presintation

i enjoyed all of the presentations it was cool to see how each movie has the same conflicts. almost every movie has some sort of conflicts with guns being carried in town. listening to the presentation makes me want to go see the movies.

it was so wried how Eric and Alex's film was so much like ours. at first i thought they watched the same movie.

presentation

Emily and i presented are presentation on Wednesday. i think it went well except for the fact that are movie clips would not load. i liked doing this project it helped me come up with a topic to write about. i hope everyone enjoyed our presentation.

i can't wait to see what my classmates come up with. listening to the presentations makes me want to watch the movies.

education project

today me and Emily finished are project!!!! we focused our project on how our movie was not a typical western. it breaks a lot of the rules. today as we where talking i thought of a writing topic let me know what you think?

so our movie is basically two groups of guys ageist each other there is no distinct good or bad. but the movie makes out the cowboys to be bad but why. the good and bad do the same things in the movie so what makes the cowboys bad if they act the same as the good?

ideas for project

so me and Emily met today and talked about our project.

- first we talked about how are movie does not fallow the rules.

- it is nothing like what we have watched in class

- the characters are nothing like others we have seen

- it does have signs of a being a western some obvious and some not so obvious

we can up with some other stuff but i am not quite sure how to word it so you will have to wait for are presentation.

tomestone

so i watched my movie today it was really good, a lot happened! it was not what i expected it to be. it was not cowboys against Indians it was cowboys against cops in a way! it was along movie but really goos me and Emily are really excited about are project so get ready. i can't tell you any more you will just have to wait for are presentation.

English project

I am working with Emily on my project we are watching tombstone. I am very excited to watch it I think it will be really good at least that is what I heard. so i will let you know after we watch it!

paper number three

so i am thinking about writing about Fleur i enjoyed this piece so much!!

i want to look at the text and see if i can prove that the storm was created by Fleur and that it was not just a random storm.

what do you think ????

interview

I really enjoyed this interview Alexei is very funny. its was cool to get to here his views of things such as indians and white men. i agree with him that we sould not write about things we know nothing about. so no white men should write about indians enless they know what there life is like. i like that alexei writes from his own experences i think it make his storys more interesting he can give a different point of view. when you write about a life experience you have had it is easer to describe the emotions that went on. rather then just guess how the characters felt.

I have enjoyed all of Alexei's works that we have read he is a great writer. i loved getting to know more about him it makes his story's even better when you know how they came to be. i hope we get to read more of his stuff.

A History of Native Americans in Cinema/ smoke singnals

The article was very long!!! But I did enjoy it I learned a lot about the movie industry. I did not realize what Indians went through in the movie industry I never gave it much thought. So it was cool to get to hear about it.

We are watching smoke signals in class so far I like it. The story makes you feel for the people livening on the reservation. But they point out the bad in comical ways like a car that can only go backwards because they can not pay to get it fixed. The character Thomas in this movie is a lot to handle I don’t think I could go on a trip with him I may kill him. He does not think before he talks. I can't wait to see where the movie takes us.

"This Is What It Means To Say Phoenix, Arizona"

i enjoyed this story, it was cool being able to here about life on the reservation. i really liked how the characters made jokes about each other like how everyone is name jr. this story lets you see how hard life is on the reservation, i mean to not even have enough money to go get your dad and bring him back must be the most frustrating thing.

this was a sad story it makes you feel for the people on the reservation because you get to see how hard they struggle to make ends meet. so when someone dies unexpectedly and you have unexpected coast life gets even harder. this story was about a man whose fathers died so he must make the arrangements. in the story you get to see how this man gets the money he needs and if he gets his father back to the tribe.

this is defiantly a different form of writing compared to Fleur its a different type of story also. i enjoyed Fleur more because the story was so unsuspected it kept me guessing. this story was not as suspenseful it was more of a sad story. i mean it was good i leaned a lot about life on the reservation but, if i had to choice a one that is my favorite then i would choice Fleur.

