“Response to Executive Order 9066” by Dwight Okita‚ and “Mericans” by Sandra Cisneros were excellent stories to read. The theme American Identity really shined through when I read these stories. Although they are very different‚ they are also very similar. In the end it taught me that whatever cultural background you were from‚ or how you looked‚ it does not determine what being american means. "Response to executive order 9066" I feel like it talk about family‚but more of her friends
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Only Daughter by Sandra Cisneros The short story about Sandra Cisneros being the only daughter was about her herself and her family. In the beginning‚ Sandra talks about how she could have written her own contributors note for an anthology she was part of in more than one way and she chose to write it another. She writes a lot because of her father‚ and from what I understood her whole writing career she’s just tried to get his respect out of it. Yes‚ he’s glad she went to college but what’s her
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Sandra Cisneros’s Childhood Early life Sandra Cisneros is a Mexican-American writer who is world famous for her short stories and narrative writing. As reflected in some of her works‚ Cisneros’s art and literature was influenced by her childhood and heritage. Her novels‚ short stories‚ and even poems can almost be considered primary resources of her and her family’s experiences during her childhood. Aspects such as heritage‚ poverty‚ machismo‚ or simply being the only daughter out of 6 men molded
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The writers Dwight Okita and Sandra Cisneros were very obviously influenced by many aspects of American culture. Both "In Response to Executive Order 9066" and "Mericans" authors Dwight Okita and Sandra Cisneros provide the topic of American identity and what it means to be an American. In Okita’s poem‚ American identity is more about how one experiences culture than it is about where someone comes from. Both the poem by Okita and the short story by Cisneros display that one’s physical appearances
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well shows it through story telling. Yet without telling a biography and going straight to the point she shows emotion by using literary elements. Sandra Cisneros Chose to use metaphors and imagery to express the hard ships of being a Mexican- American women. If Sandra Cisneros did not use literary elements to show the lifestyle of a Mexican-American women‚ the points that she showed in both the texts would not have been as powerful as they were. In “Only Daughter” Sandra Cisneros shows her first
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Writer’s such as Dwight Okita and Sandra Cisneros were greatly influenced by the American culture. "Response to Executive Order 9066" by Dwight Okita‚ and "Mericans" by Sandra Cisneros both authors use the theme American Identity. Okita’s poem establishes American identity by having two best friends of different race but they don’t notice it but other people around them do. Both Okita’s poem and Cisneros’s short story show that where you’re from and how you look does not determine what it means to
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Sandra Cisneros: Writer and Activist Mexican-American writer Sandra Cisneros is the preeminent Latina writer in the U.S. today. Cisneros has written two novels‚ a collection of short stories‚ and three books of poetry. Her earlier works‚ the short novel The House on Mango Street (1984) and the collection of short stories Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991)‚ were responsible for establishing her wide readership and winning Cisneros major publishing contracts and major advances on her
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"Tepeyac" by Sandra Cisneros the story describes‚ in present tense‚ a typical weekday evening spent in Mexico in the past.City where she lives or is staying with her grandparents. The story is first person‚ the setting is northern part of Mexico City at a market (plaza) and the two vocabulary I picked from the story is arabesque and sastreria. The vocabulary word definitions are sastreria is tailor’s shop‚ and arabesque means branch out in complex‚ intertwining lines. So the plot or story begins when
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Turning points are events in people’s life that can affect their life in good or bad way. In “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros‚ “Middle School Loneliness”‚ and Hatchet by Gary Paulsen had all faced life changing events (Turning Points). They all adapted to their turning point‚ but it wasn’t easy doing so. “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros is a drama about the main character‚ Rachel‚turning eleven‚ but still feels ten‚ nine‚ eight‚ seven‚ six‚ five‚ four‚ three‚ two‚ one. Rachel’s turning point is
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Dr. Sandra Lee Being a renaissance woman isn’t just being good at multiple things‚ it’s about making a difference in the world with how well you are at doing things. That’s what Dr. Sandra Lee does. She is a well known dermatologist‚ entrepreneur‚ and educator. In this article it is going to state the importance of dermatologist and the importance of what she does in order to become a renaissance woman in history.
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