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    Summary Gauri Nada is an entrepreneur and her invention Clocky which as new generations of alarms which she considers to be the solution for the problem of waking-up in the morning. Nada’s product has reached the media and it have created buzz in the market. it has a coverage that many of the available products in the market can’t have it in such a free way. Consumers in the market are highly excited for this product and they also consider that it will fulfill their need regarding the issue of

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    and encouraged Judith Ortiz Judith Ortiz Cofer‚ gain the strength and confidence as she worked to prove that stereotypes about her‚ were strong. On first sight judgments‚ the audience can decide their attitude towards you. Society can live with them‚ we can just wait until that person proves himself or shows who he/she is. But the way modern society is now‚ it chooses not to. Because of it limits people’s confidence to do something such as Judith Ortiz Cofer and Wayson Choy. For example‚ even I judge

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    the story. The meaning and information however can only be found by techniques or themes put into the story by the author himself. In “A Clean Well-Lighted Place”‚ the underlying message can be discovered through dialogue and the reoccurring theme of nada. First‚ Hemingway uses a strange technique of dialogue throughout his story which helps carry out his main points and also adds a sense of mystery in his writing. Readers can recognize that there seems to be a problem when it comes to assigning characters

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    Instead of replacing her Puerto Rican bright colored dress code and accepting the American “tailored skirts and silk blouses” (592)‚ Cofer complains that she should not change the way she is and she is doing something about being stereotyped in America by reading her composed stories‚ poems‚ and her dreams around the U.S and her goal is to get the

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    and show fewer emotions than females. The male role in “Song: To Lucasta‚ Going to the Wars” is the gallant young man going off to war and in “The Changeling” the young girl dons her brother’s clothes to portray the soldier Che. In The Changeling”‚ Cofer states she dresses in her brother’s clothes and portrays the soldier Che in order to gain her father’s attention‚ “He would listen with a smile to my tales of battles and brotherhood…” (18-19) Is she glorifying the military because of her father’s

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    It means “nothing” in english‚ and it repeated often throughout the story. Hemingway uses this when he replaces words from a prayer to “nada”. “Our nada who art in nadanada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be” (5). He uses this to convey that religion‚ although comforting‚ is just as meaningless in the end as a man is. “It was all nothing and a man was a nothing too”(5). Another time this is used in the story

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    Valor Close Reading Assignment ​The author of Valor is Judith Ortiz Cofer. Judith was born in Hormigueros‚ Puerto Rico. She soon after moved to New Jersey and then later of Georgia. She claims that her experiences helped inspire her work. She said‚ “How can you inject passion and purpose into your work if it has no roots?” She also tells that she comes for a long blood line of storytellers who also influenced her at a young age. Some of her publications are: The Line of the Sun‚ A Love Story Beginning

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    life experiences. The way they handle the situation is based off what they have learned through their life. In the excerpt from “Abuela Invents the Zero” by Judith Ortiz-Cofer‚ the narrator‚ Constancia had scarcely met Abuela‚ her grandmother and Abuela troubling her made her make the decision not to help her. Judith Ortiz-Cofer states‚ “I [Constancia] had seen her only three or four times in my entire life” (para. 2). This sentence shows that

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    In Ernest Hemingway’s “A Clean‚ Well-Lighted Place” the older waiter goes through morose character transformation. In the beginning he is extremely unware of how empty his life is‚ but as the story progresses he understands that there is truly nothing that can bring him joy or fulfillment. In the beginning of “A Clean‚ Well-Lighted Place” the older waiter shows the significant difference between younger and older people. He demonstrates this by seeing certain similarities between him and both the

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    Cited: Camus‚ Albert. “Quotes About Suicide.” Goodreads.com: n.pg. Web. 23 Sep. 2014. Pearson‚ 2012. 142-147. Print. Hoffman‚ Steven. “Nada and The Clean Well-Lighted Place.” Essays In literature 6.1 (spring 1979): 91-110 Stock‚ Ely. "Hassle: Nada in Hemingway ’s "A Clean‚ Well-Lighted Place"" Midcontinent American Studies Journal 3.1 (1962): 53-57.  JSTOR-Arts and Sciences Collections. Web. 9 Sept. 2014.

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