My Ántonia

something terrifies you, its being able to defend your beliefs, or never giving up when things get hard. Being courageous enough to do something shows your true strength. My mother, Maria Antonia Rebollar, is someone that shows courage through the actions she has done to make a living in the United States. Living in Mexico, my mother’s…

Is it a factor? Yes. But alcohol was not the one who stripped me, fingered me, had my head dragging against the ground, with me almost fully naked” (Baker). The young woman we will call Emily Doe, as she is known by her local newspapers, was severely affected. Now a statistic, her voice will still be heard. Having written a letter, she…

unconventional by common standards. More often than not, the narrator is usually completely detached from the conflict and shown as an omnipresent figure, like in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, or a central character in the main conflict, such as in My Antonia. However, Nick does not fit any of these descriptions, as he is neither an omnipresent and omnipotent narrator nor the most important figure in the conflict between Gatsby and Daisy. This enables Nick to showcase both the virtues and…

The purpose of my experiment is to examine the amount of BPA levels in food packaging for infants. I believe that the BPA levels in baby food varies considering food packaging size, texture, material, and color. To help me during my experimental process I have found several articles,that explain each concept of my experiment; also providing background information. Kubwabo, C., Kosarac, I., Stewart, B., Gauthier, B. R., Lalonde, K., & Lalonde, P. J. (2009). Migration of bisphenol A from plastic…

In the United States, popular culture can be found everywhere. Social media websites, video games, TV shows are some examples of popular culture. Watching TV is one of the most common ways that United States citizens have to entertain themselves in their spare time. There a several cable companies that offered thousands of channels from where to chose. In addition, most of United States citizens have more than one TV in their houses. However, a television is not longer need if a person wants…

seduction of Ambrosio causes his destruction into a monster, which results in Antonia’s destruction. This perverse and anti-Catholic monster appears when Ambrosio views the painting: “Were I permitted,” he sighs, “to twine round my fingers those golden ringlets, and press with my lips the treasures of that snowy bosom!” (Lewis 41) Additionally, Robert Kiely, who Grudin quotes, asserts that “When it is revealed that the model for the painting has been the wanton Matilda who dressed in monk's…

Directed by Renee Tajima-Peña and produced by Virgina Espino, No Mas Bebes is an eye-opening documentary film that has inspired both my personal research and the basis for this primary source analysis. Created in June of 2015, No Mas Bebes is a brilliant documentary that not only exposes the truth behind the sterilization abuse that was taking place within the Los Angeles County General Hospital in the 60s and 70s, but it also provides an in-depth analysis into the racist, anti-immigrant…

child. I wanted to play softball, which my parents were okay with. My grandmother wasn’t. She felt that it wasn’t proper for young ladies to play sports, especially ones which involved me coming home with a skinned elbow and dirt-stained pants. She would always say things like “this is a boy sport” and “you look like a boy!” I never really saw a problem with this, but the way she said it, I could tell that it was something ‘wrong.’ Which is why I bit my tongue when she signed me up for ballet.…

behaviors for sexual assault. In “Alcohol and Dating Risk Factors…,” author Antonia Abbey believes dating and sexual activity, misperception of sexual intent, and alcohol consumption are risk factors that could potentially be linked with sexual assault (148). Throughout this paper I will be giving out my own opinions over the three risk factors, my response to the results, discussion over the “prototypic sexual assault”, and my advice to a 20-year female, in college. According to the author,…

so that they can be comfortable with what they are doing and not having to worry if the like it or not. According to the debate on the New York Times on Forcing Kids to Commit to Their Extracurricular KJ Dell ‘Antonia stated that “Outside of academics, I can 't see any reason to push my kids into anything they don 't want to do for themselves”. She also said that “it’s easy to let your kids quit activities when you 're neither emotionally nor financially invested”. She also gave an example by…