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“Negocios”, a story from Junot Díaz’s drown, provides an indepth look into the life of an immigrant from the Dominican Republic trying to make a life for him and his family in the United States. Ramon is constantly faced with difficult challenges but he shows an amazing amount of determination to achieve his goal of providing his family with a better life.

Richard Blanco is a Cuban- American poet who was given the oppurunity to write an inaugaration poem for Barack Obama's second swearing-in. He wrote a poem titled "One Today" that praised the good and unique things about the United States and also the everyday people who's daily routines help to make America the proud country that it is.

Lorna Dee Cervantes' poem, “Poema para los Californios Muertos” (“Poem for the Dead Californios”), is a commentary on what happened to the original inhabitants of California when California was still Mexico, and an address to the speaker's dead ancestors. Utilizing a unique dynamic, consistently alternating between Spanish and English, Cervantes accurately represents the fear, hatred, and humility experienced by the “Californios” through rhythm, arrangement, tone, and most importantly, through use of language.

Clint Smith is a writer, teacher, and doctoral candidate in Education at Harvard University with a concentration in Culture, Institutions, and Society. Smith Clint wrote a poem called “Something You should Know.” The poem is about an early job he had in a Petsmart. The poet allows the readers into his personal life, but before he had trouble opening up to people and his work. Moreover, Clint wrote an insight in the poem about relying in anything to feel safe and he says it is the most terrifying thing any person can do.

4. I think his essay succeeds in communicating his ideas because he gave in details of El Hoyo, the people that live there and their lifestyle and its importance to him. He wrote about its scenery which isn’t too beautiful as he writes the houses consists of unplastered adobe, wood, and abandoned car parts. The city has narrow streets, some tall trees, weeds, garbage, and dogs. As well El Hoyo is not safe. However, it does have good in it too or "advantages" as he put it such as if you are going through a long time of hardship, the

before he came to the priest. As the priest explains, he sees Mendoza as a coward who runs away from the world and his problems. He tried to run away of the jealousy of his wife’s affair. To avoid confrontation he had to resort to violence and it resulted in his brothers death. He ran away from this guilt to the church, where he is trying to die from starvation. He first shows determination and willingness to make a change in his life and obtain absolution for his actions when he attempts to climb the fall with a bundle of weapons. He built a friendship with the natives. He no longer believed in violence after his brother’s death. As opposed to his character who killed natives in the beginning of the movie, the character he is after his climb could not kill the pig that was in the forest. Although Mendoza continued to kill people after, he did it to defend the natives, which shows he has grown to care for them. Instead of pulling the trigger at the end, he chose to help the native child. He has stronger morals as he learned to value the lives of

In Jimmy Santiago Baca’s composition, “I Am Offering this Poem,” he talks about the power of sharing love through poetry. Baca compares his poem to the necessities of life such as food, clothing, and shelter. For that reason, this is why Baca explains to his beloved the value behind the poem. “The speaker not only talks about love, but he also talks about writing and the relationship between love and writing. Love and poetry, according to him, are like two peas in a pod.

Patricia talks about going to a Christian Endeavours Friday nights, and having a pretty normal school life (minus symptoms of her DID; blurry memory, confusions of learning subject or meeting people.) She was a Brownie and participate in the Girls Brigade, similar things that normal girls did growing up then and now (Nobles,2006,43-44). She had friends and played with kids in her neighborhood she was sometimes a ‘normal’ girl. Another thing that rubbed me the wrong way was the part about the vacation to Jersey (Nobles, 2011, 47), the girls knew that their father wasn’t going, but when they get to the station Kim finds out she isn’t going either. I found myself saying the questions she was saying to her self, “why was she not going, what had she done?” Some one that Patricia expresses her love for her is her ‘friend’ Lillian in Chapter 8 who she attended Warlingham, she shares how much she appreciated her later for her patience. Kim was constantly questioning her about school, why she was there, why she couldn’t go home, why her dad brought her back after being sent home for just a few hours (Nobles,2011,132). Her mother had a huge drinking problem and while Patricia also though she had one, I think she was just simply trying to just justify why she was blacking out. She was always asking her self “why don’t I remember anything, why am I always feeling like time is just flying by”. Her mother heavily drank through her entire childhood and into her adult hood it was a big

