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    The Good Daughter

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    Ashutosh Sharma Eng 120-82 Professor Burnham Date: 02/15/2011 The Good Daughter By: Caroline Hwang Caroline Hwang’s essay is a perfect example of someone expressing his/her feeling and sending the message out that growing up between two different cultures is a difficult life style to live. I can relate with Hwang when she says ‘children

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    Myself By Sandra Cisneros

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    Every Woman Not for Herself Ms. Sandra Cisneros expresses the life message that "Family is a gift but for some women‚ it can be a burden and curse too"‚ through the characters Marin‚ Alicia‚ and Minerva in her series of vignettes called The House on Mango Street. In a near by apartment there lives a Puerto Rican family who has a cousin that "...can’t come out-gotta babysit with the Louie’s sisters...can meet someone in the subway who might marry you and take you to live in a big house far away.

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    Sandra Cisneros: Writer and Activist Mexican-American writer Sandra Cisneros is the preeminent Latina writer in the U.S. today. Cisneros has written two novels‚ a collection of short stories‚ and three books of poetry. Her earlier works‚ the short novel The House on Mango Street (1984) and the collection of short stories Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991)‚ were responsible for establishing her wide readership and winning Cisneros major publishing contracts and major advances on her

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    Mothers & Daughters

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    Mothers and daughters have been written about‚ criticized‚ publicized‚ condemned‚ and praised for a long time. As more and more material becomes available on mother-daughter relationships‚ it becomes apparent that being a mother and being a daughter means different things to different people depending on race‚ economics‚ social status and blood type. This paper will explore the meaning of being a mother and being a daughter by combining all of these independent variables. A definition of motherhood

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    Frederick Douglass Essay Frederick Douglass has finally managed to run away from one of his masters to become a free slave‚ but yet he feels fear and paranoia. As he runs away‚ he contemplates all the possibilities of him getting caught by slaveholders or even turned in by his own kind. And it upsets him having to pass all the houses and food‚ but he has no shelter and starves with no food. This in fact heightens the intensity of his fear and paranoia because he is more likely to be caught with

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    In “Everyman” compiled by Sandra Brazil‚ Everyman meets Death. In meeting Death‚ Death advises Everyman that he needs to explain his life to God. Everyman asks Fellowship‚ Cousin‚ Kindred‚ and Goods to go with him on Death’s journey‚ but they refuse‚ except one. Good-deeds offers to go but does not because at first because he feels burdened with Everyman’s sins. Good-deeds however‚ points Everyman to Knowledge and Confession where he settles his sins. Lastly‚ Everyman goes on his journey equipped

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    Writer’s such as Dwight Okita and Sandra Cisneros were greatly influenced by the American culture. "Response to Executive Order 9066" by Dwight Okita‚ and "Mericans" by Sandra Cisneros both authors use the theme American Identity. Okita’s poem establishes American identity by having two best friends of different race but they don’t notice it but other people around them do. Both Okita’s poem and Cisneros’s short story show that where you’re from and how you look does not determine what it means to

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    Daughter Leaving Home

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    I. Title: To a Daughter Leaving Home by Linda Pastan By reading the title‚ we as a reader can guess that it is a mother expressing her feeling on her daughter is grew and is time to leave home. We can tell she is trying to tell the reader how much she loves her daughter. Even she does not want to let her daughter go‚ but she chose to let her be independent. I believe this title is very important and conclude what the poet is trying to tell the reader. II. Organization (Stanzaic or Continuous? Importance

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    rhetorical device

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    Alliteration: repetition of the initial consonant sounds beginning several words in sequence.     "Let us go forth to lead the land we love." President J. F. Kennedy‚ Inaugural 1961  "Veni‚ vidi‚ vici."  Julius Caesar  (I came‚ I saw‚ I conquered)       Adage­ a proverb or wise saying made familiar by long use       Allusion­ a passing reference or indirect mention  He was the Adam to her Eve  ​   Anadiplosis: ("doubling back") the rhetorical repetition of one or several words; specifically‚  re

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    Henry Daughters

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    Henry’s Daughter Henry’s daughter is an educational film that helps engineering and business students observe and realize multiple ethical issues in and out of the work place. The video helps students identify unethical situations and how to go about resolving and avoiding them. Some of the ethical situation’s that occur throughout the film deal with: sexual harassment among co-workers‚ bribery and unjust favors‚ intellectual property sharing‚ and various influential political factors. I. Henry’s

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