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The paper discusses one of the most famous characters in Native- American oral traditions, the trickster Coyote. The paper examines Haruo Aoki's story "Coyote and Fox" and shows how Coyote serves not only as entertainment, but also as a teaching tool for other generations to learn from. The paper illustrates why the use of these animals is important and what it reveals about Native-American life and values.

From the Paper
"One of the most famous characters in Native American oral traditions is that of the trickster Coyote. This character appears in hundreds of Native tales, and in many different tribes. Coyote "the trickster...tends to express unbridled human desires (Leeming 47)." For example in Aoki's story "Coyote and Fox," Coyote exhibits many traits that are common in most Native stories, in this tale though, "He is excessively demanding of food (Leeming 47)." In this particular story of "Coyote and Fox," by Haruo Aoki, Coyote illustrates many forms of boundaries for listeners to learn from. Also, Coyote's disregard to protocol and misbehavior serve as an example of "what not to do," and gives attention to the proper behavior of Fox. Also, Coyote's interactions with Fox create a form through which others may learn. "The funny and immoral activities of the trickster are used to teach children morality by example (Leeming 48)." Aoki's tale illustrates this teaching role of Coyote the trickster."

Tags:protocol, boundaries, misbehavior, Fox, animals, people

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The paper argues against the project based on financial and enviromental concerns. The paper addreses the issue of sustainable development.

From the Paper
"Sustainable development is increasingly becoming a hot-button issue in America. As American cities sprawl into massive agglomerations spanning hundreds of miles, increasing attention is being paid to the fact that public resources are being stretched thin trying to provide adequate plumbing electricity and wastewater management to communities. Sprawling cities are more than just eyesores; they drain taxpayer resources and create hostile living environments. As the public mood sours on sprawl, developers are attempting to minimize the perception that their new developments will contribute to the sprawl problem."

Tags:development, sustainable, economic, growth, sprawl, enviroment, impact, san jose, coyote valley, jobs

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This paper explains that T.C. Boyle's novel "The Tortilla Curtain" examines the current, increasingly present moral issue about illegal Mexican immigration into the United States; however, he refuses to moralize, allowing the reader to make his own judgment on this important ethical dilemma. Next, the author reviews the plot, which projects the American citizens as holding a particularly deprecatory view of Mexicans; whereas ,the Mexican illegal immigrants have an optimistic view about the prospects of living in America. The paper underscores that, throughout the novel, both Delaney the American and Candido the Mexican convey their frustration with their situations and their hatred of the "other" society and its inhabitants.

From the Paper
"The gate and the wall that are erected to protect Arroyo Blanco are microcosms for and are symbolic of a larger fence - the "Tortilla Curtain" - that serves as the border between Mexico and the U.S. Were the borders strictly controlled, i.e. were they as solid as the Arroyo Blanco wall, Americans could feel safe in their homes. Should the borders continue to be left open, however, there would be no security from the illegal immigrants and their backwards ways. This is how the typical argument by the Americans in the novel goes.
"Like Delaney and the other American citizens in the story, who fear the "illegals", the Mexican illegal immigrants also fear the Americans - both the average gringo that gives them harsh looks, and also La Migra, whose purpose is to catch them and send them back to Mexico. The major difference in attitudes between the Mexicans and Americans, however, is that the latter's fear is generally mixed with a loathing and disgust for Mexicans, whereas the former not only desire a chance to live in America, but they also tend to idealize the country and what it means to be an American. Delaney and Kyra, for example, would never view Mexico as a "land of opportunity"."

Tags:suspicion fence, hardened realist, dreamlike country, vendetta

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This paper introduces, discuss and analyzes three stories, Native American trickster tales "Coyote, Skunk and the Prairie Dogs," and "Owl-woman and Coyote" and "Walden," by Henry David Thoreau. Specifically it looks at the depiction of the interactions of humans and nature, their similarities and differences, and what relevance the depictions have for Americans today.

From the Paper
"His time there was serene, and he said, "Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me. Where I lived was as far off as many a region viewed nightly by astronomers. We are wont to imagine rare and delectable places in some remote and more celestial corner of the system, behind the constellation of Cassiopeia's Chair, far from noise and disturbance. I discovered that my house actually had its site in such a withdrawn, but forever new and unprofaned, part of the universe" (Thoreau 79). He spent his time listening to the natural sounds, gazing on their wonders, and thinking about the lifestyle that allowed him such peace and pleasure, literally living as one with nature."

Tags:coyote, skunk, walden, thoreau, owl-woman, america

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This paper introduces and discusses T.C. Boyle's "The Tortilla Curtain", a novel on the struggles of two couples as they try to achieve the American Dream; one already handed the chance on a silver platter and the other daring the impossible by crossing illegally into America. The paper shows that while Boyle shows off the endless possibilities of the cliched American Dream, his novel impresses on his readers only the futility of attempting to live it, rather than the success that countless of immigrants and Americans have found while fulfilling their dreams and destinies. The paper explores Boyle's use of imagery, including the image of the coyote which is present throughout the book.

