loves the head of a dandelion" (Morrison 35). "They are ugly. They are weeds" (Morrison 38). Pecola‚ the main character from the novel The Bluest Eye‚ by Toni Morrison‚ compares herself to the dandelions: ugly and unwanted. Pecola is raised with no sense of self-esteem or self-value. She is a black girl with nappy hair and dark eyes. She yearns for blue eyes‚ the mark of beauty in the United States during the 1940s. She lives a life of tumult and ugliness. Pecola portrays happier versions of her life
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Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead Jerome John Garcia was born in 1942‚ in San Francisco’s Mission District. His father‚ a spanish immigrant named Jose "Joe" Garcia‚ had been a jazz clarinetist and Dixieland bandleader in the thirties‚ and he named his new son after his favorite Broadway composer‚ Jerome Kern. In the spring of 1948‚ while on a fishing trip‚ Garcia saw his father swept to his death by a California river. After his father’s death‚ Garcia spent a few years living with his mother’s
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The Gabriel Arcangel The Gabriel Archangel mission was founded September 8‚ 1771.This mission takes place of the fourth in the series of the 21 California missions. This mission is located in San Gabriel and was founded by father president Junipero Sierra. The location of this mission was completely important because many people would not have to travel to missions in Mexico. This greatly increased the popularity of the mission and became the wealthiest and most prosperous of all missions. It
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The overarching argument that Gabriel Paquette makes is that the dissolution of the Spanish empire was caused primarily by: proto-nationalism‚ Spanish misrule‚ and the Napoleonic occupation of Spain. Paquette breaks down his thesis by first providing background information and then introduces two competing historical perspectives. The first perspective relies on more immediate causes of the dissolution such as Bourbon reforms‚ new demographic pressures‚ and Enlightenment ideals that inspired revolution
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Hector P. Garcia Hector Garcia was born January 17‚ 1914 in Llera‚ Tamaulipas‚ Mexico. His father‚ a college professor‚ Jose Garcia‚ and his mother‚ a school teacher‚ Faustina Perez Garcia were threatened by the Mexican Revolution. In response of having seven children in the middle of a war for independence the family decided to flee. The Garcias legally settled in Mercedes‚ Texas. At first the family had to satisfy their daily needs by manual labor. Jose later joins his brothers in the dry goods
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The Bluest Eye In her novel The Bluest Eye‚ Toni Morrison emphasizes three major events that are both personal and historical because they affected her at the time when she was writing the novel. She writes about a personal event about a childhood who wanted blue eyes to be beautiful‚ which puzzled her and changed her perception of what real beauty really was and who were the ones considered beautiful or ugly. There were also a couple of historical events that she mentions in the novel that affected
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Imagining going through that every day. In the short story “Spaghetti” by Cynthia Rylant‚Gabriel is lonely because he lost hope‚ always wishes for some company and since he has no one to talk to he always fully thinks.He has no one to talk to‚ no one to rely on until he finds a stray kitten in the alleyway near his apartment. He rescues the kitten and brings it home to start a new life. The first reason why Gabriel is always so lonely because in the story it said that “it was evening‚ and people sat
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Address on the State of the Nation Message to Congress Of His Excellency Carlos P. Garcia President of the Philippines [January 26‚ 1959] Mr. Senate President‚ Mr. Speaker‚ Members of Congress: I address you today to sound a call for vital and bold decisions on the future of our national economy. The eyes of our people are on us in this hall and their ears are cupped toward this lectern on which I stand‚ in anxious anticipation of what the national leadership‚ which you and I share by their
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Jeremy Garcia English 101 November 25‚ 2014 Compare and Contrast Truman and O’Conner In both stories of “In Cold Blood” by Truman Capote and “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by O’Connor‚ similarities and contrasts exist in their literacy forms. The characters in both stories are also comparable‚ although diverse at certain points. Several of the similarities ranges from foreshadowing‚ character simulation‚ and even the setting is similar since it envies’ and harbor criminal incidences (O’Connor‚ 121)
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The Giver‚ the newchild Gabriel symbolizes love. The symbol of the newchild Gabriel occurs in the story when Jonas’ father brought him to his house at night for extra care. As time passed‚ Jonas found himself attached to Gabriel and loved him. For example‚ Lois Lowry writes‚ “But the moment passed and was followed by an urge‚ a need‚ a passionate yearning to share the warmth with one person left for him to love” (221). By looking at this quotation‚ we can see that Gabriel is very special to him as
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