Lorna Dee Cervantes

about the mother of the story? Mama is the narrator of the story who is a rather large lady who works very hard to support her family. She is brutally honest of both her daughters, Dee and Maggie. She also seems resentful of Dee’s education since she fantasizes about them reuniting with her on a television show where Dee is very appreciative of her. 2. When we have a first-person narrator, we have to decide if she is reliable or unreliable. Do you trust this narrator? Why or why not? I trust…

In the two movies Perks of Being a Wallflower and 8 Mile, the main characters are extremely similar. In one way, they both are like wallflowers. Another way they are related is they both have a hard time talking to females. Lastly, they each share their life stories through their writing to cope with their life surroundings. In The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Charlie is the wallflower. In 8 Mile, B-Rabbit is also a wallflower. Charlie acts like a wallflower by staying to himself before he…

Rap: The Story of the Streets Everybody in the house say hey! I have something to say! New school rap versus old “boom bap” find out who is better today! Rap, it began as a form of storytelling, giving an artist a way to voice their lives for others to hear. There resides several different “Era’s” of rap, but the two biggest have always been “new school” and “Golden age. The so called “golden age” was set during the late 1980’s to the early 1990’s and consisted of acts such as, KRS-One, A Tribe…

Berry Gordy Jr was born on 28 November 1929 in Detroit. After a period as a professional feather-weight in the late Forties, Gordy was then drafted for service in the Korean War in 1951. Discharged in 1953, he married 19-year-old Thelma Coleman. Then in 1959, at the age of 30, Berry Gordy Jr. started a company called Motown based off a eight-hundred dollar loan from his family. Little did Gordy know that his automobile assembly line based music label would be starting a revolution. He wanted to…

The fantasy world that Don Quixote rearranged his life around stemmed from the stories he read in his abundant collection of novels about chivalry and knight-errantry. Cervantes informs us that Don Quixote is the way he is because he spent so much of his time reading these novels that he neglected all other aspects of life. His mind was bombarded with chivalric stories to the point that they were basically the only thoughts he had left up there. Although all of this reading plagued Don Quixote’s…

begins by Miguel De Cervantes expressing his frustrations with the author who published a fake sequel to Don Quixote. This metafictional approach uses irony to address the plagiarism and blends the two worlds of reality and fiction. Cervantes claims he does not want to malign the dishonest author, Avellaneda. However, Cervantes goes on ranting about how this counterfeit author should ashamed of himself. As the paragraph progresses, there is a sense of growing frustration as Cervantes states “I…

Speech #1 Edward R. Murrow, a CBS reporter and war correspondent delivered a report from Buchenwald, Germany on April 16, 1945. He delivered this dialect upon seeing the atrocities committed by the Germans towards the Jews. He addresses the American people, describing the scene he had witnessed at this labor camp, which he found the scene to be so unbelievable that he is rendered speechless many times through out his speech. Murrow’s outrage is so apparent through-out his account, that it is…

the Sierra Morena, the city of La Mancha is where our adventurous and romantic hero resides. Miguel Cervantes describes the setting where chivalric romances are mocked and characteristics of old are mixed in the wrong time in his novel Don Quixote. The novel focuses on a chivalrous knight who adventures through the cities of Spain fantasizing about love and fighting to regain his sanity. Cervantes uses romanticism to represent the idealistic relationships that develop throughout the novel.…

Panchito faces many problems in the circuit,such as financial, he and his family are poor,and educational problems because he couldn’t go to school until cotten season was over. Another problem Pinchito and his family face is that they kept moving to different places, and the places that they would move to weren't exactly “nice”. some evidence for these statements is that in the story it states “ Papa took out a pencil and began to figure out how much money we had earned our first day. he…

Gigantic The Hunger Games. A horrible, deadly, despised, yearly event that put 18 tributes up against each other. There were bloody battles, sanity lost screams and dehydrated corpses. I was the unlucky camper this year. Created by the capital, I was a human-like bull named Lord Knossos. Apparently I was supposed to be a warlord, conquering lands for my people. I don't have people, I haven't even seen anyone remotely similar to me. My stature was very buff, with a large upper body and small…