It is human nature for people to feel like they don't fit in. ... The theme i have chosen is evident the text "The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian", written by Sherman Alexie, the short story "The Whale", by Witi Ihimaera. ... The film by Norman Jewison "The Hurricane", shows the idea that people can people feel like they don't belong at times though the main protagonist of the story, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter. ... This is shown when Rubin is talking to Lesra (his closest friend) and says "This is no place, not for a human being...

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Throughout the story, which gracefully moves back and forth between the past and the present, memory is the catalyst for present-day realizations and changes. This is a story of the Great Possibility, what America COULD be, and what it has lost by not working past its prejudices and fears. ... San Miguel begins tracing the story of Houston's Mexican community and schooling of Mexican children. ... He reasoned that nothing had value until human labor had been invested in it. Thus, it followed that the value of anything was equal to the amount of human labor that was "crystallized- in it...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

At first Leo and Dash seemly meet their goal and were having fun, but their fun was short lived as Leo continued to drink allowing the alcohol to control him gets in a fight with Dash. ... Those who argue this perspective would say that a hospital drama about children and young adults is merely the nature of good television. ... Due to popular culture being used as a "resource for public reflection" about various elements of the human condition or experience, the generated sense of social solidarity is largely accomplished. ... To scholars of the funcationalist approach, the Red Band Society&#...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate