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    Response to “None of This is Fair” I enjoyed reading Richard Rodriguez’s essay‚ “None of This is Fair.” He clearly pointed out the irony of Affirmative Action and how although it was designed to give the underprivileged a standing chance‚ it ended up making it too easy to receive a job. Rodriguez talking to his friends‚ realized just how hard of a time they all had in looking for a suitable job‚ or in the case of one of his graduate friends‚ had to settle for a job in which he would be separated

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    Victoria Camargo 10/29/12 p. 4 Pre-AP None of This Is Fair By: Richard Rodriguez Richard Rodriguez states in his piece‚ None of This Is Fair‚ that Affirmative Action programs are inefficient in reaching the seriously disadvantaged. He continues to support his point by giving a personal experience. In his experience he is faced with the challenge of accepting the guilt that would accompany the accepting of a job offer that he knew came because he was a minority.

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    The relationship between Richard Rodriguez and Richard Hoggart is supremely that of a student to a teacher with Rodriguez as the student and Hoggart as the teacher. In moments when Rodriguez says that Hoggart’s opinion of what a “scholarship boy” entails is “more accurate than fair‚” Rodriguez is learning more as if he is a student (547). Of course Rodriguez now‚ after having written “The Achievement of Desire‚” understands his place as a “scholarship boy” student; however‚ there are brutally honest

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    Growing up‚ people realize that around the time of reaching a mature state‚ education has affected their personal family life in one way or the other. With that being said‚ in his essay‚ “The Achievement of Desire”‚ Richard Rodriguez headed towards a path where he was unconsciously distancing himself from his family and becoming much more independent than he had expected. Rodriguez gives the reader a sentimental idea of the two contrary lives he had growing up‚ the life he had as a child‚ and the

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    Richard Rodriguez’s story‚ “Complexion”‚ is a memoir based on the author’s struggle regarding his race and identity as a Mexican American. As a boy‚ Richard despises his dark skin color‚ believing that it represents inferiority and poverty. His mother influences such notion by trying various home remedies to whiten his skin‚ resulting Richard to feel insecure and detached from his body. Moreover‚ he experiences an identity conflict with his race and society’s interpretation of complexion. This internal

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    1. Rodriguez’s parents were very uncomfortable speaking English in public. Rodriguez stated that‚ “In public‚ my father and mother spoke hesitantly‚ accented‚ and not always grammatical English. And then they would have to strain‚ their bodies tense‚ to catch the sense of what was rapidly said by Los gringos.” When Rodriguez was younger his parents spoke only Spanish and his family bonded through Spanish. Rodriguez said‚ we transformed the knowledge of our public separateness into a consoling reminder

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    Richard Rodriguez describes the difficulties between balancing life in the academic world and life of a working class family. In this article‚ Rodriguez found himself through education. As a child‚ Rodriguez was the stereotypical student that comes from a working class family with little education but worked hard to make a living. He was smart and always top of his class‚ and rather than spending his time on other things he was always caught reading a book by himself. Originally‚ Rodriguez smarts

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    Aria by Richard Rodriguez

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    and science whom‚ through many eons‚ have produced many children. They‚ the children‚ in reference to languages that have come and gone‚ have been both ugly and beautiful… but beauty is in the eye of the beholder‚ or “ear” in this case. In the memoir Aria‚ by Richard Rodriguez‚ he boldly argues that one must choose the “public” language so as to belong‚ or be part of‚ or be accepted and be able to find your true identity. I have to agree to some degree‚ for I find if you are not part of the “public”

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    another consequence of literacy‚ one i was too shy to admit but nonetheless trusted. Books were going to make me “educated.” That confidence enabled me‚ several months later‚ to over come my fear of the silence. In this text‚ Richard Rodriguez gains his undying interest in reading. This is where he realizes what he believes would be his true calling. He believer reading would open up a new chapter of life to him. Show him places he had never imagined. He wanted to be educated. Achieve more than his

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    mean‚ Richard Rodriguez fights America has been brown from its start‚ as he himself is by all accounts. As a man with different color sink‚ I think . . . (Regardless‚ do we really trust that shading tints thought?) In his two past journals‚ Hunger of Memory and Days of Obligation‚ Rodriguez explained the meeting of his private presence with open issues of class and ethnicity. With Brown‚ his considered race‚ Rodriguez completes his "arrangement of three of American open life." In Rodriguez‚ darker

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