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Ever Living in Spanish by Marjorie Agosin

The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me by Sherman Alexie REQUIRED

The Road Not Taken past Robert Frost

Learning to Read and Write by Frederick Douglass

Prologue to I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

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This will exist an essay about one meaning claiming you overcame not a life story. What physical, social, political, psychological, or spiritual challenges have y'all overcome? How did your values evolve or help yous through this experience? Describe 1 challenge, explain how you lot overcame it, and discuss the touch it had on you.Thesis argument: Your thesis should state what challenge you confronted, how y'all overcame it, and what you learned. It should foreshadow your essay content.Notes: This is a personal essay, using "I" is acceptable and even desirable.

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Was your challenge concrete, social, political, psychological, and/or spiritual? How then?

What specific tasks, feelings, events, or other aspects fabricated your challenge difficult?

What values did you learn? and/or What values helped you through this?

How did you overcome your challenge? What support did you demand/receive?

What did you acquire while experiencing and overcoming your challenge?

How volition what you have learned serve you in your life?

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The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me by Sherman Alexie Los Angeles Times, Apr xix 1998 I learned to read with a Superman comic volume. Simple plenty, I suppose. I cannot recall which detail Superman comic book I read, nor can I remember which villain he fought in that issue. I cannot remember the plot, nor the ways by which I obtained the comic book. What I can recall is this: I was iii years quondam, a Spokane Indian boy living with his family on the Spokane Indian Reservation in eastern Washington land. We were poor by nearly standards, simply i of my parents ordinarily managed to find some minimum-wage job or some other, which made us centre-class by reservation standards. I had a brother and three sisters. We lived on a combination of irregular paychecks, hope, fear and regime surplus food. My father, who is one of the few Indians who went to Catholic school on purpose, was an avid reader of westerns, spy thrillers, murder mysteries, gangster epics, basketball player biographies and anything else he could detect. He bought his books by the pound at Dutch's Pawn Shop, Goodwill, Salvation Regular army and Value Village. When he had actress money, he bought new novels at supermarkets, convenience stores and hospital gift shops. Our house was filled with books. They were stacked in crazy piles in the bathroom, bedrooms and living room. In a fit of unemploymentinspired creative energy, my begetter built a set of bookshelves and soon filled them with a random assortment of books about the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, the Vietnam War and the entire 23-book series of the Apache westerns. My male parent loved books, and since I loved my begetter with an agonized devotion, I decided to love books too. I can remember picking up my father's books before I could read. The words themselves were mostly foreign, but I still retrieve the exact moment when I first understood, with a sudden clarity, the purpose of a paragraph. I didn't have the vocabulary to say "paragraph," but I realized that a paragraph was a argue that held words. The words within a paragraph worked together for a common purpose. They had some specific reason for beingness inside the same fence. This noesis delighted me. I began to think of everything in terms of paragraphs. Our reservation was a pocket-size paragraph within the United States. My family'due south business firm was a paragraph, distinct from the other paragraphs of the LeBrets to the north, the Fords to our due south and the Tribal School to the west. Inside our house, each family fellow member existed equally a separate paragraph but still had genetics and common experiences to link us. Now, using this logic, I can see my changed family unit as an essay of seven paragraphs: female parent, male parent, older brother, the deceased sister, my younger twin sisters and our adopted petty brother. At the same fourth dimension I was seeing the earth in paragraphs, I also picked up that Superman comic volume. Each panel, complete with moving-picture show, dialogue and narrative was a iii-dimensional paragraph. In one panel, Superman breaks through a door. His adapt is cherry-red, blue and yellow. The brownish door shatters into many pieces. I await at the narrative above the flick. I cannot read the words, but I assume it tells me that "Superman is breaking down the door." Aloud, I pretend to read the words and say, "Superman is breaking down the door." Words, dialogue, as well float out of Superman's mouth. Because he is breaking down the door, I assume he says, "I am breaking downwards the door." Again, I pretend to read the words and say aloud, "I am breaking downward the door" In this way, I learned to read. This might be an interesting story all by itself. A little Indian boy teaches himself to read at an early age and advances quickly. He reads "Grapes of Wrath" in kindergarten when other children are struggling through "Dick and Jane." If he'd been anything but an Indian male child living on the reservation, he might have been called a prodigy. But he is an Indian boy living on the reservation and is merely an oddity. He grows into a man who frequently speaks of his childhood in the third-person, equally if it will somehow dull the pain and make him sound more modest almost his talents. -----------------------------------------------------------------------A smart Indian is a dangerous person, widely feared and ridiculed by Indians and non-Indians akin. I fought with my classmates