...Bright lights, loud sounds of coins jingling in the bottom of a machine, dense smokey air covers the room like a thick ominous blanket. People in a trance are oblivious to the long haired, lightly colored red skinned man hobbling through the casino floor as he accidently bumps into a man dazed by the machine. “Watch where you’re going gas-huffer! yells the man. The red man does not reply just stumbles off into the fog. “Call an ambulance” someone in the fog yells, “This man needs help!” When the paramedic arrives he tries to speak to the red skinned man, “What’s the problem?” asked the paramedic, the red man whispers for him to come closer because his breath is escaping. He whispers something into the paramedic’s ear and the paramedic reaches in his bag and gives the red man some bizarre looking substance. “What did they gas-huffer say” the white man asked the paramedic? The paramedic replies “He is diabetic and needed insulin.” Sherman Alexie utilizes language, in a unique structure to convey an implied idea. To showcase stereotypes by arriving at a preconceived notion of an individual or group, based on their appearance or mannerisms. Sherman Alexie uses language to decribe the struggles of being stereotyped. “He knew this dark skin and long, black hair of mine was dangerous.” (Sherman Alexie, acclaimed author, poet, filmaker.) This is a perfect example of stereotyping done out of fear of what someone else with the same description might have done to someone else somewhere...
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...One of the most notable points to note in Alexie Sherman’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is its portrayal of life among the Native Americans. The book, in the form of interconnected short stories details mostly the experiences of ‘Thomas builds the fire’ and Victor Joseph. The experiences of the two notable characters has been based on the people they relate with such as their family members and the people they interact with at the Spokane reservation. The book has presented Native Americans in different ways that at times come out negatively and in stereotypical fashion. The experiences of Native Americans in Sherman’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven can be seen mostly through what Victor goes through as he struggles...
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...The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is a novel written by Sherman Alexie. The novel consists of short stories about Native Americans' lives. Sherman Alexie uses symbolism throughout the novel. In The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, women--including Victor's mother, the aunt in "The Fun House," and Norma Many Horses--are symbols of strength. In the novel The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Victor's mother is one of the women who symbolizes strength. In the chapter "Jimi Hendrix," when Victor's father wrecked his bike, he was in the hospital for two months, and Victor's mother visited him every day until he recovered although she and Victor's father were split up. The narrator, Victor, states that "even though my mother didn't want to be married to him anymore and...
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...In the collection of short stories "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist fight in Heaven" Sherman Alexie writes about the importance of songs and stories in the lives of the people on the reservation through drug induced visions, the character of Thomas Builds-A-Fire, Jimi Hendrix's music, and basketball players on the reservation. In the short story a drug called tradition the main character, Victor, and his two friends Thomas Builds-a-Fire and Junior take drugs that give them visions of themselves in strange historical Indian settings. The stories they tell of these visions relate to Indian culture and tradition. Junior has a vision of Thomas performing a dance around a campfire that brings back all the dead Indians. Victor has a vision of Junior singing. Both visions include real things from history, end with the idea of the Indians winning and/or driving out the white people, and use music or dance to show this. This shows their...
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...Why American society needed heroes in the aftermath of World War II- Paul Gallico, described athletic stars as "the Golden People", nothing that in the years following World War I sport had " its first million-dollar prizefights, and the adulation of sports heroes rose to the point almost of national hysteria". As World War I came to a close, however, the " Golden People" were anything but. The horrible devastation of the war and its terrible new weapons had shattered the idealistic notions of the Progressive reformers. The decade of the 1920s was termed the "Golden Age of Sports", and the media's creation of sport heroes during this time provided a stabilizing influence in a rapidly changing American culture. Sports stars were lionized as All-American types who exemplified American cultural values. The Four Horsemen of Notre Dame represented the American ideology of spirit, teamwork, and assimilation of diverse groups within society. Babe Ruth, the most famous of all the athletic heroes, symbolized the American dream, the land of opportunity and meritocracy, where one could succeed despite humble origins. The depiction of such heroes presented a more homogenous culture and solidified an American cultural identity, but it also masked social tensions inherent in the United States in the aftermath of World War I and during the Great Depression and World War II The media's role in constructing a popular culture- The new communication medium of radio became commonplace...
