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    In her book Crossing Borders Through Folklore, Alma Jean Bilingslea-Brown discusses how border crossing trope found in Black American women 's writing. Brown claims: The journey across geopolitical, cultural, and Ideological borders constitutes one of the most frequent crossings in black women 's fiction. Interpreted at one point as the movement from 'victimization to consciousness ' and from 'division to wholeness, 'the journey was perceived to be as much personal as psychological as political

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    When reading “A World of Babies” by Alma Gottlieb and Judy S. DeLoache, the book highlighted a multitude of societies around the world. These societies include the American Puritans, Beng from Ivory Coast West Africa, the people of Bali, the Muslim Turks, the Warlpiri from Australia, the Fulani in West Africa, and the Ifaluk from Micronesia and how each have different attitudes when it comes to breastfeeding, where the baby should sleep, what woman should or should not eat while pregnant, how to

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    brain, causing her to have mental instability. This moment changed the lives of the Riviera family, especially Alma and Arturo, Maribel's parents. After the accident, Arturo was quick to blame Alma for it, placing a strain on their relationship and obstructing their honesty with each other. Throughout the novel, Alma believed that she was responsible for the life changing incident

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    What is the ALMA? The Atacama Large Millimetre Array is the largest radio telescope system in the world, imaging space at millimetre and submillimetre wavelengths. The ALMA is equipped with fifty 12-m antennas and sixteen 7-m antennas, along with advanced receivers that can be adjusted up to frequencies of 1 Thz to meet any atmospheric or imaging requirements. In addition, the ALMA is located in the Chajnantor plateau of the Atacama desert within

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    Chirstina Heriauvez uses the characterization of Alma to depict an immigrant's´ journey in America to unravel the truth about the dark side of assimilating. The novels demonstrates that immigrants´ are filled with hope at the prospect of starting someplace new which often blinds them to believing that their new place will be better than their current situation. It can easily be impacted by racism, intolerance and the mistreatment of others. Alma travels to America, in search of a speedier recovery

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    In author Cristina Henriquez’s novel The Book of Unknown Americans, the characterization of Alma Rivera is used to convey how grief and misery is magnified when all that a person had ever known has been taken away for some reason out of their control; it is only when they learn to give up control and forgive themselves, that they overcome the feelings of grief and guilt. When Alma and her family move to America, they begin their new life in a place that is strange and confusing, one that is unaccommodating

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    When Alma heard her name called, she broke free of the mesmerizing kiss. Running toward the house, she felt the first mist of rain and was grateful. Gabe released her hand as soon as they reached the yard. Alma saw everyone was milling about, trying to decide about leaving. Nadine squalled, “My cake, we haven’t served my wedding cake.” Calmly, as though she dealt with storms and wedding parties every day, Alma stepped up onto the porch and shouted. “Give us a minute and you can leave with a bite

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    Alma woke up that morning to the sight of gently falling snow outside her bedroom window. Delighted, she saw a blanket of white draped over the neighborhood below, creating a charming winter wonderland scene. "Alma," her mother called from downstairs. "Come down for breakfast. We need to go into town for some errands." Sighing heavily, Alma frowned to herself as she remembered how unbearable these trips to town could be. Ordinarily, it meant reluctantly following Mother for hours as they visited

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    a heavy snowfall had powdered and blanketed the ground. Children all around town were enjoying playing, skipping, and laughing in the city of Paris, France. Ever since Alma was an infant she adored strolling through the narrow alleys and backstreets of Paris, one street in particular always deserted, made it her favorite. Alma had the street all to herself. As she pranced around in her favorite alley, she noticed a petite chalkboard for the first time. Intrigued by the board, she inspected it and

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    emotions in a story. Paragraph #1 Person vs self is in the story time of the wolves, Because Almas neighbor Sarah was sick and her husband was away so alma offered to go take care of her even though Alma didn’t like Sarah. Alma also has person vs nature conflict when the wolves attack the house trying to get in to eat Alma and Sarah and they fought a fierce blizzard which trapped them inside for the night. Alma had to go close the door on the horse

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