The assignment I chose to revise is my literary analysis of Judith Ortiz Cofers The Story of My Body. I have made some local‚ but mostly global revisions to the paper‚ as well as addressed some of the feedback made by the instructor. The local revisions include: making complete sentences‚ rearranging words. For global revisions‚ I rewrote the conclusion‚ broke a paragraph into two‚ and as suggested by the instructor I added more analysis and connection to the young girl. In the first paragraph
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The Perspective of Cultural Differences “The Myth of the Latin Women” by Judith Ortiz Cofer‚ the author states how she has been treated by different people in different countries due to their conception of her as a Latin woman. She points out several incidents where she is viewed‚ stereotypically‚ as a woman only capable of being a housewife and as a sexual object. She also shows the cross-cultural conflict Hispanics have to deal with on an everyday basis. This country‚ the United States is purely
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talks about the way people see him. The reason being he is African American and within his neighborhood people see him as a mugger‚ rapist‚ or worse than the two. He is also discriminated and stereotyped because of his race and his skin color. In Judith Ortiz Cofer’s essay “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria” she explains how people stereotyped Latin people and herself for the way they dressed‚ their education‚ and the way they were viewed just by watching a movie. Also their
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Folly‚ or idiocy‚ is a good starting point from which to classify various kinds of mental abnormality‚ and so it is to the dramatists. The sub-plot first of all (I.ii) presents to us Alibius‚ `a jealous doctor’ according to the list of Dramatis Personae‚2 and Lollio‚ `his man’. Alibius is in charge of a place (no doubt something like Bedlam) where `brainsick patients’ (1.53) are kept. As Alibius cannot always be at home and is afraid that his wife may prove adulterous‚ he gives Lollio control over
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Judith Ortiz Cofer writes an essay called "The Myth of the Latin woman" which is about cultural stereotype. This essay is about a Latin girl facing different culture people. She remembers what happens to her at her first dance. "I remember the boy who took me
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them. Stereotypes are strongly displayed in the media; stereotype can be based of someone’s color‚ culture‚ religion‚ or sex. In Black men in public spaces by Brent Staples‚ and in The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria by Judith Ortiz Cofer‚ the authors talk about stereotypes based on their gender and ethnicity and the experiences they both encounter because of their ethnicity and gender which have many similarities and differences. Stereotypes can lead to hatred and discrimination
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Yee Yee it’s my essay Check this An Island Like You‚ by Judith Ortiz Cofer is about a bunch of teens who live in the barrio of New Jersey. The short stories you read throughout the book will show you how they come of age and learn values and connect to their heritage. One theme that I like is be thankful for those who keep bad influence away. This theme is portrayed in the stories of bad influences and catch the moon. "Bad Influence" details a summer in the life of a young Puerto Rican girl
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human history. Authors such as Judith Ortiz Cofer‚ in her essay The myth of the Latin woman: I just met a girl named Maria‚ and David Sedaris in his essay I Like Guys‚use narrative to argue their thesis‚ however this is not limited only to established authors. With the pair of essays written by Cofer and Sedaris (and a little story of my own) a reader can see how the use of narration describing events in an author’s life can be used to argue a point. In her essay‚ Cofer wanted to use moments in her
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the first time‚ as we peak through our fingers. As scared as we are we keep watching. Once it is over we remind our self that it was “just a movie” and is not real. But if it is not real‚ then why are we so scared‚ and why do we watch it? The Changeling is a story of a composer named Doctor Russell living in New York‚ who loses his wife and daughter in a traffic accident on vacation. After their deaths he moves himself cross country to Washington State‚ where he rents an eerie Victorian style mansion
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Changeling is a movie from 2008. Directed by Clint Eastwood‚ and based on a true story‚ this film is about a woman who takes up a tiff with the Los Angeles Police Department for giving her a child that didn’t belong to her. This twisted drama dates back to the late 1920’s to the early/mid 1930’s. The main characters in the film were: Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie)‚ Walter Collins (Gattlin Griffith)‚ Captain. J.J. Jones (Jeffery Donovan)‚ Reverend Gustav Briegleb (John Malkovich)‚ Sanford Clark
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