to Be an All-American Girl starts out with Elizabeth Wong describing a school. She tells about both her brother and her dreaded going to her Chinese school and the different atmospheres of the two schools. The Chinese school was like a dusty old chest and the other was like the box that a new pair of shoes came in. Both held treasures but she was far more interested in the new than what she felt to be old. While the Chinese school focused mainly on language‚ she points out that every day started with
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Beaten Like Dogs “They went by‚ fallen‚ dragging their packs‚ dragging their lives‚ deserting their childhood‚ cringing like beaten dogs.” This quote stated in the book the Night written by Elie Wiesel. This quote simply sums up the book in a few words. For me it shows the indescribable misery endured by the Jewish people. This quote really has a deep impact on me. It makes me realize how lucky I am‚ to live in a country where there is a freedom to practice whatever religion you want to be a
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“A Day Like No Other” Charlie Gonzalez and her husband Damian Gonzalez have lived in southeast Florida their entire lives a are use to hurricanes hitting there all the time but little did they know this hurricane was gonna be one they never forget. As Damian was driving home the rain fell like rock on the windows and the wind blew like a jet engine before it takes off it was going to be the worst storm yet and Damian was in a rush to get home when he say a man walking in this horrible weather so
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“Like Water for Chocolate” The movie Like water for Chocolate is about a girl named Tita who is trying to rebel with all of the traditions that has been placed in front of her. She is in love with a guy named Pedro but her mother‚ Mama Elena realizes that they love each other and told tita that it is part of the tradition not to marry until and unless Mama Elena dies. So‚ Mama Elena may be seen as a heart-less mother who made Tita’s life a living hell and made Rosaura‚ Tita’s sister get married
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Traditions and culture has been part of people for a longtime now‚ people have held to the traditions even as some remain outdated. Traditions have remained encrypted on people’s thoughts in that they refer to them when they want to do anything. In Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel and Blood Wedding by Frederico Garcia Lorca traditions has remained a core theme in that it plays part of what people do and practice. In both books they speak of love turn sour by the effects of traditions that
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Catharsis in As You Like It Literature is meant to teach. Its purpose is to shed light upon the soul and offer up the best and worst of humanity. All the stories we read‚ all the characters we relate to and begin to understand‚ they all have a tale to tell and a lesson to be learned. This is precisely what makes literature so vital to the human spirit. It is here that we enter the world of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It ‚ a story set in a fantastical forest. As we follow the true love of Orlando
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Quotation Assignment 1. “We must strive to be like the moon.” An old man in Kabati said on page 16. This quote means that the moon reminds Beah of what kind of life he had back then when there was no war to run away from and he was still enjoying his child hood days with his family. I could connect the moon to my life and the world in a way that the moon is like light in the darkness during the night time. The night sometimes brings fear to people but the moon break that fear and turns it to
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Question 1: Mantsios claims that the poor are invisible to us and the media contributes to this. What do you think of that claim in light of the Mantsios article‚ Ehrenreich article‚ and the People Like Us video we watched in class? The poor is invisible to us just as the Mantsios article states. It is invisible in the sense that many people frame the poor as urban black or Hispanic people that have their own culture that need not to be interfered with. On the other hand what people fail to
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The piece “With Friends Like These…” was written by Tom Hodgkinson‚ a British writer for The Guardian‚ in 2008. Considering this was the year in which Facebook surfaced onto public attention‚ the author‚ like many other journalists‚ evaluated the site personally and did background research to further his claim. The author’s intended audience ranges from an individual who is seeking advice regarding joining Facebook or anyone who is looking for guidance as to whether or not to remain on this social
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What you want versus family expectations are common though out most family households. In the movie ’Bend it like Beckham’ we saw the conflict between Jess and her parents on how they feel and what they want for her‚ how Jess sees the situation‚ and how it is resolved. Mr. Bhamra‚ Jess’s father is worried about Jess playing soccer in fear she will get hurt like he did when he wanted to play fastball‚ he was discriminated because of the way he looked. He wasn’t allowed to play on any of the teams
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