Into The Beautiful North Analysis

On the one hand, English was the language used to communicate with outsiders. It was a tool for survival and held no personal meaning. It was crucial for public success. On the other hand, in Richard Rodriguez’s own words: “Spanish was associated with closeness”. By reading the previous passage, we can clearly infer that Spanish was the key to Richard’s confort. Hearing Spanish brought Rodriguez feelings of love, acceptance, family, and security. Spanish was a reminder of home and seemed to him a private language. In other words, he was surrounded by a web built by the family love and security which is conveyed by using the Spanish language, as the following passage shows: “...Spanish seemed to me the language of home...It became the language of joyful return...”. Moreover, if we consider the following passage:”You belong here. We are family members. Related. Special to one another” it is possible to say that Spanish language made Rodriguez felt as part of his family, creating a feeling of belonging and reinforcing family ties and ethnic heritage.

In the public, Espada has an equal reaction towards bilingualism. He believes that anyone should be able to speak their language anytime. Espada supports his view by describing an encounter with a man who threatened Espada because he was speaking Spanish: “‘That’s what they’re trying to do to all of us,’ . . . . ‘But it won’t work, porque yo hablo español con el corazón’” (Espada 96-99). The Spanish phrase translates to “because I speak Spanish with my heart”, which indicates that Espada will not cease conversing in Spanish even after a man threatened him for doing so.

The English language is universal. It has very set rules, forms and functions. The Chicano language at best represents a personal story, a private communication that is not understandable or even acceptable by non-chicanos.

The rhetorical situation of Gloria Anzaldua’s, “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” from her book Borderlands/La Frontera, is the most important piece to her argument. A writer’s rhetorical situation is the use of the elements of the rhetor, audience, text, medium, context and exigence. Through the correct use of these pieces, a writer is able to greatly strengthen their argument and persuasive abilities. In her passage, Gloria Anzaldua is speaking to the unfair and unjust treatment of Spanish speaking children growing up in the United States educational system. These are not just kids who have moved here from a Spanish speaking country, but even those born in the United States that grew up speaking Spanish because of their family’s culture. Through her writing she wants to bring this into light to induce change and help children of the future be able to learn in an environment where they are also able to comfortable speak their own language. She is not looking for them to be able to speak their own language in an American school just because she wants to be difficult. In her eyes, your language is part of your identity of self. And without your language, you are also losing part of yourself. Again, she expresses and increases the persuasiveness of these ideas through the use of her rhetorical situation, which includes the rhetor, audience, text, medium, context and exigence.

Standard and working class English from school, media and job situations (Anzaldúa 472). Anzaldúa compares and contrasts the languages that her culture speaks and where they originate and how she learned them. Pachuco is a rebellion language; it consists of slang words from both English and Spanish. It becomes hard for Anzaldúa to fully take pride in her, not until she takes pride of her language. She has to fully accept her identity of Chicano Texas Spanish, and all the other languages she speaks. The Chicana language she associates herself in combines all the languages others speak; the Chicano language is really a mutilation of Spanish.

Gloria Anzaldua, an American writer, passionately displays her mixed feelings of the Spanish and American differences of culture and language through the pages of How to Tame a Wild Tongue. She consistently proves her identity through the use of Spanish language in the text, albeit the text is primarily in English. However, Anazaldua is not a Mexican citizen, she still feels so deeply connected to its’ culture. Even so she can speak English and has struggled with the barriers that arise, she continues to claim that her culture and language make up who she and the other Chicanos are and it is highly valued to them.

