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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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    Griffin Rodriquez

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    you into the human being that looks back at you in the mirror every day. It is amazing how you can find out about yourself in the most random of places such as‚ the diary of a Nazi in Susan Griffin’s case‚ or the fictional writings of an author in Richard Rodriguez’s case. Griffin and Rodriquez both have very different styles of writing. They are different in many ways‚ such as their culture‚ where they draw their information from‚ and just their overall lives in general. At the same time however

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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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    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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    Mike Rose vs. Richard Rodriguez Mike Rose and Richard Rodriguez both support education and the success it brings for an individual‚ but they support them in different ways and for different reasons. In Mike Rose’s essay he explains how he was an average person in his vocational classes. He says that his intelligence was not on a low level‚ but rather he thought of his intelligence to be low because of his teachers and the fact he was in vocational classes‚ but he soon realizes that pushing to the

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    improving America through their hard work and labor. In the essay “Blaxicans”‚ by Richard Rodriguez‚ the author implies that America is not about segregation or about being more superior over the other‚ but about how all the races should become one. Also‚ in the essay “Mother Tongue”‚ by Amy Tan‚ she explains how most Asian Americans are being discriminated through their qualities. In the essay “Blaxicans”‚ Rodriguez states “... American experience: not as biracial‚ but as the re-creation of the known

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    Level 5. Ed. Betty Barnett. New York City: The College Board‚ 2011. 116-121. Print. Lake‚ Robert. “An Indian Father’s Plea.” SpringBoard: English Textual Power Level 5. Ed. Betty Barnett. New York City: The College Board‚ 2011. 109-113. Print. RodriguezRichard. “The Hunger of Memory.” SpringBoard: English Textual Power Level 5. Ed. Betty Barnett. New York City: The College Board‚ 2011. 103-106. Print.

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    In the essay “Achievement of Desire”‚ author Richard Rodriguez‚ describes the difficulties balancing life in the academic world and the life of a working class family. As a child Rodriguez was the exception to the stereotypical student coming from a working class family. He was always top of his class‚ and rather than spending his time out with friends or with his family he spent his time with books and notes. Initially this approach makes Rodriguez stand out as an exceptional student‚ but as time

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    thinking then of 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

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