...Literary Research Report: Without A Home “Being homeless is probably the only thing I’ve ever been good at” (Alexie 1). The sad truth in the matter is that some people do not function well in society. In the short story by Sherman Alexie, “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” the reader gets to learn what one old homeless Native American man does in a twenty four hour period. Of course, people become homeless for a multitude of reasons, which we will explore further in this paper. Homelessness can be caused by many factors including addiction, domestic violence, family conflicts (particularly runaway youth), unemployment, post traumatic stress, and mental illness (Portland Mental Rescue Mission). Although these factors are certainly reasons for...
Words: 600 - Pages: 3
...sense, the looming darkness was both your barrier – sightlessly scrambling for the light switch – and your impetus – wanting to turn on the light to dispel the gloom. Expanding beyond the awkward, floundering quest for a missing light switch, the dark of life is often what both obstructs and drives the pursuit...
Words: 1646 - Pages: 7
...ENGL 200 26 May, 2013 Dear Professor Tatum: For my final essay I am writing a revision of an earlier essay that I wrote. The previous essay that I am choosing to rewrite is What You Pawn I Will Redeem written by Sherman Alexie. I chose to use the first topic choice because the first thing that came to mind when I read the topics choice was my first essay. I feel that I barely scratched the surface when I wrote my first essay when the topic was over relationships within the story. Now that I am revisiting the original essay my thoughts have changed but only in that I have grown more intrigued into the life of Alexie and his character Jackson Jackson from the story What You Pawn I Will Redeem. The thing that I found to be hardest about the rewriting of the essay was to substantially change the essay, and expand on it but to stay focused enough to give clear and concise subject matter for the topic at hand. The strengths of my new essay are that I was able to expand and elaborate on my previous work while the weakness may be that I was not as focused on the main subject topic as I would have like to have been. I did try to incorporate as much information that I could from the new resources that I found from JSTOR, EBSCO, ProQuest, and Google Scholar. I do think that I did pick great resources to gain insight into the mind of Mr. Sherman Alexie. I would like to know if the research that I chose to write about piqued more interest in the professor by my writing or...
Words: 1922 - Pages: 8
...Daniel Laux October 26, 2011 Techniques from "What You Pawn I Will Redeem" In Sherman Alexander’s short story “What You Pawn I Will Redeem”, there are quite a few interesting writing techniques one could use as inspiration for a new story. One interesting technique used in this story is when the author splits the story into smaller paragraphs, and then titles each of said paragraphs with a time of the day (an example being 3 P.M.). I think this is a rather interesting technique to use in a short story because it makes the story feel like a chapter book, and it also makes the story feel more realistic. It feels more realistic in a sense because in real life, different things happen at different times of the day, and this is the case in this story. And it also feels more like a chapter book because this is a large narrative, and each part of the narrative is split up based off of a part/time in the story, just like a chapter book! Another interesting thing about this story that one could use is its style of narration. Unlike many other short stories told through first person point of view, this one stands out because the narrator tells the story as if he’s speaking to someone in a casual manner, and the narrator is also very honest with his audience, often stating what parts would not be interesting to ponder about, and even discouraging himself by sometimes saying “Probably none of this interests you”. In a nutshell, if anyone were to borrow/steal some new writing...
Words: 282 - Pages: 2
...Tribalism is important in many Arab and African countries, where there are still tribes present, but also in the United States where the country can be described as a “melting pot”. This surprises some, for they consider tribalism to be a strictly Native person’s thing. Every person in the United States shares the freedom to believe what they want to, say what they want to, and express loyalty to any social or political group they please. By practicing the ideals of a...
Words: 1218 - Pages: 5
...literature they have ever read. In this semester of Literature 221, I was given the opportunity to read works from many different genres, time periods, and styles of writing. Some of which, like Emily Dickinson’s Life I and Life XLIII, Joyce Carol Oates’ Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?, and Sherman Alexie’s What You Pawn I Will Redeem I thoroughly enjoyed and learned from. While others such as Ernest Hemingway’s Big Two-Hearted River, Mark Twain’s excerpt When The Buffalo Climbed a Tree from Roughing It, and the excerpt from Sula by Toni Morrison weren’t exactly my cup of tea. Emily Dickinson is a remarkable poet who often writes from a very emotional and self-examining perspective. This is why I really enjoyed the two selections of her work we had to read this semester. In her first poem Life I, the very first two lines make you stop and think, “I’M nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too?” (Dickinson 2) Bam! I was hit in the face with self-reflection. Am I somebody? Or am I a nobody? Emily Dickinson continues by saying “how dreary to be somebody!” (Dickinson2 ) as if to be somebody is a bad thing. I love that Emily Dickinson questions the ideology of having to be surrounded by people and having to constantly be in a spotlight. Every move that you make is questioned and examined by people. Instead of being able to live for yourself and for your own happiness you are forced to live by the way society sees you. It made me see that maybe it truly is...
