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I Am Writtin My Essay On Sherman Alexie, Author Poet, And Screen Writer For In My Personal Opinion He Teaches, Inspires And Ent
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I Am Writtin My Essay On Sherman Alexie, Author Poet, And Screen Writer For In My Personal Opinion He Teaches, Inspires And Ent |
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I am writtin my essay on Sherman Alexie, author poet, and screen writer for in my personal opinion he teaches, inspires and entertains. Sherman Alexie has a flair for taking you to a creative , playground that interculterally is familiar and unfamiliar to all of us. I will begin with his biography: Alexie , a Spokane/Couer d'Alene Indian,grew up in the spokane indian reservation in Washington State, he was born october 1966. his father held varous jobs, including truck driver, logger. His mother was a social worker. Alexie born hydrocephalic ( water on the brain) under went a brain operation at the age of 6 months, he was not expected to survive, although he beat the odds doctors predicted he would live with severe mental retardation, he did suffer seizures and bed-wetting through out his childhood. Preferring to stay in side , he developed a love for reading. As a young adult Alecie faced a new problem alcoholism, alcholo plagued his life for 5 years, he became sober at the age of 23.
He attended high school at Reardon high where he was the "only indian.....except for the school mascot" Alexie graduated with honors an planned to be a doctor until he fainted 3 times in human anatomy class. He then decided he neede
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