As the Mirabal sister grew up they grow up to be very assertive women as they build their lives around their family and friends, while passing through normal stages moong siblings, and rebellion against authority figure. “In representing the problems…
Plot is a literary element necessary in any short story, and is one given in “The Tenant”. The protagonist of the story is the main and central character, Maya. The story is told in third person and much of the focus is centered on her. The antagonist of the story could also be said to be Maya herself.…
Today, family is one of the most sacred values we share in the individualist society we live in. Every family is different and has different rules and values; but in most of them, fathers are supposed to be leaders of the family, and role models for their children. They are also considerate like the one who transmits the traditions of their ancestors in order to carry them on. “Fiesta, 1980” is a short story written by Junot Dìaz taken from his short story collection, Drown, (1996). “Killings” is also a short story taken from, Finding a Girl in America (1980), written by Andre Dubus. Both of these stories are dealing with the family’s subject and provide us different perspectives of it. In Dìaz’s story we can see the relationship among a foreigner family, while in Andre Dubus’s story we see an American average family. In both stories, fathers play an important role; they figure prominently and have a considerable impact on their family but on the story also. The father in Dubus’s story is more family oriented that the one in Dìaz’; moreover the family is more closely–knit in Dubus’s story than in Dìaz’s story. The difference between the behaviors of the two fathers can be explained by their cultural backgrounds, which are not the same. These stories also provide us another perspective of the father’s role in the family, through their strength and their weakness without compromise.…
The theme of this story is to always follow your dreams, no matter what you have to do to fulfill them. Theresa's main goal throughout the whole story was to succeed in every class, have above a 3.0 GPA, and to make a good enough score on the SATs to get into the University of Southern California. Theresa faces many issues that distract her from her goals, such as her best friend Cee-Saw getting pregnant and her newest friend, Devon, getting hurt and ending up in the hospital. Those are two issues she went through socially, she also had a lot of academic issues such as her world history teacher Mr. Wardin being extremely hard on her, and the many college applications she had to fill out, and send on time. Her parents are also a big burden on her, as shown throughout the story, they are very strict and don't…
The main character had a terrible relationship with his father. They didn’t see eye to eye at all. The father just took him to baseball games and left him there with an usher that he paid to watch him. The absence of a father figure was significant to his childhood. When he grew up he tried to be anything but that memory. He was involved in his children’s lives. This would be a family theme where the parent separates themselves from the child, so they could attend to their own matters in life. The next theme can be seen in the family that has the young girl being feed information like a sponge ruining her childhood so she could get ahead intellectually. The parents did not see her as a child but as some sort of machine. It is not the proper way to raise a child. She was socially awkward and didn’t have the social skills to socialize with the other children at Kevin’s birthday party. This theme is where the parents treat the child as an object rather than a living being. The next one is in the single mom with the two kids. She struggles to support for her family and her children disrespect her all the time. The son was so distant from her and left all the time, while the daughter was in love with a troubled boy. The son was having problems with himself since she went through puberty and he didn’t have a father figure to explain all the changes in his body and while he was feeling certain things. Todd became that father figure when he married the boy’s sister and got to explain what was happening through experience. This helped out the single mother trying to support her two children. The youngest son and brother of Gil the main character displayed the same type of parenting as the grandfather did with Gil, abandoning his child and dumping him with whoever would take care of him.…
“Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents.”-Mark Hoppus. Just because you are the child of a person, doesn’t mean you have to understand or agree with everything they do. You might have different values, points of view, or even hobbies from them. These small differences are usually rather contradictory to one another and can cause a slight tension between adult and youngin. This statement is in fact proven true in both Jennifer Cervantes’ nonfiction passage Tortilla Sun and in Diana López’s nonfiction passage Confetti Girl. In both of these stories, a strong tension is formed when each narrator, and their remaining parent, is faced with a large disagreement of interests. In Tortilla Sun, the narrator and their mother argue over the fact…
Maya the main protagonist lacks both the sense of honor and certainty, a result of her low self-esteem. Her low self-esteem is shown when she expresses her desire “to be…
memoir, her parents seek freedom from society’s rules, and cherish their unstable way of living.…
They all wanted what was best for their boys. It is great for a parent to push you into succeeding because at the end of the day you accomplish and achieve goals for the future. Then again, be lenient because then all the pressure you put on your child can backfire and lead to rebelliousness and mistrust. The lesson is that the American Dream isn’t only one thing, there can be many. American Dream can mean anything and may have different opinions from every single person. Odessa’s dream is parallel to any American citizens which have to go through struggles to accomplish their American dream. Odessa had one opportunity which was to keep its town together by football and it was the only success they could achieve . A town that grew together because of one championship game. Odessa went through some rough times but in the end picked itself up. That shows what one little thing can do to get a whole town…
The theme of the story Growing Up by Gary Soto is that it is important to treasure and cherish your family experiences, because no matter what you may be doing, families find ways to bond. One example of when this theme was portrayed in the text was when Maria was at her grandmother's house, and she was feeling bad about not accompanying her family on their vacation to Great America, and understands that her family is important, and that she needs to become a bigger part in it. This happens on page 7, where the text states: "She made a list of ways she could be nicer to them: doing the dishes without being asked, watering the lawn, hugging her father after work, and playing with her younger brother, even if it bored her to tears." This shows…
Plenty of parents and kids do have struggles trying to connect to one another. The two short stories, Confetti Girl and Tortilla Sun, are about how two narrators feel neglected by their parent to demonstrate this concept. In Confetti Girl, the father doesn’t notice how his daughter, the narrator, is bitter about his encouragement for her to be absorbed in his interests. Whereas, in Tortilla Sun, the mother of the narrator doesn’t take in her daughter's request in staying home alone for the summer to try and make new…
Another theme that is prevalent in each of these stories is the idea of the “American Dream.” Each of the stories involves parents who have willingly altered their lives in hopes of creating a better future for…
This paper discusses on the most effective and valid screening tool for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) on Early Childhood. Screening is attested as the first crucial step for identifying the children at risk of the disorder and in need of assessment and intervention. The main aim of screening is to improve children developmental results in language, cognitive behavior, Social life and brain or motor enhancement. Screening is said to have two levels i.e. Level 1 and Level 2 tools; with level one tools used considered brief and used to find children at risk in a general population and level two instruments being complex and administered to children with development concerns. The instruments presented and comparison made on the most effective to adopt. The main focus here is the Autism Detection on Early Childhood (ADEC) as a level 2 screening tool and how valid and effective it is in identifying Autism Spectrum Disorder.…
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Research Paper Outline Plastic Surgery Section - Specialties Recruiting and Retention Fund November 6, 2012 Attn: Mr. Eric J. Harris, Q.C. From: Stan Valnicek, MD, Section Head – Plastic Surgery Dear Mr. Harris Thank you for taking the time to review our submission for the SRRF. We have tried to organize it into logical sections representing the issues that we face as a Section. Our argument is based on data from the following sources: 1. Canadian Institute for Health Information http://www.cihi.ca 2. Medical Services Plan (MSP) BC Payment Information 2010/11 report (Latest) 3. Survey of our section membership – October 2012 (83% response rate)…