Fleur

This story starts off a little worried I did not know where it was going but, I ended up loving the story. Fleur is not your typical girl she has been through a lot almost died twice. But she is still strong enough to get away from the men you get mad at her. I love how mysterious she is, but it drives me insane at the same time. The whole time I was reading I wanted to know how is she still alive. At the end I wanted to know who the father of her child was. I was so mad that it ended! I wonder why the author makes her so mysterious.

I enjoyed this story because of all the detail; the author does a great job painting a picture of each character. I also enjoyed the story because it is not like anything I have read. Normally you can predict what may happen I had no clue where this story was going until in ended. But I like that!

online poems

i enjoyed all the poems i read they all tell a story that kept me interested i wanted to know more. i am not a big poetry reader so this is big for me. Wendy rose does and amazing job painting a picture i think that is why i enjoyed her poems so much. also they where story's not just rhyming words that you have to figure out what each sentence means.

Truganinny

I enjoyed this poem allot i think it is so beautifully written. it is a sad poem the fact that she is dieing and has had to go though seeing all of her friends and family die. but I think it is also bitter sweet moment for the older lady she will now be reunited with her friends and family.in the poem she seems to be ready for death,she knows it is coming and is ready.

Note to a culture Vulture

so i read this article like five times i do not really understand what it is about. i think it is about a writer that wanted to learn about Indians so he could right about them but i am not sure. i don't know why but i can not figure this thing out. maybe i will understand after class.

How to write the great american Indian novel

Sherman Alexei wrote this short novel,in this novel he address the different stereotypes that white men and women have of Indians. such as the Indian men being a worrier and Indian women being seen as a healer. these are just some of the stereotypes he addresses.

as i was reading i was wondering where he came up with some of the things he was saying like he said the white women dream of Indian men what makes him think that. everything i have read of watched in this class makes me think opposite. i may not be understanding what he is trying to say i was a little confused about what the point of this novel was i think it is about stereotypes.

crimes against humanity

i never gave much thought to mascots and team names just thought someone picked that name so the school used it. i can see how this may be a dishonor to Indians i mean we treated them so bad for so many years they probably think this is another way we are picking on them. i don't think most people read that much into names like this but some people may. i just think they are names.

cowboy

This story is about a cowboy who just got out of jail. it starts off with the cowboy wondering on someone else land he gets caught by a man who takes him to the head lady. the lady gave him a job on the farm. the cowboy worked with the man on the farm for many years en till the man and women died. this left the cowboy with nothing.

when we first meat the women and the man i thought that they where husband and wife. i thought she was a controlling wife and he was a nerdy husband. i had the wrong picture they turned out to be brother and sister.

also this story was hard to read i had to keep going back to see what i just read. i think it was the way everyone talked.

brokeback mountain

At first when I heard broke back mountain I thought of the movie. I was not a big fan of the movie. the story has the same story line as the movie but there are some differences. this story is not what comes to mind when i think of a western. I feel like the author made them cowboys as a back drop there was no real reason for these men to be cowboys it dose not pertane to the story at all. I don't look at them as real cowboys more like two men that worked on a farm. the story kept me entertained but i would not calssify this story as a western. its a good story just not my favorite thing to read!!!

Cormac McCarthy piece

this story was very descriptive i could picture every scene which was not always a good thing. this story was very violent and McCarthy went into detail about everything. i liked that he did this but sometimes it was a little to much. you get consumed with the images and loss track of the story. i did not fully understand the story but i will remember it because of all the violence.

Frayling chases spaghetti westerns

I completely agree with Sergio, when i think of westerns i think of action there should not be allot of talking. i also think that all the men should have a dirty look to them. This is what they really looked like they had bad teeth ,long hair and looked like they needed to shave. this is what i think of when i think of real cowboys. Hollywood's cowboys are all pretty boys.

but i don't agree with some of the scenes in his movies. I think that he takes some things to far. In one of his movies he shows a child being killed in a very violet way. I think stuff like this should just be left to the imagination.

i also like the music i think that it is cool that they made the music from different sounds. there is no singing it just sounds.

