When Rachel enters high school, she is tired of the labels assigned to her because of her appearance. “They call me an Oreo. I don’t want to be white. Sometimes I want to go back to being what I was. I want to be nothing.”…
On October 12th me and my group members visited La Tapachulteca which is located in Van Nuys. La Tapachulteca is a Central American grocery and bakery shop. The shop that we visited had many different parts to it. As I walked to the front of the shop I noticed a small playground for children that had graffiti all around the sides of the store. As I got closer to the entrance I got a little nervous because I noticed graffiti all over the entrance which is consider vandalism.…
He has green eyes like his mom and grandma. He has blonde hair that turns gold when a very strong light shines on it and it turns brown when it gets wet. He has a brother who has blue eyes and is really crazy. He does not like really dark chocolate, for example, M and Ms. His favorite subject in school is math. (Mostly multiplication)…
Giovanni and Lusanna The narrative of Giovanni and Lusanna tells of an unusual situation in mid-fifteenth century Florence, when a bourgeois woman, Lusanna, took her forbidden lover, Giovanni, to court over the legal status of their secret marriage. The two had been covert lovers for twelve years before Giovanni publicly married an aristocrat woman instead of Lusanna. The chain of events was captured, by Ser Filippo Mazzei, as a notary of the court proceedings. These included court transcripts and witness accounts.…
Addressing the complexities articulated within the act of ethnic identity enunciation, the art of writing is granted the power of eliciting a counter discourse. Ethnic identity, be it a heterogeneous construct fashioned by and through the narrative it sustains, unravels the interplay between competing discourses of power .To transcend the boundaries of marginality infused in the supremacy given to certain languages over others, voicing minorities plight of exclusion can only be maintained through the re- appropriation of their own linguistic medium .In the same way that language creates and determines discourse, identity is re-constructed; it is manifested in the very act of writing and narrating the shared experience of a given…
“The beauty of standing up for your rights is others will see you standing up and stand up as well” is Cameron’s favorite quote by Cassandra Duffy, a quote that conveys just a bit of his kind perspective. Cameron Hondolero is a seventeen-year-old senior who grew up in the state of Washington, primarily in the city of Kent. He is of Filipino and American descent; his family consists of his parents and his older sister Josie, who plays a huge role in his life. He describes his family as “crazy and scattered”, but that won’t stop him from pursuing all his dreams. Cameron is a go-with-the-flow type of guy, who deals with stuff based on his mood and attempts to avoid the difficult obstacles of life due to anxiety; although, he has a lot to deal with, he is a strongly persistent person.…
He is capable of moving around, takes care of himself independently on 113 years. We are talking about Bernardo Lapallo who is as vital as a young man. He is still taking care of his mental health too, by by reading books and solving crosswords. Every day he walks at least 2.5 kilometers in the park or in nature but this man also have teeth, hair and just few wrinkles. Bernardo explains that genetics may have huge impact as he comes from a family of long-lived people.…
Modifications are essential and required, for they are the initial step toward success, risking and developing new concepts give us contingencies to encounter new chapters in life. Gamble everything. Put yourself out in the world, and exploit every emotion, including cold tremor .It is fundamental that we learn to nurture despair as Jaqueline Carlyle , from tv. show The Bold Type ,commented “ Fear is good to all, it provides us with the reminder of our humanity, learn to embrace it and be courageful. “ A very wise character from my perspective.…
John, I read your email. I think you've summarized things appropriately. I do have several comments. 1st. I'd like for Ciera to contact the helpdesk directly and speak to its supervisor, Tina Marie Robinson, for any technical issues that are of an urgent nature.…
“I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don 't respect.” - Sandra Cisneros (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/sandra_cisneros.html) Sandra Cisneros, famous author of works such as The House on Mango Street (1989), was born in Chicago in 1954, to a Mexican father and Chicana (Mexican-American) mother (Encyclopedia of Hispanic-American Literature, “Sandra Cisneros”). Cisneros was the last child of seven children and the only female of the children, to which she states made for a very alienated childhood (Erickson, “Sandra Cisneros: Biography) which she made up for by writing in a spiral notebook which only her mother could…
Modern sensibilities argue for total equality in relationships, railing against traditional relationship structures wherein the male is the dominant partner. This is an admirable view, and one that commendably dismisses gender roles. However, such absoluteness neglects to consider the possibility of intellectual and social inequalities between members of a relationship that could make some form of dominance beneficial. Throughout his comedies, William Shakespeare examines this possibility by demonstrating both the benefits of adhering to a power structure and the dangers of failing to recognize the necessity of having one. Certain methods of gaining power may be questionable, and for some the premise of an inherently unequal relationship will…
I recently went to the Ulrich Art Museum on the Wichita State Campus. This museum had many works of the Spanish painter Joan Miro, who lived from 1893-1983. Living through major events, such as World War I, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II could have affected the interpretations of his artwork in that era. His modern artwork uses an abstractness that causes the viewer to have their own interpretation on the work, so it might be drastically different than his intentions. I have chosen to analyze two of his paintings that he painted in the early-to-mid 1900’s.…
Rachel was raised by her Caucasian mother to think of herself as white, but now she is in racially intolerant Portland and expected to “act black”. Rachel refuses to accept the narrow labels that people in Portland are using as adequate to describe who she really is – she rejects all of the descriptors as belonging to someone else, not her. As she grows up Rachel becomes convinced that she will never be free to define herself until she…
Aiming to motivate others, let them learn more about her story, what she had experienced and found out in the choice she made, this is a story that made Patricia Caceres who she is now. The moment when Patricia found out about her true self was 3 years ago, when she went into a public, co-ed university after being in an all girls school since pre-school. Patricia Caceres was born in Venezuela, South America. Ever since preschool, she has been in an all girls school until she went to university, where she had to go to a co-ed school due to her major, Engineering. Being in an all girls school is more comfortable, and secure, because she knew everyone at the school and she was familiar being in an all girls school.…
Consider the role of the narrator in both Benito Cereno and Bartleby. Follow your leader – three words that echo through both of these texts and symbolise Melville’s role as a narrator in distinct ways. His narrative diction in Benito Cereno and Bartleby is mechanically impressive but speaks volumes as to how he felt in relation to the new capitalist society America was rapidly evolving into and the problem of slavery to which the old America was clinging to. In these texts the lawyer in Bartleby and Captain Delano in Benito Cereno are both so blinded by pre-conceived notions which have been hammered into them by society that they are blatantly unaware of the reality that is staring them in the face. They have become so accustomed to following…