Going to Santa Cruz First‚ I was going with my family we were going to go Santa Cruz because it was my ninth birthday so we went to Santa Cruz it took three or four hours ( I was bored so I slept in the car when we got there) to get their when we got there we went on a ride which was a boat you can ride when you go on it‚ you can pick a seat anywhere but I pick the middle‚ when it started it was going front and back really fast I almost fell off the ride but it was funny then‚ I just closed
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This book written by Luis J. Rodriguez is a self biography about his life. In this book he writes about his young life as a gangbanger and how he ran away when he was young‚ just like his son did when he was young. He writes this to his son so that he won’t go the same way he did and end up like him. He also writes about all the bad things he did and what happens to his family‚ and how he does not want that to happen to his family‚ and also he hopes that this book would make young people turn away
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her Response to the alleged “Sor Filotea de la Cruz”‚ Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz who was a nun in what was called “New Spain” (at the time) had privately shared a commentary piece she wrote on a decades-old sermon which somehow fell into the hands of a bishop of Puebla who published said commentary in addition to his own thoughts on what Sor Juana had to say without her knowledge or consent. He did this under the pseudonym of “Sor Filotea de la Cruz” so that it would seem to anyone without intimate
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ESL 185 Writing Assignment Maria Zuniga Book Report December 9‚ 2005 Corrections “Sor Juana” is a biography of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz written by Octavio Paz and translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. It is a book of 470 pages divided in six parts that besides Sor Juana’s life and work‚ explain the difficulties of the time for an intellectual woman. It was published by The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Cambridge‚ Massachusetts in 1988. Reading this book gave me the
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In Jorge Luis Borges’s Borges and I‚ there is a distinct confliction between Borges’s personal and public identities. Throughout the short story‚ the reader notices Borges’s realization in his confusion of his writing identity. Overall‚ the theme of identity creates interaction with the reader which creates meaning. In the beginning of the short story‚ the narrator states that the “other Borges” is walking through Buenos Aires and pauses looking at surrounding objects. The meaning of this line
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The Name of the Rose is the first novel by Italian author Umberto Eco. It is a historical murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the year 1327‚ an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction‚ biblical analysis‚ medieval studies and literary theory.Umberto Eco‘s novel The Name of the Rose was first published in 1980‚ in its original language‚ Italian. Shortly thereafter‚ it was translated into several other languages‚ helping Eco attain his first global hit. In his old age‚ Adso
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There are many people in my life who have had an influence on me. Though there are many‚ there is one particular person who has had the most influential impact in my life and that is my mother Debbie Lyn Garrido Cruz. I admire my mom for the kindness in her heart‚ her strength and independence‚ for pushing me to be different and to not be someone I’m not. She is the hard working mother of six‚ who has raised all of them on her own‚ trying and managing to get by on a day to day basis. My mother
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I‚ Lizbeth De La Cruz will be going to college. I have made this decision because I believe that getting a higher education opens up your mind a lot more. Everything you learn in elementary‚ high school‚ and college contradicts each other. I want to learn more‚ open my mind and soul to all this higher power/knowledge that I yet have to learn. I want to go to California State University Stanislaus. I will start small by going to the library there‚ reading and writing as much as I possibly can to expand
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April Suarez Professor Nolan English 1B 4 March 2013 Recognizing Power One theme among five stories included in chapter eleven was the power struggle between characters‚ either within themselves or among other characters. Power is somewhat of an elusive concept in which it can take many forms. The characters within this chapter exhibit a wide spectrum of power including the power achieved through independence and feelings of empowerment‚ the corruption that may coincide in great power‚ or the
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the people who play in them put in hours and hours of work to become that good‚ and sometimes the road to get there is not always easy. Two special stories of the path to greatness can be found in the Norton Field Guide. Marlen Esparza and Victor Cruz have very different stories‚ play different sports and have different backgrounds‚ but both ultimately go through hardships to become role models and achieve greatness. Summary The first story Marlen Esparza: Going the Distance tells the story of a
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