Case Incident 2:A Diamond Personality Ask Oscar Rodriguez about the dot-com burst‚ and he may grin at you as if to say‚ “What burst?” Rodriguez‚ a 38-years old entrepreneur‚ owns an internet business that sells loose diamonds to various buyers. Business is booming. In 2004‚ Rodriguez had sales of $ 2.06 million- a 140 percent increase from 2003. Rodriguez’s database of almost 60‚000 available diamonds is one of the largest in the industry and is valued‚ according to him‚ at over $350 million
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circumstances of “The Achievement of Desire‚” a self-essay written by Robert Rodriguez‚ tension can be more defined as contrasts within Rodriguez’s life that results in conflicting forces that negatively strain him mentally and emotionally. Rodriguez faces educational and family tensions‚ which leads him to be an emotionless outcast with an unhappy life and a constant never-ending feeling of being unsatisfied. Rodriguez describes himself as a “Scholarship Boy‚” obsessed with school and education
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pressure by conforming to these norms or resist by deviating from them. In Richard Rodriguez’s “Aria‚” Rodriguez shows how he conforms to the pressure of the American public’s social norm of learning and speaking English. By learning English‚ Rodriguez is able to participate more in American society‚ while gaining acceptance from his peers and others around him. At the same time‚ Rodriguez is deviating from his and his family’s own personal social norm at home of communicating in Spanish and sticking
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relationship they have with their family members. As demonstrated in Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez‚ and in the play Real Woman Have Curves by Josefina Lopez. Both Rodriguez and Lopez are faced with an important decision when they decide to further their education. Coming from a similar family background‚ both Rodriguez and Lopez’s parents did not have the opportunity of obtaining a college education. Rodriguez and Lopez both desire to pursue their goals and live a better life‚ district from the one
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Reading response for The Achievement of Desire Richard Rodriguez is a mirror makes readers look back their education experience and family relationship. Rodriguez was chasing the end of education for a long time until he wrote this essay and read Richard Hoggart’s book. He is trying to make a tight combination of education‚ family and growth process. For his argument of the end of education‚ readers always misunderstand the end is one kind of academic success. But compare with author’s essay
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In the story “Aria” by Richard Rodriguez and “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan both authors write about their experiences and struggles as a bilingual child. In “Aria” and “Mother Tongue” they describe their private language as an expression of intimacy with their loved ones. Growing up at one point they felt embarrassed and ashamed of their parents inability to speak English fluently. Tan writes “My mother’s “limited” English limited my perception of her. I was ashamed of her English‚” (Tan 543). They
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notorious figure among the Ethnic Left in America.” (Rodriguez 230) In an interview‚ Bill Moyers asked‚ “Do you consider yourself American or Hispanic?” (Rodriguez 230) Taking in consideration his name and what Richard may have looked like‚ one can tell why some would ask a question like that. Moyers seemed to have assumed that Richard was one of the two‚ which was ignorant of him. Then Richard replied‚ “I think of myself as Chinese.”(Rodriguez 230) With that said I think it is important to note
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Beauty School" Deborah Rodriguez shares her life experiences in Afghanistan after the Taliban was chased out. "In her time there she witnessed first hand the aftermath of the Taliban‚ and how they were still able to affect day to day life for the people of Kabul‚ even though that Taliban was no long in power. Through the many contacts she made in her travels there she was able to see how the people were still influenced by the Talibans’ presence. In the book‚ Rodriguez describes how from fear
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of time. The main thing is not everyone is given the same opportunity; the reason being everyone learns differently. Learning begins at childhood of course; from the parents‚ parent like figures or a school teacher. Fredrick Douglass and Richard Rodriguez are two great examples of whose process of learning impacted their lives from childhood to adulthood. Between these two great men are some similarities even though they had ambition to learn they grew up in different times and was different minorities
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According to Rodriguez and Adamsons‚ first-time parenthood is one of the most common transitions experienced by couples as 1‚000‚000 first-born infants are born to U.S. couples yearly (U.S. Census Bureau‚ 2001). (Rodriguez & Adamsons‚ 2012a) . The decision-making process that couples can be described anecdotally through many variations which include couples reporting
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