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One of my favorite reading's from this semester would have to be Bad Indians by Deborah A. Miranda, as the novel explores the harsh reality Native Americans had to face in California as spainards and europeans invaded their land. The Native Americans in this novel also had to face the harsh reality of switching their way's of life and beliefs in order to survive and fit in. This Novel opened my eyes in many ways as I never knew this harsh reality of California's past and Native Americans past.

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Slavery and murder were bad enough, but thousands more Indians simply starved to death as their foods resources were devoured by miners or trashed by gold mining techniques that reduced ecosystems to poisoned mud and rock" (Miranda 47).

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One of my top three reading's so far from this semester would have to be Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, as the novel gives a perspective on how important life and death may mean, while also incoperating a modern but old feel to the novel. This novel opened my mind to contemporary style's of writing as Moreno-Garcia gave the reader a old horror movie type of feel with a modern style storyline.

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"Old paintings bubbling, faded photographs curling into nothingness, doorways arched with fire. Howard Doyle's portraits of his wives were consumed by flames and his bed now a bed of fire, and his decayed and heaving body chocked by smoke, while on the floor his physician lay immobile and the fire began to lick at the bedcovers, began to eat Howard Doyle inch by inch, and the old man screamed, but there was no one who would assist him" (Moreno-Garcia 293)

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"The entire farm was something beyond her imagination. The Valentines had performed a miracle. She sat among the proof of it; more than that, she was part of that miracle" (Whitehead 256).

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A novel that I have personally found inspiring out of the selected novels so far in English 300 has to be Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. The novel goes into the hard life of a slave named Cora who's aspiration in life is nothing more to have her own freedom. Cora would do anything to obtain this freedom as her and her friend Caesar use the underground railroad to travel the states to find that freedom. What would inspire me the most from this novel is the determination Cora posses as she deals with harsh treatment, constantly being on the run, and determination to obtain what she wants, which is freedom.

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“Look at you. You’ve agreed to have cameras observe your every move, to have every thought, word, interaction recorded in some distant data center so that algorithms could run over them, mining them for data that marketers pay for” (Liu, 35).

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A interesting and brilliant novel that I found to be great is, The Paper Menagerie And Other Stories by Ken Liu. As in a short story called the “The Perfect Match” telephones, computer monitors and even tracking devices that are taking away privacy from the public. I found this short story very interesting as it can relate to how modern society is so compelled by smart phones, watches, and even cameras that watch our every move. It was an eye opening experience as it made me realize how privacy and even addiction to these devices can take a toll on the society around us.