Richard Blanco is the son of two immigrants from Cuba: he grew up in a Cuban cohort in Miami, Florida. It was instilled in him at a young age that his ancestry and America were one in the same. They were both magical. His foreign home was talked about often, never condemned, while America was their physical home and their place to earn a better life than their previous one could afford them. Blanco’s poem, “One Today,” exhibits his cultural pride, optimism, and gratitude for life and his country: The United States.

Although the book’s titular character is Oscar de Leon, he shares chapters with his sister, his mother, his college roommate, Yunior (revealed to be the book’s narrator), and his mother’s parents, the Cabrals. By representing a family with different personalities—Oscar is overweight, and nerdy while Lola is powerful and independent, for example—Díaz creates a microcosm for all Dominican immigrants. Each chapter (and character) in the past is melded into the story in the present, and in this way, the momentum and excitement is never lost until the very last

Are Roberto 's aspirations based on fact? Can he convert his status from undocumented worker to legal resident? How might you go about finding out whether this is possible?

The novel touches on different themes and emotions including despair, loss, racial conflicts, and most importantly; greed, which the root of all evil in the story. It was greed that led Pánfilo de Narváez to cross the ocean in search of gold he convinced himself it existed in Florida. It was greed that made Estebanico forsake the profession of a notary that his father wanted for him and instead he ventured into trading, selling several human beings and eventually, selling himself into bondage.The theme of greed being dangerous is shown repeatedly throughout the course of the book. At the very start of the book, the governor wants to find the village of Apalache because he believes it to be filled with gold and other valuable treasure. As they start to get closer to the village, they don’t

As a young girl Esperanza is asked one day where she lived by a nun from her school who happened to be walking by. Now before this moment Esperanza never really notice her living situation, all she knew is that her parents loved her and wanted her to go to school. When the nun rudely said “You live there” (Cinceros 5) and pointed at the shoddy apartment building, it is then Esperanza started to build a dream inside of her head because of the look on the nun’s face, unsatisfactory.

In the first stanza it is the semantic field of water: ‘waters’ (twice), ‘sea’, ‘drowning’ and ‘being drawn’. As I mentioned earlier, water is often the symbol of life but it also evokes tears, sadness and despair.

It is fair to say that, Mendoza utilises Onofre Bouvila as a character to be portrayed as a direct parallel to the development and aspirations of Barcelona. This is expressed in the novel, since; it is irrelevant how rich and powerful Onofre becomes, he will never be accepted by the social elite. This is due to the fact that, he can never be on the top rung of the social ladder literally and figuratively, due to his impoverished upbringing and working class background. “corrió hacia la mesa presidencial… Al llegar a la mesa advirtió que no quedaba una sola silla libre, ni un cubierto reservado para él. ¿Qué haces aquí parado como un pasmarote? Tu puesto está allá, en la mesa tres… ¡Pero yo quiero sentarme aquí al lado de la zarina!... ¿quieres ofender a su alteza imperial?” 6. (Eduardo Mendoza, La ciudad de los prodigios page 328). “These same men who asked for his money do not allow Onofre to sit at the same table with the Russian aristocrat because he does not have a noble lineage”4 (Karen Oswald pg. 54). This shows us that in this scene, Onofre aspires to sit on the top table with the Czarina. Nevertheless, even though he is incredibly powerful and considered to be the richest man in Spain, due to his deprived childhood and lower class background, he will never be able to sit on that top table. Consequently, Onofre will never reach the upper echelons of Barcelona’s social elite. Therefore, it could be argued that Onofre is a metaphor for Barcelona given the fact that,