Y. C. English 2301 Gibson 09/23/10 Self-Consciousness We’ve all been self-conscious about something we can’t change about ourselves at least once in our lives. It’s an instinct to want other people to see you as the best you can be‚ or more- regardless of whether it’s 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
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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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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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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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main points and conclusion for test Consciousness is robust (real enough) to deserve explanation Consciousness as sea in which we swim Consciousness is bound up with our physical being – specifically the brain Consciousness matters (makes a difference) Is consciousness real? Is it worth studying? Start out as intuitions that we have experiences of consciousness How/ why does it matter to sociologists? Is it part of the self? Does it encompass the self? Make intersubjectivity possible?
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Vincent DAo Prof. david ENC 1102 31 July 2014 The Self-Consciousness In the three poems “Dreams‚” “Latin Women Pray‚” and Mother to Son‚” the authors show that all people in the world have their own struggles‚ and the struggles symbolize the different culture and setting. Firstly‚ in the poem “Latin Women Pray‚” Judith Ortiz Cofer shows the different cultures can interpret religious customs and difficult for searching the religious of Latin people in the United States. In the poem‚ Cofer shows
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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 and epithet. Utilizing a bantering and satiric tone proving that growing up in a young girl’s mid-teens can lead to friendship‚ betrayal‚ moral values and self-consciousness. Michele Serros expresses her personal history into the short story‚ to give more detailing and more interest. In the short story as
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that is. Christians know this as the Light of Light and can appreciate and share in the ways in which at Diwali you celebrate your awareness of the inner light. Together‚ and through the celebration of our festivals‚ we can increase our consciousness of the ways in which light can triumph over darkness and good over evil. We can recommit ourselves to be light in the world.
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