from several words and attitudes that the poet conveys to their reader. Poets‚ Pat Mora and Anthony Grooms‚ both use tone in their poems‚ but only one tone changes with the different setting‚ while the other tone remains constant. In Pat Mora’s‚ "Elena‚" the speaker is a Mexican woman who explains how her life has changed due to her and her family moving to the United States. The first line in the poem brings a slight negative tone‚ "My Spanish isn’t enough." Right away the reader is brought into
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MARIA ELENA Case Study 1 a. Summary of the case: Maria Elena works as a cleaner in your home You find her quite pleasant but of late she seems to be restless so you decide to find out the reason for it and you are shocked Her story in short goes this way .Maria Elena is an illegal immigrant who lives in San Jose with her husband and 2 children in a run down apartment with two other couples. Maria and her husband Luis heard of how good everything was in the USA from a cousin and decide
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communion in the sense of the sharing of thoughts and feelings is not always necessarily spiritual in nature‚ but also mental exchanges as well. Pat Mora uses this sharing of the intimate thoughts and feelings or communion in her poems. In the poem “Elena” the speaker is describing feeling alienated from her family in the time of their communion as they sit at the kitchen table for dinner‚ due to her inability to speak English. This can be seen in the lines “At night they sit around the kitchen table
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Elena Mesa Nov. 15‚ 2013 Ms. Lelacheur IB Biology HL The Effect of Temperature on Beet Root Membranes What is the affect of temperature on beetroot membranes? Hypothesis: It is hypothesized that as the temperature increases‚ the deeper red the beetroot water will be. At higher temperatures the proteins in the beetroot plasma membrane will denature‚ leaving holes in the membrane and allowing the red pigment in the cell sap to seep out into the water around it. Variables: Dependent-The
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“She had come back with the intention of showing Mama Elena how she had triumphed in life” (Esquivel 178). She wants to show her family that they could now follow their dreams and leave Mama Elena’s dreams behind. Not only is Gertrudis rebellious by being successful‚ but also she is able to show her sisters
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Elena Eduwiges Sotomayor is one of those people who change the lives of everyone they meet without ever consciously trying to do so. At only the age of ten‚ she is already becoming a beautiful young lady both inside and out. Her naturally light brown skin tans beautifully in the summer‚ always without burning. It becomes more of a light caramel color with every passing year and lightens to a beautiful extra-creamy coffee color when the weather cools down. Dirty blonde hair pieced together from every
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and “Elena Vanishing: a memoir” by Elena and Clare B. Dunkle. Hamlet’s behavior and thoughts exemplified several symptoms of depression; similarly‚ Elena made a futile attempt to uphold her unrelenting façade while battling for dominion over her own body. A seventeen-year-old girl named Elena is introduced in the story in a panic‚ lying in a hospital bed while a nurse glowers over her failure to touch the plate of food‚ which was the only thing the nurse was responsible for mandating. Elena faced
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THE CRITICS asked her‚ “Who’s your goy?” Rubinstein replied‚ “That’s Patrick! And . . . and‚ yes‚ he is my goy.” I BOOKS THE COLOR OF MONEY Sometimes beauty is just business. BY MALCOLM GLADWELL H elena Rubinstein was born in 1872 in Krakow’s Jewish ghetto‚ the eldest of eight daughters of a kerosene dealer. By her late teens‚ she had abandoned Poland for Australia‚ where she began cooking up vats of face cream. She called it Valaze‚ and claimed that it was the creation of an eminent
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conflict subverts the societal norms of her respective gender. The role of protector that Mama Elena assumes in respect to her daughters’ bodies‚ the near universal obedience to her wishes‚ and her emotional unavailability better align her with Machismo;
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In My Brilliant Friend‚ a fictional book by Elena Ferrante‚ Elena and Lila grow up in a poor neighborhood overrun by the violent crimes of their corrupt neighbors. Affected by the legacies of their poor parents‚ prosperity and love troubles are constant struggles for the younger generation of the neighborhood. These struggles trigger emotional reactions from both the parents and their children‚ prompting more violent actions in the neighborhood. Ferrante expresses the theme that anger‚ greed‚ and
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