Cultrymorphosis By Oscar Hijuelos

The story is about a boy, named Oskar. Who is trying to cope with the loss of his father, who died in the attacks on 9/11. He discovers a key in his father’s belongings and tries to find the matching lock.

Danny Zuko mainly cared about what people thought about him and his reputation. Though his style is like he’s cruising for a bruisin. What i like about Betty Rizzo is that she doesn’t care of what people think about her, but what I don’t like is that she acts like a spoiled little girl who always wants it her way. I like that Kenickie is a greaser type a guy and what I don’t like is that he sometimes tries to act like Danny. What I like about Frenchy is that she is full of joy, but it’s when she really acts like an airhead that I don’t like. What I like about Leo Balmudo is that he has a nice car, but that he is against the T-Birds. What I mainly like about the story line is that Danny and Sandy fall in love and they try to change themselves to fit into each other’s lifestyles. Plus how the music fit in well with it too. What I don’t like about the story line is that it’s cliche and predictable. The time zone it was based off of is that it was in the 50’s and I like that it was based off the 50’s because it gives out that it could be a classic. Now onto the Conclusion where I’ll be describing who would or would not like this

Strawberries are treasured by numerous throughout the world, but feelings may transformation after the unveiling of some dark secrets of strawberry farms. “In the Strawberry Fields” by Eric Schlosser brings up many concerning realities about what life is truly like for strawberry pickers. Many of these farm workers are illegal migrants from Mexico. Because of their illegal status, they are far less probable to go to the authorities with complaints of unfair treatment. Many strawberry field owners are more than willing to take advantage of this. Strawberry pickers are often overworked, poorly paid, and not treated fairly. Most are Mexicans searching for work so

Survival in a life or death situation is completely circumstantial and unpredictable.Laurence Gonzales’s central idea about survival in his essay “Deep Survival” is that it requires a positive mental attitude. Gonzales supports this claim by stating “...only by researching and dissecting the mysterious quality..called positive attitude would [he] ever understand survival” (334). Gonzales has presented a correct definition of a positive mindset as the most important tool in survival.A positive mindset compels a person to stay calm,make rational decisions and prevent them from giving up.

America, United Stated of America (USA), is a land of immigrants. The country was built by immigrants but gradually immigration to this country became harder. Several contagious nations of American continents have lot of population living in poverty and were strongly convinced to immigrate to USA illegally, by travelling on foot for several days, crossing deserts, mountains and the southern border of USA, to get a decent and secured better life for them and for their kids. Eric Schlosser in his article " In the Strawberry Fields" honestly assessed the conditions of the migratory work force in California straw berry fields while providing facts and evidences to support

In The Natural by Bernard Malamud, Malamud displays the magnitude of how an individual’s decisions can influence their life. Malamud’s main protagonist, Roy Hobbs, is the leading example of this idea, as Hobbs continually faces both his internal struggles stemming from his desire for success, and external struggles attributed to his roller-coaster of a professional baseball career. Malamud uses Hobbs and the sport of baseball as a metaphor for typical American life by depicting Hobbs’ struggles as similar to any average American. Therefore, through the life of Roy Hobbs, Malamud alludes to the average American and explains how moral attitude can lead to a person’s success or downfall.

In the story, The Natural, certain characters and events are portrayed in a distinctive way that makes this story unique to other books and shows the typical writing style of the narrator. The author uses a repetitive writing technique that is impossible to overlook. The writer of this book is able to catch the reader’s eye with his concept of the importance of beautiful description. The Natural, by Bernard Malamud, uses great imagery that makes the story appealing.

Extended response to the book Seedfolks The book Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman is about a community in Cleveland coming together through a community garden. The book starts with a little girl from Vietnam named Kim planting a few beans in honor of her dad, but little did she know it would blow up into a huge garden that changed many people's lives. The book goes through a broken community that has many prejudices and stereotypes against each other. This garden helps them all come together and break down the stereotypes.

