Juan Sarmiento Analysis

	The conflict between speaking Spanish and speaking English had come to a head. No longer did Rodriguez hear the warm sounds of Spanish fill his house. Speaking English began to separate his family. As he and his siblings began speaking more and more English outside of the home, primarily at school, the parents had a more difficult time communicating with their children and, therefore, conversations became strained and less frequent. While his home life considerably changed, Rodriguez’s life at school became drastically different.

Rodriguez struggles to fit in the “American Society” because he is bilingual. He feels the most safe when he speaks Spanish, hearing or speaking English sets fear in him. The first fear he encounters when hearing or speaking English that

With all the negative thoughts and feelings about his family, Rodriguez never took the time to repair his relationship with him and his family, because books were very important to him than his family. As Rodriguez begin to separate from his family and culture, his Spanish accent also begin to disappear, which he felt very excited. In the beginning of his article he talked about the first day, he enters the class and could “barely able to speak English” (239). Rodriguez felt that he did not fit in with the rest

Rodriguez begins to become more involved in his classroom by his new grip on the English language. He shares fewer and fewer words with his mother and father. His tone now transforms into guilt. As Rodriguez's public language becomes more fluent, he forgets how to speak Spanish. "I would have been happier about my public success had I not recalled, sometimes, what it had been like earlier, when my family conveyed its intimacy through a set of conveniently private sound.? He begins to break out of the cocoon as a slow or disadvantaged child and blooms into a regular kid in his white society that only uses English. He feels a great sense of betrayal of his Mexican past. His connection that held him so close to his family is destabilized.

Rodriguez lost all connection with his family. He was unable to converse with them he had grown so far apart. Rodriguez felt “embarrassed” to embrace his personal background. He spoke of when his parents came to school and could not not speak English fluently and how it made him embarrassed because he did not want to profess his ethical background.

This separation from his family caused a longing in his life. But this longing was superseded by what he suspected his teachers could give him. Rodriguez develops a double personality of sorts. The person he is at home, the polite child who lovingly does what his parents ask of him. And then the academic persona he

Don’t run! Or he’ll kill you!(pg. 125)” he let out a colossal roar and came charging at it. And not only that, but instead of getting weaker due to the long periods on foot, he only grew stronger each step he took. Though Juan knew it would practically be impossible to run for so long on very little resources, he wasn’t going to let that stop him from being reunited with his mother, whether he reached the end or died trying. Ultimately, Juan was determined to accomplish anything he desired in life. If he was able to run days on end with very little stops, just to be brought together with his mother, there wasn’t anything he wasn’t able to do.

Change is something you are probably familiar with. In “Beneath the Smooth Skin of America,” Scott R. Sanders talks about many changes in his life. The author starts the story looking throw the eyes of himself as a child. As a child he remembers that all that was in his sight was all he could see. The author’s best example of this is he says, ”Neighbors often appeared…where they came from I could not imagine” (27). As the author begins to see more by leaving the area he was around so often he starts to see more and more things. He started moving around to different places and started seeing the things that he had not see before. The author points out many things that he began to see like the stores

For Enrique his pre-birth and childhood had incorporated many obstacles that made him choose the path he was going to take. Before Enrique was even born he had no idea what his struggles were going to be. The neighborhood and even his family were a figment of Enrique’s imagination. Enrique was born into a broken family that had many needs his parents were not able to provide. Enrique’s family was not high in economic status and resorted to living in Tegucigalpa,

Sartoris’ conflicting opinions of staying true to his moral integrity or remaining loyal to his family prevent him from taking action against his father. Sartoris’ “frantic grief and despair” (pg.2) towards lying about his father’s intentions reveal his moral dilemma when asked to choose between his two contrasting views. Disinclined to turn over his father, Sartoris hopes that “Maybe [his father’s] done satisfied now” (pg.3) as he believes that there’s a chance Abner could change. Sartoris knowledge that “[the courts] wanted only truth, justice” (pg. 4) highlight his ability to discern between right and wrong, but it is this struggle to do the right thing that prevents him from attempting to stop Abner. Sartoris conscience and ideals confuse

To change how a person perceives the world, certain events of massive proportion and consequence must occur. My personal change would commence with my family’s relocation to Iowa, as I enrolled in a small school with a unique philosophy of education. At the core of the schedule existed programs unlike those I had

have chosen the photo base on an artist John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres for this assignment of self-portrait project. I will discuss about their life and their art work. John Ahearn was born in 1951 at Binghamton, New York. In 1980, he moved to the South Bronx of New York and began to work in collaboration with artist Rigoberto Torres. Rigoberto Torres had learned the art of plastic casting from his uncle, who had cast plaster statues for churches and cemeteries. In 1990s, they worked together in the 100th Street Sculpture Project, a GSA commission in Baltimore, and a public project in Caguas. He often describes himself like an itinerant portrait painter, and sometimes as like Raul, who manufactures plaster santeros for the Bronx botanicas,

e. Size of the artwork (You may need to estimate height and width): 178cm x 138cm

Cultural imperialism, in a form of New York’s World Expo in 1964, stands on the background of this part of the story. A young Javanese dancer, Sardono W. Kusumo was a member of the Indonesian dancer contingent for the expo. Extending his stay in the city that had become an adopted home or, depending on your viewpoint, a thrift store of world culture, there he met another young Indonesian, just a couple years his senior, an emerging poet cum theatre artist by the name of Rendra. The following six-months of his informal residency would be brief and memorable for Sardono and its significance to Indonesian performance field would continue to resonate until a few decades later.

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” By Andrew Gide. Sometimes in life we allow ourselves to remain at a standstill, as we are not willing to accept change. Accepting change does not mean you forget your journey, friends and memories. It allows you to embrace a new perspective, new way of life, and possibly a better you.