i really enjoyed listening to this interview. there is so many things to think about when you are making a movie. Sergio did allot of studying to make his movies feel like the real thing. i think this is why so many people like his movies.

the good, the bad, the ugly

i am so exited about this movie!!! i can't wait to see where the story goes we have just gotten to meat all the characters so it will be very inserting to see how they connect. it is really cool to see how this movie was filmed there are a lot of close ups not what you would expect. the way some of the movie was filmed is not what you expect. but i think that this is what makes the movie inserting. we also get to see how they worked around the rule that they cant show the gun and the person being shot in the same frame.

my 5 quotations

"Virgie standing in the aperture with a cocked revolver in her hand”

“I want to know where Deadwood Dick is that's what I want. I allow ye'll say he ain't here, but I won't swallow that. He told me held be here, over a week ago, an' he allus keeps his dates."

“I don't believe a word that you say," she said, in reply to Piute's brag. "But if I learn that what you have said is true look out for yourself, for, girl though I am, I'll make you pay a bitter penalty for your deed”

"Oh! sir, you must excuse me," Virgie cried in distress, "I cannot sing, to-night -- really I cannot."

"Go ahead, and collect a dozen bowie knives, and also mark a dollar-sized circle on yonder door, belt high. Then pace off twenty steps, and lead off," the stranger commanded"

topics

for are first paper in english i think that i want to write about the role of women. i would like to compare and contrast the different typed of women we have seen so far. maybe even compare then to todays women. what do you think?

i like this topic becuse it came up alot in are reading and in the movie so i would like to look a little deeper.

so we just finished the movie the end was great. there was a huge fight at the end between the indians and the cowboys the cowboys won. they got debbie back and everone was happy. i really enjoyed this move i loved all of the characters.

john wayne playboy interview

So I do not know who john Wayne is, I never have seem any of his movies until we started to watch the searchers in class. I love the searchers I can’t wait to finish it john Wayne is the typical bad ass cowboy. After reading this interview it seems to me that he plays the same type of character in all of his movies. He has made a ton of movies he says he can not even remember the names of some of them. I cant believe I have never seem one of his movies especial since my dad watches a lot of westerns.
In the interview john talks about the rating system for movies, I completely agree with what he said. We need to be stricter on the rating system. They are letting so many things slip into movies things that should not slip by. When I take the kids I am babysitting to a movie 9i want to be sure that the movie is rated g I do not want any surprises.
This interview really let you see how john Wayne feels about the movie industry and many other things. It let me get to know who he is and what kind of movies and stuff he did. I really enjoyed reading about john Wayne. Interviews really let you get to know who someone is.

"how to play indian"

This article is a list of rules that the Indians would fallow when attacking the white man. After reading them I started to think about the Indian movies I have seen and I remember the Indians doing some of these things when attacking. Such as showing a smoke signal before attacking also they only attack in the day. I do not understand why they do these things but I guess it is a sort of honor code. Also after I read all of the rules I wondered do they have to fallow every single one or is there like a couple main ones? And do the cowboys have rules for attacking? I think cowboys just attack when needed, they never really seem to have a plan entill 5 minutes before the attack. Indians attack methods are so thought out.

the searchers

so we started to watch The Searchers in English to day and i can not wait to see what happens. you can tell that this movie was made from a white mans perspective. they make the Indians out to be the bad guys which i think the wight men and the Indians where both at one point the bad guys. the movie makes it seem like the Indians are attacking for no reason. i am really looking forward to see what happens the movie is suspenseful and very funny.

john Wayne

to be honest i have no idea who this is!!!!! i have heard the name but never gave it much thought. but i guess he plays a cowboy in his movies.

"I Hated Tonto (Still Do)," by Sherman Alexie

so this story was different from everything else that we read. the man in this story wants to be a worrier but cant because he can not do thing that worriers do. this story just showed a different point of view of movies about Indians. it was not my favorite thing that we read. but i enjoyed it!

the lone ranger

so first off the acting in the show just makes me laugh. i think that the story line is cool i want to see what happens i can see why people watched the show. the story reminds me of zoro they both where mask and try to save the day. i also like that the Indian and cowboy are working together it shows you a different side of things. it makes you think what if the white man and Indians just worked together? what would life be like today? at least that is what i thought about when i saw the cowboy and Indian start to work together. i look forward to seeing how there relationship grows throw out the show.

