really need is education‚ which will help us get to where we want to be. The best outfit will not give you the job you want to get in the future‚ but education will. “I had discovered that I needed stability more than social life” according to Judith Ortiz Cofer‚ author of The Story of my Body. During my senior year in high school‚ I remember seeing a poster that said “Twenty years from now‚ it won’t matter what shoes you wore‚ how your hair looked‚ or what kind of jeans you brought. What will matter
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My response to the title of the poem was a fifteen-year-old Latina girl becoming of age. Quinceanera can be compared to Sweet Sixteen or becoming eighteen-years-old all of which represent the transition into adulthood for a young lady. Traditionally a Quinceanera is celebrated among the Latino culture and catholic community. The poem demonstrates tone well using her emotions and feeling toward turning fifteen. This author takes her own experience and puts it into the poem. She describes the time
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Finding Love The two stories being compared are “The First Seven Years” and “Catch the Moon”. The First Seven Years is written by Bernard Malamud. Catch the Moon is written by Judith Ortiz Cofer. The First Seven Years is about a father who just wants his daughter to find love‚ and the daughter and helper are secretly in love. Catch the moon is about a troubled boy that learns to change and falls in love with a girl. Both stories have a pretty similar theme‚ they are both about finding love
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In “The Myth of the Latin Woman”‚ Judith Ortiz Cofer intends to dispel several stereotypes about Hispanic women by expressing her own personal stories and observations. She starts off by relating an experience that happened on a bus in London‚ then she goes into explaining how her parents made her home in America a microcosm of the home they used to have in Puerto Rico. She explains why Puerto Rican women dress the way they do—because they’re protected by an honor system—and goes on to relate two
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I. An Examination of Characters 1. Select 5 stories and then create a character analysis on each main and favorite character Dear Joaquin: In this letter‚ the depressive angst is almost surely palpable. Olga is hopelessly in love. It seems a man took her virginity‚ her purity‚ and left her in an anxious state of expectancy. A one night stand in which she gave her whole being to a fraud made her believe she knows what love is. She exhausts the word love saying “me‚ the woman who truly loves
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In the essay “The Myth of The Latin Woman: I Just Met A Girl Named Maria” by Judith Ortiz Cofer she discusses how latin women get treated and how they are perceived. Cofer herself being a latin gets into detail on how she’s been discriminated against‚ objectified‚ and stereotyped. Cofer argues that Latin women are objectified by society based on stereotypes. Cofer’s birth place is Hormigueros‚ Puerto Rico however she spent most of her younger years in Paterson‚ New Jersey but before her parents
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assume that she will be working in a nail salon and flirt with some rich guys to get married with. Being stereotype is difficult deal with‚ and it’s really offended and hurtful. “The Myth of the Latin woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria” by Judith Ortiz Cofer and “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan share some common and different stereotypes that they had to go through. In the story “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I just met a Girl Named Maria”‚ Judith Cofer wrote about her experiences being stereotyped as a
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INDICATIONS • • • Type II distal radial shear fractures o Usually require open reduction and internal fixation Barton’s fractures are almost impossible to treat by closed means. Buttress plate fixation of volar Barton’s fractures is usually necessary. Type III compression injuries o Require operative treatment if Intraarticular damage is significant Radial shortening is severe o Fixation with multiple Kirschner wires or plates is often necessary‚ and cancellous bone grafting is
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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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“And God said‚ ‘love thy neighbor‚ because the two of you are more alike than you think.’” Nowadays in society‚ people tend to place labels not only on themselves but on others‚ in order to build walls to separate and divide all of humanity into classes. Sometimes these walls can grow taller than the one that Trump wants to build‚ but there are some things that‚ no matter who you are‚ can allow for there to be similarities among those classes. Shackling bonds present in both film and literature can
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