retarded fag!" at Arnold. The language is offensive. It’s hurtful‚ ignorant‚ and crude‚ but it’s not uncommon to hear young boys talk that way. Why does Rowdy use that language? In Sherman Alexie’s novel‚ The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian‚ Arnold’s best friend Rowdy calls him a “retarded fag” for transferring at the start of their freshman year of high school. Due to his background as a child‚ Rowdy uses cruel language and hurtful gestures anytime Arnold and Rowdy came face to face
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In 1910‚ they were compelled to sell the business since Thomas Edison held many licenses where he could control the flourishing film industry. This drove the Warners to briefly make films. Warner and his sibling made a film called The Perils of the Plains which was low quality and did not do well in the cinematic world. After Edison’s license was legitimately broken‚ the Warners went back to distribution and afterward attempted to get production started again in 1912. At the point when World War I
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Emily Arochi Plain View/Open Fields ADJ/275 February 7‚ 2010 In our readings the plain view doctrine states “that items that are within the sight of an officer who is legally in a place from which the view is made may properly be seized without a warrant—as long as such items are immediately recognizable as subject to seizure”. There are some requirements of the plain view doctrine. One requirement is the awareness of the items solely through the officer’s sight. Another requirement is that
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I have used Sarah Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan many times in a guided reading group. It is the story if Sarah‚ who moves from Maine to the prairie when she answers the advertisement for a wife. She decides to try this out for a month and care for Anna and Caleb whose mother has dies. Sarah tells the family that they will recognize her when she arrives because she is "plain and tall." She brings with her a cat and gifts from the ocean. The story revolves around Caleb and Anna and their
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When judging the advancements of Native Americans to others one might look into the perspective of the surrounding environment of certain tribes. For example‚ many woodland Indians such as the ones on the Eastern Coast were more advanced as to making tools and trading with other local tribes. While other Native American groups stayed in a routine of making the same crops‚ and using the same weapons‚ others experimented with what they were given and used different techniques to aid in their success
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FRQ: Explain the ultimate defeat of the Plains Indians by whites. Select at least three major reasons for the decline of the Plains culture; then tell which you think was the most important and why. From the time that the Spanish reached the New World in 1492‚ European powers‚ and later on American‚ consistently tried to quash the native people‚ one way or another. Throughout the 1800s‚ and especially during the Gilded Age‚ the federal government’s attempts to confine the Native Americans to certain
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I woke up‚ knowing something exciting would happen today. Today‚ I am going to the South Plains Fair to talk to a young lady‚ Sarah Allen. I am nervous‚ but anticipating a great experience. The South Plains fair has benefited many people‚ and today I will interview one of them. Getting to the fair is no easy task. From my house‚ you have to take the Loop all the way around until you reach downtown Lubbock. Maneuvering many twists and turnarounds‚ I know I’m getting close. After some frustration
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The Plain Sense of Things by Wallace Stevens In Stevens’ poem "The Plain Sense of Things" the first thing the reader notices is that there are five equal stanzas. The poem is neatly constructed so that each stanza contains four lines. This creates an organized‚ orderly look to the poem‚ and gives off the idea of being in control because of the form. After further examination of the poem‚ the reader discovers the gloomy nature of the poem. Another interesting feature is the length of the poem. The
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COMANCHE INDIANS The Comanches‚ exceptional horsemen who dominated the Southern Plains‚ played a prominent role in Texas frontier history throughout much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Anthropological evidence indicates that they were originally a mountain tribe‚ a branch of the Northern Shoshones‚ who roamed the Great Basin region of the western United States as crudely equipped hunters and gatherers. Both cultural and linguistic similarities confirm the Comanches’ Shoshone origins
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it remains well documented the first inhabitants of what was known as the New World were the American Indians. What may have been viewed by outsiders as a simple way of life was much rather a complicated oneness with the land which was shared by all of the different tribes. This lifestyle‚ however‚ was greatly changed with the arrival of the Europeans. Many new things where introduced to the Indians. It can be disputed that theses "new things" may have‚ in the long run‚ done more harm than good. Three
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