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    below. Think about which version paints the most vivid picture for you. Prose Version: “Always Running” by Luis J. Rodriguez (Prose is ordinary written or spoken language‚ using sentences and paragraphs‚ without deliberate or regular meter or rhyme; not poetry‚ drama‚ or song.) Diction Imagery Syntax Inferences about the speaker based on VOICE Poetry Version: “‘Race’ Politics” by Luis J. Rodriguez Diction Imagery Syntax Inferences about the speaker based on VOICE Post Reading

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    Always Running

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    Non-Fiction Novel Summery I read the novel Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez‚ a non- fiction novel about Rodriguez’s life as a child when he crosses the border of Mexico at the age of two with his family. As Rodriguez took me on a rollercoaster through his life‚ I experienced many upsetting emotions even to me such as; disgust as he describes the police‚ fear during gang wars‚ pride when he makes a difference in his community and sadness when he loses some of the people he loved. I think

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    Luis Alberto Urrea is the author of Nobody’s Son book. He was born in Tijuana. Luis moves to Shelltown‚ California with his dad. While he is moving to Shelltwon‚ he has tuberculosis. His dad brings him to Mama Chayo’s house. Mama Chayo saves Luis’s life with her herbs from her garden. One day‚ Luis comes home from school‚ and he meets Wile E. Wile E. teases a group of women‚ but he tells those girls that Luis does. Luis refuses that he does not teases the girls‚ and he tries to fight with

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    identify strengths and weaknesses of the company. After knowing they were strong internally McDonald decided to make a strategic analysis of the environment to evaluate their chances of success in India. An analysis of the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosi

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    Emma Zunz

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    In the short story‚ “Emma Zunz”‚ by Jorge Luis Borges‚ Emma’s living conditions and behaviour reflects that she lives as part of the proletariat society. She and her family would live in smaller areas because “she recalled the family’s little house in Lanus” (Borges‚ 215). Their surroundings and proximity suggests that they are of lower class citizens. Emma spends most of her time working in the mill. That being said‚ her regular day would be a “a day of work‚ bustle‚ and trivia” (Borges‚ 216).

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    FACTS  Took up martial arts‚ archery and horseback riding to train for Avatar  Chosen as one of People magazine’s 100 Most Beautiful People in the World‚ in May 2007  Took job as a cashier at Burger King in the mid 90s  Lead in Latin artist Juan Luis Guerra’s music video for his song "La Llave De Mi Corazon".  Climbed coconut trees when she lived in the Dominican Republic HISPANIC RELATIONS  Received a Hispanic Heritage Award in September 2014  Plans on teaching her sons Spanish and English

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    Defamiliarization

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    Defamiliarization What is it? Defamiliarization is the artistic technique of forcing the audience to see common things in an unfamiliar or strange way‚ in order to enhance perception of the familiar. According to Viktor Shklovsky‚ a Russian writer who coined the term ‘Defamiliarization’‚ “The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived and not as they are known. The technique of art is to make objects‚ unfamiliar‟‚ to make forms difficult‚ to increase the difficulty

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    1. Plot Summary: In the first section of the story‚ the narrator‚ a fictive version of Borges himself‚ became aware of the mysterious existence of a country called Uqbar from which he came across in a casual conversation with Borges’s friend‚ Bioy Casares. Casares told Borges that the name Uqbar came from the Anglo-American Cyclopedia‚ which was described as a reprint of the Encyclopædia Britannica of 1902. However‚ the name Uqbar never came up in the Encyclopedia Britannica‚ or in some copies of

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    Always Running Notes

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    In ALWAYS RUNNING‚ Luis J. Rodriguez offers a loosely organized but thoroughly wrenching account of his experience growing up in and around Watts and the Las Lomas barrio‚ just east of Los Angeles. Rodriguez‚ a poet and journalist who now resides in Chicago‚ was born in 1954 in El Paso‚ Texas. His parents‚ recent immigrants from Mexico‚ soon migrated to the Los Angeles area. There‚ Rodriguez experienced the indignities of poverty‚ prejudice‚ and nearly unchecked police brutality. Joining a gang and

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    ritzyperiwinkle.com/?p=12 the drink was discovered by El General by General Don Augusto Michel. • Furthermore‚ the traditional and original Michelada was first originated during the Mexican Revolution in 1910 at a local cantina in the city of San Luis Potosi. B. Secondly‚ I will be explaining on what Ingredients you should have prior to making the drink. • The wet ingredients: ¼ cup of chamoy‚ 2 teaspoons of fresh lime‚ 2 teaspoons of A-1 sauce‚ 2 teaspoons of Worcestershire sauce‚ ½ cup of

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