Natashia Waramit Arts & Cultural Diversity November 14‚ 2012 Cultural Project #2 The 2004‚ Paul Haggis film Crash and Jimmy Santiago Baca’s sort reading‚ “So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from Americans” surprisingly have many connections on racism‚ prejudice and stereotypes given the length of the excerpt and the details of the movie. The multiple correlations are easily identifiable within specific scenes and a few lines from the reading. These correlations include ties between all race relationships
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intense feeling of deep affection‚ and all three of these poems‚ and songs contain the definition of love. First‚ I found a connection with the poem “I Am Offering This Poem” and song “All of Me” by John Legend. In “I Am Offering This Poem” Jimmy Santiago Baca writes‚ “I have nothing else to give you.” In this poem the poet has nothing else left to give her because he gave her all his love in the poem. In the song “All of Me” by John Legend‚ he sings‚ “Cause all
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Louie Saenz 9/25/12 Jimmy Baca Prison Rules As I continue to read Baca’s works it all starts to make sense. I am enjoying his novel more than I did his poetry. I don’t think its because he’s a bad poet‚ but because I do not enjoy poetry as most people in this day and age. A place to stand continues to be a very good novel that explains everything quite well. I am extremely interested in this weeks reading because of what a breakthrough Jimmy finally has. The devils butcher shop by Roger Morris
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There is a mysterious connection between grandparent and grandchild‚ one that transcends all ethnicities‚ religions‚ and socio-economic groups. In Jimmy Santiago Baca’s poem "Green Chile"‚ he explores this connection via the use of chile peppers as a medium. Baca personifies both green and red peppers to illustrate not only that special bond‚ but also the historical significance of said vegetable amongst the Mexican-American community. The speaker in "Green Chile" begins the poem by stating his
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1970s was full of controversy. Riots‚ protests‚ and strikes were appearing all over the news throughout the nation‚ and the discrimination against Mexicans and Mexican Americans in the workforce was finally coming to light. During this time‚ Jimmy Santiago Baca wrote about some of these issues in his poem "So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from Americans." The poem speaks volumes to what was occurring in America. Although the title may give one impression of the poem‚ the true meaning lies within its satirical
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key issues that we should consider when thinking of getting education. The more we are trying hard to achieve academic success‚ the more we are starting to grow apart from our love ones and it is changing everyone in certain way. According to Jimmy Santiago Baca in‚ "Working in The Dark‚" "Only by action‚ by moving out into the world and confronting and challenging the obstacles‚ could one learn anything worth knowing." Usually we have to go out in the world in order to get education and even face lots
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Prison or Education? Mrs. Kolb Comp. II 12 March 2014 America is ranked number one in the world in the amount of people they incarcerate. On average for every 100‚000 U.S citizens there are 500 citizens incarcerated (Tsai). A high percentage of the inmates are illiterate and about seventy percent of them dropped out of high school (Tsai). The government continues to increase funding for prisons as their population grows and at the same time the funds for education decline. As one might see there
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Maria Torres Engl 1302 Instructor: Mary Schillaci Stealing America is the dreamland for Mexicans and many other people around the world. This is one of the countries that give people many opportunities to succeed in life. No matter how hard they do to be here‚ knowing that they may do it or not‚ that they could die or get their dream‚ putting their lives on danger while crossing the border. People do not care about the risks they will have to go through‚ they only care about come and
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Defining Something by What It Is Not in American History X His racist cheeks are covered in tears as he is interviewed about his father’s recent death. Derek pours his emotions out to the bewildered interviewer for the local news channel expressing‚ “Decent hard working Americans like my dad are getting rubbed out by social parasites” and as the reporter is confused Derek responds with’ “…blacks‚ browns‚ yellow whatever”. Before his father passed away he had been shoving extremely prejudicial views
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Los Angeles‚ 1992 4. Cumings‚ Dominion from Sea to Sea‚ chapters 2‚ 10 or 11 5. O’Hearn‚ ed.‚ Half + Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural 6. Essays on Los Angeles by Christopher Isherwood‚ Sonora McKeller‚ Wanda Coleman‚ Jimmy Santiago
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