Anh Le Professor Anna Rogers English 48 November 10th‚ 2014 Reading Journal – Always Running – Second Week (Chapter 3-5) Summary: Luis describes his life as part of the gang‚ saying that he and his friends are in a vacant lot they had claimed as their own‚ furnished with old sofas and covered by plastic to keep off at least some of the rain when an old car comes by. Two of the group go to the street to get a better look and one‚ Clavo‚ is shot in the face. Clavo loses an eye in the shooting. Luis
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Enrique’s Journey Enrique’s Journey is about a 5 year old boy named Enrique‚ his mother named Lourdes and Enrique’s sister named Belky. In their hometown in Honduras‚ the single mother cannot afford to keep her family afloat with her working. She washes cloths and sells them‚ along with other things like cigarettes‚ crackers‚ and gum. She knows she cannot afford to keep her kids in school past third grade so she decides to cross the boarder into America to try to get a better job and send money
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The United States: A Cautionary Tale Jose Enrique Rodo’s essay Ariel is a call to the people of Latin America to recognize that they face a great fork in the road of their development. Down one path is the way the United States has taken with its pursuits of material comforts and progress for the sake of progress. Down the other lays the potential Latin America has to be something better than that‚ an opportunity to not only emulate the great ancient societies of Athens and Rome‚ but also improve
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Chapter Summaries Chap.1 Summary Mr. Jones owns a farm know as “Manor Farm.” He is a very cruel and sickens man. He treats his animals very terrible and does the things the no farmer has done as bad. One animal at the farm named Old Major calls all the animals at the barn for a meeting. At the meeting‚ he discusses how terrible they are treated and how they should be treated and they should rebel against Mr. Jones. Chap.2 Summary Three days after the meet‚ Old Major has died and the other
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Excellence. Nazaro’s connection to the narration that she voices‚ mirrors that of her family’s journey. They were immigrant. Enrique’s Journey‚ is a national bestseller that has won more than a dozen awards thus far. I believe the author‚ Nazario‚ felt the need to tell this story because it was both a compelling story and it was also a way to bring light to the atrocities that immigrants face during their journey across and to unknown lands.
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minions attempt to kill Hercules but instead turn him into a demigod. Hercules is then forced to live on earth in attempt to figure out who he really is and where he truly belongs. In the process Hercules faces many dangers and obstacles along his journey to returning home. Hades discovers that the only person that can stop him is Hercules so Hades does everything in his power to stop Hercules from ruining his plans. Hades then sends his minions to Kidnap Hercules and turn him into a demigod where
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Easter As with almost all "Christian" holidays‚ Easter has a secular side as well. The dichotomous nature of Easter and its symbols‚ however‚ is not necessarily a modern fabrication. Easter has always had its non-religious side. In fact‚ Easter was originally a pagan festival. It was co-opted by Christian missionaries starting in the second century CE. Easter must be celebrated on a Sunday between the dates of March 22 and April 25. The Lenten Season Lent is the forty-six day period just prior
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knowing this will be able to make a higher profit because they do not have to pay their workers as much. As Lourdes leaves‚ Enrique is forced to move to a place that is even worse than he
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When reading these chapters I felt like there’s a lot of useful things I need to be using not only for this class but other classes as well. In the last presentation there were things I lagged on. For example in one of the sections it said using more than one examples are crucial to when making a point or presenting something. I did not use enough examples in my presentation which made not only my presentation less on time but less informative to my audience. Another problem I tend to have trying
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People have told me all my life that going back to school was a waste of time. These same people would also say your mom and dad did not go to college‚ so why would you? Influenced by the negativity of those same people‚ I chose not to return to school for some time. However‚ after a lot of research‚ and a lot of soul searching‚ I decided to return to school. I found that most of the careers that I was interested in you had to have a degree to get. The benefits outweighed all of the cons‚ and I would
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