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    thrilled. I hoped that I would be able to live with my mother and father in peace and marry Lenina. However, now I wish I never seen this place. Everyone here thinks that their life in London is better than life on the reservation, but it seems that the reservation is better than London. They try to tell me that their transportation is incredibly fast, but I know that Ariel can pass their rockets at least ten times but that doesn't even scratch the surface of this place. The first

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    Tribal Expectations

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    to live and die on the reservation. On the other hand, my tribal expectations are also to stick together, however, if that doesn't happen, I wouldn't be ostracized. My expectations focus on accomplishing important goals academically, and not that much on the personal ambient. Arnolds tribe offers no future, none the less, mine is comprehensive and facilitates more resources to gain a prominent future. Arnold’s tribe facilitates little resources to move out of the reservation and to become someone

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    natives once had, the men no longer have any way to go. With this in mind, this photo looks more at the struggles of an individual with alcoholism. The bottle represents alcoholism’s tendency to trap its victims. In Reservation Blues, the men are said to be trapped on the reservation by the beer they indulge themselves in. Therefore, the man is trapped within the bottle and without a means of escape. The duality of the symbol comes into play when one looks at him as a reflection on the bottle or

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    Eddie Rose Analysis Paper The Independence of Eddie Rose starts in a house on Indian reservation. The very first things we get see is the destructive house hold that Eddie Rose, his mother Katherine Rose, and little sister Theia live in. It is early in the morning and Katherine has just finished yelling and kicking out her boyfriend Lenny Sharb. After which Eddie is left alone with his mother where they get into a bit of an argument and Katherine tries to kiss Eddie. Katherine upset that Eddie

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    JET BLUE AND WESTJET: A tale of two IS projects 1. How important is the reservation systems at airlines such as WestJet and JetBlue. How does it impact operational activities and decision making? Over the past years, customers have been heavily relying on airline reservation systems to book their tickets, reserve seats, pay for the tickets and also check-in online. For customers, this has been a very convenient method and they are able to easily plan their trips. For the Airline companies

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    The Reservation is located in two physiographic regions: The Colorado Plateaus province and the Basin and Range Province (Broomfield & Shride, 1956). The approximate boundary between these two regions is the Nantac Rim, the south-facing escarpment of the Natanes Plateau. The area north of the Nantac Rim is typical of the Colorado Plateaus province (Broomfield & Shride, 1956). It is generally characterized by high elevation (average about 6,000 feet), and by the approximate horizontal position of

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    This research proposal aims to gain understanding of the Native American experience living on reservations and explore how they are treated at the intersection of race, gender, and class. What does their culture look like in the modern reservation? What problems do they encounter and how responsible is the United States government for it? In my history course there have been a plethora of primary and secondary sources that chronicle the discovery of the ‘New World’ and how the colonists interacted

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    grapple. The pathetic city drunks and the pitiful alcoholic parents of the warm water sisters, Junior, Thomas, and Victor ring like wake up calls to the social problems faced by the Indian people. The representation of alcoholism in the text, Reservation Blues, highlights a stereotypical social image of the drunken Indian. It is not a kind of mirroring, portraying colonial impact, that non-native people want to accept and is a sore subject for the Indians, because it is very familiar for most

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    Sherman Alexie’s novel, Reservation Blues, successfully captures the essence of pain and struggle that was so evident in both the slavery of Africans and the eradication of Native Americans, and integrates the power of blues music in order to bring the reader a breathtaking story. Alexie develops a strong, interconnected web of characters sharing common misfortune. Whether it is in Coyote Spring’s inability to succeed, Robert Johnson’s painstaking attempt to leave his guitar over the years, alcoholism

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    and retribution. The short story is a love/hate relationship with Victor’s family; as well as, the typical struggle for the everyday Indian life. 1976, forty years into the past on a cold New Year’s Eve at young Victor’s house in Spokane Indian Reservation. The main character, and protagonist, Victor is the lone child at a party of adults who are getting drunk at his home. There so, the “hurricane” begins. The parents of Victor are not solely involved in the story, but the main attraction was the

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