Richard Rodriguez’s “The Achievement of Desire” A middle class Spanish boy from Sacramento‚ who calls himself the “scholarship boy”‚ overcame a whirlwind of emotions‚ decision and regrets in trying to become an educated man. He looked to his teachers as his parent figures‚ mimicking and idolizing them. To him education was imitation. He became very puzzling to his family because he wanted to change who he was by trying to cover all trace of his Spanish heritage and soon even lost his accent. He
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Achievement Results Scenario 1 The problem for this client is more then just about his grades or his SAT scores. The client plans on attending Yale where his parents attended‚ but is worried about his SAT scores being high enough to get accepted. He is concerned about earning anything less then almost perfect grades and is worried about disappointing his parents by not getting accepted into Yale and graduating. It is obvious that the client wants to do well at things‚ but his reasonings for
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Richard Rodriguez’s essay “The Achievement of Desire” can be described as an autobiographical text in which the author includes some self analysis in comparison to what he describes as the only description of “myself”(Rodriguez p.547): The Uses of Literacy by Richard Hoggart. What Rodriguez is doing by writing this essay is to add further notion of the “scholarship boy syndrome” for future scholarship boys. His motif for doing this could be to make the reader reflect on the advantages and disadvantages
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Tenochtitlan built the city and farmed on chinampas‚ small artificial islands they constructed from timbers‚ mud‚ and plants”(Frey 282). Lake Texcoco was filled with islands like these‚ which helped to support the Aztec capital. These islands were amazing achievements that allowed the Aztecs to build a huge and easily defensible capital in the center of a lake‚ and to make the most use of space(Frey 282). The fifth artifact is a large stone engraved with markings and designs. This is the sun stone‚ one of the
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My Achievement Everybody has their own personal experience and has their own achievement throughout their lives. My achievement just happens to be when I saved my father’s life. On April 8th-13th‚ during Spring Break of 2008‚ we were living in Yorktown‚ Virginia and my family and I decided to take a vacation to Goldsboro‚ North Carolina to celebrate my 15th birthday. It is also a place to go swimming and ride ATV’s (four-wheelers)‚ dirt-bikes‚ go-carts etc. This fantastic place is called "Busco
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Jan R. Veenstra‚ in his examination of new historicism‚ draws upon Greenblatt and his “poetics of culture‚” which determines the strong relationship between literary and historical texts and their socio-historical contexts. Greenblatt’s cultural poetics fosters the concept that texts are not merely a documentation of the social and political forces that make up history and society‚ but they also contribute remarkably to the social processes that refigure individual identity and the socio-political
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Source A: Lenin was a great leader yet the most humble of men. For his achievements in the October revolution‚ in defending the foreign invaders and destroying the whites‚ in bringing peace and prosperity‚ we are forever in his debt. (A Russian view of Lenin written at the same time of his death in 1924) Was this an accurate assessment of Lenin and his achievements? One man with a gun can control 100 without one." Lenin‚ Vladimir Ilich 1917 Lenin was a man with principles that tried his best
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similar tactics as Hernan Cortes to defeat the Inca. He also massacred and looted the cities. He uncovered ginormous amounts of silver and gold. The Incas were incredibly important to Latin America. They had many accomplishments with culture‚ achievements‚ and in the end conquered by the
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would you react to losing your whole entire family and being left to survive by yourself in the middle of a country at war? (BS-1) The loss of Mada Jan changes Najmah’s actions and the way she approaches things. (BS-2) Furthermore due to the loss of Baba Jan Najmah has a difficult time trusting people. (BS-3)Also after the loss of her father Baba Jan this affects Najmah’s decision making in the book. (TS): All in all‚ Najmah is shaped in many ways by the loss of her family. (MIP-1) The loss of
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Visual Arts Vincent Van Gogh Vincent Van Gogh was born 30th March‚ 1853‚ in Groot-Zundert‚ Netherlands. Vincent used expressionistic colour‚ line and composition to record his life experiences‚ the people he encountered and the many disappointments he felt. Vincent’s father‚ Theodorus van Gogh‚ was an austere country minister‚ and his mother‚ Anna Cornelia Carbentus‚ was a moody artist whose love of nature‚ drawing and watercolours was transferred to her son. At age 15‚ van Gogh’s family was
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