From the Paper
"There is a lot of emphasis on materialism in the idea of the American Dream, and the Mossbachers seem to be the epitome of both. Contrastingly, the Rincons are desperate to achieve this materialism, which forms the basis of their American Dream. Where there should be a stronger urge for freedom, the Rincons seek fortune in America.
Through materialism, Boyle shows another feature of the American Dream greed. Though it is not obvious, the people in Southern California may be driven by their desire for more as a reason to keep illegal immigrants out, knowing that they too are driven by a strong desire."

Tags:Delaney, Candido, Mossbachers, coyote

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This paper shall examine the significance of recounting stories within the tale "One Good Story, That One" and "A Coyote Columbus Story", both by the Canadian author Thomas King. The significance in the act of storytelling is crucial to Native peoples and this is evident in these two stories.

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This paper examines human smuggling and its various forms. According to the paper, many people think of the coyotes who bring illegal immigrants across the border into the United States, but there is also a huge business in human trafficking from one country to another for prostitution and modern forms of slavery. The paper also considers how some of those being smuggled are willing participants, while others are duped into believing they are being transported for one purpose when it is for another, or are taken by force from the start.

From the Paper
"Human smuggling takes several forms. Many people think of the coyotes who bring illegal immigrants across the border into the United States, but there is also a huge business in human trafficking from one country to another for prostitution and modern forms of slavery. Some of those being smuggled are therefore willing participants, while others are duped into believing they are being transported for one purpose when it is for another, or are taken by force from the start. Stopping human smuggling is impossible given the many countries involved, the different reasons why people are smuggled, and the number of borders in the world over which people can be moved, with different laws, different organizations..."

Tags:human, smuggling, trafficking

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This essay compares and contrasts Candido and his wife America with the Mossbacher family in T. Coraghessan Boyle's novel "The Tortilla Curtain." The comparison and contrast focuses on the implications for U.S. society of the differences in lifestyle between each family. Boyle further illustrates these in the section entitled "Arroyo Blanco."

From the Paper
"In his review of T. Coraghessan Boyle's 'Tortilla Curtain' John Skow labels his criticism of the book 'Snobs and Wetbacks.' This is significant because in the Arroyo Blanco section of Boyle's novel we are provided with two distinct realities; that of the white, upper-middle-class yuppies living in developed estates and the illegal Mexicans who provide a ready source of inexpensive labor. A line is drawn between Arroyo Blanco Estates and the immigrant compound outside its fences."

Tags:Marxist, capitalism, illegal immigrants, Mexican border, labor, privilege, American Dream, coyote, predator, ethnocentrism, exploitation

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This paper analyzes the "trickster" archetype and its traits and function in African, Native-American and Christian mythologies. The paper discusses the important role played by the trickster in these three cultures and includes a discussion on the polarity of the trickster as well as Carl Jung's archetype theory.

From the Paper
"An archetype is an original model on which something is patterned or based. As used by Carl Jung, an archetype is a prototype for ideas which are useful in interpreting observed phenomena. Archetypes includes such symbols as the hero the superman, the wise old man and the trickster. It is the trickster archetype that is the focus of this research. In the history of mankind the trickster is a significant archetype in nearly all cultures from African and Hispanic to Native American and Christian..."

Tags:Hare, Coyote, Spider, Tortoise, God, polarity, duality, education, oral tradition, deception, shape shifting, order, chaos, good, evil

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The paper illustrates how Boyle's narrative, "The Tortilla Curtain", breaks down the geography of race by personalizing the conflicts that occur from the repeated encounters between two couples; Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher, a white couple, and Candido and America Rincon, an immigrant couple. The paper describes the Mossbachers' white enclave of Arroyo Blanco as the idealized and densely boundaried world of the American dream. The paper highlights how Boyle consistently represents his white characters as requiring a sense of control over their own bodies and their self-contained "white" environment that is seen as under attack from the Mexican immigrants. The paper notes the irony that these same immigrants are eventually hired as the laborers to construct a wall that is designed to exclude them and also analyzes the fire as a natural and ultimate threat to a community that was almost paranoiac in its protection of space and building of walls.

From the Paper
"First published in 1992, The Tortilla Curtain is T. Coraghesan Boyle's ambitious attempt to map the destructive though neatly hidden tensions between upper-middle-class Southern Californians and the illegal Mexican immigrants flooding into the Los Angeles area, most often through well-organized (and extremely dangerous) "holes" along the under-patrolled border south of San Diego. Like Paul Haggis's recent film Crash (2004), Boyle's novel explores the geocultural assumptions territoriality (that is, the ownership of place and space) as they come to intersect with the dominant pseudo-liberal politics informing the (in)tolerances within a racially-diverse community that tends to collapse the conditions of racial or ethnic "otherness" into an easily imaginable collective identity. Put another way, this is a novel that explores characters who attempt to contain the concept of otherness into a knowable schema that ultimately allows the characters to deal with racial differences by considering them normal or part of the landscape both literally and metaphorically."

Tags:class, immigrants, Mexicans, coyotes, borders, walls, otherness