Words: 2447 - Pages: 10
...Financial Management Submitted by Juatco, Martian Lanz Gary A. Mingaracal, Alvin M. Pediengco, Alelie Krizza D. Perey, Christine Mae R. Summer S.Y. 2014- 2015 CHAPTER I The Problem and Its Background Introduction Pawnshops are in the business of lending money on the security of pledged goods left in pawn, or in the business of purchasing tangible personal property to be left in pawn on the condition that it may be redeemed or repurchased by the seller for a fixed price within a fixed period of time. A "pawn transaction" does not include the pledge to, or the purchase by, a pawnbroker of real or personal property from a customer followed by the sale or the leasing of that property back to the customer in the same or a related transaction (definitions.uslegal). State and local laws regulate pawnshops. Pawnshops may be required to be licensed and regulations often require certain standards of record keeping and pawnshop fees charges to be followed. Regulations may require a minimum age of persons seeking to pawn items and may prevent the offering of insurance for pawned items. Pawnshops may also be required to consult police reports of stolen items to verify ownership of pawned items. State statutes vary, but typically, if your stolen property is found in a pawnshop you may decide to purchase it back or obtain a court order to recover the property. In order to regulate the operation of pawnshops and all their existing laws, rules and regulations...
Words: 2942 - Pages: 12
...that Indians are very bad at spending the money wisely. The author showed us this stereotypes when he said, “I sold five in one hour, dumped the other forty-five in a garbage can, and walked into McDonald’s, ordered four cheeseburgers for a dollar each”(Alexie). In this situation, Jackson Jackson had just made money by selling news papers but instead of keeping that money and saving up for his grandmother's regalia he spent it on food. This example supports my analysis because, basically after having only sold five newspapers Jackson gave up and then wasted the money on food when he should of kept it for the regalia. This shows us that in fact Indians aren't good with money....
Words: 345 - Pages: 2
...Book-Of-The-Month Club in 1991 ranked second to the Bible. The novel still draws a million new readers each year. The novel contains two stores, the innocence of childhood as told by Scout and the story of her father who was asked to defend a Negro who was accused of raping a white woman. (Shields, C., 2006) Two of the themes of the novel are justice and tolerance. The two are joined together when Atticus explains to Scout how to understand all kinds of people by walking around in their skin. (Shields, C., 2006) To Kill A Mockingbird is a story to learn a life’s lesson from. The innocence of a child is genuine and they are taught racism and hate by their elders. Children at a young age do not see black or white, rich or poor, or understand what racism means. They are just children who believe that everyone is good and they trust with all their hearts. To Kill a Mockingbird The story is set in and old town in Alabama, Maycomb. The town is described as a quiet and dull town in the 1930’s. Scout is one of the main characters in the story. She is naïve and innocent as children are. She has an older brother, Jem, that she admires. Their friend, Dill, comes to stay with his aunt during the summer months. The main attraction for the three children is a recluse, Boo Radley, who lives a few houses down from the Finch house. The three sneak around the Radley house during the night to try to get a look at Boo. But to no avail. When summer is over, Scout has to start school...
Words: 1254 - Pages: 6
...by: Leira Susana Arceo Escala Charmaine Santos Tesalona Mariel Navata Nieto John Michael Temporal Soria Ralf Louise Sauro Vico Submitted to: Dr. Carolina D. Ditan Table of Contents Title Page Acknowledgement List of Tables List of figures Chapter I Introduction Background of the study Theoretical Framework Research Paradigm Statement of the Problem Hypotheses of the Study Significance of the Study Scope and Delimitations Definition of Terms Chapter II Review of Related Literature Foreign Literature and Studies Local Literature and Studies Chapter III Research Methodology Research Design Sampling Design Research Instrument Data Gathering Procedure Statistical Treatment Chapter IV Presentation, Interpretation and Analysis of Data Chapter V Conclusion and Recommendations Summary Conclusion Recommendation Bibliography Appendix Appendix I. Letter to the respondents Appendix II-A. Questionnaire for customers Appendix II-B. Questionnaire for employee/staff Appendix III. Vicinity Map Acknowledgement We would like to thank our beloved Dr. Carolina D. Ditan, Dr. Emma Guno, and Dr. Mendoza. To them we will always be grateful. Their...
Words: 17570 - Pages: 71
...institutions including loans, consignments, and storage. A good pawn broker buys items for a reasonable price and sells them at a discount. The pawn industry is about making money, and that means repeat business and reasonable dealings. A good pawnshop will carry a variety of items including jewelry, tools, antiques, furniture, knives, guns, crossbows, camping gear, and everything and anything you could imagine being of value and sellable. Some pawn shops even buy and sell cars, motorcycles, and aircraft. In the Philippines Pawnshop Operation is guided/ covered by Presidential Decree No. 114 Sec. 1-2 as: This decree may be cited as the Pawnshop Regulation Act, which stipulated according to that: “ It is hereby declared the policy of the State to regulate the establishment of pawnshops and to place their operation on a sound and stable basis to derive the optimum advantages from them as an additional source of credit; to prevent and mitigate, as far as practicable, practices prejudicial to public interest; and to lay down the minimum requirements and standards under which they may be established and do business...” The word "pawn" comes from the Latin word "pignus," which means to pledge. When someone has an item of worth on which they would like to receive a monetary loan, they take that item to a broker who receives it as a pledge (aka collateral or pawn) in exchange for money. A pawn shop serves as that kind of broker. Pawn shops have existed since ancient times, and are arguably...
