Judith Ortiz Cofer: Understanding a Writer Judith Ortíz Cofer was born in Hormigueros‚ Puerto Rico in 1952. She was raised on the island and in Paterson‚ New Jersey‚ before her family finally settled in Augusta‚ Georgia. She received her B.A. in English from Augusta College in 1974‚ and her M.A. in English from Florida Atlantic University‚ and did graduate school at Oxford University in 1977 (Judith). Her collections of poetry include The Year of Our Revolution: New and Selected Stories and
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A Day That Changed My World View Michael Strbac ENC 1101- Composition 1 05/18/2011 A Day That Changed My World View I remember getting up in the morning‚ starting breakfast and turning on the TV just as I had on many other normal mornings. I was having Raison Bran for breakfast and looking for something interesting on TV to watch. All the stations were covering the same thing. The date‚ 09/11/2001. Things would never be normal again. I called work‚ Inland Express Airport Shuttle Service
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The day my daughter was the born was the first day of the rest of my life. Although I was 22 when I had Camri‚ I still had a lot of growing up to do. I had to figure out my game plan for life‚ my career choice‚ and being a single mother. I knew the one thing I could count on was the support of my family and the few friends I had. The amazing thing is that I never had the thought that I couldn’t handle being a mother or being overwhelmed. I automatically knew what to do and I knew I would be
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A memorable day in my life Life is full of various events and experiences. But all of these are not equally important‚ enjoyable and memorable. Some are memorable. I am a student. There are some memorable days and they remain evergreen in my heart. My first day at school is such a day. It was the month of January‚ 2007. I was then only six years old. My father proposed that I should be admitted into a school in class one the next day. I felt very excited. I could not think of anything else
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applied theory in the real world. In this paper I will be explaining and extrapolating upon two key concepts that have been introduced in the unit readings; performativity and intersectionality. Having coined the term in her book‚ Gender Trouble‚ Judith Butler’s theory on gender peformativity is arguably one of the most widely referenced concepts in the gender studies field. Gender perfomativity theorises that we‚ as
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I was running with the ball at my feet‚ my arms and knees where heavy from all the training I had been doing‚ but I felt good. I knew I was going to make a good play. I looked up and saw two defenders but‚ with no hesitation I charged towards them with the ball. I cut left hard and flew past one defender. After him I approached a tall defender and nutmegged him‚ passing the ball in between and through a player’s legs. I then passed the ball up forward to a friend of mine who almost scored an amazing
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My Snow Day When I was younger‚ I would maybe in the 3rd grade‚ one day we had a snow day from school my parents took my siblings and I to the hill to sled. My dad took me to the very top of the hill and had me scared out of my mind. I saw a lot of adults going down with no problem till they hit the bottom then ended up flipping over. So I sat back and watched some kids my age try and it at first they were crying a little bit saying the hill went too far down. Well some of the parents would get
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I was cleaning out mum’s belongings for a few hours when something caught my eye. It was an ultrasound…of twins. I thought back to my past life and never saw a pair of twins in my life. Neither mum‚ nor dad ever talked about me having twin cousins. I was starting to think that mum just kept this ultrasound because she felt like it but something else caught my eye. The date on the bottom right hand corner stated that the ultrasound was taken on the 2nd of July 1998
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Bad days often come in everybody’s life. I too faced a bad day in my life. I faced many difficulties on that day. It was a rainy day. My parents went to attend the marriage celebration of one of my relatives in the next village. I did not accompany them because I wanted to read and prepare my lessons at home. However‚ I was instructed to attend the feast at 2 P.M. My father kept the cycle for me. Mother had no need to cook for me because I consented to join the feast at 2 P.M. instead of going
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An essay on cyclone A cyclone is a very violent storm. It never comes alone. Heavy showers of rain‚ thunder and lightning are its companions. When a cyclone blows‚ it moves round and round in the form of small circles. It always changes its course when it blows. It does not move in the same direction like an ordinary storm. It occurs mostly in the warm parts of the world. India is in this region of the world. Hence cyclones often blow over her. In cold countries there is no cyclone. The signs of
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