“Let's go Indians, Let’s go,” chants from the crowd while teammates eagerly await the last pitch of the tightly contested tied game, Nate and Ben are pacing back and forth in the dugout, while Mitch is on deck taking practice swings for his turn at bat. This game decides whether their team makes it to the playoffs or if they go home early. The South Central Indians are the best AAA team in their division but this game is closer than any of the games they have played before. As the pitcher's arm comes forward his hand releases the ball to the catcher. Conor is sixty feet away standing near home plate as he grips the bat as tight as he can with his worn out batting gloves. “There is no way I can watch.” Nate took the towel Ben was holding and covered his eyes with it. When Nate looked up he saw an empty dugout, Ben and Mitch had rushed on the field to celebrate the winning run coming …show more content…
home with the rest of his teammates. After the dust settled their coaches walk over to them. “I am very proud of the way you played out there, you all played an important role in today's game, The amount of effort given was substantial, you guys are fifteen and sixteen years old but you played like you were in the majors, have fun tonight and remember to be safe.” The whole team roared in applause, as the three best friends try to dump gatorade on the coach. Mitch and Ben were holding the jug, while Nate tried to distract the coach. Nate peeks over the coach's shoulder and gives the guys a nod to let them know they are good to go. The two boys get on there tip toes so they can splash there coach with a celebration dunk from the gatorade jug. The whole team leaps to their feet with laughter and cheer when they see the water rush out of the jug and onto their coach. The boys are going home winners tonight, but first they have to get their picture taken by all of the moms in the crowd. Everyone on the team gathers around home plate as some of the players hold the trophy in the air. The three best friends are holding a banner that Mitch’s mom made for them. After everyone gets their picture taken some of kid’s parents brought ice cream to help celebrate the big win. “Hey, what do you guys wanna do tonight?” asked Ben with a slight smirk. Mitch perked up “I think there is a little party that this kid I know is throwing tonight, his parents are out of town.” “I don’t know about going to a party that seems a little too risky,” said Nate. “Yeah what happens if we get caught?” asked Ben. “There is no way we are getting caught, we aren't doing anything illegal so it’s okay,” said Mitch. “Okay that is true, good point,” both boys nodded. “Okay let me know when I should pick you guys up, because you know, I am the only one with a car,” laughed Mitch. “Yeah, yeah whatever I’ll text you when to come over,” Ben added. “I might have to eat dinner first but other than that I’m good to go whenever,” said Nate. The boys all walked back into the dugout together. They needed to get their gear out as fast as possible because there was another game after theirs so they had to clear it out for them. Rumor has it whoever get all their stuff out the fastest gets a bag of seeds the next game. Mitch has won this little game five times in a row now and is the man to beat. “Two minute drill, get your stuff and go,” sung Mitch. There was little motivation from the rest of the team because they knew Mitch was going to win. After the kids get their stuff out of the dug out they are welcomed by their parents to take them home. Some of the kids have their driver's licences like Mitch does. The ones who do most likely will ride home with their parents but the ones that can drive take full advantage of being older and drive home by themselves. Nate and Ben live pretty close together so they catch a ride with each other most of the time. Nates parents drive the two boys home after the game, “You guys played great out there, the catch you made in the third inning was unbelievable Ben.” “Yeah it was all just part of the routine, make it look really fancy and get grass stains on your pants,” Ben replied. Everybody in the car laughed as they turn towards home. The boys are planning a night out so Nate asks, “Hey do you think I can stay at Mitch’s house tonight?” “When do you think you would be going over there?” said Nate's dad. “Mitch is going to pick us up after dinner, unless I could skip dinner and go early?” “Is Ben going too?” asked Nate’s father. Ben spoke up to help out Nate, “Yes I am, my parents already know about it and they said it would be okay, after the big win and all,” smirking as he looks at Nate. Nate’s father waits for a second and then he spoke, “Okay, if your parents are okay with it so am I.” “Thank you, Mitch is going to swing by to pick me up after he gets Ben first.” “You are gonna shower right?” “Yes dad of course I am.” Ben snickers as they pull up to his house. “Hey thank you very much for the ride, cya in a little bit Nate.” “Alright cya, good game today.” Nate’s dad pulls out of Ben’s driveway and heads for home. “Everyone is excited from the win, but don’t let this win will go to your heads, to win the championship this year you have to be humbled and focused on what’s important, I don’t want you going out and partying this win away, you understand me?” “Yes dad, you can trust that I won't do anything stupid to jeopardise the baseball team’s success, you have taught me how to make smart choices.” “Alright, just be safe.” Nate takes his baseball bag from the trunk and puts it on the hook in the garage. He walks up to his room leaving a trail of dirt from his socks. Nate shouts, “Hey, I’m going to take a shower quick before Mitch comes and picks me up.” “Just make sure you clean up after yourself, we are having people over later and I don’t want them to see that bathroom being a disaster.” “Okay, I don’t think I am going to stay for dinner cause we might go out to eat somewhere, do you think I can get some money for tonight?” “Yeah, twenty five sound good?” “How about fifty?” “How about you take your shower and we will talk later.” The door shuts as the water starts to run. Nate comes out from the bathroom after some time. Nate is texting his friends about their whereabouts while trying to get his mom’s attention to let her know that Mitch was almost there. Nates mom was preparing for a little party that night so she was running around the house trying to get it set up. She was having a few neighbors over for a bonfire. Before Nate can leave he must find one of his parents to let them know Mitch is here. “Hey Nate let’s go, we don’t have all night to wait for you,” Mitch yelled as he arrives at Nate's house. “I’m coming just one second, I have to find my mom to let her know I’m leaving.” “Don’t worry about that, just text her that you left, I’m sure she will understand.” “Yeah good point, we still have to get Ben at his house.” Nate runs from his front porch to Mitch’s car and pulls open the maroon Chevy Cobalt. The car was definitely a hand me down because when on the highway it would pull to the left, and to close the glove box you have use a bungee cord. The boys were on there way to Ben’s house which is 5 blocks from Nate’s so they would be there any second. “Hey, text Ben to let him know we are here.” “I don’t think that's necessary, I can see him standing outside waiting for us,” Nate chuckles.
