Being able to speak many languages help individuals talk more and not be so quiet. As mentioned in the essay Silence by Maxine Hong Kinston‚ she was silent when she had to speak English for the first time. No one wants to be known as the quite person in school. Most bilingual people come from families that have parents that were born and raised in different places. People that are bilingual can get a good job and get paid a lot of money. Also for people who know a second language it makes it easier
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In the excerpt from The Woman Warrior‚ by Maxine Hong Kingston‚ the purpose is finding one’s identity through the hardship of family struggle because if not‚ they will forever be lost. This passage shows the purpose through the acts of irony‚ anecdote‚ and imagery. Kingston struggles with finding her identity through the participation in forgetting her aunt. She believes by not mentioning her aunt’s name will wash away any sins her aunt caused‚ but the irony is that she still speaks of her
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Warrior‚ by Maxine Hong Kingston‚ is a book a young woman trying to develop her own identity. Throughout this book‚ Kingston spends countless days trying to find herself in the cruel world. In a culture where men superiority rules‚ Kingston attempts to recognize herself as her own person‚ and not as a slave. Kingston attempts to create a world where both men and women are treated as equal. Through all of her days and conquests‚ and in all of her efforts to produce equality‚ Kingston eventually
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Maxine Kumin Maxine Kumin‚ who experienced many different views of the world through travel‚ feels the most comfortable in New Hampshire‚ her rural home. In any area that she travels‚ she always makes a similarity to her home‚ as expressed in her poems. In her poem‚ "The Long Approach"‚ she is driving in her Saab hatchback from Scranton to her farm in New Hampshire. She also discusses her plane ride back from Orlando to New Hampshire the week before. Throughout the poem she makes references
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Samantha Kingston is a character that people can relate to‚ she made many mistakes and was given the opportunity to fix them. Throughput the book Samantha learns valuable lessons that some of us have also learned. Samantha isn’t the only character that is relatable in the book. Juliet Sykes has been through a lot of situations that people may have been through too. Juliet Sykes is a character that I relate to a lot in the book‚ not her actions but her feelings. Firstly Juliet is an outcast in
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fight. To argue. To persuade. To introduce legislation again and again and again.” ("Maxine Waters Facts" 2017). I can name so many people who have shown outstanding and ambitious political actions during and after President Kennedy’s birth year. I can name both men and women‚ but nothing is as powerful as an African American woman. But you never would have guessed that one of the strongest women are in St. Louis. Maxine Waters has a status of being a fighter and one of the most powerful black women
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In the “No Name Woman” section of The Woman Warrior by Maxine Kingston‚ the family punishes the aunt for adultery by acting as though she never existed and ultimately dehumanizing her to the point of a fate worse than death. This is expressed in the following quote‚ “Don’t tell anyone you had an aunt. Your father does not want to hear her name. She has never been born” (Kingston 1515). Kingston’s father went from a family of brothers and one sister‚ to a family of nothing but brothers. The family
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Woodchucks “Woodchucks” by Maxine Kumin is a poem that describes the gardener annoying and disturbing situation with woodchucks in his farm. Woodchucks were eating and destroying vegetables; therefore‚ he really attempted to get rid of them and solve his problem. This poem is apparently the story about the difficulties of one farmer; however‚ it has a deeper meaning and relate to the Holocaust. Besides‚ the gardener demeanor changed‚ and the violence increased from stanza to stanza. In the first
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imagination. Reading opens endless worlds‚ and often time helps people in the real world. In “No Name Woman” by Kingston Maxine H.‚ “Two Ways To Belong In America” by Mukherjee Bharati‚ and “What If Shakespeare Had Had A Sister” by Woolf Virginia‚ the authors write about how women have been repressed through the years in different cultures and different times. In “No Name Woman‚” Kingston writes about how her aunt was chased and almost killed by the people in her village‚ because they thought that
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Missing‚ written by Catherine MacPhail is about a girl named Maxine who looks for her brother‚ Derek who was believed to be dead after his disappearance. The time is in the middle of spring because most of the characters seem more active than chilly or sleepy. The cemetery is described as windy and warm‚ and the school is putting in tsunamis of homework each day. Most of these settings seem off but they do support the time. There is an arcade kind of like Station 300‚ the cemetery‚ the house‚ and
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