To What Extent Does It Our Differences That Matter Most

My grandfather’s eyes are this color. I’ve lived here mostly my whole life. I’m black. I’m black, I know” (148). Due to the complication of her racial identity she decides that it is easier to ignore it and suit what other people perceive her as. Rachel feels the need to find ways to hide the white aspects of her because other people believe she is simply black. She even hides her “whitest” physical characteristic when she says, “My grandfather’s eyes are this color.” She feels the need to hide the fact that she has a white mother because when people look at her all they can see is the color of her skin which provides her with a feeling of belonging to a societal category.

Through metaphor and repetition, Sandra Cisneros characterizes Rachel as a young girl stuck in her childish ways. She

"CHINK!!!! Yeah..that's right…look at us with those chinky eyes! Go back to where you belong!" Those words will forever ring in my ears. I was standing in line for lunch while talking to a friend while a couple of boys, fourth and fifth graders, were making fun of the only Asian girl in the school, me, a lonely kindergartener. I will never forget that moment when I realized that I was different.

We all have differences and similarities between one another. Both similarities and differences can have advantages and disadvanteges. For example, “the medicine Bag” by Virginia driving hawk Sneve, and Apaches Girls Rite of passes video by Nation geographic do have their similarity and differences. However, each one does one advantage and disadvangatge to help us undertsnad each one in different ways.

Beyond racial divide, Kingsolver portrays how Rachel’s self-obsession leaves no room for her family in order

In the story The Fifth of March which took place in Boston around the time of the Boston Massacre. Boston was steaming and angry. The story is set from 1768 to 1772. A young 14 year old girl named Rachel Marsh who upholds the majority of the story was an indentured servant for Mr. and Mrs. Adams. She has a static relationship with her seemingly evil uncle Eb. Rachel lacks self esteem throughout the course of the story. Rachel experiences intense events during the story. She has some unsteady tiffs with uncle Eb that affect her well being. After going through some times of doubt she was able to pull her life together. Only to start a new one which began with her migration to Philadelphia and left her dowry to dust.

Rachel was born in Alabama. Her master, or owner told her she was born around 1850. She was never told her actual birthdate. She was first sold to a family in Alabama by the name of Columbus. They were poor and owned few slaves. It was a small cotton plantation with a big family so the slaves had to work extra hard. Rachel and the other female slaves lived in the stove room made of clay and grass. They raised plenty of different plants as well as cotton such as: Peas, greens, and potatoes.

As they are leaving the event, Rachel turns to her son and says, " You know,that could've been me." James replies by saying, "I know...and where would that have left me...?" (157). This is one of the most crucial points in the book. Rachel acknowledges that she has indeed changed and has accomplished her goal: to leave behind her old life and start a new one. Not only does she come to terms with her past. Rachel also recognizes that if she had taken the "road more often traveled", the outcomes of her own life and her son's would definitely not have been the same. Because of her choice to take the "road less traveled", her life and her son's life were both affected for the greater good of their own

William Hall made a good point when he said, “We go on and on about our differences. But, you know, our differences are less important than our similarities. People have a lot in common with one another, whether they see that or not.” Our differences are less important than our similarities because if people want to make friends or just be happier in life, then they need to focus on not the differences in other people but instead the similar things that are between them and others. If people focus on what is different between them and someone else instead of seeing what similarities there are between each other, then there would be a lot more happiness. People are similar to many others in a lot of ways. They just chose not to see it and focus

Rachel is a survivor of the Holocaust. She has lost all her family except for grandfather and her younger brother, Yacov. In the concentration camps, the Nazi took advantage of her in the most horrifying way. They beat and branded her. After the war, she was released and smuggled into Palestine. She had hoped to reunited with her grandfather but instead she was put in a home with many other families. The Jews, her own people, shunned her and would go near her. They called her horrible things like tradior and Nazi. They bullied her until she thought she was worthless, unloved, and ugly inside and out. Rachel closed herself off from others. It was through her friends, family, and faith that she finally started to heal. This process was not easy.

Sandra Cisneros uses a few literary techniques to characterize Rachel. She uses her own personal experiences/feelings, she writes it in first person, and gave examples about how other ages act or feel to get the reader to want to read more almost like persuasion. Sandra Cisneros uses first person words all throughout the essay in order to make the reader picture themselves in the spot and situation of Rachel. Sandra uses “I” and “my” in order to draw in the readers. The author wrote sentences such as “you open your eyes and everything's just like yesterday.

Assignment 2 Drama Assignment Do our Differences Define Us? 1. Do our differences define us? Write a paragraph in which you answer this question and provide at least 3 reasons to support your opinion. (20 points)Although “every person is unique”, there are aspects that everyone has in common with someone else. One’s age group’ ethnicity, career, nationality gender, hobby (alongside other attributes) will unite them with other people through similarity. Both personal example and moment from movies and television support this idea of identification through similarity. 2. Provide at least two quotes from the play Romeo and Juliet to show that the characters’ differences did or did not define them. (Include the page number at the end of each

Rachel Rebeccah Price is a true child of the western world and the 1960’s, she cares about her clothes, what her social status is, and most importantly-- her looks. As the Prices first arrive to the Congo Rachel stands firm on her belief that she will never adapt to the Congo such as her family has. Before leaving her town of Bethlehem, Georgia, Rachel had the most exposure to a western based upbringing and also the least attention from her preoccupied parents. This leaves her self centered and very stuck in her American way of life, Rachel relies more on herself to survive in Kilanga than she does her own family. She’s a strong resistant figure in the novel who often looks down on the natives, but not in a condescending way such as her father but more in a patronizing way that originates from confusion and misplaced anger on her behalf. If someone

Rachel grew up in a house hold where she had to grow up really quick. In her early teenage years she witnesses her mom struggle through abusive relationships with her step dad and other boyfriends that came after. She eventually became an alcoholic. By the time Rachel was 13 year old, she dropped out of school to take the role of the emotional and financial care taker of her mother. Living in her

     Basically we are all the same human beings. We have the same number of hands and legs. We are born and we die the same way. It is what happens in between that determines our place in society and our relationship with one another. If we think about it is the fact that we are born in Africa or in Utah really important?