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...Eric Brennan 11/16/14 American Lit. First draft In “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven” by Sherman Alexi. The theme of cultural identity is important to the story because it shows the truths about the Native Americans in America, and can be seen through celebration, appearances and Tradition/spirituality. In the story almost all throughout the book you can find things that fall under cultural identity and effects on many characters. “There is something beautiful about an Indian boy with hair so black it collects the sunlight. His braids grow hot to the touch and his skin chimes with reservation sweat. He is skinny and doesn’t know how to spit.” (Alexi 146). The cultural identity in “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven” is showing the beauties of a Native Americans. Instead of the stereotypical Native American being just a complete ugly, not sanitary person there actually beautiful and not just dirt and not worthy. Through the story cultural identity is shown and the consistency of a Indian being named after their father is bad, but is a good thing. It was the fourth of July and Victor and Thomas were riding bikes around and it was so dark you couldn’t see their faces. “Which Junior? Everybody on this Reservation is named Junior” pg 63 (Alexie 63). In many cultures people name their child after the name of their selves. They all don’t look alike just because of their long black hair. I don’t think it’s just Native Americans that have junior as there...
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...The Lone Star Frontera, Texas is the small town in which this movie takes place. It starts out with the discovery of the remains of an old corrupt Sheriff named Charley Wade. Charley was the sheriff in 1957, but Sheriff Sam Deeds is the current Sheriff of the small town and he discovers surprising facts as he tries to solve the murder of Charley. Sam’s dad, Buddy Deeds, was known to be enemies with Charley thus he is the prime suspect in the investigation. However Charley had tons of enemies since he was racist, a murderer, and corrupt by taking money from every business. Several people warned Sam not to investigate the murder because it was old news and no one liked Charley anyways. Someone even warned him that if he keeps digging he might not like what he finds. However Sam keeps investigating and uncovers that his childhood sweetheart is actually his half sister, but they are so madly in love they decide to forget they are related and choose to be together. He also finally uncovers the truth about Charley’s murder. His father did not kill Charley he actually tried to stop Hollis from shooting Charley. Hollis is the mayor now, but back then he was just a fed up deputy. Hollis shot Charley in an effort to save an innocent black man from being murdered by Charley; he was just tired of seeing Charley kill innocent people. Sam understands the reasons why Hollis killed Charley and agrees with them so in the end he does not arrest the major instead he decides to let it remain an...
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...Accounting Homework 2 Posted on October 16, 2011 by admin Problem 2: On March 21, 2006, the partnership that had been organized to operate the Lone Pine Café was dissolved under unusual circumstance, and in connection with its dissolution, preparation of a balance sheet became necessary. The partnership was formed by Mr. and Mrs. Hendry Antoine and Mrs. Sandra Landers, who had become acquainted while working in a Portland, Oregon, restaurant. On November 1, 2005, each of the three partners contributed $16,000 cash to the partnership and agreed to share in the profits proportionally to their contributed capital (i.e., one-third each). The Antoine’s’ contribution represented practically all of their savings. Mrs. Landers’ payment was the proceeds of her late husband’s insurance policy. On that day also the partnership signed a one-year lease to the Lone Pine Café, located in a nearby recreational area. The monthly rent on the café was $1,500. This facility attracted the partners in part because there were living accommodations on the floor above the restaurant. One room was occupied by the Antoine’s and another by Mrs. Landers. The partners borrowed $21,000 from a local bank and used this plus $35,000 of partnership funds to buy out the previous operator of the café. Of this amount, $53,200 was for equipment and $2,800 was for the food and beverages then on hand. The partnership paid $1,428 for local operating licenses, good for one year beginning November 1, and paid $1,400...
