Book reviews

The book, Honor and the American Dream: Culture and Identity in a Chicano Community, and the film, Salt of the Earth, both relay to their audience, the pursuit of happiness within the Chicano community in which they live. These works aim to show how Mexican-American immigrants fight to keep both their honor and value systems alive in the United States of America, a country which is foreign to their traditions. The Mexican-Americans encountered in these works fight for their culture of honor in

F is for formal, festival, and fifteen. Fifteen isn’t just a number, but it is an important celebration event in the hispanic community called quinceañera. When I was the age fifteen it was when i marked to make the transition of a young women into womanhood. A quinceañrea is a huge celebration to the young women’s family, because it’s almost as important as a wedding. It takes month of planing, but I only had under a month to get everything ready. Having less than a month felt like i was a little

She reached her arms up to her head searching for any cuts trying to move the rest of her body as little as possible. She reached up and felt a large gash spanning from her parietal bone all the way to her temporal bone. Now that she thought about it, she had a pretty bad headache and felt kind of like vomiting. Vomiting and head injuries were never good signs. Dammit! There 's no way I am going to die out in the woods. THE WOODS! I 'll make it back to you, Calliope. Quite a bit of blood had pooled

screeching halt with our growth in the Lord. This is the issue Rush begins to portray in his book, Walls. Rush paints a wonderful picture of how we, as Christians, are to live authentic lives. He provides much Biblical insight in this book to help us break the walls holding us back. We might overcome these stumbling blocks by learning

In Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? (2009), Michael J. Sandal argues that politics and society require a common moral purpose beyond the assertion of natural rights like life liberty and property or the utilitarian calculus of increasing pleasure and minimizing pain for the greatest number of people. He would move beyond both John Locke and Jeremy Bentham in asserting that "a just society can't be achieved simply by maximizing utility or by securing freedom of choice" (Sandal 261). Justice

effects and damages of the war • consider two different interpretations from readers of different culture, Iran and Australia Written Task 2 Persepolis is a graphic book illustrated and written in the basis of a revolutionary Iran wherein political control is taken into intense circumstances within freedom, feminism and culture. The book is portrayed from

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Bill, “The Outsiders” book is a good book and movie as well. The experience of the book is a “give you the chills” kinda book. Here are some of the reasons I want you to go through this book. I think that this will solve your predicament I suggest reading the book because the book gives you a better explanation of the setting and situations that the characters experience. The movie kinda skips some of the situations that the book provides. If you like real life sort of books I think that you would

I was really touched by your book Shift. It helped me mentally and physically in my life. I have been strengthened and powered by themes in the book. The book showed me that change is okay. I feel it's time for me to change to talk more and be more openly expressed to the public. I have always been the weird quiet and somewhat lonely one like Olive. However, since reading Shift I have spoken more and let my personality shine through. I also relate to not feeling good enough about myself

My sixty-year old grandmother, Helaine Bondar, conveniently lives in Baltimore, MD. This made the interview quite convenient, and we were able to sit down face-to-face on her dining room table chairs with a plate of cookies for the interview. "Bubby" as I call her, was born in New York City and lived there her entire youth. She only had one sister, Suzette, who still lives in New York City (my grandmother recalls at this time that my great-grandmother was very fond of French names.) When asked about