to avoid clashes over land boundaries between Indians and white settlers and to confine Indian tribes to tracts where they could be watched and provided for by federal effort. The tribes were generally free to live as they wished on their lands, as long as they remained peaceful. As the American frontier pushed westward, however, Indian land became increasingly attractive to white settlers, while the Indians themselves were considered impediments to progress. The article “Cherokee Economy” states that Participation in the reservation system proved controversial...
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...the events in her book are happening in Chicago today..Young people are being shot and dying on the streets almost every week in their neighborhood, in the parks where they play, on the way to and from school. Some are being shot just because they are in the wrong place at the wrong time. Just like Jason the main character, Mann’s, little brother. Jason was playing outside his house and a man was chasing another one with a gun and Jason was the victim. He was hit by the bullet and died. The first chapter of the books begins with the statement, “They kill people where they live, they shoot them for no real reason” That is what happened to Jason, he was shot for no real reason. The death of Jason drove his mother almost crazy and his father tried to force Mann to grow up too soon. He wanted him to be tough and act like a man. Maybe he wanted this because he wanted him to survive living where he lived and not be killed like his brother. Sharon Flake starts her book with the poem, “Boys Ain’t Men… Not Yet. Did Mann’s father realize that when he took him and his best friend Keelee on a camping trip. Going camping was not something that they had done before. They were used to hanging out around their house, so when they heard about camping they thought that this would be great. They did not have any idea about his father’s real plan. What does it mean to act like a man? Did he want him to know how to make the right decisions to stay safe?...
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...Now imagine a person being completely disconnected from all of civilization and escaping through the wild? It’s not going to happen; life now is all about social networking. In Edward Abbey’s book, Desert Solitaire, the chapter “The Moon Eyed Horse”, is not merely about Abbey’s encounter with a horse but Abbeys desire to escape society for good. As the chapter begins Abbey is helping his friend Roy roundup cattle in the desert. When they stop to get their horses some water Abbey notices foot prints of an unshod horse, “a wild horse” (Abbey 171). Abbey comes to find out that the horse was Roy’s “Old Moon-Eye is what you might call an independent horse. He don’t belong to anybody. But he ain’t wild. He’s a gelding and he’s got Roy Scobie’s brand on his hide” (Abbey 172). The horse left the ranch ten years ago and never returned back after he received a beating from Viviano for throwing a woman off his back. They called this horse Old Moon-Eyed because of moonblindness: an inflamed condition in one of his eyes. Abbey decides that he wants this horse and questions how the horse could be alone because he is “a herd animal, like the cow, like the human. It’s not natural for a horse to live alone” (Abbey 174). Abbey goes back to find the horse a month...
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...“The Only Traffic Signal on the Reservation Doesn’t Flash Red Anymore” reflects upon Victor as he is much older now living back on the rez. What he has learned in the previous story continues to reflect in this one. As he doesn't let the stereotypes hold hold back. Victor doesn't drink alcohol which is a big thing on the rez as everyone around him is constantly drunk. Looking back on “Every Little Hurricane” when a young Victor, never remembered his “alcoholic and dreamless parents”(9) sober, always setting a bad example for him. So Victor breaks one of the biggest stereotypes of the reservation by simply not drinking. Victor tries to help the reservation in many little ways as he leaves his door open “ just a little bit in case some crazy indian needed a place to sleep.” (52) and also convincing his best friend to also stop drinking. As Victor in “Indian Education” was being held back by the stereotypes surrounding him in this story it's a young boy by the name of Julius Windmaker being restricted by these examples. Having a high potential in the form of basketball (like Victor in academics) Julius is the new hope of the reservation. That someone will break through and leave the reservation for good, carrying the rest of the reservation along with him. As the hope continues to rise for Julius, he starts to crack under the immense pressure of the weight of the reservation resting on his shoulders. The stereotypes that his people has been labeled with begins to come a reality...
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...“Gone with the Wind” is a story about life of Scarlett O’hara living down south during and after the Civil War. Written in 1936, by author Margaret Mitchell. Only being eighteen years old in the beginning of the book, Scarlett is still a very strong, stubborn, young woman who gets her way. Scarlett lives a very simple life, in the south with a lot of money on a plantation named Tara. When the civil war begins, Scarlett’s mother dies of disease and her father goes insane because of her death. All the slaves are then freed, leaving the plantation empty, and Scarlett to do all the work. When the taxes rise 300 dollars, Scarlett is desperate to find a way to pay them. She promises herself that there’s only one way to make money; she must lie, cheat, steal, or kill to make sure no one goes hungry again There is talk of a Barbecue at Twelve Oaks, the Wilkes’ plantation, down the road from Tara. Scarlett meets Gerald O’hara on the road to ask if the rumor Mammy, her slave, had told her is true. That Ashley Wilkes is going to ask his cousin Melanie to marry him. Scarlett is heartbroken that the man of her dreams is marrying someone else. When she arrives at Twelve Oaks, Scarlett is the center of attention, all of the men, even those who have girlfriends, talk to Scarlett. She is the most popular girl there. Melanie and Ashley talk of their marriage as they overlook the garden. Scarlett is sitting beneath a tree with all the men surrounding her, enjoying her time until she spies Ashley...
