Sophia Cione Analysis

“My strength did not come from lifting weights. My strength came from lifting myself up when I was knocked down,”-Bob Moore. This quote demonstrates that people gain emotional strength from fighting through adverse experiences. This concept is shown in the texts “ The Story of Green-Blanket Feet”, an excerpt from Spider Woman's Granddaughter by Humishima, and the text Mary Rowlandson, an excerpt from “From a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson.” Both women go through similar difficult situations, however, they both find strength in protecting things close to them and they both come out of their difficult situations stronger. This concludes that a person’s greatest strength is protecting what they love. Green Blanket Feet gained her strength in protecting her children and Mary Rowlandson found her strength in protecting her religion.

In the Article “Taking a “War of Words” Too Literally” written by Deborah Tannen it is often indicated that being extremely pugnacious is the subconscious nature of our everyday Westernized society. This type of normalized reasoning for an altercation is pointed out as being the incorrect justification to have an argument. Therefore Tannen is correct that in today's society a vast majority of Americans have adapted a very fervent aggressive and argumentative culture that they do not seem to recognize. Modern politics and the media have a large role played out within the cultivation of such a contentious type of debate though the root comes from the education system.

Students today undergo constant pressure for perfection, going through extreme efforts to meet this expectation. Alexandra Robbins, an investigative journalist and author of The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids, views modern educational culture as a danger to students because it advocates productivity over learning. On the other hand, Jay Mathews of the Washington Post believes that students today are more apathetic than stressed. Robbins perception of today’s schools is more accurate than Mathews’, for students cheat to appear smarter, burden themselves with grueling schedules to impress colleges, and develop mental disorders as a result.

Sandra Cisneros explores gender preference within her Mexican-American heritage with strong usage of imagery and the variation of her tone. First, the imagery found in “Only Daughter” helps portray the sacrifices Cisneros father made for his children. For instance, Cisneros writes how ecstatic their father was that his children would use their smarts instead of their hands like he once had to. Cisneros describes her father's hands saying, “Even now my father's hands are thick and yellow, stubbed by a history of hammer and nails and twine and coils and springs” (Cisneros 99). Cisneros use of imagery creates a vivid picture of how her father has worked extensively to make sure his seven children do not have to work as hard as he did to live in

Belonging to a certain group is a natural experience in the lives of individuals. Groups are categorizable by a variety of options but often expel a trait that epitomizes each individual within the group such as rank, societal merit, or simply just appearance. Behaviorism gratifies purpose within cohort mentality among those in an association due to the psychological commonalities that bring these groups together. When it comes to an individual's development within a certain group, joint mentality helps create a safe environment but often times supports ideologies of self empowerment. Anthropologist Karen Ho composes the analysis of students whom graduate Ivy League universities and enter into financial professions, in her essay “Biographies

Using all the sources provided and your own research analyse the impact of the convict experience on the life of Mary Reibey (800-1000 words).

Sandra Cisneros is an influential, activist poet who is engaged in teaching the Chicano community and is a strong voice for the Latino community through her writing. Cisneros has a Mexican father and a Chicana mother which made her part of the two different communities. Cisneros’s work is often influenced by her observations of the people in her community and her writings include many different types of communities. In “His Story” and “Woman Hollering Creek” communities of women influence Sandra Cisneros’ characters. Some of the communities help and others hinder. Overall, the communities impact each narrator's sense of identity.

…"Gentlemen presidents please, on behalf of my countrymen, no more help to Fidel Castro. So he will go and leave me a free Cuba from communism. Thank you very much, thank you very much ... pardon ". Celia Cruz

Gloria Anzaldua is among the many feminist theorists that has moved into the realm of addressing post-modern identities. In Gloria Anzaldua’s articulation of the new mestiza consciousness, she makes the argument of identities as multiple, hybrid, and more specifically created as a result of the Borderlands. However, according to Anzaldua, and despite the difficulties engendered by her very existence, the mestiza is also a figure of enormous potential, as her multiplicity allows a new kind of consciousness to emerge. This mestiza consciousness moves beyond the binary relationships and dichotomies that characterize traditional modes of thought, and seeks to build bridges between all minority communities to achieve social and political change.

Carmela D’Amico of Salon.com writes a piece entitled “Enough of the ‘US vs. Them’ binary; Why I’m writing in Bernie Sanders on Election Day” in reference to the presidential election of 2016. In her article D’Amico captures her audience of potential voters with her opinion of the candidates and the overall election itself. D’Amico states that she does not belong to a political party henceforth declaring herself an independent. While keeping a light-hearted tone, D’Amico is able to stress the importance of voting not for the satisfaction of one’s party, but to satisfy the needs of this country. D’Amico states this as her purpose for writing in Bernie Sanders on Election Day as choosing from “the lesser of two evils” only restricts the freedom that we as Americans were given.

Marcie Crain is an artist and photographer from the beautiful port city of Duluth, MN. She enjoys capturing the diversity of local and regional shores and urban scenes as well as an eclectic mix of people and discoveries in everyday life. Marcie’s photography and a link to her blog can be found on her website: http://www.craingalleries.com

Set in the multicultural outer-suburbs of Sydney, Melina Marchetta’s, Saving Francesca, follows the life a teenage girl as she faces many issues of keeping ,and finding new, friendships. Attending a new school, Francesca Spinelli must find her own individuality, learn how to deal with Mia’s depression and live through the awkwardness of maintaining relationships. This has content which is beneficial to young Australian reader, as it shows implicit, and explicit, social, moral and ethical messages. Per said, it is highly recommended that young Australian’s will enjoy the valuable and meaningful reading experience.

Celia Foote is white, but she was raised in a depleted and poor community. Her treatment to Minny, her black maid, reveals how she has no experience of bossing around black people. This is demonstrated when Celia allows Minny to decide on how much she would like to be paid and when she would like to work. White people during that time were bitter and heartless resulting the lives of the maids to be insecure. Minny is astonished to hear a white rich woman, in Mississippi say sweet words to her, a black maid. Minny is to used to seeing white people as bossy and tough but, Miss Celia was very kind. Revealing, that during that time period white people, especially white women, were very harsh and unappreciative to their help that receives too little

Gretta and her boyfriend Dave create an album in New York then Dave have to tour his concert. After he come back, he unfaithful to Gretta. She meet her friend by chance. Her friend bring her to his work place and invite her to sing a song at the bar. While she singing, Dan thought about Gretta's song and he want to work with her. After she finish he invite her to work with him and she agree to do this work. They have to make their album without support from company so they have to do by themselves. Dan and Gretta invited their friend and family to make this project and Dan had come back to meet his family again so he has improve relationship with his daughter and wife. Finally, their song was successful and Dave successful with the song that

Sophia represent the Messiah of a new image, she is the same, the mirror image of child, who life will repeat itself in transition from life to death. However, her purpose is to spread the ideology that the importance is: “What you teach is the word of man. Man is holy, and the true god, the living god, is man himself. You will have no gods but yourselves; the days in which you believed in other gods end now, they end forever. (Dick 1968, 219)