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    Reading response for The Achievement of Desire Richard Rodriguez is a mirror makes readers look back their education experience and family relationship. Rodriguez was chasing the end of education for a long time until he wrote this essay and read Richard Hoggart’s book. He is trying to make a tight combination of education‚ family and growth process. For his argument of the end of education‚ readers always misunderstand the end is one kind of academic success. But compare with author’s essay

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    The nights were colder than usual; the wind pierced his very skin and etched his bones. He tossed and turned restlessly in his mahogany bed. There was nothing but silence; the usual orchestra of crickets were quiet tonight. “This is the coldest it has ever been since I moved to Trinidad” Chavez whispered to himself in anger. Frustrated Chavez crawled from his bed and walked out to the veranda. There was an unnatural stillness in the air‚ as the full moon’s light beamed along his house‚ and the trees

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    While reading “Achievement of Desire”‚ I came across the idea that the self hated that Rodriguez and I felt is not innate. Someone is teaching us‚ people of color‚ that our accent‚ parents‚ origin is wrong and only by assimilation and conforming to a Eurocentric idea of professional will we become accepted. In the media‚ especially growing up I saw professional individuals of color as exceptions to the rule‚ however an abundance of white professionals. Growing up‚ all the professionals that I had

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    In Richard Rodriguez’s story "Complexion‚" he solves the conflict between his brown skin color and his own identity. Rodriguez had accepted who he is and was no longer concerned about his brown skin color and facial features that identify him as a working class Mexican. He stated that his skin color means nothing to his identity because Rodriguez realizes his skin color does not label him "disadvantaged" in life (148). Rodriguez’s real identity separates himself from the Mexican workers. He tells

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    Modern day competition caused many people experience bilingual education. Richard Rodriguez‚ the writer of “Aria‚” is one of them. Rodriguez refers “private language” as his native language and “public language” as what he will use at school. His “private language” is Spanish and his “public language” is English. He argues that it is unnecessary for student to be taught in two different languages. He said‚ the foreign language that will be taught diminishes the value of the native language; lower

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    Memory’‚ I noticed that the author‚ Richard Rodriguez‚ in a satisfied tone‚ defined his private family as alienated in a public society. A society in which intimacy has a very much different meaning than what he presumed. This notion was primarily based off linguistic differences that‚ from his point of view as a small child‚ build a pleasantly intimate bond that kept his family close. Very far distant from the un-intimate world. In the middle of the chapter‚ Rodriguez writes “... children lose a degree

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    helped shape American culture and identity by bringing diversity and challenging assimilation. Immigrants have helped shaped American culture by bringing diversity. In the essay “ ‘Blaxicans’ and Other Reinvented Americans” by Richard RodriguezRodriguez mentions that immigrants bring many

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    In his essay Richard Rodriguez narrates a particular event in his life using specific details throughout his writing to present the complications present in his family. He illustrates how when things begin to change from generation to generation a once united family can grow farther apart to the point of becoming detached‚ uncomfortable‚ professional and distant. Just as they grew wealthier their culture was lost and Rodriguez manifests this culture through one particular event: Christmas. Rodriguez’s

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    1. Identify and evaluate the speaker’s thesis. What was the focus of the presentation? Did the speaker address the ideas presented in the thesis? Judd Larson explained before he began that he would be talking about four c’s: Complaint‚ Caveat‚ Conflict‚ and Confidence. The focus of the presentation was on the reading read before he spoke: 2nd Corinthians Ch. 4. I think he had a great idea with the four C’s but there wasn’t really an introduction to the speech about the text. He just lists off the

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    December 1‚ 2011 Relating Differences-“Los Pobres” In the essay‚ “Los Pobres”‚ by Richard Rodriguez‚ a young educated man wants to show his people he can do manual labor. Earning money was more important for his family. Money allowed Rodriguez’s family security and social mobility. Even though Rodriguez was a college student he did not use the tools of manual labor correctly. He did not fit in with the laborers. Rodriguez was book smart but was not able to communicate with the other workers. In the end

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