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Mary Gant  February 13, 2018  Research topic   Tin Cans / Prepackaged food The topic I chose to research is the invention of prepackaged food in the tin cans and their labels that were sold in stores! It was invented in 1810 and changed how Americans bought and prepared food. They no longer had to grow their own food and this was a good thing because with urbanization, thee was not a lot of agricultural farming land in the middle of a city.

   Today, there are some well known stereotypes for the Native American culture. Some of the most known stereotypes are diabetes, poor, violent, and alcoholic reputation. To raise awareness on these harsh stereotypes people have created movies about the struggles of living on a Native American reservation. The movie Smoke Signals  movie shows the stereotypes of their culture.    In the movie  Smoke Signals  the father, Arnold, struggles with something that is very prevalent in the Native American community which is alcoholism. It is a really big issue that Native Americans are alcoholics and can become violent and because of this his son, Victor, never drinks. He doesn't because of how he saw his father turn out and be so violent when he was young. In the movie you see that the Natives on the reservation struggle with poverty and violence/crime which are two things that are affecting every reservation. The characters find power by singing and story ...

  (side note the background is white so you can't see it but the outline of the cover stops at the edge of my picture)