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    choices we make impact or shape our identity? I’ve been reading ‘ A Long Walk To Water’ recently and i have realized that salva and Nya have shaped different identities. Salva has an identity as a lost child or a brave child. while nya is known was a good child or a listener. How do you think that you’ve shaped your identity? Shaping your identity might sound had but it’s not, you shaped your identity every day! Everything you do helps you shape your identity. How do your choices affect

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    of America Through Road Novels Flaming Iguanas by Erika Lopez and The Road by Cormac McCarthy critiques America, while transgressing heteronormativity and modifying mobility and identity. Traveling west is an adventure and an opportunity to discover oneself, it is also an extension to exercise one 's freedom. As a woman,Tomato Rodriguez travels across the country to see his dad in California. Being on the road transgresses the meaning of the road, whilst inventing one’s identity. It is a space to

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    Using certain literary techniques and poetic devices, the poets of “Identity” and “The Road Not Taken” have created a way to see different analogies, personification, and extendable imagery. To begin with, the poets have helped the readers to understand literary techniques and poetic devices by utilizing different analogies. The poet of “Identity” has regained the specific way of using analogies. A very well planned analogy is in the lines containing the following statement: “I’d rather smell of

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    personal identity and the used factor of sexuality. • The character Scott an upper-class individual son of a mayor, in the (sexuality) hustling business created a false identity to bother his father. A two-face who first hanged out with Bob’s group first and then went back to his real life. Then through the character Mike a young man who suffers from narcoleptic seizure; condition in where he falls asleep deep anywhere and at any time. A character who keeps looking for his personal identity. He misses

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    Disappear”, Orlean discusses the idea of dramatic change within Khao San Road by tourists destroying this once so cultural town, turning it into a ghost town of traditions and leaving an imprint of themselves. When a new culture starts to mix with a preexisting culture in the hometown, there are different ways the older culture can react to the changes. It can accept the new traditions with an open heart, leaving the identity of the old town to the history. It can mold some of the past traditions

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    Lopez and The Road by Cormac McCarthy critiques America, while transgressing heteronormativity and modifying mobility and identity. Traveling west is an adventure and an opportunity to discover oneself, it is also an extension to exercise one's freedom. In Flaming Iguanas as a woman,Tomato Rodriguez travels across the country to see her dad in California. She transgressing the meaning of the road, whilst pushing the boundaries of heteronormativity ideals that are placed on women. In The Road, father and

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    various constitutions of American identity, including ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. The protagonist, Jolene, is illustrative of how these constitutions of identity are complicated as she travels west. Traveling westward is considered a male gendered movement that rejects the constraints of middle class life, therefore, they decide to get on the road in hopes of finding selfhood also avoiding and rejecting the commitment to family life. Jolene being a woman on the road plans to accomplish selfhood

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    Gains Street in Opposition to Crow Creek Tila Tequila, an actress, once said, “I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring.” (Being). This quote can genuinely relate to neighborhoods all round the world, which is the neat aspect. A couple of friends and I observed a few neighborhoods on a Tuesday afternoon in the Quad Cities. These two neighborhoods were Gains Street, which is located in

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    Tila Tequila, an actress, once said, “I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring.”. This quote can genuinely relate to neighborhoods all round the world, which is the neat aspect. A couple of friends and I observed a few neighborhoods on a Tuesday afternoon in the Quad Cities. These two neighborhoods were Gains Street, which is located in downtown Davenport, Iowa, along with Crow Creek,

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    which is a transitional place for newly freed African American to harbor while they adjust their newly-found freedom. The Images of travel and the use of the phrase "the road" interposes on the different transitions each character has during the play; the play examines how African Americans' search for their cultural identity, following the repression of slavery. For many this involved the physical migration from the South to the North in an attempt to find a new start: " In an effort to flee the

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