The Struggle of Cultural Assimilation: An Analysis of Cultural Clash in “Shrapnel Shards on Blue Water” In “Shrapnel Shards on Blue Water” by Lê Thi Diem Thúy‚ the narrator expresses her longing for Vietnam‚ her home country‚ and how she feels that she and other Vietnamese people represent “fragmented shards” in the American culture- isolated members of a foreign culture. She portrays her emotions almost as if she is pursuing an actual person by using the pronoun “you” in the first stanza to
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Tri-State Water Wars | The Issues of the Tri-State Water Wars | Almost for twenty tears‚ Georgia‚ Alabama and Florida have been fighting over the amount of water in Apalachicola Chattahoochee Flint and the Alabama Coosa Tallapoosa (ACT) river basin that passes through their borders. Georgia wants plenty of water for metro Atlanta so they can keep growing. The downstream users Alabama and Florida wants enough water flowing for their own economic goods. But none of these state wants to stop fighting
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Assignment 11: Final Project – Marketing Plan Financial Goals 1. Blue Mountain Spring Water will increase our customer base and expand our distribution by reaching beyond the borders of Pennsylvania. We plan to start selling our product in the state of Florida‚ Georgia and other southern states by the end of this fiscal year. Our revenues over the past five years have provided us with a significant portion of the amount we need to expand our production facility to accomplish this task. As
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A Yellow Raft in Blue Water Many often encounter substantial barriers in communication due to a lack of perspective. Without different perspectives stories are one-sided and usually somewhat misconstrued. For example‚ Rayona’s interpretations of events differed from her mother’s view quite often‚ such as Christine’s drinking problem. Throughout the book‚ you are exposed to several events that without Ida’s‚ Christine’s‚ and Rayona’s perceptions‚ you would not be able to fully grasp the story‚ or
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the terrifying‚ enormous‚ gray and blue water slide‚ I looked at the slide with fear and excitement in my eyes. I knew right then and there that I was going to go on that slide no matter the consequences. “Mom‚ Moooooommmm!”‚ I yelled as I was pulling on the back of her shirt to get her attention. “WHAT ISABELLA!”‚ she screamed with annoyment in her voice‚ as if I was doing something wrong.
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Characterization in Michael Dorris’ Yellow Raft in Blue Water Humanities Outcomes 1.5 1.6 1.8 Fund of CM Outcome 1.2 1.5 FCAs: 1. Uses and explicates at least six direct quotations from the novel in the body of the essay. 2. Cites all indirect quotations. 3. Uses parallelism at least twice. In Michael Dorris’ A Yellow Raft in Blue Water‚ he tells the story of three generations of women who struggle with their own self esteem
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A Yellow Raft in Blue Water We all experience paradigm shifts throughout our daily lives. After I survived cancer my perceptions on life changed. I learned that people should live their lives to the fullest‚ and to just be themselves. These ideas of getting the most out of life and being true to one’s nature may be applied to the characters in the book A Yellow Raft in Blue Water. The author‚ Michael Dorris‚ portrays the lives of three women‚ and as each woman’s life unfolds‚ the reader experiences
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secrets. Over time one can learn whether or not he or she can trust or believe another will hold that confidence. If that certitude is shattered‚ it takes time again to reconcile and to earn it back. In Michael Dorris’s novel‚ A Yellow Raft in Blue Water‚ Ida is a girl who entrusts in her young Aunt Clara with secrets from school to boys. When Clara reveals Ida’s hope about Willard Pretty Dog‚ the trust is broken; despite this‚ Ida still
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summary Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au and atomic number 79. It is a dense‚ soft‚ malleable‚ and ductile metal with an attractive‚ bright yellow colour and luster that is maintained without tarnishing in air or water. Chemically‚ gold is a transition metal and a group 11 element. It is one of the least reactive chemical elements‚ solid under standard conditions. Its pros are that it gives satisfaction to one‚ security and stability to peoples. Its cons are that the price of gold fluctuate
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treat the adopted children the same way that a parent who had given birth to the child would. But adoption is not the only alternative. Some people may seem like parents even if they aren’t legal guardians. In Michael Dorris’s‚ A Yellow Raft in Blue Water‚ we follow the journey of Rayona‚ a young girl that knows the identities of her parents‚ but looks for love elsewhere‚ and she finds it in unexpected places. One of the first characters that we are introduced to in the novel is Christine‚ Rayona’s
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