An Analysis Of 'Childs Of America'

This presentation will explain the differences and similarities, if any, in the countries of Spain and Puerto Rico’s. The presentation will show the differences and similarities between the two countries arts, culture, and economic environment. The presentation will show how both countries have a assimilation of cultural and distinctiveness. Even though both countries have similarities and differences, they both have one thing in common, and that is they are Spanish-speaking countries with an array traditions, culture, and diversity amongst the people, that will be talked about in this presentation.

Whitman’s poem tells how he sees America during the 1800s with everyone having something to do. However, De Hoyos viewpoints are affected by her heritage and sees America as a melting pot. Hughes uses his experiences to invoke a everyone is equal if not today then in the future. All three poems are talking about America with viewpoints from two men and a woman. America has a unique identity that is shaped by conflict, cultures, immigrants, and our special government of Grand Republic or Representative

In contrasting or comparing literary works it is crucial that the reader analyze the author's voice to gain a better understanding of the theme they are implying. In the contrast between the poems “I, too, sing America” by Langston Hughes, and “I hear America singing” by Walt Whitman it is clear that the two poets have very different point of views regarding American patriotism. Walt Whitman’s views on America’s joy and peace in his poems are very straightforward, while Langston Hughes poem--a response to Whitman’s--wants the reader to acknowledge what America should be like for everyone, including people of color such as himself. The authors of these poems prove to have conflicting judgements on matters in America including a theme of

Cristina Henriquez’, The Book of Unknown Americans, folows the story of a family of immigants adjusting to their new life in the United States of America. The Rivera family finds themselves living within a comunity of other immigrants from all over South America also hoping to find a better life in a new country. This book explores the hardships and injustices each character faces while in their home country as well as withina foreign one, the United States. Themes of community, identity, globalization, and migration are prevalent throughout the book, but one that stood out most was belonging. In each chacters viewpoint, Henriquez explores their feelings of the yearning they have to belong in a community so different than the one that they are used to.

The poem America by Claude McKay is on its surface a poem combining what America should be and what this country stands for, with what it actually is, and the attitude it projects amongst the people. Mckay uses the form of poetry to express how he, as a Jamaican immigrant, feels about America. He characterizes the bittersweet relationship between striving for the American dream, and being denied that dream due to racism. While the America we are meant to see is a beautiful land of opportunity, McKay see’s as an ugly, flawed, system that crushes the hopes and dreams of the African-American people.

In “Illegal Alien” Pat Mora writes about the problem of the difficulty people have communicating when they are of different backgrounds. For years now people have been judged by their skin color, their race, or where the originally come from. In “Illegal Alien” Pat Mora gives us a good example of this as the character in her poem goes through this trial of being from both the Mexican and the American cultures. Pat Mora indicates her difficulties that she is going through being born into two different cultures.

She gives the reader very vivid memories from her childhood and how being raised poor affects her identity as a person. She discusses how Mexicans identify themselves; since there are many different ways to identify culture, they make up several different cultures (Indian, Black, and Mexican). By the end she talks about the fight that Mexicans put up to stand up for their culture and their identity.

The poem is filled not with resentment but with optimism, the cheerfulness of that “great, silly grin" (21) that he believes will take him to a future where they will be as American as anyone else. But he also understands that people like him, mainly Mexicans who come to the United States to strive for something better in life.

While the poem “Legal Alien” focuses on the struggles of being a Mexican American who is accepted by neither society, “Immigrants” is about how they try to help their children fit into society and make the process of assimilating easier for them. A feeling of desperation is portrayed in the opening line which states, “wrap their babies in the American flag” (1). The parents who feel judged by American society want so desperately for their children to be accepted as true American citizens that they

The puerto rican dream is quite similar to the “american dream”. The once genuine image of a honest lifestyle, full of opportunities and success, has been corrupted through the constant brainwash of media and advertisements. It’s led the people to believe that the happy way of living is through consumption. The island is up to its

– Let America be America again). The poems display images of hardship and frustration. They both speak of a difference within races and also what the life in America is different from the eyes of someone who isn’t white.

“Chapter 5: Community” of Robert Putnam’s Our Kids deals with growing opportunity gap within American communities. Inequality and class segregation are major factors when honing in on communities. Families with more wealth have more resources and are better able to shield their children from stress and the hardships of life. Eleanor and Madeline went through some tough times between the divorce of their parents and their father’s depression. But, the resources found in the well-off Lower Merion Township allowed the girls to still do very well compared to other children in nearby towns. Prosperous and educated parents enjoy the benefits of “weak ties” (198), which are acquaintances in different social niches such as psychiatrists, friends of

The Puerto Rican culture has three historical roots; the Taino Indian, the African and the Spanish. The Africans became the most important for economic and social reasons. As part of the Spanish conquest most of all the Taino Indians were exterminated. Both the Tainos and Africans were trapped in the most oppressed stratum of the social pyramid, this allowed for cultural exchange between the two group. Due to the lack of Spanish woman, the Spanish men also became involved with both the Tainos and Africans. Gonzalez claims that, "when the descendants of the first African slaves had already become black Puerto

The last line of “Coca Cola and Coco Fris” by Martin Espada shows the people of Puerto Rico forget their culture and heritage, As the author mention “where the people drank Coca-Cola and sang jingles from World War II, in a language they did not speak.” America culture begin to replace their original culture, and the Coca Cola represents America culture. The author also writes “while so many coconuts in the trees, sagged heavy with milk.” Coconuts represents the original culture and heritage still left in Puerto Rico, but it is not important anymore and the own cultures of Puerto Rico are gradually being

The introduction to the poem clarified Walt Whitman’s position as an all-around American citizen: He was female and male, farmer, and factory worker, prostitute and slave, citizen of America and citizen of the world; shuttling between past, present, and future, he was an acme of things accomplished and an enclosure of things to be (Lauter, 1490). I really found this sentence to be remarkable and knowing Whitman considered himself all of these things, allowed me to connect personally with the reading.