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    Only Daughter assignment 1 Comprehension 1.) When she states that she is the only girl in a family of six sons‚ Means she was a lonely‚ her brothers never wanted to play with her because she was a female. This made her think and image and become a writer. 2.) Being the only daughter she means that she is the only girl out of six boys. Being “only the daughter” she wasn’t allowed to do a lot with her brothers and was singled out‚ creating her to image and write. 3.) Advantages of being

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    Cisneros Only daughter Comprehension 2] Sandra Cisneros had six brothers in her family. Boys were considered to be more significant than girls because they were the bread earners. Cisneros was the only daughter in her family of nine. She always used to spend time by herself because her brothers were ashamed of playing with a girl in public. She compares how being the only daughter made her feel lonely around her six brothers and therefore she said that‚ she was only a daughter. 3] Being only a daughter

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    Only Daughter In the essay entitled “Only Daughter” by Sandra Cisneros‚ she wrote about her life growing up in a Mexican-American family of nine; to which she was the only daughter. Although her father did love her‚ he did not show it much at all. The effects on Cisneros’s life due to her father’s lack of attention while growing up were: Spending time alone‚ attending college‚ and becoming a professional writer. The first important effect due to Cisneros’s father’s lack of attention was

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    Nakyia Whitehead English 098B Instructor: Flournoy March 17‚ 2012 Only Daughter In her short story‚ “Only Daughter” Sandra Cisneros portrays as the progressive‚ intelligent female in a male-dominated family and society. She considers herself deserving of the attention of her male superiors despite widespread sexism that reigns in her community. However‚ despite her said belief in the importance of a female’s education‚ Sandra is no empowered female‚ no feminist‚ and no independent women. In

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    WA 1: Narrative Essay‚ Only Daughter‚ prompt 2 I trace the development of my upbringing and think to myself that I can’t believe I have become the woman my father would want me to be. He was Hispanic with strong morals. He would be fifty years old and still pressuring me to respect another and myself‚ work hard and work to succeed. I was the youngest of three girls and we three needed to grow with those thoughts in our heads. Cisneros says‚ “Being only a daughter for my father meant my

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    1 CHAPTER 12 Changing land tenure‚ defining subjects: Neoliberalism and property regimes on native reserves Jessica Dempsey‚ Kevin Gould and Juanita Sundberg Note: This may not be the final version of the chapter‚ as it is currently in process of publication. These are contradictory times in Canada. The United Nations (UN) Development Index consistently ranks Canada among the top 10 states‚ yet First Nations in Canada would rank sixtyeighth (Assembly of First Nations n.d.). One out of four

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    What kind of father sends his daughter to college just to meet her future husband? This is a similar question Sandra Cisneros wants readers to ask themselves while reading her essay. In her essay‚ Only Duaghter‚ Cisneros describes the lack of support from her father while attempting to find success as a writer. Using descriptive language‚ she tells of the struggle between her Mexican-American heritage and her supposed place in the household and her love in writing. With dignified feeling she

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    After reading the landlady‚ I found two thing that may have prevented Billy from seeing the real landlady. One is that‚ she kept changing the subject with tea. In the text it states‚ “‘Now wait a minute‚” he said. “Wait just a minute. Mulholland ... Christopher Mulholland ... wasn’t that the name of the Eton schoolboy who was on a walking-tour through the West Country‚ and then all of a sudden ...” “Milk?” she said. “And sugar?”’. This shows us that she change the subject with the word “milk” as

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    One day‚ on my home my sister was angry with my mom‚ because her friends have facebook and she want make one‚ and my sister said to my mom‚ “Mis amigas tienen y dicen que es muy divertido”‚ and my mom said‚ “No porque tus amigas tienen tu vas a querer tu no sabes los peligros que puede tener o las personas con las que hablas pore so no te voy a dar permiso de hacer uno”. I will explain three negative things about facebook or other social networks. First negative this about facebook is distraction

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    Only Daughter by Sandra Cisneros The short story about Sandra Cisneros being the only daughter was about her herself and her family. In the beginning‚ Sandra talks about how she could have written her own contributors note for an anthology she was part of in more than one way and she chose to write it another. She writes a lot because of her father‚ and from what I understood her whole writing career she’s just tried to get his respect out of it. Yes‚ he’s glad she went to college but what’s her

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