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    Bodega Dreams In the novel Bodega Dreams intersectionality functions in the way the characters envision themselves achieving their definition of success and how they will achieve it. Intersectionality is the “interlocking inequalities of race‚ gender‚ ethnicity‚ and class that create a matrix of domination within which privileges and disadvantages are unequally distributed among people” (Intersections of Gender‚ Race‚ Ethnicity‚ and Class‚ 02/14). Even though two of the book’s characters Julio

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    Larisa Joseph Diane Garbow Book Review December 4‚ 2012 Bodega Dreams is an excellent novel written by Ernesto Quinonez. Quinonez tells a touching story about the real life of Spanish Harlem neighborhoods. The main character Julio Mercado (also known as Chino) is Puerto Rican as well as Quinonez. The story takes place in Spanish Harlem‚ with the majority of poor Spanish people; a town over is Upper East Side Manhattan filled with wealthy white Americans. Chico stated‚ “a slum that

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    In the book Bodega Dreams Bodega says "Where the city sees burned buildings I see opportunity" (pg.37). Bodega in this sentence is trying to persuade or convey Chino to help with his business. As this quote shortly exemplifies Willie Bodega’s so called “American” dream and vision to establish the hope in his people and in their community. This also can be seen in the book when Bodega Say’s “I take care of the community and the community takes care of me” as this quote helps me show that his hope

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    that that’s what attracted me to Willie Bodega. Willie Bodega didn’t just change me and Blanca’s life‚ but the entire landscape of the neighborhood. Bodega would go down as a representation of all the ugliness in Spanish Harlem and also all the good it was capable of being. Bodega placed a mirror in front of the neighborhood and in front of himself. He was street nobility incarnated in someone who still believed in dreams. And for a small while‚ those dreams seem as palpable as that dagger Macbeth

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    Dream My Dream

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    Dream my Dream Without dream‚ there can be no courage; without courage‚ there can be no action. What Wim Wenders said indicates the importance of the dream‚ which no one can deny. Most people’s dream is not stable and changes with the time going by‚ but the critical point is that they do have a dream. I’m the person with a dream. I once romantically dreamed to be an excellent diplomat at early age and later‚ I was looking forward to teaching undergraduates in a historical university. But now‚ I’m

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    Reflection – Why we dream. Dream is a very interesting phenomenon that occurs every time we sleep or at least once at a time. Till now‚ dream remains enigma for us about its capability to be virtually shown to the other person. Scientists discoveries up till today has bring up our exitement to study more about our dream. Me myself‚ has been a little bit enthusiatic after watching the potential‚ importance and benefits that dream can do throughout the documentary. Rem sleep was

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    "Dreams are the touchstones of our characters."- Henry David Thoreau Dreams have fascinated philosophers for thousands of years‚ but only recently have dreams been subjected to empirical research and concentrated scientific study. Chances are that you’ve often found yourself puzzling over the mysterious content of a dream‚ or perhaps you’ve wondered why you dream at all. What is a dream? A dream can include any of the images‚ thoughts and emotions that are experienced during sleep. Dreams can

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    Dreams are very different from waking life‚ but it is extremely difficult clearly to define in what the difference consists. When we are dreaming‚ we are nearly always convinced that we are awake‚ and in some cases real experiences have been mistaken for dreams. The latter mistake forms the subject of a celebrated Spanish play called Life a Dream‚ and of an amusing story in the Arabian Nights‚ in which a poor man is for a jest treated as a mighty monarch‚ and it is contrived that he should afterwards

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    Dreams Introduction Dreams are successions of images‚ ideas‚ emotions‚ and sensations that occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. The content and purpose of dreams are not definitively understood‚ though they have been a topic of scientific speculation and a subject of philosophical and religious interest throughout recorded history. The scientific study of dreams is called oneirology. Scientists believe that other mammals‚ birds and reptiles‚ also dream. Dreams mainly

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    Ruoqi Xu Psychology Professor Dude 11/22/12 Dream and Its Meaning Dream can be happy‚ delightful‚ absurd or even fearful. Dream is what we experience when we sleep; it “involves an integration of perceptual‚ emotional‚ motivational‚ and cognitive processes performed by various brain modules” (Passer and Ronald193). However‚ the content of the dream and the reason why we dream specific content still remain a mystery till today. Although many scientists have been attempting to find the answers

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