Into the beautiful North, by Luis Alberto Urea, is telling a story of a nineteen year old girl called Nayeli who is encourage by the movie “The Magnificent Seven” to go to the United States with her three best friends. Their mission was to cross the border and recruit seven men to save their town, Tres Camarones, from the bandidos. But she also wanted to bring her dad back home. He and the rest of the men of Tres Camarones went to the United States looking for jobs to sustain their family. The author wants to show how undeveloped Mexican towns such as Tres camarones can cause poverty, lidding to one of the biggest topic now days which is immigration. Immigration is a cruel and hard path caused by

Edward Pessen argues that the North and South were similar but fundamentally different. They were similar in most of the aspects of common life such as; economy, social structure, and politics. The North and South were both centered around agriculture. The Northern farms were centered around grains and corn, while the southern farms were centered around tobacco, rice, sugar and cotton. The goal for the North and South was to be self-sufficient, and have influence and power. In the North, the wealth came from industry, but in the South, there was a lot of slave wealth. This could be connected to Ulrich B. Phillips’ definition of “planters”. Phillips argued that because 10% of the slave-owners had twenty or more slaves (Pessen, 1132).

However, you aren’t always like a main character, you can still relate to the main character in many ways. In the historical fiction novel, True North by Katherine Lasky is a perfect example of this. In True North, the two main characters named Lucy and Afrika have a lot in common with me. I can relate more to Lucy because she and I are both hardworking, stubborn and quick thinkers.

“They had to take turns sitting and they slept each with his legs draped over the next man, enveloped in a fuming stench of stale vomit, rancid bodied, shit and puke, and on they went, soot-slicked and heart-sick, a thousand miles, five days and no food, six stops and three dead men.” (Flanagan, 2013, p. 38) The men of the Australian POW camps were horribly treated and brutally abused during the building of the Thailand-Burma Railroad in 1942-43. Though many of them volunteered to help build the railway, the majority do regret the decision. The novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North is a greatly written book by Richard Flanagan, that describes the Australian POW camps and the building the railway of

The novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan is set in the era surrounding World War II and encompasses three separate plot lines. The first story follows the life of protagonist Dorrigo Evans, a young physician in the military, as he is in a prisoner of war camp in Japan, constructing a railroad with the other prisoners. The second plot line predates the first and follows Evans in basic training, where he is sleeping with his uncle’s young wife despite being in a relationship himself. The final plot strand post dates either of the others and shows Evans at seventy seven, still involved in a variety of extramarital affairs; still practicing medicine and still basking in the fame that came from a documentary detailing the

Alvar Nuñes Cabeza de la Vaca empieza su communicación importante con los nativos americanos cuando él salva la vida de un idigeno.  Ahora, Cabeza de la Vaca está considerado como un gran heroe entre los nativos de esta tribu .  Él vive con los nativos y hace un gran esfuerzo para aprender el lenguaje y la cultura de los nativos.

The final stretch of Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North, has surely not gone without incident. Essentially, the highlights of the latest reading include the fact that war has come to an end and the prisoners have consequently been released. Nakamura (the leader of the camp the Australians were imprisoned at) has been listed as a war criminal but he manages to buy a new identity for himself, monitoring the trials from a safe distance. At the trials, the criminals are trying unsuccessfully to use duress as a defense, to save themselves from persecution. The American military attempted a similar defense, also unsuccessfully, following the Vietnam war. Dorrigo, though freed in 1945, accepts a variety of assignments that prolong his journey

I was looking But I wasn't looking for you. Then you changed everything.

Inscribed on the entry-wall at the ancient Greek Temple of Apollo at Delphi are the words “know thyself”. Can a leader be truly effective without knowing one’s self? Although it has roots in previous times Authentic Leadership is a concept that began to emerge in its modern form in the 1960s. It wasn’t until 2003 when Bill George wrote about authentic leadership and its connection to ancient Greece that it became a popular leadership concept (Clark, 2014). Bill George is senior fellow at Harvard Business School, where he has taught leadership since 2004. He is the author of four best-selling books: 7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis, True North, Finding Your True North, and Authentic Leadership, as well True North Groups. His newest book, Discover Your True North, was published in August of 2015 along with its companion workbook, The Discover Your True North Fieldbook. He describes authentic leadership as a style of leading that is consistent with the core values and personality of the leader and one who leads from an honest, ethical and practical perspective. It is through the leaders authentic self, and not just the concept of self but more importantly the actions of the leader and how that is perceived by others that determines whether they believe the leader is authentic. It is through honest relationships and ethical actions that help to maximize the efforts of others in achieving the goal (George, 2016).