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...“I could not tell him that I wanted the castle of the giants to be forever, that I wanted the goat path and the hill to be for always” (Anaya 143). Symbols of childhood are valuable because they lead to the continuation of a person into adulthood. As a child, one is innocent and oblivious to the wonders of the world around them, but they develop and learn as they age to maturity. Bless Me, Ultima is a novel centered around a young boy named Antonio, who grows and changes throughout the book, going from a boy to a man. Throughout the bildungsroman Bless Me, Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya uses symbolism of the goat path – along with its cohesivity to childhood innocence – to portray that the transition to adulthood is an extensive journey gained through...
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...return from the forest, several imaginative stories are created by the town people. Some say she sunk into a pit, went off to another province, or claim to have seen a black man with an axe carrying a bundle tied in her checkered apron. The black man tells Tom about Kidd the pirate who buried great sums of money under a tree. This is where Tom's journey to great wealth begins. Another Romantic characteristic is supernatural events. The whole story is based on old scratch who is the devil. When introduced, he has red eyes, holds an axe, and wears Native American clothing. Tom sells his soul to him and cheats people of their money for years to come. The story ends with Tom being taken away on a black horse and never seen again. In Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story, Dr. Heidegger's Experiment, a simpler life of being young is glorified. Dr. Heidegger keeps a dried up rose for 50 years, and when he drops it into water from the fountain of youth, it blooms. Being young is desirable and considered a simpler, better life. It is first glorified by all four contestants in this experiment until the awful outcome. The Dr. dreads the selfish, crazy fools they become, so he does not want that life for himself. Supernatural events also occur in this story in Dr. Heidegger's study. The greatest curiosity of his study is a black book of magic on his bookcase. When a maid was cleaning and lifted up the book, supernatural tendencies occurred. The skeleton in his closet rattled, a mural of a young...
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...changed the different races that lived there and changed the way ‘White Americans’ saw foreign people. The gold rush of 1849 was in Sacramento Valley, California. James W. Marshall found flakes of gold when he was trying to build a water-powered sawmill, he was the first one to go there and he got most of the gold. One newspaper was reporting that large quantities of gold were being turned up at Sutter’s Mill some of the people came to california by boat all the way from Chile, Mexico, and China everyone tried to get their share of it. Miners extracted more than 750,000 pounds of gold during the rush. A total of $2 billion worth of gold was extracted from the area during the Gold Rush. A lot of people put down their life savings and made the journey all the way to California. Just days after the great discovery they found out that the treaty of Guadalupe was signed and ending the Mexican- American war. When the war with Mexico ended the goldfields were lawless so...
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...impact on its audience. Directed by Kevin Costner in a simple cinematographic technique that allows the audience to experience the characters every move. This movie was written by Michael Blake and directed by Kevin Costner who also is the lead actor throughout the film. Other actors include Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney Grant, and Floyd Red Crow Westerman. The story starts with a wounded Civil War soldier about to have his foot amputated when he makes an attempt at his life by stealing a horse and running recklessly across the open battlefield nearly getting shot. The build from this scene is that the soldiers fighting see his act of desperation and encouragement and a distraction and use the fact that the enemy is so focused on shooting him off his horse that they never see the final attack coming. The end of this scene Kevin Costner throws up his arms and glides with the horse like they were one in a full gallop and is deemed a hero and the general not only gives him the horse(Cisco) but also lends his personal surgeon to save his foot. This is the start to a beautiful and emotional story that builds into a love story between the soldier, a white Indian woman, and the entire Lakota tribe. The bond between the soldier and...
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...The Distance to Andromeda by Gregorio C. Brillantes The Boy Ben, thirteen years old, sits there and wide-eyed before the screen of the theater, in the town of Tarlac, his heart thumps in awe and excitement, and his hands are balled into unconscious fists, as the spaceship burns its blue-flamed journey through the night of the universe that is forever silent with a high metallic hum. Enclosed in time within the rocket, the ship itself surrounded by timelessness, which is in turn framed by the boundaries of the cinema screen, the last men and women and children of Earth watch the asteroids, the stream of cosmic dust, the barren planets drift past the portholes like luminous flowers at once beautiful and monstrous, floating in the ocean of space. The traveler search the night for another world of air and greenness, remembering the end of the Earth, the Final War, the flickering radioactive fires upon the lifeless continents. Beyond the dead seas of Mars, and beyond the ice-bound tomb of Neptune, past the orbit of Pluto and out into the black immeasurable depths, the rocket flashes onward, through years of space and time: a moving speck among the twinkling stars, propelled by the flame of its engine and a certain destiny. A sun looms up from the blackness, more golden and more gentle than the star they have always known; and as a globe of shining water and green-shadowed land appears through the viewports; they break out into jubilant cries and dazed whispers of thanks to God. Cradled...
