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American Indian Movement Bureau Of Indian Affairs
1,622 wordsOne of the modern Native Americans' most prominent leaders, Leonard Peltier, was arrested in the summer of 1975 and eventually sentenced to two life terms for a crime many believe he did not commit. The conviction and imprisonment of Leonard Peltier is an injustice. His prosecution by the United States government represents yet another attempt to snuff out American Indian culture and leaders. The outspokenness of Peltier and other AIM members may be the only reason why Leonard Peltier has sat in...
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Day After Day Dark Green
1,427 words"The sun flared down on the growing corn day after day until a line of brown spread along the edge of each green bayonet, so the earth became pale, pink in the red country and white in the gray country. In the water-cut gullies the earth dusted down in dry little streams. Gophers and ant lions started small avalanches. And as the sharp sun struck day after day, the leaves of the young corn became less stiff and erect; they bent in a curve at first, and then, as the central ribs of strength grew ...
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Lou Ann Dominant Culture
1,280 words... here is Mattie the owner of Jesus Is Lord Used Tires who familiarizes Taylor with town and later finds out is involved in transporting refugees into the United States. Taylor soon learns that being able to share your problems and your love with those that you are close to is an important part of life. When Taylor was on the road she was for the most part alone, once she was settled and in constant contact with Lou Anne and Mattie her problems began to become lessen. This is not a coincidence...
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Back To The Hotel Fell Asleep
1,200 wordsIt was the summer of 98, and my friends had just graduated high school, and we all decided to take a trip. Where to go we all thought? We were thinking where could we all have fun and not have any age requirements? So Cancun was the place to be, first thing I did when I got off the plane was transfer some money to some pesos. When I tried to get pesos the cashier tried to rip me off, but there was nothing I could do. So I got my pesos and picked up a curves. All I knew was how to say was Canvas ...
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Malcolm Xs South America
715 wordsI read Edward Hoagland's essay The Courage of Turtles. I like turtles so I decided to right my essay on the related to ecological issue in Hoagland's essay. Another essay that I read for English is Malcolm Xs A Homemade Education. I think that Malcolm has some ideas in his essay that is related to Hoagland's essay, so I will include a quote from Malcolm's essay. Turtles are interesting creatures, or as Hoagland puts it "personable beast. " These beasts are part of an ecological system around a p...
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Female Desert Tortoise U S Department Tortoises
1,147 wordsVulnerable to the harsh desert conditions, the desert tortoise spends almost all of its time waiting out extreme temperatures in its underground burrow. There, this armored, terrestrial turtle conserves its energy and stays relatively cool during summer months, and relatively warm during winter months. This turtle, California's official state reptile, carries a high-domed tan to dark brown carapace (shell), which protects them from most predators. Yet even those shells are unable to shield the d...
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Point Of View Louise Erdrich
1,634 wordsCompressed emotions, " that is the explanation a teacher once gave to the ongoing question, "What is poetry?" He said it was someone's deepest emotions, as if you were reading them right out of that person's mind, which in that case would not consist of any words at all. If someone tells you a story, it is usually like a shell. Rarely are all of the deepest and most personal emotions revealed effectively. A poem of that story would be like the inside of the shell. It personifies situations, and ...
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Submarines In The Revolutionary And Civil Wars
995 wordsThe Trident Submarine houses twenty-four nuclear warheads with each having a range of 4, 600 miles over land. If a nuclear war were to break out between the Soviet Union and the United States, virtually every major city could be destroyed in a matter of hours. The origin of these major players in modern day warfare lies in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. A Dutchman named Cornelius Van Drebbel, made the very first submarine in 1652, to fight the mighty Spanish ship called the Rotterdam Boat. It...
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Grapes Of Wrath Work Of Art
691 wordsThe Grapes of Wrath tells the story of the Joad family, migrant farmers from Oklahoma traveling to California in search of an illusion of prosperity. The novel's strong attitude stirred up much controversy and was banned from schools and stores due to its vulgar language. This story, winning the Pulitzer Prize, is considered to be John Steinback's greatest work. What makes this novel such a masterpiece is its use of symbolism, its description about history and its use of intercalary chapters. A ...
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Journey To Self Discovery Taylor Journey To Self Discovery Life
1,185 wordsA women can undertake a journey for many reasons: to escape, to seek a new way of life, to find adventure, to find love, to discover oneself or to simply keep moving. In the novel The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver, Taylor the main character sets off on a journey for all these reasons. On her journey to self discovery Taylor Greer manages to over come her weaknesses The beans that are continually revealed throughout the novel represent Taylors life. The earliest mention of the beans took place...