Today in class we got into groups to talk about the different dime novels. we got to hear about the ones we did not read. after meating in the groups i found out that most of the dime novels where structered like mine. there was no setting or main characters just a bunch of storys thrown together. some how the story ends up comeing together it just takes awhile. i as glad to hear i was not the only one confused.

the other day we talked about are novels in class, we were talking about what we found weird about them. there are so many things that i find strange in this novel ever time i read i find something else. first of all everyone is way to comfortable with death, it is like a normal thing for someone to just be shot in the middle of the day. no one reacts they just move the body and clean up and move on. i do not under stand it. also the way the talk is really hard to understand it is almost a different language. o and the structure of this novel is so different from the novels i have read. i feel like there are 100 different story's going on haha. but things do come together and then it becomes very interesting . another thing that has bothered me about this novel is the role of women they have no say it seems like. when the man wins Jane in the knife throwing contest he leaves her in town ungraded and tells her he will be back for her. Jane does not leave the town even though the man wants to kill her. why would you stay she should leave so she does not get killed. but it all works out in the end.

this novel is hard to get into but it is worth it the story ends up being a great story once you get past all the confusing.

So I am reading right now and I am so lost!!!!!!!!!!! I just finished chapter 9-11 and I may have to go back maybe I missed something. There are two new characters and I do not know how they are going to fit into the story. After chapter 8 I thought we had all the characters. I hope it all comes together soon because I am getting frustrated. Hopefully my group will be able to help me out. Well I am going to try to reread the chapters to see if I missed something.

Deadwood Dick's Doom; or Calamity Jane's Last Adventure

This story was hard to get into at first because there where so many characters i could not keep track of all of them. when i was reading it felt like there were 3 different stores going on. now that i have gotten though eight chapters i see that all the story's connect in some way. i really started to get into the story after chapter six because calamity Jane came into the picture now. the story has started to unravel now, it has gotten more exiting so i am really looking forward to read the rest. new character relationship are starting to form and i can't wait to see where these relationships go and how they end if they end. this novel is also really interesting because the town is cursed and who ever enters it is cursed. so it is very interesting to see what will happen to the people when they enter the town.

i stopped reading at chapter eight and i can not wait to get back to reading!!! right now calamity Jane is in danger she is being help captive. two men are havening a knife throwing contest to see who gets to kill Jane.

Baum

The Baum is an editorial about a holy man, the Arthur tells you how he feels about this man. the holly man was killed i think that the Arthur wrote this out of respect.

Deloria

This story is basically the story of the Boston tea party, men dressed up like Indians and dumped tea in to the harder. I liked this story because it made me think, there where a lot of great questions in the story. such as " why of all the possible stories of rebellion and re-creation, has the notation of disguised Indians dumping tea in the Boston harbor such a powerful hold on Americans' imaginations?" This question really made me think because i really have no idea why it is so important. I also liked this story because it explained how the white men where thinking when they dumped tea into the sea.

CHARLOT

Charlot is venting about how the white men are trying to make him pay for something he earned and worked for. why did the white men feel that they could take things away from the Indians what gives them the right? why can't they just work together? The Indians where so welcoming to the white man when they came. the Indians gave them food and taught them new skills. I think that the white men took what they could from them and then got greedy, the white men decided to take over. This is where Charlot's anger comes from. I think this article opens peoples eyes up to how the Indians felt when the white man took over there land.

I really enjoyed reading Impressions of an Indian childhood. this story really shows the culture of Indians, you get to see how they all interact with each other. i think you can learn a lot about people by how they interact with others. I did not like the other reading assignment it just felt like facts where being thrown at me. i did not understand everything i was reading because it was boring. I understand things better when they are in a story it just makes more scene to me you know what i mean?