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Everyone has their own dreams, their own struggles. Struggles will vary between people, but everyone wants to overcome them. The stories "Angela's Ashes" and "The Street" show how people often have to overcome struggles for their family through characters, settings, and events. The story "Angela's Ashes" demonstrates how people often have to overcome struggles for their family. One way, "Angela's Asnes" portrays this theme is through character's internal struggles. The narrator thinks to…

the beginning of this novel, The Street, Ann Petry, describes herself as Lutie Johnson also a major character in the book living in New York with racism as well as sexism being all around her. The main theme of the beginning of the novel describes what was going on during the Harlem Renaissance during the late 1940s and how Petry lives her black urban life in Harlem. Lutie describes the wind doing “everything it could to discourage the people walking along the street” (Petry 2). She says this…

In 2011, the Occupy Wall Street movement drew global attention by occupying Zuccotti Park in New York’s Financial District for nearly two months. The Occupy Wall Street movement’s key issues were social and economic inequality. The group’s slogan is “We are the 99%,” and according to their website “The movement…aims to fight back against the richest 1% of people that are writing the rules of an unfair global economy that is foreclosing on our future” (Occupy Wall Street). Even more recently,…

Throughout a four part series, “Money, Power and Wall Street” explores in great detail the irresponsible behavior of financial institutions before, during and after the Great Recession. This insightful series explains the pitfalls of the credit default swap scheme and the ethically dubious actions of risk trading taken by bankers. Chapter one of the textbook parallels and fully contextualizes the ethical dilemmas addressed in “Money, Power and Wall Street”. Week two’s material has reinforced my…

One of the many topics discussed by Sandra Cisneros in her story The House on Mango Street is male and female gender roles. In the vignette, My Hair, Esperanza states, "the Mexicans, don't like their women strong". What the author means by this is that in Mexico it is common that the woman stay home, cook, clean, and take care of the children while the husband goes to work. In this situation, and really any other, the women is considered weak and is expected to obey the husband. It is not…

Williamson’s collaboration, The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism, and Todd Gitlin’s book, Occupy Nation, examine the formation and workings of two politically dichotomous social movements, the Tea Party Movement and the Occupy Wall Street Movement respectively. Both books profile each social movement profoundly and conduct rigorous research before making their respective conclusions about the causes and effects of each social movement. I found both books to be…

If Esperanza lived in a different neighborhood, she would lose her innocence at a different age because of the environmental difference. The novel, The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is about a house on Mango Street in a location where the culture was similar to the families around them. The protagonist, Esperanza is told, “ Them are dangerous, he says. You girls too young to be wearing shoes like that. Take them shoes off before I call the cops, but we just run” (41). The high-heels…

I grow up on 115th Street in Olathe Kansas. This is not the only street I have lived on but this is the only one I can really remember. I moved here from Plano Texas when I was three years old, I don’t have many memories of my old house and none of my old street but I have a lot of memories of my street and house here in Olathe. 115th street was where I grew up and the only place I can truly call home. This is where I learned to ride a bike and where I made some great memories and even better…

and prejudice, and the wrongs of segregation and morally conflicting understandings of equality. However, progress has never been swift, and mental afflictions were and are still cast over millions of those who are affected. Seen in Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas, the story portrays a world of segregation and racism that ultimately affects minority life choices and chances. By integrating literary…

based on the house they live in and has a sudden desire to move out to a wealthy neighborhood. When she moves to Mango Street, she learns and witnesses the daily struggles of women. Her poor conditions helped her love and appreciate the little things in life. These hardships don’t discourage Esperanza of her dreams, but instead, it motivates her even more to help the women of Mango Street and to pursue her dreams. Because of this I believe that…