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    “Don’t be afraid to start over.” because Esperanza over came and she came very far. Now she has grown up‚ she works‚ and babysits. Esperanza was a brat‚ now she is very loyal and responsible. She is a character in a book called Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan. She has to overcome her momma being sick‚ working in the fields‚ and moving The main challenge was her momma being sick during the time and doing her mom’s work. “...it might take 6 months to get her full strength back.” (page 57) Esperanza

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    Esperanza for almost three years. Everyone in town is expecting for the long table to be set‚ since three years is three years. To his father’s frequent visits to Judge Salas’ place‚ he had this unexpected burst of emotions for Alfredo Salazar‚ a calm placid and young lawyer is engaged to the judge’s sister in law‚ Julia Salas.Perplexity rises here; to stick to what HE WANTS to do or to what HE NEEDS to do. Is it Esperanza‚ a fine woman dressed in elegance and self-consciousness and sticking to the

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    Esperanzas loneliness has made her depressed in ways and has made it to where she can’t express herself which can mean trouble in the near future and her isolation has made her feel lonely since boys and girls are separated it isolates her from having friends that are boys which can lead to her loneliness. Esperanza talks about the isolation between the boys and girls and about how everyone has friends or plays with people but says “Someday I will have a best friend all my own.” (9). This quote expresses

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    Listening in my chair as a freshman‚ Mr. Gonzales‚ my trendy teacher decided to assign The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. I dismissed the book as another tale of a white dude learning about his “tragic life” but soon I discovered that this was not the case. Those following days‚ I sat by the window and found a deeper meaning in this book‚ which embodied my culture in the realistic light along with a reassurance of my identity. Sandra Cisneros‚ the writer who awakened my rehabilitation

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    Another approach Tournier takes to expose the complicity of European colonialism is by depicting how the sexual identification of Speranza is his only form of adapting his ideological beliefs. By classifying the island as female‚ it gave him an exceptional amount of control. For instance‚ Spivack writes‚ “the question is not of female participation in insurgency‚ or the ground rules of the sexual division of labor‚ for both of which there is ‘evidence.’ It is‚ rather that‚ both as object of colonialism

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    Mango Street Essay

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    Mr. Maniscalco English 3R 18 October 2012 House On Mango Street Essay Throughout history‚ women have been seen as inferior to men. In the novel‚ The House On Mango Street‚ the main character‚ Esperanza sees many examples of women who are treated lower by their husbands. These women are imprisoned in their own homes on Mango Street. The author‚ Sandra Cisneros uses the motif of Imprisoned Females to show that women have been seen as inferior

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    do not want their women to be strong. It is also difficult to abandon the encultured ways that a woman has lived her entire life. But the feeling of truly being her fullest self is reward enough to do so. It is empowering. In the book The House on Mango Street‚ Writer Sandra Cisneros demonstrates the power she wishes to have (and does have‚ after accepting her ‘masculine’ desires) and her realization that she did not want to allow her soul to be chained anymore; that she did not want to be a square

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    Mango Street Poem

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    Words from The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros Arranged by Searching for a New Home Down‚ down Mango Street we go Across the boulevard Three long blocks Look at that house‚ I said‚ it looks like Mexico! It’s small and red with tight steps in front and windows It has wooden stairs And there are no closets I can hear the wooden door as it opens and lets loose its sigh of dampness!! I don’t belong! I knew then I had to have a house A real house‚ One I could point to One with

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    the money to travel back to Puerto Rico in one way. Marin does this-described in the chapter Marin-by‚ “...saving the money she gets from selling Avon and taking care of her cousins” (26). Also in this chapter‚ “Marin says that if she stays here [Mango Street] next year‚ she’s going to get a real job downtown because that’s where the best jobs are…” (26). It may be hard to find a job for Marin because she is a woman. Things may be hard for Marin‚ although‚ they may not be as hard as the Vargas family

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    The Subjunctive

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    |CHAPTER 9.  THE SUBJUNCTIVE | 1. Uses of the subjunctive In modern English‚ the Simple Present Subjunctive is most commonly used in formal commands and requests. In the following examples‚ the verbs in the Simple Present Subjunctive are underlined. e.g. They demand that he submit a report.       We request that you be here tomorrow. The Simple Present Subjunctive is also still used in a few traditional

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