portrayed by the media. In The Myth of the Latin Woman‚ Cofer goes on about how there is a stereotype about Latin women in America and writes about her personal experiences. She talks about how she is a Puerto Rican woman in America and how she hates her stereotype and just wants to belong or fit in. The Major difference between the Latin and American cultures is the clothing choices. Americans dress dull as Latin’s dress more vibrant and flashy. Cofer also talks about how some Movies tend to cause the
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"An Hour with Abuelo" by J.O. Cofer shows some of the many hardships of life. In the beginning Arturo says "my mother wants me to to spend some time with him‚ since the doctors say that he doesn’t have too long to go now" (Cofer 592) (they are talking about his grandfather)‚ this shows that his grandfather is going to die very soon and he wants to spend his last moments with family. In the middle of the story Arturo says "his children‚ including my mother‚ came to New York and New Jersey (where I
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Instead of replacing her Puerto Rican bright colored dress code and accepting the American “tailored skirts and silk blouses” (592)‚ Cofer complains that she should not change the way she is and she is doing something about being stereotyped in America by reading her composed stories‚ poems‚ and her dreams around the U.S and her goal is to get the
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as more children were born‚ and more rooms more were needed‚ Mama asked Papa to build more rooms for each child‚ filling up the lower level of the house. All the rooms were built before the new room with shelves and a private entrance for Papa. 2. Cofer refers to the house as “le casa de Mama” which describes the power Mama had over everyone in the house. No one in the house was allowed to touch anything in her bedroom. Mama also had a chifforobe‚ with a little golden key‚ which she never hid‚ because
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Essay A mindset in life is to worry about oneself and his or hers priorities‚ but that mindset can enlarge and take over other priorities or wants in one’s life. A story that represents that mindset enlarging is “Contents of a Dead Man’ Pocket” which is about man not going to the movies with his wife so that he can stay home and work. A different story that shows this is “Catch the Moon” which is about how a kid is forced to work at a junkyard and there he meets a girl asking him to find
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“American History‚” Elena‚ who is one of the main characters was getting bullied. According to Cofer the author there were these girls that were calling
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present amongst both articles‚ The Crossing‚ and The Story of My Body. Within The Story of My Body‚ Ortiz Cofer writes about her experiences being a Puerto Rican immigrant living in the U.S.‚ while in The Crossing‚ Ruben Martinez writes about being the son of two immigrants and searching for an undocumented alien‚ UDA‚ in order to question and gain information‚ for he is a journalist. When Cofer begins describing her residence in the U.S. she presents the fact that she is born of two Puerto Rican
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The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Archidamian War by Donald Kagan The Art of Fiction by Henry James The Art of War by Sun Tzu As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Atonement by Ian McEwan Autobiography
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English III AP - AP( English Language and Composition Course Overview The English III AP (or AP( English Language and Composition) course objectives are to help students become “skilled readers of prose written in a variety of periods‚ disciplines‚ and rhetorical contexts” and to help students become “skilled writers who compose for a variety of purposes” (The College Board‚ AP( English Course Description‚ May 2007‚ May 2008‚ p. 6). Students are expected to read critically‚ think analytically
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“ El Hoyo “‚ by Mario Suarez ‚ was a description essay . The author describes the city that he lives in as beautiful‚ amazing‚ and glorious. Although to everyone Tuscan is generally the same to Mario it was different. Mario’s use of descriptive words help you better understand downtown Tuscan. He mainly explains that where he lives is a hole: the area in which he lives in “drop a few feet” he says. He used vivid words to describe how much he loves he run down town of Tuscan. Mario uses imagery so
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