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“I’ll never be good at sports.”Says Lupe Medrano in the story “Marble Champ”, by “Gary Soto”, in the story Lupe is determined, because Lupe is lonely, she is also very smart, and she never gives up. According to the story “Marble Champ”, the main reason Lupe is determined is because she’s lonely.Almost all the times lupe is mentioned she is always doing something with marbles or she is talking about marbles.For instance “After school the next day she left her homework in her backpack and…

In the story Marble Champ By Gary Soto, Lupe loses self confidence in herself. Throughout the story, she learns that perseverance, determination, and thinking positive will lead to success. Pieces of evidence in the story support that. To start, one evidence Lupe loses self confidence is on paragraph 2 it says, “She begged her boys to move faster.” This shows that she knows she won’t be fast, therefore she pleads for it. Another evidence is on paragraph 4 Lupe says, “I’ll never be good at…

Character Literary Essay (´´The Marble Champ´´) Stop doubting yourself, work hard and make it happen. I think this quote shows something of Lupe´s philosophy. In the story ´´The Marble Champ,´´ by Gary Soto, Lupe, the protagonist, is a shy girl and is not good at sports but is a straight -A- student. The story shows that she is a very hard worker because she sacrifices her own time to practice, tries her best, and she is determined to be good at sports. The first reason why Lupe is a hard worker…

20th century, is a portrayal of one of the ruler of Bangwa chiefdoms . In contrast, The Marble Statue of a Youthful Hercules, a Roman marble sculpture from A.D. 69 to 98, Flavian dynasty, depicts the Greek Mythology hero: Hercules . While the idealized man form is the subject of two sculptures, both sculptures contain concepts of the power and strength. However, the Roman sculpture reflects…

Putting the glass makers together caused them to learn more from each other. I think of it like having a bag of marbles; if all the marbles are the same color then that is all you will get with no change; however, if you have multiple colors in the bag the possibilities of differences become larger. The glass makers being slightly spread out gave them some possibilities to mix together, but not nearly as many as when they were all isolated together. Their proximity to each other increased the…

The sculpture of Venus de Milo is a marble statue of a woman. Her face and body are turned to the side and she is looking into the distance. Her full face has dominant features with a large nose and thick lips. Her hair is curly and arranged in a thick bun on the back of her head. Her neck is long, and from the side one can see a fullness that matches the roundness of her hips. She has a strong core since her upper stomach has clearly defined muscles. From the back angle, one can observe her…

Every scenery or environment they lay eyes on, do not trigger any sense of valuable memories early on in their life. A place where people call home is a place that has made a huge impact in their life. Home is refugees origin. In the book, “The Clay Marble”, the theme of home ties to family. As a family, Dara, Sarun and their mother are forced to go on a journey to look for the Nung Chan refugee camp where they can temporarily call home. Despite all the obstacles, the family wish to come back…

The Lile's sand had offered resistance when he wrapped an arm around the crocodile's jaw and pressed the dagger-like claws away from his torso. The bottom of the prince's marble pool was smooth. "I don't?" "Your ambition of finding the Tell-Tale Glass and restoring Zephyr's soul is just as empty as you are," said Aloysius. Dampened, Aloysius's fine hair was a shade darker than normal. He reached for soap from one of the canteens. "Or you would've done it already. It's been ten years since you…

Estonian Displaced Persons: Coping with displacement through preserving Estonian culture For a small country such as Estonia, with only a little over a million citizens, culture is an incredibly important part of people’s identity. So when the Nazis and Soviets occupied Estonia and forced the already small population to either endure the horrors of imprisonment, concentration camps and hard labor, or to scatter and flee, one of the only things that the people of Estonia could take with them…

The comics Lighter Than My Shadow, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, & Me, and “Adventures in Depression” and “Depression Part 2” from Hyperbole and a Half each depict the struggles of mental illness in distinct ways. Interestingly, all of them share a unique element in portraying this mental illness. Each comic uses imagery of the main character interacting with what seems to be another self. This fragmenting self is used to highlight each character’s growth and progress from their…