Wyatt Earp Paper

I've been thinking about what I could possibly write about. There are a few things that are present throughout the movie and also occurred alot throughout the West. The first idea was about how the movie did a really good job at portraying Wyatt Earp's life as a whole, instead of just showing his time in Tombstone and what happened at the legendary O.K. corral. The movie is very detailed and from what I have researched is fairly accurate.
The next idea was the theme of a family unit in the west. Wyatt kept his family at a higher standard than anyone else and would do anything for his family, even kill. That kind of bond is present in the movie and was present in Wyatt's life. His family moved together as a whole and stayed together. Everyone else were just strangers.

Wyatt Earp

With my presentation on Wyatt Earp its hard to tell what it is def. going to be about. The movie is basically a documentary in some ways about Wyatt's life. So possibly I could talk about how the movie portrays a person who was possibly one of the best lawmen in the west during the 19th century, but also how he was a devout pacifist. It is still up in the air, but it will be somewhat like that I guess.

The movie is very action packed, and with Doc Holliday around it adds some comic relief. Doc is dying of TB so he is constantly ready to die and looks as if he is on a constant alcohol binge.

Writing Topic

I think I'm gonna write about the idea of the Native American struggle against the white man and how it is portrayed throughout Smoke Signals. There were many instances where Victor and Thomas came across white people, and they often acted differentely towards them than you see them act towards other Natives. But that is just an idea. I think that is a pretty stable idea and it happens more than once in Smoke Signals

Iowa Interview

I really enjoy reading/watching things associated with Sherman Alexie. He is a brilliant minded guy and it shows greatly in his writings. In this interview there were many things that really caught my interest. I thought it was sort of ironic when he was talking about Natives and the idea of environmentalism. It is very strereotypical to think of Natives as "one with nature" or something along those lines, but hearing the idea of a Native American littering is often thought of as farfetched. Alexie's views on the matter shed a little reality to this common stereotype. I really love Alexie's views of white men in comparison to Natives. Overall the interview was interesting, and just adds more to the persona I would expect of Sherman Alexie.