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    Outside of the economy, Lapierre accurately reflects the grip the local mafia has on the outskirts of urban areas. In the novel, the gap in government, police, and legal authority, “Was promptly filled by the Mafia who reigned supreme over the City of Joy”(CoJ, 296). There was outrage when municipal dairies were housed in the slums of Anand Nagar, but nothing could be done, and,“The Godfather had been on of the principal beneficiaries of this operation” (CoJ,299). Kundu discusses the interactions

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    reservation school system ever exposed him to the concept of creative writing or writers. In his essay, “The Joy of Reading: Superman and Me,” he describes how notions such as creative writing and reading high-level texts were considered “beyond Indians.” To combat such unwarranted profiling, he reminds young Native Americans of the importance of resisting negative stereotypes. Alexie claims that no matter the situations they were born into, they can still accomplish their aspirations. He supports

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    Dance Forever In the book Indian Killer by Sherman Alexie the readers may have a difficult time identifying who the Indian killer was. The book creates a sense of desperation and peculiar self accomplishment by the killer, although falling short of their ambition. In everyone’s impermanence the killer did not last long after the chaos and sporadic murders in Seattle. In the Indian Killer by Sherman Alexie, John and Marie are both responsible for the killings because of their shared desire to kill

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    In order to better understand the consistent theme in his writing, one must uncover the Alexie background and the literary element he incorporates. One of the circumstances that lead Alexie that influenced all of his work was being born on Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, Washington. The tribe name itself means “children of the sun” (Reservation). Contrary to the name, here, like most Native American reservations, there is a high poverty rate. In fact, the average poverty rate on the reservation

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    Kansas resident, out because he was questioning two Indian bar patrons’ immigration status and throwing racial slurs at them. Angry Purinton returned to the bar with a handgun that same night and shot at the two Indians, killing one and wounding the other. Later in court, the indictment accused Purinton of shooting the two men “because of their actual and perceived race, color, religion and national origin.” Not even two weeks later, an Indian-born man was outside his house in Seattle when an attacker

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    Sherman Alexie Analysis

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    Racism has always been an issue in America not just only towards Mexicans or African Americans, but to Native Americans as well. Throughout history, Native Americans were treated as if they were inanimate objects that they are beneath us, and even till this day many of them are still being treated that way. The Native Americans have always been misunderstood what some Americans see is “redskins” and not a genuine person no matter the race or where they came from. No one else knows more about being

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    Hollywood has been making movies about many people throughout the begining. One of the most popular types of these movies is old westerns with cowboys and Indigenous people. Hollywood has not always represented an accurate portrayal of Indigenous peoples in the portrayal of all Indigenous Peoples as Plains Peoples, savages, and constantly warring against other tribes. The Indigenous Peoples were not all Plains Peoples. Many of the indigenous people were from the southwest United States, with many

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    In “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me” Sherman Alexie explains life struggling a lot as a Spokane Indian boy. Alexie was always expected to fail and remain “dumb” because he lived in an Indian reservation. He talks about how reading has impacted and influenced his life and how he wants to help others to experience what he did. Sherman Alexie shows to us through his essay that one does not need to be to fluent in reading and writing in order learn. Sherman Alexie shows us this by using

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    directed by Chris Eyre, written and co-directed by Native American poet, fiction writer, and filmmaker Sherman Alexie and based on the book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. The film reveals the reality of modern Native American life on an Indian reservation using Native American oral tradition storytelling to present insightful interpretation how different and indirect the path to forgiveness works within the movie. Alexie suggests that the importance of authentic cultural filmmaking is best

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    Among the remarkable women who have wake up this world, Amrita Pritam surely ranks high. Born in 1919 in Gujranwala, the western part of Punjab, presently in Pakistan, She was the only child of a school teacher and a poet. Her father Kartar Singh Hitkari was a well-known teacher cum scholar as well as a preacher of Sikhism. Her mother died in 1930, hence she moved to Lahore with her father. The demise of her mother followed up Amrita with misery and adult responsibilities at an early age, which eventually

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