How Culture Influences Us How much influence do you think culture has on all of us? It is all around us especially living in Hawai’i which is one of the country’s most multiracial states. Culture is the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively. In other ways‚ it is a paradigm; how we see and identify ourselves. Having a culture keeps us in order and sane because of the traditions it brought to us. Culture to some extent informs the way one views the
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Analysis of Pat Mora ’s "La Migra" Pat Mora ’s "La Migra" is a poem presenting two speakers‚ one female and one male‚ who are playing the game "La Migra" which means "border patrol agents". Mora creates a snapshot of the dangers of living near the Mexican border through the narrators ’ "game". The poem is written with childish language‚ but includes ambiguity of whether the players are children approaching a disturbingly mature theme or whether they ’re adults trying to minimize the stress of
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Company‚ 2002. Print. Engle‚ Margarita. Hurricane Dancers. New York: Henry Holt and Company‚ 2011. Print. "modernism." Merriam Webster ’s Encyclopedia of Literature. Springfield‚ MA: MerriamWebster‚ 1995. Literature Resource Center. Web. 1 May 2014. Mora‚ Pat. Dizzy in Your Eyes: Poems About Love. New York: Ember‚ 2010. Print. Soto‚ Gary. A Fire in My Hands. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt‚ 2006. Print. Norton & Company‚ 2006. 1827-50. Print.
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Cultural Differences “What are you? People say this to me as a pick up line in a bar or a question to prove their own assumptions about my race.” (Lee‚ 41).’ This quote shows how having different culture affected the way people lived as it is shown in the story “Hapa” as well as the poem “Legal Alien”. People with different cultural backgrounds have been judged based on their appearances. The authors from “Hapa” and “Legal Alien” both explained how they must tolerate other people by the way they
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Erik M. Hassan Essay # 2 11/26/2014 English 1301-5309 Dr. R. H. Saldavar My interpretation of "La Migra." 1. "Let ’s play La Migra I ’ll be the Border Patrol. You be the Mexican maid. I get the badge and sunglasses. You can hide and run‚ but you can ’t get away because I have a jeep. I can take you wherever I want‚ but don ’t ask questions because I don ’t speak Spanish. I can touch you wherever I want but don ’t complain too much because I ’ve got boots and kick--if I have to‚ and I have handcuffs
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The Indianapolis Colts and San Diego Chargers owned selections #1 and #2‚ and both teams needed a quarterback. Indy GM Bill Polian made the call‚ settling on Peyton over Ryan Leaf. Head coach Jim Mora wasted no time turning the offense over to his rookie. Peyton took the reigns in minicamp and impressed the Indy staff by making only one bad throw in three days. Peyton finally agreed on a lucrative six-year deal‚ the richest in NFL rookie history
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country embraces diversity‚ yet one of the most controversial and debated topics in the United States is immigration. America has lived up to the dream of many immigrants‚ yet many are struggling to adjust to the unfamiliar culture‚ as addressed in Pat Mora’s poem “Immigrants.” Immigration means the one-way flow of the population to a specific place or country. It is what carves the picture of the modern world. People move out of the native country or state for various reasons. Better employment
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Mary Olivier‚ Pat Mora‚ and Lucille Clifton wrote the poem Sleeping in the Forest‚ Gold‚ The Earth is a Living Thing because they wanted to show us how they felt about the nature. The poem sleeping in the forest sends a message by telling us that she "thought the earth remembered me" witch gives us a message by saying she spends so much time in the forest she would think the earth remembered her. It tells us that because she spends so much time with the animals but they still runaway. The message
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is puddle-wonderful” “in Just-” By E.E. Cummings‚ pg. 414. C.) imagery - “These shriveled seeds we plant‚ corn kernel‚ dried bean‚ poke into loosed soil” “Daily” by Naomi Shihab‚ pg. 410. D.) diction - “A handy token” “Legal Alien” by Pat Mora‚ pg. 473. E.) personification - “the man of snow is‚ nonetheless‚ content” “Boy at the Window” by Richard Wilbur‚ pg. 451. 4.) A.) simile - “roaring salsa‚ like a prize shark” “Tiburon” by Martin Espada‚ pg. 430. B.) metaphor -
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Legal Alien The poem “Legal Alien” by Pat Mora is in the open poem form‚ it has no stanzas. It does have a few words that rhyme which are “English” (5) and “Spanish” (6) and also with “Mexicans” (14) and then with “Americans” (15). The poem also has rhythm‚ it is a low steady beat. It is a straightforward poem about how life is for a person with the same race/ethnicity as others and at the same time‚ different from others. The poem “Legal Alien” is about a woman of Mexican parents‚ who is born
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