Date: 4/4/2013 ENG101 Grace . “Senior Picture Day” is a short story by Michele Serros. It’s her own narrative story explaining how she got a habit of squeezing her nose sides firmly to nostrils to base every morning and some time when she is brushing her teeth and waiting for her tortilla to heat. It is because she wants her nose to become smaller‚ narrower and look less Indian; like her friend Terri’s nose. Even though nobody knows the difference after her effort‚ she feels it actually worked
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Senior Picture Day Michele Serros was born in 1966 in Oxnard‚ California. Serros was raised in Hispanic Community. Historically‚ Oxnard was originally inhabited by Native Americans the same location in which the story is being portrayed and also during Serros late childhood and mid-teens because‚ it was during the time when Radio frequencies named Citizens Band were popular. The narrator’s ancestors are obviously Indians because she explains how her nose looked “less Indian” with time because
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Senior Picture Day Michele Serros As I began reading the short story of Senior Picture Day by Michele Serros‚ my expectations were low on excitement. I was expecting to read a rather bland story of how a young teenage girl had to conquer a million defeats in order to take the perfect senior picture. However‚ to my astonishment the short and sweet story pulled at my heartstrings. I could empathize with “Cal Girl” having endured a similar situation in my own teenage years. This story depicted only
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Essay on senior picture day As a teenager growing up most of us find things wrong with ourselves. It’s part of life‚ and it’s called growing up. In the process we do things to try to fix deficient emotional and physical attributes of ourselves. For example‚ in the story “Senior Picture Day”‚ the young girl pinches her nose to try and make it look less Indian. In this story we learn about friendship betrayal‚ coping with our bodies‚ and sometimes our perspective of perfect isn’t always that
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Michele Serros born and raised in Oxnard California‚ growing up in a Hispanic community. At age 11 both her Parents George R. Serros and Beatrice Ruiz Serros unfortunately separated. As a young girl‚ Serros had many friends and accompanied with many interest upon school years. As her background continues on‚ it appears in her short story‚ Senior Picture Day. In the short story “Senior Picture Day” by Michele Serros‚ Serros incorporates a variety of literary elements such as characterization‚ anastrophe
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the real you or not. In the story Senior Picture Day by Michael Serros‚ a girl feels her appearance categorizes her in the eyes of the public. In her case she looks Indian‚ and she considers this a negative physical trait to have inherited. It never bothered her until her selfish friend‚ Terri‚ used her Indian appearance against her in order to make someone dislike her. If this would’ve happened to me in the fifth grade‚ I would be pinching my nose until senior year too. The reason I find this work
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Perfect Senior Skip Day “OMG! We’re going to have a crawfish boil at the park and put on some loud music!” Shrieked a girl in my high school biology class‚ “Only people with invitations are allowed.” “We’re going to Houston and spending the whole damn day there partying like crazy.” said another guy. The entire class was yelling in excitement. It felt like I was in a loud beehive‚ people were just buzzing away talking about “Senior Skip Day.” This is the day where senior students plan their
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curl her hair because it was picture day. Sally turned on some jams to get pumped up for school. She was halfway done curling her hair when the curling iron started to steam and burnt off her strand of hair. Sally then painted her nails and then put them in a bowl of ice and water to make them dry very fast‚ but instead the ice and water just froze around her fingers‚ and didn’t come off. Sally pulled her hair back so that you couldn’t see the missing hair for picture day. To get the frozen ice off
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Ting Ting Zheng Art 1 Lab assignment The Day Picture were Born This documentary persuades us that pictures started to appear when humans have creative explosions. The early pictures can be traced back till 35‚000 years ago where pre-historical cave paintings were made. At first‚ some suggested the hunting theory motivates human first being to create pictures. Since all paintings were only related to hunting‚ people assumed that the paintings may increase the chances of success in the eyes
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Pictures – English assignment Summary The story “Pictures” is about a girl with a conflicted belief. She is a second-generation immigrant who lives in England with her parents who are poor shop owners. At Christmas time Amina and the rest of her classmates were drawing pictures of Mary and baby Jesus. All of her classmate’s drawings got to hang on the wall except for Amina’s‚ because she had drawn a brown-faced Mary. The teacher told Amina a white lie‚ saying that Amina’s drawing was
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