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    This discussion guide for Esperanza Rising features guided student questions with answers provided for an instructor. Book Summary Esperanza believed her life would be wonderful forever. She would always live on her family’s ranch in Mexico. She would always have fancy dresses and a beautiful home filled with servants. Papa and Abuelita would always be with her. But a sudden tragedy shatters her world and Esperanza and Mama flee to California‚ where they settle in a camp for Mexican farm workers

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    setting which takes place during a Storm. Due the storm effecting every action of the character‚ plot and setting it is hard to not just recount the story. Kate utilized the brewing of the storm to keep Bobinot and Bibi‚ husband and son of Calixta who was away from home at Friedheimers store to provide privacy for the upcoming events. Likewise‚ she used the same storm to bring in warm winds that caused Calixta who was busy sewing to not initially see the storm to become warm and sweaty causing her

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    The storm is a sell-evident symbol. It is related to every events or elements of the story. First‚ it’s the title which shows it importance. Secondly‚ the storm plays a role from the beginning to the end of the story: opening and closing the story. It plays also a part in the middle by gathering Alcée and Calixta together‚ pushing and giving them time to be together physically speaking. In literature‚ the storm in a horrifying scene in the natural. Alcée portrays it as “a cyclone” (II‚ l.58)‚ Bobinôt

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    Rodney is a neo- Marxist and non- imperialist writer‚ meaning he views oppression of Africans rooted in the hands of the colonial capitalist activities in Africa and the suffering of Africans premised in the imperialistic activities of Europeans in Africa. His critical work helps in the debate on the definition of African literature‚ for he brings out the historical connection that makes it possible to analyse African literature dealing with the pre- colonial and post- colonial phases of African

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    neighborhood of Clybourne Park‚ Ruth seriously considers aborting her baby. Diana Mafe says‚ “Although the abortion in Raisin never occurs‚ the possibility of abortion remains not only a source of conflict for Ruth Younger‚ wife to the protagonist Walter Lee‚ but also an indication of her desperate yet no less valid agency as a woman” (Mafe). But after they move in‚ she realizes that the family has much more room to live than in the old apartment‚ where the living room couch was Travis’s bed. She

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    Rising Gasoline Prices

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    Rising Gasoline Prices Over the past four years‚ Americans have been battling with high gas prices. The price of gas affects everyone’s lives. High gasoline prices hurt many people’s budgets. The prices at the gas pumps are not our only concerns. If gas prices go up then the cost of consumer products will go up. Many people need gas to drive to work. Gas prices continue to increase‚ making people in the United States feel the affects. Gas should be made affordable so it does not negatively interrupt

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    Walter is a man who is trying his best to Succeed for his family by investing in a liquor store‚ but he is always being undermined by his family. Walter position and the family is being the son. He is always frustrated because momma and Ruth don’t understand where he’s coming from. From Mama and ruth’s point of view‚ he looks crazy; however and Walters mind‚ he makes perfect sense. Momma gets money from the insurance company and Walter wants to use that money to invest in a business he’s been wanting

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    “The Storm” by Kate Chopin portrays a woman (Calixta) waiting for her son and husband to come home during a storm; meanwhile she gives into temptation when an old friend calls by he house. Chopin’s short story is immoral because it displays actions that are immoral. Both Calixta and Alcée Laballière (her friend) are married with children. Also‚ we see by reading the story that they are both devoted to their families. Calixta is very worried about her son Bibi. As the storm starts‚ she cries “If

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    Tom Morello Tom Morello is the living representation of a powder keg. His unique and creative guitar playing style‚ combined with his powerful lyrics on the world we live in makes him one of the most respected musicians in the past two decades. He is most famously known as the sole guitarist of the rap rock group Rage Against The Machine‚ while also keeping up with his acoustic-driven side project “The Nightwatchman”. Along with those two experiences on his resumé‚ he is currently the guitarist

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    Catherine Dunn argues in The Storm in King Lear that the storm in Shakespeare’s King Lear is brought on by ingratitude symbolizes the cosmic chaos of the Empedoclean type as opposed to the Christian Last Judgment. Although the storm often symbolizes the Last Judgment to a Christian audiences Dunn believes the primitive story of Lear operates within a framework of pagan cosmology. According to Dunn this destruction of the universe by Strife is depicted by the categorization of the characters into

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