on a daily ground. They wanted me to stay quiet when the non-Indian instructor asked for answers, for volunteers, for help. We were Indian children who were expected to be stupid. Most lived up to those expectations within the classroom but subverted them on the outside. They struggled with bones reading in school but could remember how to sing a few dozen powwow songs. They were monosyllabic in forepart of their non-Indian teachers only could tell complicated stories and jokes at the dinner table. They submissively ducked their heads when confronted past a not-Indian adult but would slug it out with the Indian groovy who was 10 years older. Equally Indian children, nosotros were expected to fail in the not-Indian globe. Those who failed were ceremonially accustomed by other Indians and appropriately pitied by non-Indians. I refused to neglect. I was smart. I was arrogant. I was lucky. I read books late into the dark, until I could barely go on my eyes open. I read books at recess, then during lunch, and in the few minutes left after I had finished my classroom assignments. I read books in the car when my family traveled to powwows or basketball games. In shopping malls, I ran to the bookstores and read bits and pieces of as many books as I could. I read the books my father brought domicile from the pawnshops and secondhand. I read the books I borrowed from the library. I read the backs of cereal boxes. I read the newspaper. I read the bulletins posted on the walls of the school, the clinic, the tribal offices, the post office. I read junk post. I read auto-repair manuals. I read magazines. I read annihilation that had words and paragraphs. I read with equal parts joy and desperation. I loved those books, merely I besides knew that love had only one purpose. I was trying to save my life. Despite all the books I read, I am still surprised I became a author. I was going to be a pediatrician. These days, I write novels, short stories, and poems. I visit schools and teach creative writing to Indian kids. In all my years in the reservation school system, I was never taught how to write poetry, short stories or novels. I was certainly never taught that Indians wrote poetry, brusk stories and novels. Writing was something beyond Indians. I cannot recollect a unmarried fourth dimension that a invitee teacher visited the reservation. There must have been visiting teachers. Who were they? Where are they now? Exercise they exist? I visit the schools as often as possible. The Indian kids crowd the classroom. Many are writing their own poems, brusque stories and novels. They have read my books. They have read many other books. They expect at me with bright optics and arrogant wonder. They are trying to salvage their lives. Then there are the sullen and already defeated Indian kids who sit in the back rows and ignore me with theatrical precision. The pages of their notebooks are empty. They conduct neither pencil nor pen. They stare out the window. They refuse and resist. "Books," I say to them. "Books," I say. I throw my weight confronting their locked doors. The door holds. I am smart. I am arrogant. I am lucky. I am trying to salvage our lives. The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me by Sherman Alexie Los Angeles Times, April 19 1998 I learned to read with a Superman comic volume. Unproblematic enough, I suppose. I cannot recall which detail Superman comic book I read, nor tin I remember which villain he fought in that result. I cannot remember the plot, nor the means by which I obtained the comic book. What I can recollect is this: I was 3 years old, a Spokane Indian boy living with his family on the Spokane Indian Reservation in eastern Washington land. We were poor by about standards, but ane of my parents usually managed to notice some minimum-wage job or another, which made us heart-class by reservation standards. I had a brother and 3 sisters. We lived on a combination of irregular paychecks, hope, fear and government surplus nutrient. My male parent, who is 1 of the few Indians who went to Cosmic school on purpose, was an avid reader of westerns, spy thrillers, murder mysteries, gangster epics, basketball player biographies and anything else he could find. He bought his books by the pound at Dutch'south Pawn Shop, Goodwill, Salvation Army and Value Village. When he had actress money, he bought new novels at supermarkets, convenience stores and hospital gift shops. Our house was filled with books. They were stacked in crazy piles in the bath, bedrooms and living room. In a fit of unemploymentinspired creative energy, my male parent built a fix of bookshelves and before long filled them with a random assortment of books well-nigh the Kennedy bump-off, Watergate, the Vietnam War and the entire 23-book series of the Apache westerns. My father loved books, and since I loved my father with an aching devotion, I decided to love books equally well. I can remember picking upwardly my male parent's books before I could read. The words themselves were mostly foreign, only I still call up the exact moment when I kickoff understood, with a sudden clarity, the purpose of a paragraph. I didn't have the vocabulary to say "paragraph," but I realized that a paragraph was a fence that held words. The words within a paragraph worked together for a mutual purpose. They had some specific reason for beingness inside the aforementioned debate. This noesis delighted me. I began to think of everything in terms of paragraphs. Our reservation was a minor paragraph within the U.s.a.. My family's firm was a paragraph, distinct from the other paragraphs of the LeBrets to the due north, the Fords to our south and the Tribal School to the westward. Inside our house, each family unit member existed every bit a carve up paragraph but still had genetics and mutual experiences to link the states. At present, using this logic, I can see my changed family as an essay of seven paragraphs: mother, begetter, older brother, the deceased sister, my younger twin sisters and our