Loneliness is a complex and usually an unpleasant emotional response to isolation as well as separation; it is a product of the lack of contact experienced with another individual. Moreover, it includes anxious feelings due to the absence of connection or communication with other beings, both in the present and extending into the future. Some describe it as emptiness or hollowness inside of one’s being. In the narrative The Bloody Chamber (1979), Angela Carter’s characters deal with the emotion of loneliness by taking action and intervening through any circumstances. In contrast, in Zadie Smith’s Hanwell in Hell (2004) the main characters Clive and Hanwell deal with loneliness simply through hope. While over twenty years apart, these two narratives explore how an individual deals with the notion of loneliness through the use of the colour red, the symbolism in animals, and the condition of blindness. However, Carter illustrates the refusal of the protagonist to simply accept any circumstances; but the interference in any situation. On the other hand, Smith demonstrates the acceptance and balance of the existing situation at hand through hope.

When you are young and they ask you what do you want to be when you grow up? Many answered doctor, lawyer, police, and so on. But when it came for my turn to answer that question I didn 't know exactly what to say. None of those things interest me at all. I was always focus on school and getting good grades. My mother and father has always told me you have to do well in school in order to have a better future. Until this day they still tell me this. In harvest of empire by Juan Gonzalez it says “between 1961 and 1986 more than 400,00 people legally immigrated to the United States from the Dominican Republic and another 44,000 moved to My parents are from the Dominican Republic and they came to the United States in the late 80 's in order to have a better future. My father came into this country to play major league baseball, back in his hometown Consuelo, San Pedro de Macoris. He is known for his baseball skills and grew up with baseball player Sammy Sosa. Although I don’t much about my father, I could tell you he never made it into major league baseball. He wanted to make sure he was always there for his kids. I don’t see my father that often anymore as I used to when I was a kid. My mother came to this country at a young age to get a better education. Both of my parents have resided in the Bronx since they got here to the United States. I was born into a lower middle class family which later on in my life it became a lower class due to the circumstances I been through.

Jose Vasconcelos, Mexican philosopher called it a cosmic race, la raza cosmica, a fifth race embracing the four major races of the world. This mixture of races provides hyprid progency, a mutable, more malleable species with a rich gene pool. An “allien” consciousness is forming.

The story is about of a teenage boy who goes through difficult times trying to find his place in the world, which involve time traveling and body jumping, of which he mentions the body of all sorts of men and boys throughout history. Men that betray their soldier, an agent of FBI, a little Indian boy who does not speak. These body jumpers are the beginning of this boy to have the meaning of things and the meaning of his place in the world.

Like Water For Chocolate was directed by Alfonso Arau and released in the year nineteen-ninety-two. The movie is based on Laura Esquivels 's novel 'Como Aqua Para Chocolate '. The movie is set in Mexico during the early nineteen hundreds. There are many influential characters in the movie such as Tita De La Garza, Madame Elena, and Pedro Murquiz. The movie is narrated by Tita 's great niece.

In Italo Calvino’s The Baron in the Trees, a boy rebels against his father by climbing up trees, where he spends the rest of his life on, without ever touching the ground again. The philosophical residue is the idea that reason advances the human knowledge, which is a powerful influence to individuals, making people seek for it through books and logic. Accordingly, it is necessary for the improvement of society that it should govern people with justice and reason, not through sovereign authorities.

“The Skin You Live In”, is the title of the book I chose. It is written by Michel Tyler and illustrated by David Lee Csicsko. I thought this was the perfect book for this activity, because it explains that each child is a different color. It says how each child has a unique color and that’s what makes them special. It tells the children we are all different and special all in the same. They talk about it’s the skin you have fun it, it’s the skin you jump in, and it’s the skin you run in. It’s paying tribute to skin tones such as “Your Coffee and Cream skin, your warm cocoa dream skin, and your chocolate chip skin. It shows the children the different skin color by engaging in different activities.