The Scholarship Jacket Racism is a well known problem throughout this world. We get judge every day whether its our race‚ the way we dress‚ the way we talk‚ how we do academically‚ and if were going to succeed in life based on others people way of thinking what success is. The following story that I read is an excellent example of the way people underestimate us just because of our race or where we stand in society. “The Scholarship Jacket” by Marta Salinas is about a young girl wanting to figure
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narratives “The Scholarship Jacket" by Marta Salinas‚ "The Jacket" by Gary Soto and "Vinnie ’s Jacket" by Anna Nussbaum all have a jacket as the central symbol. In each of these works‚ however‚ the jacket represents very different things. For Marta Salinas in "The Scholarship Jacket"‚ the jacket symbolizes eight years of hard work and expectation. Throughout the narrator ’s life‚ she had been working hard to achieve academic excellence in hopes of receiving the scholarship jacket. Marta hopes to
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“The Scholarship Jacket‚” by Marta Salinas is a short story about tough decisions and decision-making. The story is set in a small town in Texas. The main character Marta is an eighth grader who is destined to get the scholarship jacket. What is the scholarship jacket you ask! It is the jacket that Marta’s school gives out to the hardest working and highest graded student over his/her eight years. Marta is bound to get the jacket‚ but on her way to her locker‚ she hears two teachers arguing over
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I have been asked to compose a response that explains how the minor characters from both stories‚ “The Scholarship Jacket” by Marta Salinas and “Zebra” by Chaim Potok are influential to the lives of the protagonists. First‚ I want to explain how the Grandfather of Marta’s in The Scholarship was so influential and helpful throughout the process of her getting the jacket. When Marta was younger her parents didn’t have enough money to raise 8 children so Marta was sent to live with her grandparents
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Race is not something that anyone has a choice of being. That is who you are Black‚ White‚ Hispanic or Asian. In the Voices and Vales‚ book page 41‚ “The Scholarship Jacket” by Marta Salinas. She was discriminated against for her race. When a teacher said‚ “Marta is Mexican”. Then again for her income. When they put a dollar amount due on the jacket that use to be free for having the best grades‚ so that her family could not afford to pay for it. Racism played a key part in many world wars. There
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Setting and Characterization in "Greasy Lake" The path to becoming an adult is lined with a variety of childhood and adolescent experiences‚ some more painful than others. In T. Coraghessen Boyle ’s short story‚ "Greasy Lake‚" Boyle masterfully uses the setting and the protagonist ’s experience to teach us an old but vital lesson: those who choose not to learn and grow from their past mistakes are destined to repeat them‚ and thus will never mature and realize their true potential. In the beginning
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In the jacket the character is having a clothes problem. Therefore in the story the characters mom says “there were children in Mexico who would love that jacket.” the character doesn’t care much about the kids in mexico that would love to have the jacket because the character says that they are in america not mexico and his sister doesn’t have a jacket like his. therefore because he doesn’t like the jacket he gets bullied by students‚his friends and even the teachers make fun of him. theme in the
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out to us. I have definitely found one short story that everyone has read. That book is Duffy’s Jacket. In that short story it has all one big book needs. The book has conflict‚ theme‚ climax‚ setting‚ and a main idea. The reason I like this story so much is it really gives you a good laugh. In Duffy’s Jacket a special ED kid (Duffy) leaves his jacket in the woods where the Sentinel finds the jacket a I guess tracks them down. The kids get really scared and run every through the house trying to
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for her young grandson. In this story‚ Welty describes scenarios where Phoenix Jackson faces many conflicts‚ while heading to the rural part of town‚ with nature and society all while enduring her physical conflicts that make taking this journey a little more challenging than someone in their earlier years of age. I will be describing the many conflicts’ the character has to succumb and how the setting plays a vital role in helping us to visualize the obstacles she may have to endure. Specifically
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right skewed‚ as we see the mean (5000) is right to the median (4875)‚ and the median is right to the mode (4000); its peak represents the most likely value (4000). According to the input the total demand average generated for this region is 5000 jackets. For the Region 2 the demand is generated from (2000‚ 4000‚ 5000) with a mean of 3667. One point of interest in the data is the variability of the values. According to the parameters of this data the coefficient of variability is 17%. The graph
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