Anna Lisa Raya Research Paper

The poem I am writing about is Annabel Lee, written by Edgar Allen Poe. It was written on October 9, 1849. It was written during the Romantic Era, before the romantic era people only wrote about the universe and animals and stuff like that. But after the romantic era people could see that they can write about themselves and about the people they love. Its was also written during the gothic era. The gothic period in literature combined fiction, horror, death, and romance. Wikipedia says “This is an extreme form of romanticism.” (n.d).

Many young second generation daughters of Mexican heritage has grown up with a distinctive gender norm. In the midst of the second world war, the expression of freedom and equality spread throughout the country. This initiates for women to become more tuned to the social affairs the men had left behind. Thus, immigration brought a lot of Mexican families into Los Angeles. Double exposure to familial expectations and the American way of life brought in a sense of desperation of trying to balance both. The second generation daughters who have been exposed to the loudly spoken

Bev Robinson AKA Bev Nicholas also known as Cindi Ray, born in 1942, was Australia’s first female tattoo artist, working in a shop in Williamstown by accident when her tattooist boyfriend, who at the time had broken his hand in a pub brawl, asked her to take over while the hand healed in 1961-1962. Back then there were less than a handful of female tattooist, let alone females with tattoos, it was unheard of for a female to have a tattoo back in the 60’s.

The essay by Judith Ortiz Cofer, “The Myth of the Women/ Just Met a Girl Named Maria” is a powerful piece. She talks of the culture of being Puerto Rican living in New Jersey while she was growing up. She uses multiple examples of how her culture seemed to follow her throughout her life. She also shows the downsides of being a latina and how she overcame these struggles. One method she uses in order to show her audience the struggle that her and other latina girls could go through in there lives, is appeal to ethos.

Rosanna Tavarez visited our class to share her experience in the United States from a Hispanic perspective. Ms. Tavarez’s parents are from the Dominican Republic. In their early twenties, they moved to the United States and settled in New York, and spent time in Miami. Ms. Tavarez was born in New York, and lived in a predominately Hispanic neighborhood. Specifically, she described her neighborhood as having the exact characteristics of a neighborhood in the Dominican Republic. For example, you could hear Spanish music and see people outside playing dominoes. In general, Ms. Tavarez spoke positively about her experience growing up in New York with an immigrant family. Yet, she did describe the discrimination her parents faced.

What? Why does Lorena resist identifying herself as a Latina or a Chicana? What are the discourses that stigmatize these identities? To Nelda, what is the difference between being Chicana and being Mexican American? What are the discourses that surround each identity? What experiences have informed the ways in which Nelda and Lorena understand their identities? What does Lorena mean when she refers to her “job as a human being”? How does this perspective shape the way she understands her identity?

In every city, country, or culture there are different stereotypes placed upon men and women to secure their place in the world. Society labels different people to more easily cluster them into groups and understand them, as if one person can represent a full group of people. In the novel, House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros paints a picture of how life is for a Mexican-American girl growing and maturing in a run down neighborhood. The novel’s main character, Esperanza struggles to find her identity, slowly accepting the fact that she is growing up but wishing to stay young forever. Each individual vignette offers a new insight into her life and how the stereotypes surrounding Mexican- American women shapes how she is able to grow as an individual. “Beautiful and Cruel” shows these stereotypes that are placed upon women both inside and outside the home and how Esperanza desperately tries to mature to fit them.

Ilucion Carlin who also goes by Carmen is a middle-class, nineteen-year-old student and employee I work with at kohls. She is a second generation American with a prominent Mexican background. Ilucion’s parents came to the United States from Mexico looking for a new start and a better education, her father came to the United States at the age of 16 and attended high school in the U.S to receive his diploma. While her mother came to the United States at the age of 19 looking to go to college, however, became pregnant and did not further her education. Since they came from Mexico, they brought along with them the culture and traditions, and it has been an integrative part of her growing up, and help her become who she is today. I choose to interview Ilucion because of her

“Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent” (Marilyn vos Savant). Within the short text “How to Tame a Wild Tongue,” this idea is explored in numerous ways as the various groups of people attempt to gain more rights within their community and society as a whole. They come to the realization that the ways in which they are treated is in an unjust manner. Others treated them as if they are insignificant and powerless. Therefore, in Gloria Anzaldua’s “How to Tame a Wild Tongue,” she confronts how many Hispanic minorities, especially women, are marginalized within society by showcasing many of the difficult obstacles these groups face, and how they attempt to overcome them.

Mexican Americans do have some advantages over those who only speak one language or are not familiar with certain cultures. The images provided by the narrator demonstrate how she is a productive and hardworking member of society and she is just like any other person, only she can do most things two ways instead of one. However, even though she seems to be able to shift rapidly from one identity to another without much effort, the members of each respective society do not seem to assimilate or accept individuals like herself as fully Mexican or fully American. Mexican Americans don't seem to fit in, and these people make sure to make them aware of their disapproval against them. The narrator mentions how they are “American but hyphenated,/ viewed by Anglos as perhaps exotic,/ perhaps inferior, definitely different,

Puerto-Rican American writer and poet Judith Ortiz Cofer describes the societal prejudices against Latina women in her autobiographical essay. Her aim is to enlighten others of the bigotry that Latina women are subjected to. Cofer uses exemplification to spur an emotional reaction and a fundamental understanding from her readers. Cofer begins her essay by captivating her audience with a detailed personal account that highlights a stereotype placed on Latinas. She explains a man who “broke into and Irish tenor’s rendition of ‘Maria’ from West Side Story,” as he saw her.

My names Alaina Rea and I’m 26. As yeomen, my aunt and uncle, Alvara Rea and Montagor Rea raised me on the outskirts of a heavily populated city, teaching me how to work the land all while remaining one with nature. I had an affinity for the animals that lived around our area and quickly befriended the native birds of the region. It was through them that I learned how to fly as neither of my adoptive parents had wings to teach me. Because of this, growing up with wings proved excruciatingly difficult. Whenever strangers came to visit, I either had to hide myself or wear a robe that completely concealed my wings. Often times, against their better wishes I’d practice flying above and through the nearby forest with the native flying creatures.

From the dirt roads of Sonora, Mexico, Agustina Campagne (Tina Campagne) became a hard working mother, who worked in the hospital day and night, scanning patients, known as my mother. Tina can never take a break. She is a hard working mom who loves and cares for her children and husband very much.

As she grew in the USA her parents told her she was undocumented. The thought and feeling of not belonging here and not being able to be the “same” as her friends angered her. She grew hate for her own culture and background. She did not want anything to do with her culture so she pretended like she did not belong in it. Once she was in high school and her teacher had a lecture about being undocumented and it was only then she opened up and realized it was okay to be undocumented. To accept herself in order to be a better

It had been years since Annalise Starre had posed on the cover of Playboy magazine but her looks had not waned any. In fact she was still modeling and since then had been on the cover of Maxim and a few fashion magazines. Posing for Playboy had been her big break though. She had started modeling at the young age of fifteen and while at nineteen she wasn't the youngest Playboy model, she was still one of the few to get a cover and center spread at such a tender age.