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    “It is not possible for a child –any child- ever to use his family’s language in school. Not to understand this is to misunderstand the public uses of schooling and to trivialize the nature of intimate life –“a family’s language”. (125) “At home they spoke spanish. The language of their Mexican past sounded in counterpoint to the English of public society. The words would come quickly‚ with ease. Conveyed through those sounds was the pleasing‚ soothing‚ consoling reminder of being at home.” (3)

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    an aspect of culture is now the verbal No-Man’s-Land. Two authors -- Martín Espada and Richard Rodriguez -- share their experiences in the war of English and Spanish. Their works‚ The New Bathroom Policy at English High School (Espada)‚ and‚ Hunger of Memory (Rodriguez)‚ recount their struggles with two tongues. Espada drafted a notion that elaborates on the paranoia and hostility of misunderstanding‚ whereas Rodriguez plants the seed of public and private identities. With their ideas considered

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    The theme of separation is an important development in the novels Hunger of Memory and How the Garcia Girls lost their Accent. The novels deal with separation differently. For Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez‚ the separation allows Richard to move from the private world to the public world. Here‚ separation is a movement for a solution‚ which is citizenship. In How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accent by Julia Alvarez‚ the separation is an effect from Antojo. Richard Rodriguez immediately recognizes

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    Christian Ramirez 12/18/12 Hunger of Memory The Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez was a story about a Hispanic kid who went through a lot of changes throughout his childhood. This boy moves to California to live with his family and start his new life. He had never learned to speak or understand English‚ so you can only imagine how difficult a time he must have had. He tried to keep quiet his entire time in class so he didn’t humiliate or just flat out embarrass

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    Our perception of ourselves is all; if we have no perception of ourselves then we have no respect or love for how we are so that alone makes it of urgent importance no matter who we are or what we are. The situation happened when I was at California and me and my family were on the beach‚ I changed into my swim suit to go swimming and my mom took.one look at me and told me that I had to lose weight and my brother laughed with his friends and it made me feel fat n ugly It wasn’t too shocking because

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    Teddy Duong Professor Travis English 100 18 March 2016 Bilingual Education‚ Good or Bad? Both. In his autobiography‚ Hunger of Memory‚ Richard Rodriguez discusses his early life as the son of Mexican immigrant parents and the beginning of his schooling in Sacramento‚ California. Knowing only a finite number of English words‚ the American life is an entirely new atmosphere for Rodriguez and his family. Throughout his book‚ Rodriguez undergoes a series of changes and revelations that not only hurts

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    Hunger of Memory: Religion Rodriguez is very open about Catholicism and the identities and views that he has had in his life both as a child and now as an adult. He begins by explaining how as a child‚ the Church had a profound impact on his everyday life. The Church had “an extraordinarily physical presence” in Rodriguez’s early life as he had a church and a catholic school both within one block in either direction of his home (Rodriguez pg 85). As a young boy‚ Rodriguez’s first taste of church

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    Molina 1 English 116 Professor J. Flynn November 06‚ 2013 To Care or Not to Care: Obamacare For the past years‚ our country’s health care programs have been asked and petitioned to be improved. President Obama took action into account and decided it was time for our nation to have an affordable and well operated health care program‚ known as Obamacare. A bill that would allow us to grow and succeed at an affordable cost‚ but to what expense? Obamacare has severe consequences that will

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    While I read "The Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez"‚ there were tons of ideas that struck me. It was very interesting because so many of the different parts could relate to my life. Also‚ given his story‚ it’s so interesting to me that he is against bilingual education‚ having benefited from it in his own life. To me‚ it places the book in a different light as I read it. This book is a narrative and it is telling in how his opinions were formed because the experiences that

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    As I began reading the first chapter of ‘Hunger of Memory’‚ I noticed that the author‚ Richard Rodriguez‚ in a satisfied tone‚ defined his private family as alienated in a public society. A society in which intimacy has a very much different meaning than what he presumed. This notion was primarily based off linguistic differences that‚ from his point of view as a small child‚ build a pleasantly intimate bond that kept his family close. Very far distant from the un-intimate world. In the middle

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