Pushing the Bear

is a powerful and poignant narrative that draws us deeper into the history of The United States. My People the Sioux and the life of Luther Standing Bear are both crucial in examining the positive connotations of Indian Boarding Schools and the use of education to challenge the inferiority complex surrounding Native Americans. Luther Standing Bear was born in December of 1868 and this autobiography was completed on July 25, 1927. Encompassing the end of reconstruction, the industrial revolution

telling him what to do “He was on his way to the White Rabbit Bar and Lounge when Brother and Bear drove up beside him and offered him a ride”(4) he should have known something was up when two white men drove up and offered him a ride because there was still segregation and most whites believed they were better than the blacks. He had the choice to make and decided that he would go in the car with Brother and Bear so there is no outside force telling him to get in the car only his own mind.

where men made a definitive penances for opportunity. Davy Crockett, the flexible outskirts man with an amusing raccoon cap, Jim Bowie who apparently murdered a furious wild bear with a blade, or William B. Travis whom attracted a line the sand between stately downfall or yellow accommodation to the Mexican armed forces pushing through The Alamo's doors. These men were made well known by daily papers; designed sentimentalism for their bravery and execution of obligation. For quite

Desdemona and his insecurity. For instance, when Brabantio finds out about Desdemona’s marriage, he assumes Othello is using drugs or magic to control her because Othello is a lower class Moor. In result, he opposes the relationship and immediately bears an immense hatred for Othello (1.2.62-79). His anger towards Othello quickly turns him against Desdemona too, and this serves to cause her to go with her husband to Cyprus, to avoid provoking her father further. However, if Othello were white and Brabantio

front of the steps of Harney County courthouse, two groups, one for and one against, gather to protest the armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge. The two groups were arguing at one another, but was not being violent expect for the occasional pushing. The protesters were protesting the arrest of Ammon Budy and the death of LaVoy Finicum. With that being said, eleven more people was arrest with the connection of the takeover and four people are stilling refusing to leave the refuge. Both sides

I did not know then that pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death,”-Narrator, The Scarlet Ibis. Pride can be a very dangerous and wonderful thing, but in the story more destruction is occurring then happiness. The characters consist of Doodle and brother. Doodle was born with disabilities that brother wanted to change so he wouldn’t get made fun of by his peers. Wanting to have pride, brother pushed Doodle too much, took pride for a selfish reason, and eventually

for Indian freedom because they both agreed that Mowgli should be allowed into the wolf pack even though he was a human. Baloo was one out of the two animals other than the wolves allowed in the pack council aloud to vote, “Baloo, the sleepy brown bear who teaches the wolf cubs the Law of the Jungle … ‘The man’s cub-the man’s cub’ … ‘I speak for the man’s cub. … I myself will teach him” (pg 22). Baloo is saying that he is willing to help Mowgli become a so called wolf in the pack and he will teach

young adult, my parents were never ones to shy away from introducing me to the mechanics of the real world. It was never a specific time of day, but a situational occurrence where I would be taught the values of hard work, what fruits my labor would bear, and how best to use the fruits of my labor. However, during all this time, I never truly experienced much hardship. This all changed beginning the freshman year of high school, my first experience in a competitive marching band. It was unforgiving

was adopted along with 9 other amendments alongside it. “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” When the founding fathers wrote this statement, it was a written as a command, stating the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall NOT be infringed. When the founding fathers wrote this, they meant it in a sense so that the people can keep their government from becoming tyrannical such as

forgives his mom. He realizes that his mother does love him and quits drinking. She apologizes for the abuse he has gone through and not have tried to stop it. She wants to start a new life with Cole. She visits him in the hospital after the spirit bear attack, but also during his second stay on the island she writes him frequently and expresses her care and concern. Cole chooses forgiveness and grows to love his mother, even hugging her warmly when he is able to after he is released from the hospital