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Morning Chicken Hawk Morning Chicken Hawk Said Grandfather Coyote
1,174 words... survive?' Old Man Coyote gave the people weapons, but Shape remained dissatisfied. 'There is only one language, ' he complained. 'You can't fight someone who speaks your language. There should be enmity. There should be war. 'What are wars good for?' asked Old Man Coyote. 'Oh my respected elder brother, 's hire replied. 'Sometimes you are not thinking. War is a good thing. Say you are a warrior. You paint yourself with vermilion. You wear a fine war shirt. You sing war songs. You have war ho...
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Samuel Mockbee And His Artworks
1,415 wordsSamuel Mockbee and his Artworks "The professional challenge, whether one is an architect in the rural American South or elsewhere in the world, is how to avoid being so stunned by the power of modern technology and economic affluence that one does not lose sight of the fact that people and place matter... were the powerful words of Samuel Mockbee, who became a great professor in the rural Alabama region. A renowned architect and a great artist, Mockbee dedicated most of his life in the south and...
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Low Wages Twenty One
738 wordsThe Grapes of Wrath: The Purpose of the Interchapter's Sara Stark Initially, I found the interchapter's to be annoying, interruptions to the story. It was only when I realized the point in having the interchapter's that I understood that not only did they not interrupt the story, but they added to it tremendously. The interchapter's provide indirect comments or general situations which suggest something about the personal tragedies of the main characters. These comments and situations help give ...
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Quot Good Quot Grapes Of Wrath
2,250 wordsThe Grapes of Wrath is an eye-opening novel which deals with the struggle for survival of a migrant family of farmers in the western United States. The book opens with a narrative chapter describing Oklahoma, and the overall setting. It sets the mood of an area which has been ravished by harsh weather. " The sun flared down on the growing corn day after day until a line of brown spread along the edge of each green bayonet. The surface of the earth crusted, a thin hard crust, and as the sky ...
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Grapes Of Wrath Joads Family
963 wordsThemes Portrayed in The Grapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath is a classic novel with great social importance. It is a work of realism, representing the world as it was, no sugar-coating. John Steinbeck portrayed a time of serious crisis in our country. He uses the Joads family to illustrate many important social problems that were seriously disturbing the chemistry of the nation. The novel is used as a desperate call for help and change within the workings of America. Steinbeck also illustrates h...
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Real Numbers N 1
1,080 wordsMost everyone is familiar with the infinity symbol, the one that looks like the number eight tipped over on its side. Infinity sometimes crops up in everyday speech as a superlative form of the word many. But how many is infinitely many? How big is infinity? Does infinity really exist? You cant count to infinity. Yet we are comfortable with the idea that there are infinitely many numbers to count with; no matter how big a number you might come up with, someone else can come up with a bigger one;...
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Online Source Copyright 1993
697 wordsThe Survivor Dont tap your chopsticks against your bowl. Dont throw your teacup against the wall in anger. Dont suck on your long black braid and weep. Dont tarry around the big red sign that says " danger! " All the tempests will render still; seas will calm, horses will retreat, voices to surrender. That you have this way and not that, that your skin is yellow, not white, not black, that you were born not a boy child but a girl, that this world will be forever puce-pink are just as w...
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Essay South America
730 wordsPillaging Nature I read Edward Hoagland's essay The Courage of Turtles. I like turtles so I decided to right my essay on the related to ecological issue in Hoagland's essay. Another essay that I read for English is Malcolm X? s A Homemade Education. I think that Malcolm has some ideas in his essay that is related to Hoagland's essay, so I will include a quote from Malcolm? s essay. Turtles are interesting creatures, or as Hoagland puts it personable beast. These beasts are part of an ecological ...
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Individual Or Group Arms And Legs
1,566 wordsB-Boy Breakin Moves Dictionary AIRPLANES Form of a windmills with your arms spread out straight to the sides as high as you can get them. AIRSWIPES You start with both hands and feet on the ground, facing upwards. Then you kick your legs up with your weight on one arm and spin over so that you land on your other arm before your legs land. If done correctly you should be able to spin you body completely around in a full rotation. APPLEJACKS A basic move to challenge another by to battle. You squa...
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Bushnell Turtle Onboard Oxygen Supply Submarine
315 wordsMilitary submarines were invented by David Bushnell. He was born in Saybrook Connecticut in 1742, and died in 1824. He built the first military submarine in 1775. The name of this submarine was, ? Bushnell? s Turtle. ? The reason for this is because it looked like two turtle shells fused together to form an egg-like case. Lead ballast kept the craft upright and it was propelled by hand-operated screw-like devices. The submarine was submerged when a valve admitted sea-water into a ballast tank, a...
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