In “Always Running”‚ a former gang member named Luis J. Rodriguez writes about his rough past. He joined his first gang when he was eleven years old‚ and saw many of his friends die one-by-one as a result of the dangers of being in a gang in east L.A. This broke him down and made him weak‚ but he had no one to share his emotions with which resulted in his joining of a gang. He killed an innocent man for the sake of being in a gang‚ spent several months in prison‚ and participated in numerous shootings
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Both Paolo Freire and Richard Rodriguez have spent most of their lives dedicated to education. While for different reason‚ Rodriguez for his own education and Freire for the education of others‚ they both have put in many long hours. Through Freire’s life he has spent a lot of time coming up with an education system that he feels is best for the learners. That system is what he calls problem posing. He talks about what an effective problem posing classroom looks like in his essay‚ “The Banking
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Richard Rodriguez wrote the essay Late Victorians to inform readers of the complexities and tragedy in the San Franciscan gay community‚ while exploring his own place in it. He is most personal and appealing to the reader’s pathos when he describes the death from AIDS of his friend Cesar‚ near the end of the essay. In order to make the reader empathize more readily‚ he first spends a paragraph making Cesar relatable. Rodriguez begins with straight-forward sentence structure (in paragraph 95)‚ writing:
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break from the public’s standard. Famed novelists and extraordinary writers Richard Rodriguez‚ Maxine Hong Kingston‚ and Frederick Douglass are some of the few who were victims of being silenced by fellow students‚ teachers‚ and authority. Yet‚ they found a way to break past the prison bars placed around them by society’s norm by finding themselves through education and a little strong will. Robert Rodriguez was once a young boy who felt like one with his native tongue: Spanish. He describes
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Gloria Anzaldua (“How To Tame a Wild Tongue”) and Richard Rodriguez (“Aria”) have written powerful‚ painful‚ and very personal stories about their attempts to fit into American society while being taught a language that is not of their ancestors. There are significant differences in the tone of the each reading and the feelings evoked. The methods used by each writer to describe specific points (Anzaldua‚ with force and anger; Rodriguez‚ with a resigned acceptance that only thinly veils his sadness
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Vietnam’s Oldest Circus by Christian Rodriguez‚ focus on a reclusive group of circus performers in Vietnam. Circus performers are a group of people that are marveled for their daring and gravity defying acts in their societies. Little is known about the performers’ lives outside their costumes. Rodriguez writes and photographs the lives of two circus troupes‚ Vietnam Circus Federation and Ho Chi Minh City Circus. In order to document the way the performers lived‚ Rodriguez had to live in the same living
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is‚ our identity is not a static matter. Richard Rodriguez struggles with his cultural identity between California and Mexico. His conflicting feelings are conveyed within the introduction of his written work‚ Days of Obligation. Through juxtaposition‚ paradox‚ and oxymoron‚ Rodriguez compares the cultures‚ and eventually comes to the conclusion that both represent him equally. To demonstrate how California and Mexico’s cultures compare‚ Rodriguez uses juxtaposition. He labels California as a comedy
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this problem was the bilingual education he received from a Roman Catholic School. Rodriguez described bilingual education as a “scheme” that “was foolish and certainly doomed.” The second contributing factor was his parents. As mexican immigrants‚ Rodriguez’s parents never learned how to properly communicate in English. Although his parents weren’t directly inhibited by the inability to speak English fluently‚ Rodriguez recalled a common memory of his childhood where he felt his “clutching trust in
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not hear her (264). As Richard Rodriguez in “ Private Language‚ Public language”‚ his nun said oddly impersonal voice about his name. Then he turned to see his mom’s face dissolve in a watery blur behind the pebbled glass door (235). It will be a big distance between people who aren’t the first language and others because the more they try to explain what they thought‚ the more made other people feel confusion‚ but in order to get better‚ specially Tan and Rodriguez‚ they are trying Second‚ learning
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Douglass by risking his life‚ using all opportunities managed to learn reading and writing. Richard Rodriguez‚ on the other hand‚ was a child who was born 150 years later in a Spanish speaking family. In his essay "The Lonely‚ Good Company of Books"‚ Rodriguez narrates his learning experience and explains how he started learning from reading books. Despite the fact that both Douglass and Rodriguez had a passion to read and write‚ to a large extent‚ their learning experiences were different. The
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