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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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    The main theme I found to be constant in “The fear of losing a culture” is the idea that the Latin culture will not disappear as Latin people immigrate to the United States. Essentially‚ Latin culture will form a synthesis with North American culture. I had an interesting experience trying to figure out what other poem or story would share a similar theme with this one. My choice is the poem titled “Go Down Moses”. The reason why I chose the poem “Go Down Moses” is because of the symbolism I found

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    Fear of Losing Control

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    perspective as forty percent of hourly employees‚ versus only sixteen percent of managers‚ cited a lack of management visibility and support as a major impediment to change. (Zoglio‚ 1998) Organizational politics‚ which inevitably makes managers fear losing control more than reaching for success‚ inevitably lead to the demise of changes originating in other ways within the organization. This move to control people often occurs when these changes are near or at the point of creating significant benefits

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    Thesis:-learning English as a "language" gave Richard a confidence in public identity but he lost his native identity. Representative Example: - "The loss implies the gain: The house I returned to each afternoon was quiet. Intimate sounds no longer rushed to the door to great me. There were other noises inside. The telephone rang. Neighborhood kids ran past the bedroom where I was reading my schoolbooks-covered with shopping-bag paper. Once I learned public language‚ it would never again be easy

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    Richard Rodriguez Diary

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    slaves jumped in fear as the saw him approaching with his battalion of dogs. He stopped in front of the barracks and the dogs halted and remained still as they awaited his command. Chavez slowly moved towards the door‚ his stomach made a knot; sweat began to trail down his face. As he slowly opened the doors the dogs tensed. His eyes opened wide at the sight of a slave hunched over. He was dead‚ Chavez moved closer towards the corpse. His dark skin was pale and his face frozen in fear. His neck was

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    What is it like to lose your most memorable moments in a flash? Richard Rodriguez managed to answer the question in his memoir‚ “Aria”. The memoir was published in “Hunger of Memory”‚1982. Rodriguez‚ a Mexican American writer‚ believes the importance of family value and the objection of bilingual education and affirmative action. “Aria” elucidates the criticism that society impacted towards the character and also the fact that the character isn’t able to speak or understand own native language.

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    Modern day competition caused many people experience bilingual education. Richard Rodriguez‚ the writer of “Aria‚” is one of them. Rodriguez refers “private language” as his native language and “public language” as what he will use at school. His “private language” is Spanish and his “public language” is English. He argues that it is unnecessary for student to be taught in two different languages. He said‚ the foreign language that will be taught diminishes the value of the native language; lower

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    Families grows apart ‚bonds are weakened ‚ love is extinguished.Then all that’s left is a worthless need for materialistic things. Rodriguez’ relationship with his family is described as exactly that‚ a relationship with none of that warmth that is associated with the word‚ it has none of the love. Instead of a loving family Rodriguez’ family is the consumerist type of family. The type of family that does not give significance to the word family. Christmas a day of giving and recieving

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    does not have a rubric one has to follow‚ being an American can simply be living in America. Immigrants have helped shape American culture and identity by bringing diversity and challenging assimilation. Immigrants have helped shaped American culture by bringing diversity. In the essay “ ‘Blaxicans’ and Other Reinvented Americans” by Richard RodriguezRodriguez mentions that immigrants bring many

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    relate closely to Richard Rodriguez in “The Achievement Desire” because he faced many struggles that I too faced as a young girl. My parents always pressured me to work hard at school‚ I was always suppose to have my homework for Monday done by Friday night‚ which made me so mad at my parents. Just like Rodriguez was furious at his parents for forcing him into English classes‚ which started his separation from his parents. “The Achievement Desire” written by Richard Rodriguez is a story of a man

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