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    Frida Kahlo , the disabled optimistic artist , and “Legal Alien”, by Pat Mora are the same but differ in many ways , concerning back towards Cultural identity . They both differ in cultural identity , but have similar futures is tone , conflict , theme / message. Cultural identity is event in both poem and picture , Frida Kahlo is torn same as the person in Pat Mora's poem . They both are similar go back to tone , Pat Mora tone to the poem is She cheerful but really trynna be happy , just so people

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    August Van Patten Dr. Berglund ENG 245 10 January 2017 “American…But Hyphenated”: Tensions Between Mexican and American Cultures In Pat Mora’s two poems, “Legal Alien” and “Immigrants”, she is expressing the crisis of identity from which Mexican Americans suffer. On one hand, Americans view her (and Mexican Americans in general) as “perhaps exotic, / perhaps inferior, and definitely different” (9-10) while on the other Mexicans view Mexican-Americans as “alien” (11). Caught in between two cultures

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    )6885 is not obvious at first sight from the scrambled result Z`c`dgbheggd. On the other hand, because ROT47 introduces numbers and symbols into the mix without discrimination, it is more immediately obvious that the text has been enciphered. The Mora Brothers felt that the Constitution guaranteed basic privacy and confidentiality, they also saw this being tossed out the window recently by

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    the book “The Natural Approach” in which they identified the following five stages through which ELLs progress when learning English as a second language: preproduction, early production, speech emergence, intermediate fluency, and advance fluency. Mora-Flores (2011) indicates that the way in which ELLs’ language development is monitored and labeled varies across the country. The most important aspect is the teachers’ understanding of what students bring to the classroom in terms of language since

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    What Is Gamification?

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    (2016), the authors were able to use a crowd-funding style gamification system to test their hypotheses that gamification could be used effectively with adult learners and that it would increase motivation to complete non-graded course assignments. Mora et al. (2016) used the SPARC (Sense, Purpose, Autonomy, Relatedness and Competence) framework in planning their gamified curriculum, and used this framework as the basis for a questionnaire to students at the end of the course to test the success of

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    Key Term For this discussion board assignment I have chosen to further research the key term of continuous improvement. My main reason for wanting to do further research into this topic is out of a general curiosity and interest of mine as well as how it is relevant to my current job. Ever since learning about the Toyota Production System (TPS) and lean manufacturing a year ago while taking another class at Liberty University, I have been continuing to learn as much as I can about it. I think that

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    Forms of breach of contract and the remedies that can be used. Table of contents: Introduction Contracts as a whole Forms of breach of contracts Remedies Introduction: As long as human kind can remember contracts has been in the existence. Goods were exchanged in order to survive. Therefore a contract can be described as an agreement between two (or more) people where one person offers to do something and another person accepts that offer. So when someone agrees to sell and

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    Bless Me Ultima Analysis

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    physical, mental, and spiritual illnesses. The folk healer uses prayer, faith, and herbal remedies to heal. People associate repeated healing with healthy relationships between people, culture, and the environment. In the poem, “Curandera”, by Pat Mora and the novel, “Bless Me, Ultima”, by Rudolfo Anaya portray the curandera in different and similar ways. The literary works consist of common characteristics and qualities that the curanderos possess irrespective of the different genders. In both poems

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    How View Can Change with Culture What changes a person’s view of the world? Culture. Culture affects the way people perceive all over the world. In the texts “Legal Alien”, “Two Ways to Belong in America”, and “Every Day Use” a person’s culture is shown to affect the way they view others and the world until they have social interactions with a different culture. In “Two Ways to Belong in America,” a personal essay by Baharti Mukherjee, there are two Indian sisters, Baharti and Mira, their culture

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    Tornado Metaphors

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    A tornado is portraying a mad woman that eventually comes to a calm after being destructive and out of control. Mora is able to do this by using certain diction, an abundance of personification, and the actual shape of the poem. The author depicts the tornado as devastating in saying , “She spews gusts and thunder,” (Mora line 10). Exerting tremendous amounts of swift winds and thunder only leads to disastrous consequences in the area affected. Therefore, using a raging woman as a metaphor for the

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