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    Consumer Advertising." Annual Review of Sex Research 13 (2002): 241-73. ProQuest Central. Web. 28 Nov. 2012. Rosselli‚ Francine. “Women as Sex Objects and Victims in Print Advertisements.” Sex Roles (2008) 58:579–589. ProQuest Central. Web. 28 Nov. 2012. Cofer‚ Judith Ortiz. "The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria." 50 Essays. Ed. Samuel Cohen. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s‚ 2011. 91-97. Print.

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    Symbolism Analysis of a Clean‚ Well-Lighted Place by Ernest Hemmingway A Clean‚ Well-Lighted place is a short story by American Author Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway uses his unique writing style to describe a story that starts off with a deaf man sitting in a dark café. The entire story unfolds in the small café with three dominant speaking characters. The old man is sitting in the bar and is a customer who is drinking‚ and the other two characters are a waiter and barman. The barman is substantially

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    Clearly‚ faith would be questioned if prayer requests were being delivered without answers. Hemingway addresses the absence of God or religion and morals in the lost generation. This is a trait of a Hemingway hero called the concept of nada. According to Miles‚ ““nada”focuses on man’s confrontation with the absence of God‚ the indifference

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    are not easily welcomed in America at the time‚ let alone having a child. La Nada is no exception to the rule. Because of her mixed ethnicity‚ she is not welcomed in either of the three communities that she is classified. She is also dating a white man as well. This is bad on two counts because A) she joined a feminist groups that fights for equal rights and employment for women‚ and B) because she joined the group‚ La Nada is seen as “sleeping with the enemy.” It is a double negative where she cannot

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    has gained her family’s trust. The most important privileges for a young lady is to wear makeup‚ date‚ and make adult decisions. Judith Ortiz Cofer relates to this in one of her articles by stating “she was instructed on how to act like a proper sen᷇orita and were encouraged to look and act like women and dress in clothes that made them look more mature” (Cofer 39). Wearing makeup is something that a girl being raised in the Hispanic culture can start wearing the day of her Quinceañera. Another major

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    Latin Woman” I found it quite relatable to my situation when I had first moved to Cortez. Cofer talks about how she was stereotyped when she moved to America; how she wanted to fit in‚ but found it difficult because of her traditions and culture. She stresses the fact that nobody really understood her‚ that movies about Latin and Puerto Ricans were the closest understanding people got to her culture. Cofer then states that all the hard times that she had growing up made her stronger‚ and more successful

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    The assignment I chose to revise is my literary analysis of Judith Ortiz Cofers The Story of My Body. I have made some local‚ but mostly global revisions to the paper‚ as well as addressed some of the feedback made by the instructor. The local revisions include: making complete sentences‚ rearranging words. For global revisions‚ I rewrote the conclusion‚ broke a paragraph into two‚ and as suggested by the instructor I added more analysis and connection to the young girl. In the first paragraph

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    involved in racial abuse‚ especially if they are Latin women; discrimination by people that believe they are superior just because they have born in a different or best country. In “Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria” by Judith Ortiz Cofer‚ the writer tries to show part of her life and how people in different countries acts in the situation of having someone in front of them with a different culture or skin color‚ in this case Latin woman. In the essay‚ she had to fight with three situations

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    Descriptive Analyses of the Essays and Short Stories Narration and Description THE STRATEGIES Although the narrative and descriptive essays are often given as separate assignments in composition courses‚ they are combined in this first section so that teachers can present expressive writing and still reserve time for the many forms of informative and argumentative writing. This choice is tricky because it confirms the folk wisdom about expressive writing and rhetorical difficulty. According to

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