Thien Nguyen Professor Hinds English 1153 September 15‚ 2013 The Differences between Learning English from Spanish and Vietnamese. Reading‚ “My English”‚ by Julia Alvarez somehow reminds me the process of studying English. Unlike the author‚ I was born and grew up in a place far from the United States‚ Vietnam. Generally‚ English is our second language. Yet‚ the way we achieve it consisted of both similarities and differences. First of all‚ Vietnamese and Spanish use the same Latin alphabet
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Daniel Greagan Professor Redkey 9/29/12 An Evaluation of Proactivity Julia Alvarez’s novel‚ In the Time of the Butterflies‚ portrays the lives of four sisters who grow up during General Trujillo’s dictatorship of the Dominican Republic. Once of age‚ the four sisters‚ Minerva‚ Patria‚ Maria Teresa‚ and Dede each choose their own level of involvement in the rebellion against Trujillo. In Habit One of‚ The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People‚ author Stephen R. Covey writes‚ “[proactivity] means
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Sacrifice becomes necessary to achieve social change when there is loss of personal freedoms‚ abuse of power‚ and physical abuse. This is demonstrated by the revolutions in Nicaragua and Haiti as well as the novel‚ In the Time of the Butterflies‚ by Julia Alvarez. When people are being severely oppressed and they no longer have any freedom‚ they are likely to sacrifice themselves in the hope of achieving justice. In most nations‚ people have the freedom to act in their own will. For example‚ in the United
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understand different point of views including my own life. For example‚ “Suicide Note” written by Janice Mirikitani helped me to understand more of another’s personal life and what they’re going through. As for my own life‚ “Dusting” written by Julia Alvarez helped me to better understand what I’m going through. I learned through poems that they can help you to understand what another person may be going through. “Suicide Note” by Mirikitani is about a college student who took her life because she
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night every November the daughters turned back into their father’s girls in the cramped living room‚ surrounded by the dark oversized furniture from the old house they grew up in‚ they were children again in a smaller‚ simpler version of the world”. (Alvarez 1991) Well‚ on this birthday Sophia wanted to celebrate his birthday at her house‚ not his. She wanted husbands and children‚ along with many other people‚ not just them alone. I don’t think it was her intention to humiliate her father‚ but with both
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did for their country and how their past actions still affect and impact the people today in the Dominican Republic. To win this freedom‚ the Mirabal sisters had to give up their well-being‚ give up their childhoods‚ and give up their lives. Julia Alvarez‚ the author of the book‚ takes the readers through these sisters’ journeys of fighting against their dictator Trujillo‚ and the many adversities while
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called “What’s Black‚ Then White‚ and Said All Over?”. This section examines common way of speaking‚ which Savan claims has its origins in African American vernacular. Julia Alvarez‚ author of the book Once Upon A Quinceañera: Coming of Age in the USA‚ also writes about other cultures accumulating themselves into the American
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society- an issue which is being discussed since past few decades and has still not reached an absolute conclusion. In In the Time of the Butterflies‚ Julia Alvarez portrays the life of women in a male dominated social and political society. Through the novel‚ a question arises which is‚ “Who decides the expiry date for a woman’s dreams?” In the novel‚ Alvarez answers the question through the story of the Mirabal sisters‚ the women who broke their boundaries of what their gender can do and came out of the
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Even if Julia Alvazer was born in NY‚ her first language is Spanish. The struggle she has to go through to “keep up” w/ her own language thinking as its somehow superior then what she already knows. Summary of My English Julia Alvarez is a Dominican-American writer. She describes the struggle and the achievements she had in the essay ‘My English’. She lived in the Dominican Republic with her family‚ who spoke only Spanish at home. She grew up learning Spanish by heart. It was her first language
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The main point of Julia Alvarez’s "In the Time of the Butterflies" is to show individual personality in each character. This book shows that the people involved in the revolution led personal lives and had feelings just like those of us who read about them. By telling about the characters’ families and personal issues‚ Alvarez draws her readers into the book and makes them feel for each character. Something that puzzled me was why the Mirabal sisters refused to leave prison. Minerva said
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