Both boys laugh as they pull closer to his house. They are almost on there way to the party. Most of the time this group of friends tend to stay away from the party scene, but tonight they are gonna try it out. Ben walks up to the car and reaches for the door handle. “Looking good Ben, trying to impress somebody,” Mitch joked as he looked at Nate. “Ha-ha-ha, very funny,” Ben quickly tired to think of something clever to say back but just ended up blushing instead. “So, who is it?” asked Nate. Awkward silence fills the car slowly as the boys look at Ben. “You guys remember Sarah from english? Well she texted me if I was going to the party tonight and if I was going to bring anybody with.” The boys don’t really venture beyond their little group so whenever an outsider tries get in, it’s usually a big deal to them. “Alright it’s nine o'clock, that means we should get there around nine fifteen if we hurry,” Mitch
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Pages one to sixty- nine in Indian From The Inside: Native American Philosophy and Cultural Renewal by Dennis McPherson and J. Douglas Rabb, provides the beginning of an in-depth analysis of Native American cultural philosophy. It also states the ways in which western perspective has played a role in our understanding of Native American culture and similarities between Western culture and Native American culture. The section of reading can be divided into three lenses. The first section focus is on the theoretical understanding of self in respect to the space around us. The second section provides a historical background into the relationship between Native Americans and British colonial power. The last section focus is on the affiliation of otherworldliness that exist between
Berkhoffer, Robert F., The White Man’s Indian, 1978, Random House, Inc., New York, 261, nonfiction.
decides to gate crash it the party in hope to see the girl he loves
In his essay, “The Indians’ Old World,” Neal Salisbury examined a recent shift in the telling of Native American history in North America. Until recently, much of American history, as it pertains to Native Americans; either focused on the decimation of their societies or excluded them completely from the discussion (Salisbury 25). Salisbury also contends that American history did not simply begin with the arrival of Europeans. This event was an episode of a long path towards America’s development (Salisbury 25). In pre-colonial America, Native Americans were not primitive savages, rather a developing people that possessed extraordinary skill in agriculture, hunting, and building and exhibited elaborate cultural and religious structures.
What do the following words or phrases have in common: “the last departure,”, “final curtain,” “the end,” “darkness,” “eternal sleep”, “sweet release,” “afterlife,” and “passing over”? All, whether grim or optimistic, are synonymous with death. Death is a shared human experience. Regardless of age, gender, race, religion, health, wealth, or nationality, it is both an idea and an experience that every individual eventually must confront in the loss of others and finally face the reality of our own. Whether you first encounter it in the loss of a pet, a friend, a family member, a neighbor, a pop culture icon, or a valued community member, it can leave you feeling numb, empty, and shattered inside. But, the world keeps turning and life continues. The late Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computers and of Pixar Animation Studios, in his 2005 speech to the graduating class at Stanford, acknowledged death’s great power by calling it “the single best invention of Life” and “Life’s great change agent.” How, in all its finality and accompanying sadness, can death be good? As a destination, what does it have to teach us about the journey?
In her book American Indian Stories, Zitkala-Sa's central role as both an activist and writer surfaces, which uniquely combines autobiography and fiction and represents an attempt to merge cultural critique with aesthetic form, especially surrounding such fundamental matters as religion. In the tradition of sentimental, autobiographical fiction, this work addresses keen issues for American Indians' dilemmas with assimilation. In Parts IV and V of "School Days," for example, she vividly describes a little girl's nightmares of paleface devils and delineates her bitterness when her classmate died with an open Bible on her bed. In this groundbreaking scene, she inverts the allegation of Indian religion as superstition by labeling Christianity.
