Because growing up her parents wanted to "fit in" with the other white children, they did not practice their Hispanic heritage much outside of the home. ... The source states that among third and higher generations, about fifty-nine percent of people will identify themselves as white. ... Another big difference that one student pointed out was "all the hype about the snow". ... They do not have songs about "dashing through the snow" or songs about a white Christmas. While he agrees the snow can be beautiful, it is hard for Gabriel to assimilate to the idea that ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A storm, though, constitutes of wind, rain, snow, floods, and hurricanes. Arnold and Adolph were fighting in the snow, in the middle of a storm, but this fight was described as, "every little hurricane" (3). ... Sherman Alexie knows that when a white person murders another white person, the murderer would go to jail and be put on trial before a judge and the white man who had died would receive proper burial services. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Near the end of the story, Chato lost his job when the white man who owned the ranch fired him because Chato was too old to do enough work to please the white man. ... She lived most of her life afraid of white people. ... The white doctors and the white government officials played important but minor roles in the novel. ... The white people eventually began to fear Ayah and the Native Americans. ... The snow was described as falling in "thick tufts like new wool", creating a visual image in the reader's mind. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

They had a hard time finding the trails and marking the spots that they came across because they would have just gotten covered up by the snow. The temperature was in negative degrees, the men didn't have the right clothing to walk through the snow resulting in frost bite from the coldness. " the captains were most concerned with their men's health and with the danger of ice crushing their boats." ... It was to show that the white men are superior to the Indians. " It presumed that the conquerors were superior in religion, morals, and intelligence and that they generously condescende...

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The Lake, with its mantle of resplendent white snow, was to us a symbol of the purity of Our Lady, whose name it bears and also of the purity of should which should characterize the new inhabitants of these lovely shores " (Schlereth 3). When spring came and the snow melted Rev. ...

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Making a killing in the modern society of today are not the big business tycoons of today, but the one elite force is the American military that sacrifices life on a need to know basis. This group of enlisted men have one thing up their sleeves that their enemies cannot see or hear, but will know wh...

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The Battle of the Bulge The Battle of the Ardennes, known to the United States as the Battle of the Bulge, was the greatest battle this country had or would participate in. At its height more than 500,000 American forces were engaged with nearly 600,000 German soldiers. The Americans were at times without proper winter combat gear, in what was the coldest and most treacherous winter in that area in the last forty years. In addition, the German army has nearly a four to one weapons advantage and had heavier weapons than did the Allies. From this the question arises, How were U.S. and Alli...

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When I found out that I was going to write a paper on my family and our culture, it never struck me that I would be looking into their past. Never before have I pondered their past, nor even ask about how they got here. All I knew was that they grew up having a difficult time learning the American...

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• Grade Level: High School