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    In his essay Richard Rodriguez narrates a particular event in his life using specific details throughout his writing to present the complications present in his family. He illustrates how when things begin to change from generation to generation a once united family can grow farther apart to the point of becoming detached‚ uncomfortable‚ professional and distant. Just as they grew wealthier their culture was lost and Rodriguez manifests this culture through one particular event: Christmas. Rodriguez’s

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    Memory’‚ I noticed that the author‚ Richard Rodriguez‚ in a satisfied tone‚ defined his private family as alienated in a public society. A society in which intimacy has a very much different meaning than what he presumed. This notion was primarily based off linguistic differences that‚ from his point of view as a small child‚ build a pleasantly intimate bond that kept his family close. Very far distant from the un-intimate world. In the middle of the chapter‚ Rodriguez writes “... children lose a degree

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    “I wasn’t trying to hurt him! He has ຕາຂປີ!” I protested as my teacher led me to the corner. The phrase appears as confusing written as it does spoken‚ and my teacher could not comprehend. Apparently neither did my classmate‚ who yelped when I pointed my finger at his eye. It would take three years before I learned the English equivalent of this word. What others call “eye boogers” or “sleep eye” I call “ຕາຂປີ.” It’s not an exact translation because of the fickle Laotian alphabet‚ but basically‚

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    By the end of the “Achievement” chapter‚ Rodriguez has some very profound things to say about his views on educational reform and personal evolution. The things that he says in the ending pages of the chapter do not really seem like they are the tale of a “happy ending” but more so‚ a large pun or an ironic statement made about how our desires entail such influential consequences. On pages 72-73‚ Rodriguez basically states that education is a tough process‚ a changing process even‚ and if one wants

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    Does a “double standard” still exist between the sexes? Men and women never seem to agree with everything especially when it is related to their careers. This cause double standard to occur in many working industries as well as the domestic front mainly because of people’s mindset that men can do everything better than women. Therefore‚ sexism or double standard between men and women still exist. In the office‚ “There can be a little bit of a double standard in some offices about this

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    When Richard Rodriguez entered first grade at Sacred Heart School in Sacramento‚ California‚ his English vocabulary consisted of barely fifty words. All his classmates were white. He kept quiet‚ listening to the sounds of middle-class American speech‚ and feeling alone. After school he would return home to the pleasing‚ soothing sounds of his family’s Spanish. When his English showed little sign of improvement‚ the nuns at his school asked Rodriguez’s parents to speak more English at home. Eager

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    Richard Rodriguez Summary Paper Language is a psycho-social thought process by which we communicate and interpret the people and community around us. Richard Rodriguez demonstrates his childhood relationship with language in his essay “Private Language‚ Public Language“. The essay is filled with numerous characteristics of language as seen through the eyes of a grown man reflecting on his childhood thoughts. While as a grown man he embraces English as his new private language‚ Rodriguez

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    Gender Inequality still exists "Is there any difference between the education acquired by men and women in college?" My answer to that question would be that although the "brick wall" ( Forum 1) in education has been broken‚ we still have another‚ invisible barrier called the "glass ceiling." ( Forum 1) Most people would say that education has changed a great deal since women began to attend institutions of higher learning. Is this completely true? Women have undoubtedly made "Substantial educational

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    them a cultural identification. When residents of another country come to America and speak a contrasting language to English‚ immigrants most likely feel uneasy having to adapt to a completely new culture and learn the English language. During this journey‚ the individuals’ cultural identities might fade away as well as losing their efficient fluency on their native language. In Amy Tan’s‚ “Mother Tongue” and Richard Rodriguez “Aria: A Memoir of A Bilingual Childhood”‚ both authors experience the

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    The autobiography “Scholarship Boy” by Richard Rodriguez is the story of overcoming the difficulties of keeping school and home life balanced. A scholarship boy‚ a boy who comes from a working class family and thrusts himself into the schools environment more than anything else‚ which is exactly what Richard Rodriguez was and is. The story talks about a young boy from working class family who entered school “barely able to speak English” who takes on school as a method of separating himself from

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