Mary Rowlandson’s “A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson” and Benjamin Franklin’s “Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America” are two different perspectives based on unique experiences the narrators had with “savages.” Benjamin Franklin’s “Remarks Concerning the Savages…” is a comparison between the ways of the Indians and the ways of the Englishmen along with Franklin’s reason why the Indians should not be defined as savages. “A Narrative of the Captivity…” is a written test of faith about a brutally traumatic experience that a woman faced alone while being held captive by Indians. Mary Rowlandson views the Indians in a negative light due to the traumatizing and inhumane experiences she went through namely, their actions and the way in which they lived went against the religious code to which she is used; contrastingly, Benjamin Franklin sees the Indians as everything but savages-- he believes that they are perfect due to their educated ways and virtuous conduct.
Daniel Richter's Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America, turns many heads as Richter changes the traditional outlook of the Westward expansion all the way to the American Revolution by viewing certain events through the eyes of the Native Americans who were settled in this land years before the new colonizations started. It was not easy to try and make a complete work about the different perspectives that the Natives had, due to the fact that many sources are works from Europeans or they were filtered by them. Richter explains that Native people sketch out elaborative paintings in their house or on barks of living trees, many of these sources obviously have not lasted long enough for us to examine. This book, however gives great detail and fully analyzes the "aggressively expansionist Euro-American United States" (p. 8-7) that rose from what belonged to Indian Country. Richter challenges you to compose a new framework of the Indian and European encounters reforming the "master narrative" of early American colonization from the Native point of view.
Being unwanted, uncared for, unloved and forgotten by everybody even by your own family is a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. As the book The absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie talks about an Indian boy, Arnold Spirit, who was born in the Spokane Indian reservation in Wellpinit with brain damage. Arnold takes us along on his journey and we learn how absolutely awful and devastating poverty is and it is not for an individual but for an entire community. This condition leads to senseless death. They never had the chance to be anything but poor and hopeless Indians. If they stop dreaming of being poor and start searching for hope and try to live up with high expectations and accept more to them. They will look to their future with excitement and confidence and begin to do more of what they ever imagined. As a result, they will have a better living condition. Throughout the novel, we learn from Arnold’s fight for a better life. He inspires us and gives us hope. He goes to Reardan where white people live searching for hope. There, he makes new white friends and changes their ideas about Indians. Another inspiration we see in this book is, Mary Spirit, Arnold’s older sister, who leaves her reservation to make her dream come true. She goes to Montana, gets married and starts focusing more on writing her romance novels rather than focusing more on the reservation opinions. Therefore, Arnold’s and Mary’s decision is that they are not simply Indians or White but human being who belongs to many tribes.
It starts early morning “adiós, adiós México querido, yo nunca olvidarte podré” (bye, bye dear Mexico, I can never forget ) my mother carries small boxes out our bright blue front door as we walk and get in a rusty old truck. The engine purrs and the truck jumps up and down because of the rocks that make up the road. My small turquoise house starts to fade way along with the trees, and mountains. That’s how it starts early morning leaving the memories of my childhood that influenced my character.
In old, but not so ancient times, native americans populated our land widely with different tribes diverged. One of the most widely known and popular tribes was named the Cherokee tribe and was formed as early as 1657. Their history is vast and deep, and today we will zone into four major points of their culture: their social organizations and political hierarchy, the tribe’s communication and language, a second form of communication in their arts and literature, and the Cherokee’s religion.
It was approaching dusk as the conspicuous line of dark vans entered the reservation. These vehicles served the purpose of furnishing transportation for about 30 members of a Cleveland area youth group, whose mission was “to bring good news to the badlands';. In short, the group was ministering to the Indian children of the Pine Ridge Reservation, which was in close vicinity to the natural wonder found in the foothills of “the badlands';. The trip became a tradition for my church and I traveled there on three separate occasions. Each year, the team received a welcoming that could be described as anything but inviting. In fact, the first year the trip fell on the Fourth of July and as we drove in, our vehicles were bombarded with fireworks. I could never really grasp why we were so despised. After all, our intentions were commendable. The matter became clearer after I read Zitkala-sa’s “American Indian Stories';. Within this text, a Native American expresses her beliefs that actions similar to ours serve merely in altering culture.
After stumbling upon what appears to be a typical party, music, dancing, girls, the boys enter the house thinking they were at the party they were invited too. There are a series of four girls introduced into the story. While Vic meets only one, Enn encounters three.
In American Indian Stories, University of Nebraska Press Lincoln and London edition, the author, Zitkala-Sa, tries to tell stories that depicted life growing up on a reservation. Her stories showed how Native Americans reacted to the white man’s ways of running the land and changing the life of Indians. “Zitkala-Sa was one of the early Indian writers to record tribal legends and tales from oral tradition” (back cover) is a great way to show that the author’s stories were based upon actual events in her life as a Dakota Sioux Indian. This essay will describe and analyze Native American life as described by Zitkala-Sa’s American Indian Stories, it will relate to Native Americans and their interactions with American societies, it will discuss the major themes of the book and why the author wrote it, it will describe Native American society, its values and its beliefs and how they changed and it will show how Native Americans views other non-Natives.
Following their high-school graduation, Jade is hosting an end of high school celebration. At the party, David arrives and notices none of their classmates have shown up. He explains to Jade there is another party going on. He calls the police and effectively shuts it down. Soon after, everyone begins to arrive and has an outstanding night. Near the end, Jade’s father makes a toast.