The House We Live Analysis

Race, simple external differences linked to other complex internal differences, has historically created issues in American society. “Race and racial inequalities are one of the most vital issues confronting contemporary U.S. society,” explains Sociologist Ronald Takaki. In the past race has had both biological and social implications across the country.

Race is a hot topic in our world. We all think we know what race is. After all, we are constantly being bombarded with it whether it be from media, politics, or sports. The truth is that race does not revolve around the idea of biological traits or characteristics. It is a modern concept that we as a society have created to divide people into categories. I will argue that race is socially constructed from a biological, political history, and sociological standpoint, and how it may impact other areas of our society.

The Novel, The House on Mango Street, was based on the writer Sandra Cisneros. She was writing this when she was living in Chicago. She was like Esperanza. She want though poverty. She has been heartbroken and deeply joyous. She inventing for herself who and what she will become. This is the life of Esperanza Cordero and based on Sandra Cisneros to all women out there.

The topic this week is to explain what sociologists mean when they argue that race is a social construction, and we were also asked to give a specific real life example in order for us to be able to relate and understand it.

“You will always be Esperanza. You will always be Mango Street. You can't erase what you know. You can't forget who you are” (105). No matter what, Esperanza’s experiences on Mango Street have become a part of her and she cannot change it. In the novella, The House on Mango Street, written by Sandra Cisneros, the author introduces Esperanza, a resident of Mango Street, who constantly dreams of becoming an independent woman with a house of her own ideals. As she and her family purchase a house and become a newcomer into a new neighborhood of a crowded and poor Latino area, Esperanza faces mental and physical changes that affect how she sees the world. Sadly, the characteristics of the house consist of nothing of her desires. Due to her

In reading and examining the arguments made by Blauner, Ture and Hamilton and Steinberg, I have come to realize or maybe just acknowledge more so, the many aspects of race, racism and its role within our nation. Not to say that I was oblivious to it (race) before this class, but I had not taken the opportunity before to examine it as closely as we have this semester. Primarily, I had associated race only to the color of one 's skin rather than what it is in actuality; a social construct. Although this social construct / racial hierarchy may change over time with political, economic and historical changes, it has been proven by empirical sociological evidence to be so deeply

The House on Mango Street is a novel written by Sandra Cisneros about a young girl named Esperanza Cordero, and her transition from childhood into adulthood. Although Cisneros used many different symbolic objects to use as a way to represent Esperanza’s thoughts and feelings, she chose to use shoes in particular as something to represent Esperanza’s loss of innocence as she grows up on Mango Street.

Race is a term that society has created. The term has had a long history within the United States and has grown in both the complexity of its meaning and effects as time has progressed. Before race and physical characteristics were used as a way of dividing people, nation’s would sort their population based on religion, social status and language. The concept of Race and Racism has proven to be enduring, and has had underlying effects on our nation’s social and economic structure. Race has altered the fate of every one of us, causing vast socioeconomic disparities in America. In recent years, scholars, anthropologists and intellectuals have come to understand some of the devastating effects racism has had on North Americans and have recognized the need for widespread change. Race has not only permeated the economic and social opportunity of Americans, it has established a society of spitefulness and an environment of advantages and disadvantages that greatens the opportunity of light-skinned people at the expense of dark-skinned people.

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is about a teenage girl named Esperanza who desires to live in a better house, but her family is unable to afford it, so she begins following the traditional role of the man of the house. Then, she begins to realize that even though her original house is in shambles, she still belongs to Mango Street and plans on visiting often. Sandra Cisneros gives many examples of the idea that Esperanza can't fully escape her home, even if she physically leaves.

Utilizing a series of vignettes, Sandra Cisneros follows the significant moments in the life of a young Mexican girl named Esperanza in her coming-of-age novel The House on Mango Street. The book records a year of Esperanza life, in which her family moves into a rented house on Mango Street in Chicago. While searching for her independence, Esperanza and her friends meet the issues of racism, sexuality, and male dominance. Esperanza forms the realization she will have to leave the toxic environment on Mango Street for her future, however, she plans to return and help those who are unable to remove themselves from the poor conditions.

This passage from the story makes me feel really bad for the main character, Esperanza. It is already bad enough to live in a house that is literally falling apart. To have other people constantly reminding her about it though, that is even worse. I predict that the house will be a major factor of depression in Esperanza. I also believe that once she has a chance, she is going to try to get out of that house and move somewhere else. (81 words)

When looking at a person the first thing we notice is appearance and base judgment of that we tend to make assumptions about a person. From birth, we have no say in our race, the color of our eyes, hair or skin tone. In Germany, Hitler eliminated more than 65 billion jews due to dividing race. White people took the freedom of African African due to their color but before that many races took advantage of others due to hate or resources. In this chapter, the race comes into the term with stereotyping the minority group and fighting to be the dominant group or fitting in. Typically America is seen as the melting pot, where all these race come together as one. In the following documentary, Understanding Race and white people explore cities like New York, North

Until college, Marin says that she did not really feel that her Mexican heritage made her any different from her peers. As a freshman, she experienced multiple events to change her perspective. A college advisor suggested that she should major in Spanish because she was Mexican. Her reaction: She did not want to be a teacher. She enrolled in liberal arts.

Esperanza can be described as a young teen who yearns for the individuality, the spirit of “a wild horse” that her great-grandmother once possessed in the midst of the oppression and discrimination the society has against women. Just as her great-grandmother was “carried off [...] as if she were a chandelier”, Esperanza feels that the culture is restraining her true self to show. She fears of losing her individuality to the workings of the world, becoming more and more like “a muddy color.” The same way her great-grandmother was captivated, “[looking] out the window her whole life”, Esperanza is inhibited from showing the energy and freedom of a stallion and ultimately, “[less] like the real [her]” She emphasizes on baptism, representing rebirth

Music performance is a multi-sensory experience that places high values on other forms of engagements other than the music. The exact value of these aspects will be analysed in order to determine the effects these facets have upon the perception of the performance. The hardcore band, Parkway Drive's live performance of Home Is For The Heartless will be analysed through various methods that will isolate certain elements in order to observe the consequences. The possible alteration of the perception of sound parameters when juxtaposed, as well as removed from, the visual source will also have the opportunity to become apparent. The results will conclude the value at which these elements of music performance should be ranked and thus, provide