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Fairfield claims that Bigger is uneducated to stop the wrong thoughts and the things happening around him. Fairfield says that communication is wary important. In the book Native son many troubles happened because of the lack of communication. For example Bigger is killing Bessi. Fairfields concludes that communication is important and there was lack of communication between the characters and
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After reading the article "Rethinking our Roots" by Russ Juskalian; it touch many different topics thorough out it. One of these topics was the discovery of Little foot which all began by Ron Clarke, who was looking through mislabeled boxes that were from the 1920 's and 30 's gold rush and found a small human like ankle bone. Which lead to to excavation of the rest of the skeleton. According to Clarke ( Juskalian 2016) about little foot was that it, "was made for walking up straight and it didn 't drags it knuckles(p. 32). The next topic that was discussed was the discovery of Karabo that was discovered by Matthew Berger and how was it was structured.

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The Outsiders “Things are rough all over” (Hinton 35). Is what Cherry Valance said to describe both situations of the Greasers and the Socs. The book The Outsiders was a story of a boy named Ponyboy Curtis who had been going through a rough time because his parents had just died in accident. Ponyboy had been living with his two brothers Darrel Curtis, Sodapop. Pony and his brothers were in gang with Dallas Winston, Two-bit Mathews, Steve Randle ,and finally Johnny Cade who was 16 year old boy that was beaten by his father and his mother and weeks before he had been jumped by a group of Socs and had beaten so bad he was almost dead.

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Separation or Equality "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." — The Declaration of Independence. If we are all created equal, then why do some of us feel superior and make fun of others. Although many people believe that it is fine to appropriate Native American Imagery, Amy Stretten strongly expresses that doing so is very offensive to Native Americans and should consequently be eliminated. In her essay, "Appropriating Native American Imagery Honors

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Jay Rosentein took a look at the long time practice of honoring Native American’s as mascots and team names in sports whether professional levels or college teams. He gives us insight that it is not only about using the natives as mascots but the issue at hand of racism, minority representation and stereotypes. This film is more than the practice of utilizing Indians as mascots, it is about culture identity and how we should all change to make a difference. In this documentary we follow Charlene Teters, the leader some have called her the Rosa Parks of Native Americans and her struggles to protect her identity and cultural symbols.

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As I mentioned before many Native Americans understood each other’s politics and cultural. But, even so there was still strife between many tribes in different areas and having outsiders involved made things become even more of a quagmire. Perrot and his men were often referred to as middle ground person. Perrot and his men were often referred to as middle ground person. There was peace for some time, “like the French, the peoples of the middle ground saw opportunity in the evolving social world of the western interior, a place of abundant and increasingly accessible resources” (227).

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He often has conflicts with his white family, especially his father, who is making strong efforts to adapt him to white culture. All of this is happening while True Son still feels that connection with his Native American heritage and is struggling to balance out his loyalty to them and his love towards his white

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1. Let 's start with Phoenix. The fact that Phoenix is a city in Arizona doesn 't have anything to do with our leading lady, but the fact that a phoenix is a mythological bird does. Phoenix the woman has many similarities to phoenix the mighty bird. There are frequent references to time and age in the story.

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Ellie Reynolds advances a rhetorically effective argument on why government should not have regulatory control over offensive Native American mascots in schools across the country. She believes this control is more of a detriment to society than a service. Her article published on the DenverPost.com, “Native Americans Have Become a Political Pawn,” offers a compelling point of view on this controversial issue because Reynolds is a member of the Oglala Sioux tribe herself (Reynolds 659). Along with her strong view against government involvement on this issue, which she considers censorship by political correctness, Reynolds uses her personal experience, historical context, and the negative effects of political correctness to convey her effective

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B. Ronald’s topic interests me greatly and is relevant to the plights of the modern Native American education system. His topic expresses that he wants to analyze how Sherman put his own life experiences into the story, and how the education affected him. I think Ronald could be more descriptive with his topic and dive deeper to explain the relevance a bit better. C. The topic of this rhetorical analysis to my understanding was that Sherman was trying to express himself and to show that Native American schools fail to educate children. Unfortunately, I don’t think Ronald expressed this throughout the essay.

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