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...Victor accepted the Tribal Council's offer. What else could he do? So he signed the proper papers, picked up his check, and walked over to the Trading Post to cash it. While Victor stood in line, he watched Thomas Buildsthe-Fire standing near the magazine rack, talking to himself. Like he always did. Thomas was a storyteller that nobody wanted to listen to. That's like being a dentist in a town where everybody has false teeth. Victor and Thomas Builds-the-Fire were the same age, had grown up and played in the dirt together. Ever since Victor could remember, it was Thomas who always had something to say. Once, when they were seven years old, when Victor's father still lived with the family, Thomas closed his eyes and told Victor this story: "Your father's heart is weak. He is afraid of his own family. He is afraid of you. Late at night he sits in the dark. Watches the television until there's nothing but that white noise. Sometimes he feels like he wants to buy a motorcycle and ride away. He wants to run and hide. He doesn't want to be found." Thomas Builds-the-Fire had known that Victor's father was going to leave, knew it before anyone. Now Victor stood in the Trading Post with a one-hundred-dollar check in his hand, wondering if Thomas knew that Victor's father was dead, if he knew what was going to happen next. Just then Thomas looked at Victor, smiled, and walked over to him. "Victor, I'm sorry about your father," Thomas said. "How did you know about it...
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...knights: Arcite and Palamon. They were wounded in battle by the Duke of Athens, Theseus. The Duke decides to imprison them rather than execution. During their imprisonment they both fell in love with the Duke’s sister-in-law, Emily. After fighting over who was more worthy of Emily, Arcite was freed from prison through the help of a friend. However, he was banished from Athens and was to never return. Arcite returns in disguise as a personal attendant for Emily. When his fellow knight, Palamon, is freed from prison, he confronts Arcite and they begin to fight over her again. The Duke apprehends them and arranges a tournament, with Emily as the prize, between the two knights and their best men. Arcite wins, but he is thrown from his horse and dies. Palamon then marries Emily instead. It makes sense that the Knight would tell this story because it is filled with knights, love, honor, chivalry, and adventure. I believe that Chaucer chose the Knight to tell this story because it emphasizes rules of honor and proper conduct. In the story, the Knight describes the Duke like this: “Of Athens he was lord and governor, and in his time was such a conqueror that greater was there not beneath the sun. Full man a rich country had he won; what with his wisdom and his chivalry.” (Chaucer 17) The Knight aspires to...
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...Gershon Zwiren Professor Mandel Survey of Western Literature 10/30/14 Who’s the fool? King Lear is a story about an old king that, before retiring, splits his in half and gives it to his two older daughters. This turns out to be a bad decision due to the fact that neither of those daughters seems to like him. Along this road there are people that help him get through this ordeal. One of these people is known throughout the play as the fool, but is the fool really a fool or is he something greater? The fool doesn’t change the way he acts towards Lear during the course of the play. In most plays, books, movies, etc. the court jester, clown, or joker (except batman) have a very small part in terms of the main plot. In those same places; however, these people represent something that the main character is trying to defeat or lacks. In this play the fool signifies the thing that King Lear doesn’t have. He embodies King Leers’ ability to not see the truth. In most scenes that he appears, the fool hits Lear with a line or a little speech in which the fool tries make Lear see the light. This process does take a little while before Lear picks up on a few, very clear, hints. When reading King Lear one can’t help notice that the fools’ casual lines are actually intelligent and thoughtful, and not random stupidity. The king questions one of his knights “But where’s my fool? I have not seen him this two days.” This might be the last time that King Lear is thinking clearly...
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...* Alphabetical idioms - lists A : * list A1 : abbreviated piece of nothing → (hold all the) aces * list A2 : achilles heel → alarm bells * list A3 : all along → all the rage * list A4 : all sizzle and no steak → apple of your eye * list A5 : (upset the) applecart → at all costs * list A6 : at this stage of the game → (have an) axe to grind * Alphabetical idioms - lists B : * list B1 : (leave someone holding the) baby → in bad shape * list B2 : badger someone → whole new ball game * list B3 : ballpark figure → battle lines are drawn * list B4 : battle of wills → beat a dead horse * list B5 : beat a hasty retreat → before your very eyes * list B6 : beggar can't be choosers → beside yourself * list B7 : best bet → beyond any reasonable doubt * list B8 : beyond one's wildest dreams → bite the bullet * list B9 : bite the dust → blamestorming * list B10 : blank cheque → blow away the cobwebs * list B11 : blow a fuse → above board * list B12 : in the same boat → bored to tears * list B13 : born with silver spoon in your mouth → all brawn no brain * list B14 : know which side your bread is buttered → a breeze * list B15 : bricks and mortar/bricks and clicks → pass the buck * list B16 : kick the bucket → burning question * list B17 : bury your head in the sand → by degrees ...
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