scientific investigation is‚ by its very nature‚ un-designed. That’s not to say it is ill-designed or meritless and‚ in fact‚ as with the case in point‚ could be the impetus for true investigative research. In her piece “My Children‚ the Food Experiment‚” Sandra Steingraber offers a glimpse into her five-year experience feeding her children without commercial influences‚ while living in a cabin in the woods. Free from child-directed mass marketing‚ Steingraber observed that her children enjoyed fruits‚ vegetables
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Coming of Age in Novels by Rudolfo Anaya and Sandra Cisneros Author(s): Dianne Klein Source: The English Journal‚ Vol. 81‚ No. 5 (Sep.‚ 1992)‚ pp. 21-26 Published by: National Council of Teachers of English Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/819890 . Accessed: 02/06/2014 07:58 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars
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What’s Sexism? The word "sexism" became widely known during the Women’s Liberation Movement of the 1960s. At that time‚ feminist theorists explained that oppression of women was widespread in nearly all human society‚ and they began to speak of sexism instead of male chauvinism. Whereas male chauvinists were usually individual men who expressed the belief that they were superior to women‚ sexism referred to collective behavior that reflected society as a whole. Sexism is a form of discrimination based
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Sandra Cisneros‚ the award-winning author of the highly acclaimed The House on Mango Street and several other esteemed works‚ has produced a stunning new novel‚ Caramelo. This long-anticipated novel is an all-embracing epic of family history‚ Mexican history‚ the immigrant experience‚ and a young Mexican-American woman’s road to adulthood. We hope the following introduction‚ discussion questions‚ suggested reading list‚ and author biography enhance your group’s reading of this captivating and masterful
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Function/s of Space in Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street Space occupies a central role in Sandra Cisneros’ coming-of-age novel The House on Mango Street. Using the example of the house shows this very plainly. This can be seen at the very beginning of the book‚ namely the title. Although it is a female Bildungsroman‚ the novel is not named after its protagonist Esperanza Cordero‚ but her residence. It shows that Cisneros attached much importance to the house on Mango Street and the reader
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An offering by Sandra Benitez‚ A Place Where the Sea Remembers is a tale of love and anger‚ hope and tragedy‚ filled with haunting characters. Its setting is the Mexican village of Santiago‚ where Remedios‚ the healer‚ listens to the peoples’ stories and gives them advice. The healer goes to the sea to tell it her stories‚ and in turn‚ the sea tells its stories to her. "The sea listens‚ and the sea retells." At the heart of this tale is Chayo (19)‚ the flower-seller‚ and her husband‚ Candelario
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choice to have an abortion empowers women because it gives women control over their own bodies. Having the choice on when and whether you want to have children is important to women’s independence and it can determine her future. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor wrote in the 1992 decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey‚ "The ability of women to participate equally in the economic and social
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In “Snow White and Her Wicked Stepmother”‚ Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar formulate the cycle in which fairy tale women are subjected by the patriarchal society’s imprisonment‚ then turned against each other so they remain in power and are destined to repeat the cycle. Gilbert and Gubar examine how a sexual reference‚ like “she pricks her finger‚ and bleeds”‚ begins the cycle of the metamorphoses of the mother “into a wicked ‘step’ mother” (Gilbert Gubar 292). The wicked stepmother then tries many
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by racial superiority‚ alludes to a series of hazardous events. Even though poverty is experienced by all types of people‚ rather than just dangerous‚ Sandra Cisneros draws attention to racial segregation and social discrimination in the vignette “Those Who Don’t” through rhetorical devices such as tone and sentence structure. In her writing‚ Sandra Cisneros gives off a tone of annoyance through Esperanza’s character due to the ignorance of others in their conclusions drawn based on the looks of her
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In the article Why You Can’t Lose Weight on a Diet‚ author Sandra Aamodt explains why it is difficult to stay on a diet. She tells us a big contributor to not keeping the weight off deals with a term called the metabolic suppression. This is triggered when your body’s set point becomes off balance. In return‚ your brain will release various hormones just to keep your body at its set point. Aamodt then gives various studies to relatively prove that diets do not particularly work. Yet‚ towards the
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