Before I was born my parents had started looking for names they could give me. Since they had no idea if I was a boy or girl they came up with names for each sex. Each male name they had in mind for me had value along with each girl name. My mother and father had come up with a list of names they each liked. So once I was born my parents decided they wanted a family name and dubbed me Gabriela Patricia. Gabriela is my uncle’s name in feminine form and my mother was very fond of it and thought it
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What’s in a Name? The names in “Good Country People” are actually descriptive of the characters. One in particular is the character of Mrs. Hopewell. In short‚ she tends to be a very hopeful and well-to-do. She holds a hope in the goodness of the country people‚ and she uses cliches to help her explain and accept the vices of other people. Unfortunately‚ she holds a false reality and places her hope in those with less than honorable intentions for the most part. Mrs. Hopewell lives in her own
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Pablo Neruda (1904-1973). Both of these poems use many different techniques to reflect the context of their time and their values and beliefs. Pablo Neruda was a Nobel prize winning Chilean poet who lived during the times of World War 1 and 2 as well as the Spanish civil war. Due to his first hand experiences‚ his poems changed overtime from love poems to political poems. Neruda firmly believed in the power of poetry‚ and wrote according to his beliefs. ’If You Forget Me ’ is one of Pablo ’s earlier
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short. This enables DeLillo to see his work and groups of sentences more clearly. Empty‚ white space around a page create an environment that helps DeLillo concentrate on writing. The white space made rewriting work easier and more efficient. The Names marked the start of a newly found dedication for DeLillo. DeLillo discovered that he needed the excitement of a new and unfamiliar language. Due to this new found excitement‚ DeLillo began to study the Greek alphabet. Learning about the shapes and
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In Amin Maalouf’s book “In the Name of Identity” Maalouf emphasizes that we should not judge people on one singular identity. He argues that‚ “Identity can’t be compartmentalized. You can’t divide it up into halves or thirds or any other separate segments. I haven’t got several identities: I’ve got just one‚ made up of many components in mixture that is unique to me‚ just as other people’s identity is unique to them as individuals.” The essence of Maalouf’s argument is that one should not define
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addicted to crystal meth (TIC). She wrote this while in jail. As you will soon read‚ she fully grasped the horrors of the drug‚ as she tells in this simple‚ yet profound poem. She was released from jail‚ but true to her story‚ the drug owned her. My Name: "Is TIK” I destroy homes‚ I tear families apart‚ take your children‚ and
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Life ’s many ups and downs leads to many options There are many decisions you will need to make in life. Decisions such as deciding whether or not to make a sacrifice for someone. Every day there are many sacrifices being made. In fact life requires sacrifices to be made. Sacrifices such as dying for someone or choosing something instead of another. People also make sacrifices for what they believe in such as their beliefs or religion. Many people choose to make sacrifices for the people
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Sex without love has become the norm for too many teenagers in this century. Sharon Olds illustrates this fact in a very beautiful way in her ironic poem "Sex without Love." Olds was born in San Francisco‚ but she lived most of her life in New York. She received numerous awards for her writing. This particular poem describes sex without love in a rather questioning way‚ wondering how those indulging in this sex without marriage can do it. Olds criticizes sex without love while evoking it in terms
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Characters Pursue Them In the play "Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams Blanche had to take the streetcar that is named Desire‚ switch to the one that is called Cemeteries and then to get off at Elysian Fields; Williams’ use of these names for the streetcars and the street itself summarizes the development of the main characters of the play. Every character has its own desire but the reality causes all their dreams to end up in Elysian Fields - the land of the dead according to the Greek
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The title of Santha Rama Rau’s short story “By Any Other Name” refers to the character of Santha‚ who is a five and half year old Indian girl‚ which experiences discrimination for the first time while attending an Anglo-Indian school during the time period in which the British ruled India. Her mother had always home-schooled both her and her sister‚ Premila. When her mother gets ill‚ because her father is an officer of the civil service‚ they can attend this Anglo-Indian school for free. Her mother
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