adopted picayune brother. At the aforementioned fourth dimension I was seeing the world in paragraphs, I also picked upwards that Superman comic book. Each panel, complete with picture, dialogue and narrative was a three-dimensional paragraph. In 1 panel, Superman breaks through a door. His suit is ruby-red, bluish and yellow. The brownish door shatters into many pieces. I look at the narrative above the picture. I cannot read the words, only I assume it tells me that "Superman is breaking down the door." Aloud, I pretend to read the words and say, "Superman is breaking downwards the door." Words, dialogue, also float out of Superman'due south mouth. Because he is breaking down the door, I presume he says, "I am breaking downwardly the door." Once over again, I pretend to read the words and say aloud, "I am breaking down the door" In this way, I learned to read. This might be an interesting story all past itself. A little Indian boy teaches himself to read at an early on age and advances rapidly. He reads "Grapes of Wrath" in kindergarten when other children are struggling through "Dick and Jane." If he'd been anything only an Indian male child living on the reservation, he might have been called a prodigy. Simply he is an Indian boy living on the reservation and is merely an oddity. He grows into a man who often speaks of his childhood in the third-person, as if it will somehow dull the pain and make him sound more modest about his talents. -----------------------------------------------------------------------A smart Indian is a dangerous person, widely feared and ridiculed by Indians and not-Indians alike. I fought with my classmates on a daily basis. They wanted me to stay quiet when the non-Indian teacher asked for answers, for volunteers, for assist. We were Indian children who were expected to exist stupid. Almost lived up to those expectations within the classroom but subverted them on the exterior. They struggled with bones reading in school but could remember how to sing a few dozen powwow songs. They were monosyllabic in front of their non-Indian teachers but could tell complicated stories and jokes at the dinner table. They submissively ducked their heads when confronted past a not-Indian adult but would slug information technology out with the Indian keen who was 10 years older. Equally Indian children, we were expected to neglect in the non-Indian earth. Those who failed were ceremonially accepted past other Indians and appropriately pitied by not-Indians. I refused to fail. I was smart. I was arrogant. I was lucky. I read books late into the night, until I could barely go along my eyes open. I read books at recess, then during lunch, and in the few minutes left later I had finished my classroom assignments. I read books in the automobile when my family traveled to powwows or basketball games. In shopping malls, I ran to the bookstores and read bits and pieces of as many books every bit I could. I read the books my father brought home from the pawnshops and secondhand. I read the books I borrowed from the library. I read the backs of cereal boxes. I read the newspaper. I read the bulletins posted on the walls of the schoolhouse, the clinic, the tribal offices, the post function. I read junk mail service. I read motorcar-repair manuals. I read magazines. I read anything that had words and paragraphs. I read with equal parts joy and desperation. I loved those books, but I too knew that love had only one purpose. I was trying to save my life. Despite all the books I read, I am nonetheless surprised I became a writer. I was going to be a pediatrician. These days, I write novels, short stories, and poems. I visit schools and teach artistic writing to Indian kids. In all my years in the reservation school arrangement, I was never taught how to write poetry, curt stories or novels. I was certainly never taught that Indians wrote poetry, short stories and novels. Writing was something beyond Indians. I cannot call up a unmarried time that a guest teacher visited the reservation. There must accept been visiting teachers. Who were they? Where are they now? Do they exist? I visit the schools as often as possible. The Indian kids crowd the classroom. Many are writing their ain poems, short stories and novels. They accept read my books. They have read many other books. They look at me with bright eyes and arrogant wonder. They are trying to save their lives. Then there are the sullen and already defeated Indian kids who sit in the dorsum rows and ignore me with theatrical precision. The pages of their notebooks are empty. They carry neither pencil nor pen. They stare out the window. They refuse and resist. "Books," I say to them. "Books," I say. I throw my weight confronting their locked doors. The door holds. I am smart. I am arrogant. I am lucky. I am trying to salve our lives.
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The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me
Most people in their life go through challenges; some at an earlier age, some later in
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go all they desire very easily without facing whatsoever challenges. We often hear people say that the
before phase of a person's life, youth, shapes his whole life. It leaves deep marks that stay with
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simply equally horrible challenges. One very troubling claiming that I went through in my school
life was that I faced a lot of bullying. Information technology was more like a never-ending nightmare that just would
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realized that the nightmare would not end unless I wake up. I learned it the hard manner that you
and you alone take to stand for yourself, and nobody can or should do it for yous.
As a kid, I was a very passionate person and e'er looked upwards to exciting events and
things in school. We had good teachers who were concerned with work and did not really cater
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