India, Korea, and Thailand each have unique styles of artwork, reflecting their culture with different visual elements, techniques, and symbolism. Though the artworks from these three cultures differentiate in some ways, the viewer will find that they also have some similar features in their art work. The Indian culture itself reflects almost transparently through its artworks from the patterns, to the use of colors, and stories the works tell. The base and media of the artwork from India isn’t…
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian School-Wide Assignment Since we will be working with this book at the beginning of the year, please use this assignment to keep track of your thoughts and analyses. Freshmen may turn in a hand-written or typed assignment. Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors are expected to turn in a typed and completed assignment to their English teacher on the first day of school. This is an individual assignment. Please do your own work. You will submit this to Turnitin…
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Director Chris Eyre crafts moving symbolism within his film Smoke Signals, contrasting the stereotypical representation of Indians in typical Western films by depicting a powerful flare of struggle through past pain and ultimate tranquility in the soul of Victor Joseph. Victor’s initial character is a product of deep-rooted anger at his father, Arnold Joseph, and the alcoholism and abusive actions that he partook during Victor's childhood. This prodded Victor to direct an abrasive manner toward all…
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company introduces the all new organic tobacco “Natural American Spirits” with American Indians on a sunset imprinted on green cigarette cases, which are standing on top of a soil. The advertisement chose green, which is a color of nature, for their cigarette boxes and word so that it gives the reader the need to feel safe. Also, the picture of the cigarette box on the advertisement appears to have an Indian smoking on a sunset, which lead readers to feel the need to escape. In addition to the picture…
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The Orphan Boy and The Elk dog was a Blackfoot tribal legend. The Blackfoot tribe dwelled in The Great Plains during the 17th century and spoke of the myth of how they got horses. This story is about a deaf Indian boy named Long arrow, who later regains his hearing and his struggle to be accepted by society. The theme of this story would is never to give up and keep trying until you succeed.…
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Paige O’Connor Professor Geer English 110 30 January 2015 Misunderstood Native American In this paper, we will be discussing the book, “The absolutely true story of a part time Native American”. This book really infiltrates the meaning of the term “other”. It is about a part time Native American, named Arnold, who seeks for a better like than what he suffers through. This book is quite amazing on how it depicts the Native American life and its upbringing. Arnold goes to a Reardan, a white school…
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Session 7 Notes Holidays False Assumption Fairness means all religions must be given equal time in the classroom. Fiarness means proportional not equal. House of senate 2 senators…house of representative based on population; teacher salary may teach same but not earn same pay they are paid proportional to years of service; Students feeling left out: Some teachers pretend holiday isn’t happening to avoid this. No ones faith should be denigrated in classroom. Should teach about holiday and cultural…
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elephant’ in an English magazine. Since then, it has been republished dozens of times and holds a place as a definitive anti-colonial piece of literature, in an era where the British Empire was at its peak and covered almost 1/3 of the Earth’s surface. George Orwell believed that “…imperialism was an evil thing...” and uses much themes, symbolism and irony to convey his strong anti-colonialist feelings. Theme is an integral part of this story and is mostly presented through the narrator. One of the major…
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to sympathise with a mental decline of a woman as she experiences hysteria and embraces the patriarchal literary stereotype of the ‘mad-woman in the attic’. (explain the patriarchal concept) Antoinette’s mother also experiences insanity. During the time period of the novel, hysteria was the one of the few modes of resistance/ rebellion against the oppression and tyranny of patriarchal society. It emerges from the frustration of lacking independency and individuality, which is what Antoinette had,…
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that their construction of time does not and will not stop. This is not necessarily a negative realization however, because the continuous passing of time can be held accountable for a multitude of events that subsequently lead to paradigm shifts and progress throughout the world, within nations, and among small circles of people. In her poem, The Century Quilt, Marilyn Nelson Waniek employs literary techniques to explain and to explore this concept of the passage of time and its effect on individuals…
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