Ivan Martinez Professor E. Hendrick English 115-601 Feb 8‚ 2013 Mexican Macho Man Ever since I was young I always witnessed examples of men being more dominant than women‚ the role of macho man has been in my family for generations. The way most Mexican families function is the father is the provider and worker. The mother stays at home cleans‚ cooks‚ and takes care of the children. Also the father would be the one who gives out advice to the kids and makes the family decisions. On the other
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eyes and ears‚ his brute of a cousin who had an attitude as big as the size of a mountain‚ was acting like a guy next door. The way he held the girl‚ it was quite clear the he was not only being polite and considerate‚ but he was actually trying to appease her fear. If he didn’t know better‚ he would swear that this was not his cousin‚ instead some mysterious doppelgänger‚ sent in his place. But what shocked him beyond words was the girls’s behavior towards his cousin. He had observed‚ people in
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my life was funny but it got me grounded. It all started from a phone call I made to my cousin and how I said the lie and forgot about it. If I would not have forgotten about it‚ everything would have been normal that day. It surprised my parents after I told them about what happened and then they decided to ground me for the next day. It all started with the phone call I made to my cousin Afsheen. The phone call was for just a normal chit chat and gossip. In the middle of the
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I not only had to be around my brothers at all times‚ I was also surrounded by too many male cousins. Quite frankly‚ I can count how many female cousins I have in one hand. It is a real shame what a girl had to do just to be one of the guys. I was seven years old at the time and I still remember what happened like it was just yesterday. For the summer break my brothers and I along with our cousins stayed with our grandparents. My grandparents own acres and acres of land in the Philippines
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Our Family Vacation to Mexico My family and I had taken a trip to Mexico for Christmas and New Year’s vacation in 2009. My father decided that we should drive to Mexico instead of flying because it would be an experience to remember. I wasn’t too thrilled about being in the car for 2 days (36 hours) with my brother and sister because my sister can talk for hours and my brother snores so loud that no one can get sleep. We left on a Wednesday evening because my father likes to arrive to Nogales
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My family and I went on a trip to Pennsylvania‚ Florida for my little cousin birthday. My heart was rushing and my face was lit up from the excitement that filled the room. I asked my mom can I bring two of my friends Patrick and Camarius‚ she said yes and all thirty two pearls lined up across my face. It was my first time traveling with my family and my last time. I never want to witness anything like the trip to Florida with my family ever again. As we drove up‚ I sat in the hard back seat with
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Violence in "You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me" "Our tears were the only thing we could control. So not crying felt like we had won something" (Sherman 175). To experience such a traumatic and painful series of events within ones a lifespan leaves the survivor emotionally detach. Sherman Alexie’s memoir‚ "You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me" gives readers a glimpse into Native American life from Sherman personal perspective. In Sherman Alexie memoir through these tragic moments readers can see
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Australian Aborigines culture they believe in cross cousin marriage. As described in the text Cross cousins are the children of opposite sex siblings‚ such as the father’s sister or the mother’s brother. The man in this culture has the right to marry his father sister’s daughter or his mother’s brother’s daughter (3.7 Social Organizations). In this culture and day and time‚ we look at marrying cousins as wrong. It is old folk tale that the third cousins are removed but that was some of the older cultures
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or his mother will be dead. Jason started doing "Dirty jobs" to pay the debt. When Jason’s mother told Jason about his cousin in Los Santos‚ he decided to give it a shot and try to find him. A year later‚ he finally met his cousin. With his help Jason finally paid the debt to mafia. Jason stayed in Los Santos and kept working together with his cousin... A few years later His cousin won a lottery‚ They became rich. They had everything girls‚ money‚ cars... However‚ it didn’t stay like this for
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As a child everything was so much more simple. Day after day I only had one objective on my mind‚ and that was to go outside and have as much fun as I possibly could before the sun went down and it became dark‚ that was when I had to be home. My cousins lived right next to me so i can always remember going outside and swimming in our swimming pool‚ and then we would go over to our grandmothers house for lunch‚ she lived on the other side of my house right next door‚ I will never forget going over
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