Antonia Novello The first woman and the first Latina to become the Surgeon General of the United States (1990-1993)‚ was named Antonia Novello. Born and raised in Puerto Rico and a former pediatrician Antonia focused on the health of children and minorities. Antonia Novello was born on August 23‚ 1944 in Fajardo‚ Puerto Rico‚ a town 32 miles southeast of San Juan. Novello came from a poor family. Her parents divorced‚ and her father later died while she was about 5 yrs old. Novello was
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THE FRIENDSHIP OF ANTONIA AND JIM “Since I’ve been away‚ I think of you more often than of anyone else in this part of the world. I’d have like to have you for a sweetheart‚ or a wife‚ or my mother or my sister anything that a woman can be to man (Cather 240). In Willa Cather’s My Antonia‚ Jim Burden spoke those words to his lifelong love‚ Antonia Shimerda. Jim and Antonia were close friends‚ but were so far apart in other aspects; therefore‚ they never got a chance to be husband and wife. One
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While reading the novel‚ ’My Antonia’‚ one can very quickly notice that author‚ Willa Cather has much admiration for the character‚ Antonia. Throughout ’My Antonia’‚ readers can conclude that Antonia is a very optimistic and inteligent girl who grows into an independent young woman. Due to such characteristics‚ many people could very easily find themselves admiring Antonia. Antonia Shimerda was born into poverty and grew up dealing with very tragic and stressful circumstances that would take a toll
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Willa Cather’s My Ántonia narrates childhood stories from the perspective of Jim Burden‚ and focuses on his relationship with his close childhood friend Ántonia. Both of the characters move to Nebraska at the same time‚ and influence each other’s lives greatly. Jim Burden grows up to have a deep connection and longing for his past and repeatedly renews the relationships between close friends and hometown. My Ántonia shows the stages of life for a character around the 1900s‚ starting at 10 years
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The Nebraska Landscape Humankind’s relationship to its environment is one of the strongest bonds people can make. In Willa Cather’s My Ántonia‚ this relationship is shown through many of the characters want to return to their hometown of Black Hawk‚ Nebraska. What they find they miss is a lost setting‚ a vanished world of people‚ places‚ and natural surroundings. They all develop a strong attachment to the Nebraska landscape‚ which never seems to leave them. Part of the reason for this connection
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My Antonia by Willa Cather Author: Willa Sibert Cather‚ Nebraska’s most noted author was born in Virginia. At the age of ten she moved with her family to Webster County‚ Nebraska. Many of Cather’s acquaintances and Red Cloud area scenes can be recognized in her writings. Cather wrote poetry‚ short stories‚ essays and novels‚ winning many awards. In 1920 she won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel One of Ours‚ about a Nebraska farm boy who went off to World War I. Willa Cather’s reputation
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gives her an outlet to express her unique struggles‚ desires‚ and beliefs. Willa Cather’s My Antonia is a poignant romantic novel about westward expansion‚ following the story of recently orphaned Jim Burden and his childhood in Nebraska. The parallels between the most impactful events in Jim’s life and that of Cather’s become glaringly obvious when the two are compared. Willa Cather shapes Jim’s story in My Antonia
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Irony in Antigone: King Creon In the tragedy Antigone‚ Sophocles pens a tale about a stalwart and distrustful king‚ Creon‚ and his misuse of the power he possesses. In the play he disregards the law of the gods to fit his whims‚ something that the heroine of the play‚ Antigone‚ wholeheartedly disagrees with; she disobeys his order to leave her dead brother‚ Polynices‚ unburied and sentences herself to death in the process. Antigone is engaged to Creon’s son‚ Haemon‚ who does not agree with his father’s
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that bad‚ on the contrary it can guide one to success‚ which is another step to acquiring the American Dream. Ambition goes hand in hand with progress‚ self-reliance‚ and individualism‚ some of the tenets for an American Dream. In Willa Cather’s My Antonia‚ Tiny Soderball showed the most in any of the other characters as being a very ambitious person. She was a Swedish immigrant who was determined to go after any aspirations that she had. Jim Burden regarded her as “Tiny Soderball was to lead the
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Irony in the storyteller the main type of irony that we can find in this story is situational irony. The bachelor being good at story telling is ironic because we wouldn’t expect a bachelor to be good at entertaining children. The bachelors description of the little girl being “horribly good” is ironic The little girl in the story that the bachelor told was well behaved‚ and usually the characters that show a positive behaviour in childrens’ stories don’t end up being eaten by wolves. The way that
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