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    Dry Lips Oughta Move

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    A Clash of Cultures and the Hope of Rebirth In the playwrite Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing‚ Thomson Highway focuses on the life style of seven native men in the Wasachigan Hill Indian Reserve in Ontario. In this play‚ there are six important male characters. Characters such as Big Joey‚ Spooky Lacroix Creature Nataways and Pierre St. Pierre adopt Christianity and the English language. While the characters Simon Starblanket‚ Zachary Jeremiah Keechigeesik try to revive the native culture

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    Dry Lips Oughta Move To Kapuskasing is a Native American play written in 1951. Dry Lips is a play pertaining to the events on a reserve‚ though the eyes of seven different Native American men. Micheal Tremblay and Tomson Highway express the role of women‚ and how between two cultures women can ultimately be the same. “Woman was taken out of man; not out of his head to top him‚ nor out of his feet to be trampled underfoot; but out of his side to be equal to him‚ under his arm to be protected‚ and

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    Thomson Highway’s play Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing is a story that revolves around events of an endured 90s Native community. The plot unravels with standoffs between members of the community‚ particularly around the the male characters. Only male characters are present throughout the play and the setting mostly takes place inside the community fixtures‚ such as homes‚ the forest‚ and the local arena. Highway orchestrates his play by making misogyny as the main source of conflict between

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    Gender Roles in Dry Lips oughta move to Kapuskasing Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing‚ written by Tomson Highway‚ is a play that transports the audience into the mind of the protagonist‚ Zachary Jeremiah Keechigeesik‚ whose community experiences the many obstacles and after-effects inflicted by oppression. The play takes place at Wasaychigan Hill Indian Reserve and starts with a stark naked Zachary in the home of Big Joey. The audience later finds out that Zachary and Big Joey are running against

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    Beating Around the Nanabush An Analysis of Tomson Highway’s Most Enigmatic Character This essay endeavors to explain the role of Nanabush‚ who appears in both of The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing‚ while asserting that Nanabush is actually the principle focus of the playwright‚ although he or she often only stars in limited scenes. Nanabush is a mysterious character‚ radically different from many other spiritual figures. In the native tongue‚ Nanabush is not ascribed

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    canada my canada

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    award-winning playwright. His best-known plays include The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing‚ which deal with life on the reservation. ________________________________________________________________ Three summers back‚ a friend and I were being hurtled by bus through the heart of Australia‚ the desert flashing pink and red before our disbelieving eyes. It seemed never to end‚ this desert‚ so flat‚ so dry. The landscape was very unlike ours – scrub growth with some exotic cacti

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    Introductions (Thesis position is highlighted in yellow) In the novel Kiss of the Fur Queen‚ the author Tomson Highway uses literary devices such as imagery and rhetorical fragments to dramatize Okimasis’ experience. These literary techniques effectively convince the reader that this experience was one of the most important in Okimasis’ life. Throughout the excerpt‚ Highway demonstrates that when used properly‚ these devices can contribute much to the meaning of a story. This gripping passage

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    The Rez Sisters

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    The Rez Sisters The play The Rez Sisters is written by one of Canada’s most celebrated playwrights‚ Tomson Highway. Highway was born in 1951 in northwestern Manitoba. He went on to study at the University of Manitoba and graduated from the University of Western Ontario‚ with honors in Music and English. Native Literature is inspired by “contemporary social problems facing native Canadians today; alcohol and drug abuse‚ suicide‚ wife battering‚ family violence‚ the racism of the

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    My Lips Can’t Move The room was silent‚ nothing was said from the eager students since one of their classmate was given the floor to talk. But‚ not even the poor eight year old girl had enough courage to open her mouth. She remained her focus on her blue navy skirt but periodically glanced at the impatient teacher‚ who held her unoccupied journal. The journal that she was expected to write the daily notes of the day. The young child that stood prominently in the front of the room knew what she did

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    Red Lips

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    Tips to Have Natural Red Lips  Have a quick look at the tips for having natural red lips. * Extract ginger juice and mix it with the yolk of a village chicken’s egg. Have this with your breakfast every day. You will see the difference in no time.  * If your lips are allergic to lipsticks‚ you can add egg yolk and honey to green coconut water and drink daily.  * Apply few drops of olive oil mixed with honey or sugar on your lips. Make sure your lips are free of lipstick. Rub the mixture

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