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...“The Fun House” vs “All I Wanted to Do as Dance” “The Fun House” and “All I Wanted to Do Was Dance” are stories written by Sherman Alexie in his book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. “The Fun House” is centered on Nezzy, the aunt of the narrator. Throughout the story, she struggles with the lack of gratitude she receives from her husband and son which leads to an anger that drives her desperately to change her life. However, In “All I wanted to do was dance” the story is focused on Victor, who is the narrator of “The Fun House”. The story goes through Victor’s love life where he suffers from a broken heart. The pain started to prevent him from moving forward in life. He tries to compensate his pain by getting drunk and dancing. Both of these stories depict the protagonists’ love relationships and the pain they carry. However, in “The Fun House” aunt Nezzy strives to change her life, while Victor, the protagonist of “All I Wanted to Do Was Dance” is trapped in depression. Both stories illustrate the symbols of pain that the protagonists carry throughout the story. “The funhouse” begins with the narrator stating that his aunt Nezzy sewed a beaded dress that was too heavy for anyone to wear (76). The weight of the beaded dress is a symbol of burden she carries for the family. Aunt Nezzy has to put food on the table for her husband and son, while her thirty year old son still needs a job. This put an extra weight on aunt Nezzy's shoulder. Nezzy mentioned, “When a...
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...Lone parent families There has been a dramatic Increase in lone parent families During the last century. This has been for multiple reasons including; a reduced stigma on divorce, feminism, a more secularized society and a better image of single parenthood. Lone parent families bring pros and cons depending on which angle you look at. The new right argues that the ‘nuclear family’ is the cornerstone of society and that lone parent families are to blame for societies negatives. They believe that this type of family effects the individual in numerous negative ways such as; underachievement, living below the poverty line, social problems and higher crime rates. However, a major effect of lone parent families is the lack of both role models in the picture. The child misses out usually the farther figure (as most single parent families are headed by the mother) and as a result the usual ‘breadwinner’ is absent which leaves a reliance on the welfare state, and the children miss out on a farther figure which can result in problems in later the later stages of life. However, this cannot be generalized for all lone parent families, and would be inaccurate to do so. In many lone parent families, the absence of the father figure, encourages females to become strong independent women, and have less reliance towards men. Feminists see lone parent families headed by a woman as positive as it does not suppress the mother’s role and expectations as the woman ultimately has to do...
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...metal ion at its centre with a number of other molecules or ionssurrounding it. These can be considered to be attached to the central ion by co-ordinate(dative covalent) bonds. The molecules or ions surrounding the central metal ion arecalled ligands. Simple ligands include water, ammonia, acetyl acetone and chloride ions.Ligand has active lone pairs of electrons in the outer energy level. These are used to formco-ordinate bonds with the metal ion. All ligands are lone pair donors. In other words, allligands function as Lewis bases.Lewis acid-base theory reminders:A base is an electron pair donor and an acid is an electron pair acceptor.Ligands like water, can donate a pair of non-bonding electrons (lone pair) into a vacantorbital of a central metal ion and so dative covalent (co-ordinate) bonds hold a complextogether.The central metal ion with vacant bonding orbitals can act as a Lewis acid.Ligands act as Lewis bases by electron pair donation to form the metal-ligand bond.Bronsted-Lowry acid-base theory reminders (essentially a sub-set of Lewis Theory)A base is a proton acceptor.This is via an electron lone pair on the base (a Lewis base is a lone pair donor).e.g. NH3, HCO3-, OH- etc.An acid is proton donor.This involves a heterolytic breakage of an X-H bond (a Lewis acid is an electron pair acceptor).e.g. HCl, HCO3-, H2SO4, CH3COOH etc. • Many hexa-aqa complex ions can undergo acid-base reactions with water to produce...
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...can include many different studies upon the world, in its most general description it is a complete study of human ideas and expressions with emphasis on both developing techniques and skills for studying art, as well as learning about actual artistic creations. Stanley Fish whom argued that Humanities is merely not a tool but a whole category of its own that is taught is most likely hitting the nail on the head. Intriguingly enough, Humanities is useful in its own way of studies of our interpretations through art, music and other categories of historic pieces. For example, throughout the world people may look at a piece and start interpreting it, while referring to its historic features such as the work of Yun Gee’s painting, the Lone Ranger. The lone Ranger is a painting in which has a historic value which refers to the time period where Chinese were migrating towards the U.S. during the time of the gold rush. They were merely looked down upon as workers because of how they looked and acted. Through the use of humanities people may look at this painting and come up with ideas, “Why did Yun Gee decide to paint this man the way that he did?” “What was the reason for the color in the background and the setting that it has taken place in?” Through its historical value people may use humanities to discover what the painter was thinking at that time period and why he had painted it the way he had. Stanley Fish argued that “Justification, after all, confers value on an activity from...
