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life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture. this quote shows how culture affects us as humans. In Sherman Alexie “What You Pawn, I Will Redeem” the main character Jackson Jackson who is a Spokane Indian living homeless in Seattle; he’s on a quest to buy back his grandmother’s regalia. This story is about the journey it takes Jackson to earn back his grandmother regalia, and his journey to reclaim and connect to his culture. While reading this story most would assume

comrades. They soldiers leave home as vibrant, red, leaves, and come back as a shriveled, brown leaves. They feel the affect of the catastrophic events thought the brutality and despair they experience. The war destroys the soldiers’ former selves and causes them to lose their innocence, their identity, and their hope. The war strips innocence away from every soldier. From the very

earlier period, one part violates the system and plants the chosen trail. Winning their come back to the present the collections discover that the world has been radically distorted by the apparently inoffensive death of a primitive butterfly. Eckels is the seeker who panics and causes the enduring change of history in Ray Bradbury's discipline creative writing short story "A Sound of Thunder." going away back in time to observer the follow of the trepidation Tyrannosaurus Rex, Eckels wander away from

It was one early summer morning of last year when I got into my parents 2012 Silver Dodge Caravan. My parents would be the ones escorting my friend and I to embark on the journey of our lives. On our way to the airport, my best friend Derek and I conversed about how much fun and different Europe is going to be compared to our little hometown of Park City. Hurried and panicked, Derek and I started to get our stuff situated as we arrived at the airport. Entering the doors, we saw the majority of our

Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (1928) gives insight to the horrific realities soldiers have to face in World War I. Paul Baumer, the narrator and one of the soldiers enlisted to fight for his country, tells the reader that they have just returned back to camp after two weeks of fighting on the front lines. He also notes that more than half of their Company of one-hundred fifty men were lost in a gas attack the day before, and this lead to a surplus of leftover food and supplies for the remaining

party at a mutual friend’s house. We designated Hannah as the driver and piled into one car. When we arrived about thirty minutes later, the cars lined the mile-long driveway. Cars even filled the entire three-acre property. The house was huge and the back porch seemed like it was made for this party. Everything was going very well. We found our spot at the party and started rolling blunts to get everyone warmed up. Again, Hannah was the driver, meaning she stayed sober and I did not want to get drunk

All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque’s “All Quiet on the Western Front” was set and written in Germany during the First World War. At this time the attitudes of war were that it was a picture of glory and was the most heroic death that anyone could have. However “All Quiet on the Western Front” is an anti-war novel which shows the truth and reality of war. The book was banned by the German Government as if it was read and believed by the young men

literature share many similarities. The first stanza in the poem, The Target explains how a soldier had to kill his enemy. The narrator says that he had to shoot him “twas him or me” he states. This suggests that that he didn’t want to kill another human, but had to otherwise he might have died. During wartime you must kill your enemy or be killed. A soldier being forced to kill his enemy is exactly what Paul Baumer had to do in, All Quiet on the Western Front. During a bombardment a French soldier

There's a flower garden in one corner, a garden with tomatoes and cucumbers in the other, and a tall hedge that grows along the outer edge, where the edge of the yard buts up against the neighbor's. There are two apple trees on either side that drop hundreds of red delicious every other year or so; they make delicious apple sauce. One, large oak tree is the alpha of the yard; it lumbers over the house and shades the entire lawn. This small, suburban yard not only housed my mother's imagination, but

Imagery is often used to allow the reader to develop a fuller understanding of the plot, characters, and setting. In Erich Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, he uses imagery to help the reader understand the experience of war. Imagery allows the reader to comprehend Paul’s thoughts and to relate with the other characters. It makes the war realistic and provides a deeper understanding of the war because it affects all of the senses. Remarque uses imagery to emphasize the themes of war and