Words: 15306 - Pages: 62
...Essay on Alcohol Addiction We live only once, many of us believe. And therefore some say let us eat, drink and be merry. Surely we must eat, drink and be merry now that we believe that we live only once, but must live like men and women, free from health hazards, free from unnecessary cares and worries. So, eating and drinking is alright as long as we know what to accept and what to avoid. Unfortunately many of us do not have discrimination. Like the notorious Epicurus, we mistake one for the other and do not know what we do. So we substitute that fluid which nature provides us so bounteously with something else and invite ills unspoken of and live like wrecks, with untold miseries. The urban elites drink to the health of their friends and fall of their foes. They drink for old times, to ring out the old year and to ring in the New Year. They drink when they set out to negotiate for a big contract as a good omen, drink during negotiations and drink again when they win it as a token of joy and success; and yet once again, to win more such contracts. When they welcome their friends, or bid them farewell, when in company for the sake of company, when alone to end the monotony of loneliness, before dinner as an appetizer, after it as a digester, it is a must. No time frame, no time schedule, any time is drink time. No prohibitions, no inhibitions. His counterpart in the village or the slum dweller in the city is not far behind. He may sometimes worry about his next meal, but...
Words: 1321 - Pages: 6
...who tries to do right but gets crushed by a cruel world. In Dickens’s world, people grow and change over time and can be easily influenced by the world’s vices. People enter the world innocent and rational, but as they age, society seeks to break them. Still, Dickens believes that some, like Nancy, can free themselves from society’s influence and become more compassionate. Dickens lauds those who reflect the created order by showing concern for the needs of others, regardless of social standing or background; he also believes that humans can become corrupted by the world, so discovering inherent goodness is a struggle. People enter the world innocent and rational, and society quickly preys on them. Society strives to form each person into what it wants, changing how people grow over their lives. Scrooge of A Christmas Carol was once compassionate towards others and becomes hard-hearted after tragic events. He lost a sister and grew stingier, driving those in his life away. He comes to believe his responsibility was to himself. Dickens wants to show how being self-absorbed causes people to care only for themselves and not for others. “At the heart of Carol, Dickens had an economic message. A society in which the masters are concerned only with the bottom line and take no responsibility for the general welfare is a death-dealing society” (Davis). Scrooge cares only for...
Words: 2842 - Pages: 12
...short stories there are different types of narrative and also different types of irony being used. Each individual author has their own way of telling a story; also they have a certain way to portray their story to an audience. For two specific short stories Everything That Rises Must Converge and Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter we can analyze to see what point of view and voice is being used. Everything That Rises Must Converge is a story that takes place in the 1960’s. A recent college graduate, Julian who escorts his mother to her weekly weight-loss class at the YMCA. His mother attends these classes to reduce her high blood pressure. He escorts her there every week because she refuses to take the bus alone since integration. His mother is extremely prejudice and Julian was the total opposite. In Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter this story is about the life of Mrs. Dutta, an old, widowed Indian woman who had moved into her son’s American home two months prior. Mrs. Dutta struggles with not running a house and in the midst is writing a letter to a dear friend back home contemplating weather to be truthful or to be honorable to her family. First I would like to review witch point of view is being used both stories. For the first short story Everything That Rises Must Converge, the story is being told from a third person point of view. The story has someone who is not any of the characters stating the events that are happening or events that had happened. Also the third person point of...
Words: 1293 - Pages: 6
...2012-2013 PAWNSHOPS AND BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS 193 PAWNSHOPS, BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS, AND SELF-REGULATION SUSAN PAYNE CARTER* AND PAIGE MARTA SKIBA** I. Introduction Pawnbroking is the oldest source of credit.1 There is growing public interest in day-to-day pawnbroking operations, as evidenced by the popularity of reality shows such as “Pawn Stars” and “Hardcore Pawn.”2 Television viewers’ curiosity about an old credit institution may be due to the fact that 7% of all U.S. households have used pawn credit.3 Although pawnshops predate biblical times, researchers know surprisingly little about this ancient form of banking and its customers.4 We fill this gap by documenting detailed information on pawnshop loan repayment and default, and by discussing how pawnshop borrowers’ behavior is consistent with various behavioral economics phenomena. Pawnshop loans are small, short-term, collateralized loans typically used by low-income consumers. The borrower leaves a possession, or “pledge,” as collateral in exchange for a loan, typically of $75–$100.5 Interest rates vary by state and range from 2 Assistant Professor, Office of Economic and Manpower Analysis, United States Military Academy. susan.carter@usma.edu. The views expressed in this paper do not necessarily represent those of the United States Military Academy, the United States Army, or the Department of Defense. ** Associate Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University...
Words: 8983 - Pages: 36