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...Symbolism in The Lone ranger Sherman Alexie uses figurative language in TLRATFIH to show the conflict between Native American culture and the culture of American society. This effectively provides us a glimpse into the Native American experience. One example of figurative language used throughout the story is symbolism. As the story progressed symbolism was incorporated into the text more giving it a double meaning, which helps the reader to better understand the purpose. In the story, the author uses symbolism in a way to foreshadow the future. One example of this is when Victor and Adrian saw Julius. They were speaking about how he is a great basketball player. They also spoke about how every past “reservation hero” ended up becoming an alcoholic. At the end of the chapter julius’s future is foreshadowed when Adrian throws the cup. In the book it states, “while the sun rose straight up above us and settled down behind the house, watched that cup revolve, revolve, until it came down whole to the ground.” (Alexie 53) This quote foreshadows victor’s life as a basketball star, when the cup is revolving and begins to slow down it symbolizes his career being sidetracked by alcohol. Another example of foreshadowing with symbolism in the book is when the author writes about Arnold’s drinking. In the book it says “ Victor watched his father take a drink of vodka on a completely empty stomach...Maybe it was like Hiroshima or Nagasaki...During those long drinks, Victor's father...
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...United Stated of America is in ongoing war in Afghanistan since 2001 to present. Following terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001 made U.S President George W. Bush to send American troops to Afghanistan to fight al Qaeda and their crazy followers of Osama bin Laden. This war have taken away lots of people lives. Young Americans die their almost every day. The book Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell is not just a real story about SEAL team 10 fighting Taliban terrorist but insight of social media’s negative affect on war as well. Author of the book Marcus, is the actual SEAL that was on duty fighting side by side with his team members: Matthew Axelson, Michael Murphy, Danny Dietz in a suicide mission – Redwing. Luttrell is the only man out of four seals, including other eight seals who died trying rescue the team 10, who stayed alive. The Navy SEALs are extremely trained soldiers and they usually act in small groups of four men. Being a Navy SEAL is one of the hardest jobs and certainly one of the most dangerous. Although book starts by Marcus talking about his team on the plane over Afghanistan, then about himself and the rest of the team, and what he had been through to become a SEAL. Then goes back talking of what happened during the mission of Redwing, book is involving and really easy to read. Marcus is the team’s sniper and medic. He is from Texas, has twin brother Morgan. They both have similar physique, height of 6’5 and weight...
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...In John Sayles’ Lone Star, the main character Sheriff Sam Deeds is deeply in love with a teacher name Pilar Cruz. Their relationship did not start as adults, but when they were still children way back in high school. Although their relationship might seem to be a normal man-woman relationship, we see that there is more to this unusual relationship. Throughout the movie Sayles hints at this unusual relationship such as when Pilar says, “I was on the playground with all the other kids, but I thought he was only looking at me.” This shows that she was special, different from the rest of her peers and hints at the ending of the movie. By the end, we see that the two are actually siblings. John Sayles uses their unusual relationship to challenge the way we and society view sexual taboos and makes us question what is a sexual taboo and what makes it so wrong. A sexual taboo is a “code” created by society that should never be broken and in the case of Sam Deeds and Pilar’s, they have broken the sexual taboo of incest. They fell in love as kids and continued to carry that love within them, even after they have been separated for a long period of time. Although they have broken this taboo, the blame cannot be put on them. Near the end of the movie, Sam says, “Yeah, and my mother was a saint. For fifteen years the whole damn town knew he had another woman on the side. Stole ten thousand dollars to set her up in business. But hell, what's that? You got a problem? Buddy'll fix it. Facing...
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