1. Who is your audience at your SL site My audience is the members of Lincoln Street. They are children between ages 6 and 12. 2. How does your understanding of the audience impact how you interact with them In my opinion‚ although the audience is children‚ I need to treat them equally like the adults. This idea makes me do not think children are ignorant and childish‚ so I will not ignore their thoughts and order them directly when I interact with them. Indeed‚ sometimes their views are extremely
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The biggest decision people make is deciding who they are. In the story The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros‚ the author creates a conflict of Esperanza’s internal struggle to find her identity‚ reminding us that the decision of who you are can be life or death. We first learn about this conflict when Esperanza is talking about her name‚ and how it doesn’t present her as who she is. Throughout the story‚ Esperanza realizes that people judge her due to the fact that she only shows them the
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Vincennes Street was lined with historic old buildings‚ many with small plaques on the outside brick and stone walls‚ proudly displaying the high water marks of the 1922 flood that destroyed most of the town. Old man Burnbaum owned a flower shop directly across the street from my high school. He made a fortune from proms and school dances that were at the same location since World War II‚ and according to him no flood ain’t gonna run him off. He walked to his shop every day of his life from his
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A Street Car Named Desire deals with a culture clash between the Old South’s “plantation” mentality (priding itself on false pretenses) and the New South’s relatively uncivilized‚ yet real‚ grip on reality. The two characters who come to represent this tension are Blanche and Stanley Kowalski. Blanche advertises herself as a champion of “Southern Honor.” This entails an unfaltering dedication to virtue and culture. These are not‚ however‚ driving factors in her life but only mask her alcoholism and
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Street gangs have been a part of American history for years. According a report from the Immigration Customs Enforcement‚ MS-13 is the most violent and rapidly spreading gang in the United States. Their major areas of concentration are in 33 states which not limited to: California‚ Texas‚ New York‚ Maryland‚ and Nebraska to name a few. The origin of the MS-13 can be traced to Los Angeles in the 1980s. Salvadoran families have fled to L.A. to escape from the civil war that was happening in El Salvador
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introduction in American literature in the nineteenth century. In 1878‚ Henry James published a story‚ Daisy Miller‚ that made his reputation. A romantic tale of a beautiful American girl and her adventures in Europe. Oppose to Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) by Stephen Crane was about the story of Maggie and her family‚ who lived in the Bowery district in New York‚ which is a rough neighborhood.Both authors were a famous in their own style. They both had a different style of writing and social
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The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is about Esperanza Cordero‚ a girl living in Chicago struggling to identify who she is. Through the experiences Esperanza encounters‚ she feels neglected living in a culture where women are considered inferior to men. Observing different figures around her‚ Esperanza begins to question her own identity‚ and starts to grab her own power‚ and eventually decides to be independent. Through metaphors‚ epiphanies and symbolism‚ Cisneros conveys that repression
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As they poured into Ellis Island from the overflowing ships‚ hundreds of immigrants believed that this journey would completely transform their lives. Included in this crowd were my grandparents‚ entering an unknown world that was hugely different from where they were born in Italy. Both of them were small children at the time‚ too young to understand the difficulties that their families were about to overcome. They were traveling from Naples and Sicily with no understanding of English and they owned
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chaotic days as a founder of his own financial investment firm. Although Martyr’s may possess the power of manipulation‚ their sacrifice and proper judgment enable them to do the right thing. Jordan Belfort is commonly known as “The Wolf of Wall Street” simply due to the fact that within six years‚ he rose from an entry level apprentice at a brokerage house to the founder of Stratton Oakmont Investment Firm. Much like myself‚ Jordan strived to become successful and nothing was going to stop him
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25‚ 2014‚ The New York Post published a newspaper will the front page stating ‘Streets of Rage’. This was in response to the decision to not indict the police who killed a teenager in Ferguson‚ Missouri. Michael Brown‚ a black eighteen year-old‚ who had just graduated high school‚ was shot several times by Darren Wilson. Wilson was responding to a robbery call when he encountered Brown who was walking down the street. From this encounter Wilson fired his weapon a total of twelve times‚ six of which
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