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    An Indian reserve full of people hopeless of a better life. But one boy is different. This story is about a boy who lives in a depressing, dreary, and lifeless Indian reserve. But against all the odds, this boy named Junior keeps hope through all the hardships. One day, while at class, he got to the point of frustration that he threw a book across the class. It ended up breaking his teacher’s nose. While suspended at his home, Mr.P visited him. He explained why he forgave him. After that, Mr.P…

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    In Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Junior and the reservation are faced with isolation by both the government and other communities because of racial stereotypes. Ever since 1851, reservation have held indians, and have kept them from knowing what's beyond their borders. Junior and his whole reservation suffer from being held up in these reservations, not knowing what the first step is to free themselves and leave the reservation and be successful. Fortunately,…

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    Robert Arthur Alexie writes of hard hitting, serious issues that Aboriginal communities across Canada face but that are rarely spoken of in Porcupines and China Dolls . Alexie writes with blunt honestly aimed at an older audience who can handle the frank discussions of alcoholism, domestic violence and sex, both consensual and not. While the pace lags at the beginning it does successfully built the bleak world of the novel and the people who reside in it. Hard hitting topics will also leave the…

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    “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” is an interpretive short story about Jackson Jackson. In this story, Jackson Jackson has found himself in a situation where he struggles with many conflicts to recover his grandmother’s stolen regalia. He becomes very persistent in fulfilling this mission on his own despite the adverse circumstances he has to deal with. The author of this story, Sherman Alexie, created the character of Jackson Jackson with a few similarities between them. They are both Spokane…

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    In the poem How to Write the Great American Indian Novel, Sherman Alexie writes about the necessities when writing an “American Indian” novel. The poem specifically states everything the novel is supposed to have, and how the characters are supposed to look (with few exceptions). The irony with this poem is the more American than Indian vision of the novel. As well as worshipping white culture and caucasian skin or ‘white people’ instead of the Native side of the ‘Indian American.’ Alexie’s poem…

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    In “The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part Time Indian” the author, Sherman Alexie, develops characters through his use of figurative language. Alexie’s use of figurative language has a considerable impact on characterization and development of a character's personality and background. Alexie uses similes to develop characters’ background and provide the readers an image of a character in the past. Arnold Spirit says, “I started wearing glasses when I was three, so I ran around the rez looking…

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    Sherman Alexie is by far one of the most controversial authors in American and Native American literature history. His most notorious works focus on the despair, poverty, and alcoholism that were known to circulate amongst the Native American people, some of which he experienced first hand. He is best known for using a bold, outspoken style in many poems, novels, and short stories. At one point in time, the author states that his “only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority…

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    The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian is about a fourteen-year-old boy, Junior. In the book, we see how Junior deals with loss, poverty and starting a new life away from the reservation. He explains being poor feels so shitty but, he can't do anything about until he realizes he can be better of the reservation. The history behind the Indian reservations with for the poor “uncivilized Indians”. The poor part about it is true because people we're from the reservation did not have the…

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    The mitogen-activated protein kinase, or MAPK, pathway is a chain of proteins in the cell that relays an extracellular signal from the Ras protein to the DNA in the nucleus of the cell. This pathway consists of multiple phosphorylations as MAPKKK phosphorylates and activates MAPKK which then phosphorylates and activates MAPK. At the end of this cascade, MAPK phosphorylates various effector proteins (Alberts, 557). This signaling pathway plays an important role in cells as it results in complex…

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    obviously become president where he would later ask congress to fund Intelligence Operations. Eventually in the following in July of 1790 congress funded the “Secret Service” which gave about 40,000 for the purposes Washington asked for. By 1793 the fund would reach 1 million, or more than 10% of the United States budget. Then after that Washington left it seems that the executive…

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