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The present and the future is something always to be obscured depending on person, place, and time period. To better understand Indian past, we must first examine the figure writing on Indian past, their reason for interpretation, and how they pursued their outcome. Sherman Alexie was born in 1966 and was raised at Spokane Reservation…

The literacy skills of the typical American teenager have not improved since the 1970’s but the demand for literacy skills have increased dramatically. Struggling in reading during the adolescent age not only affects reading but other classes throughout education. Literacy challenges of adolescents’ demand strategies to increase success across the curriculum. Why do adolescents struggle…

One factor that distinguishes the Affordable Care Act from Health Leads is its status as a federal law. This signifies reforms made by the ACA have impacted every hospital and clinic in the country. This also means many of the areas the ACA is targeting to improve the prevention of disease were decided by national…

The systemic erasure of women’s identities in Margaret Atwood’s fictional nation of Gilead is, at first glance, as far-fetched as it is horrifying. Upon further analysis, however, certain Gileadean institutions, practices, and prejudices mirror reality closer than we may like to admit. The most glaring example is the way women’s names are changed, in Gileadean…

In Alice Walker’s short story “Everyday Use”, we see the differences between the relationship a mother has with her two daughters. A surface level reading will reveal the obvious, that the mother finally ends up rejecting the ostensible values of the daughter she has always treated better than the other and as a result was…

As a matter of fact, in these lines, he states how love s blind, and how it can make people do crazy things. But is it actually love that Romeo feels for Rosaline? It appears that it is not love that Romeo feels for Rosaline, but lust. Furthermore, it seems like Romeo does not know…

Historically, husbands and children have looked to the wife for most of their needs. While the role of the wife and mother has expanded to often include a job outside the home, the expectations haven’t always adjusted to include this. In the essay, I Want a Wife, Judy Brady provides a unique perspective of the…

Once upon a time there lived the king of Phrygia who ruled over his people from a luxurious castle encircled by a stunning rose garden. Many of us know this king as the man with the golden touch, but his real name was Midas. Despite his abundant wealth, Midas thought that his greatest happiness was…

America is a bird and part of her left wing has been severed. The wing has been so mangled that the bird’s parents have trouble recognizing her. They have since remarked that their daughter had only been let out into the wild to be free for a short time. The news of her wound came…

The ambiguity and multi-dimensional conflicts of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire have consistently made it very easily for literary critics to attach whatever significance they like onto the play; it is a testament to Williams’ writing that many of these significances can be both individually and simultaneously valid interpretations of his intent. However, the…