take? In her book Borderlands/ La Frontera‚ Gloria Anzaldua uses poetic prose to relate her many years of anger from trying to integrate the clashing morals of her Mexican‚ American‚ and Indian cultures. Anzaldua ultimately concludes that for people caught in this clash‚ decolonization from both Mexican and American society‚ in order to create a new “borderland” culture‚ it is a productive and positive step toward psychological health. Before Anzaldua can give her solutions to the problems borderland
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The idea I took from “To live in the Borderlands Means You” Written by Gloria Anzaldua. The author grew up around U.S and Mexico borderlands. The poem explains facts that happen in the borderlands such race‚ politics and culture. The poet talks about the difficult living in the borderlands‚ struggling to fit in. The author uses a different language through her poem to show that It’s okay to speak a different language when moving to a new culture. The author also talks about how it’s okay to mix
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I see a lot of similarities between the language and concepts that Anzaldúa uses and those that our earlier thinkers‚ like James‚ Dewey‚ and Bergson use. She homes in on universally inclusive ideas like a “collective consciousness” (p. 20) and her belief that “each person’s actions affect the rest of the world” (p. 15). This has been a pretty controversial/contested idea in our class as well; many of us seem to be apprehensive when approaching that concept‚ as if doing so is imposing the belief that
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read in‚ “Speaking In Tongues” by Zadie Smith and “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” by Gloria Anzaldùa. Smith and Anzaldùa both shared a similar problem. They were afraid that they may lose or already lost their voice/language. While Anzaldùa did everything to prevent that‚ “I had to “argue” with one advisor after the other‚ semester after semester‚ before I was allowed to make Chicano literature an area of focus” (Anzaldùa 376). Smith on the other hand just tried to fit in‚ “A braver person‚ perhaps
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Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo | | Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (born April 5‚ 1947) is a Filipino politician who served as the14th President of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010‚ as the 12th Vice President of the Philippines from 1998 to 2001‚ and is currently a member of the House of Representativesrepresenting the 2nd District of Pampanga. She was the country’s second female president (after Corazón Aquino)‚ and the daughter of former President Diosdado Macapagal. Arroyo was a former professor of economics
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Narrator: there was once a very wise man. He lived on a high mountain and was called Pundabi. With him lived a young boy. The boy’s name was Ali. (the camera is on a man with a long beard‚ with a boy sitting beside him) narrator: each morning ali would come down the mountain. He would sit on a shade of a fig tree . Many people would come to him. They brought him loavesof bread. In the bread were peices of fine linen. (the camera is on a bread that is cut from the middle‚ and a linen paper is showing)
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throughout our culture is extremely powerful. It is used to make connections with other people‚ it is used in business‚ and countless other things. Without language there would be no unity or diversity. Both Anzaldúa and Morrison explore the power of language in their own perspectives. Anzaldúa expresses the power of language when she talks about linguistic terrorism. She mentions that‚ “Repeated attacks on our native tongue diminish our sense of self” (Austin 210). Since she was raised speaking
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The Story of the Warrior Serpent Once upon a time there was a young boy in Athens named Serpent who lived in Greece. He wasn’t too short but also wasn’t too tall‚ and he had short dark brown hair. Ever since Serpent was little‚ he consistently trained for combat every day. Few people understood why Serpent enjoyed fighting so much‚ but they did know one thing: he was very skilled at it. Day after day Serpent practiced combat and got even better at it. Each day he learned new fighting techniques
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In Gloria Anzaldua’s book Borderlands La Frontera‚ The New Mestiza‚ she shares her experience in a post-colonial world as a Chicana‚ a lesbian and a woman who grew up in a cross-cultured area trying to understand her identity but also to make us rethink about what a border is and what are the consequences which come with it. Anzaldua creates a “mestiza consciousness” as a dynamic capable of breaking down dualistic ascendant archetypes. This concept is related to “hybridity”‚ a mixed race‚ which will
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(Scene starts with Gloria and Victor pulling into their home. Both Gloria and Victor remain silent. After they unload Gloria tells Victor she is going out for a walk‚ and defeated‚ Victor doesn’t object. Scene then goes to the coffee shop where she sees Francisco.) GLORIA: (Goes up behind him covering his eyes). I have a surprise for you now. FRANCISCO: Did I just win the lottery‚ please tell me you’re who I think you are? GLORIA: (Hugs Francisco from behind). I never want to leave you again… FRANCISCO:
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