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    along with your theory of reading and writing. For as long as I can remember‚ I have always loved reading and hated writing. I remember in elementry school I

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    improving America through their hard work and labor. In the essay “Blaxicans”‚ by Richard Rodriguez‚ the author implies that America is not about segregation or about being more superior over the other‚ but about how all the races should become one. Also‚ in the essay “Mother Tongue”‚ by Amy Tan‚ she explains how most Asian Americans are being discriminated through their qualities. In the essay “Blaxicans”‚ Rodriguez states “... American experience: not as biracial‚ but as the re-creation of the known

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    Thesis:-learning English as a "language" gave Richard a confidence in public identity but he lost his native identity. Representative Example: - "The loss implies the gain: The house I returned to each afternoon was quiet. Intimate sounds no longer rushed to the door to great me. There were other noises inside. The telephone rang. Neighborhood kids ran past the bedroom where I was reading my schoolbooks-covered with shopping-bag paper. Once I learned public language‚ it would never again be easy

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    CULTURAL SEPERATION IN PERSUING EDUCATION AND THE RESULT ON WHAT HAD GAINED AFTERWARDS From the essay The Achievement of Desire by Richard Rodriguez what Rodriguez had experienced help him pointed out the fact that cultural difference separates him from his family but later‚ education helped him realized the separation and the valuable thing he had missed in life‚ his family. Rodriguez had a hard time adjusting with his family in his early days due to the culture difference between home and school

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    mean‚ Richard Rodriguez fights America has been brown from its start‚ as he himself is by all accounts. As a man with different color sink‚ I think . . . (Regardless‚ do we really trust that shading tints thought?) In his two past journals‚ Hunger of Memory and Days of Obligation‚ Rodriguez explained the meeting of his private presence with open issues of class and ethnicity. With Brown‚ his considered race‚ Rodriguez completes his "arrangement of three of American open life." In Rodriguez‚ darker

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    Aria by Richard Rodriguez

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    Aria & The Cosmopolitan Tongue Language‚ Is it and art or is it a science? I will have to argue it’s a mix of both. Webster’s Dictionary defines Science as follows; A branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws. You must admit‚ it pretty much describes the study of any established language. Websters Dictionary also defines Art as follows; The quality‚ production‚ expression‚ or realm‚ according to aesthetic

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    the depositories and the teacher is the depositor." (Freire 318) In his essay ’The Achievement of Desire’‚ author Richard Rodriguez categorizes himself under Hoggarts definition of a ’scholarship boy’ who according to Hoggart "must move between environments‚ his home and the classroom‚ which are cultural extremes‚ opposed." (Rodriguez 517) As the son of a Mexican immigrant studying in the United States‚ Rodriguez was exposed to the ideals and the thought process that western education promoted in

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    Blue Collar Brilliance‚ by Mike Rose‚ describes the cognitive misconceptions we have toward people who hold jobs that require little or no educational background. Mike‚ a professor at UCLA reflects on his life experiences. In 2009‚ Blue Collar Brilliance appeared in the American Scholar‚ a publication by the Phi Beta Kappa Society. In addition to this article‚ Mike has authored many books that focus on literacy. Mike developed an interest in psychology early in life. Mike attended college where he

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    • An explicit thesis in the introduction that informs readers of the point of the entire essay • Unified and coherent paragraphs • Sustained development of that thesis without digressions Open-form prose consists of • No reduction to a single‚ summarizable thesis • The use of story or narrative as an organizing principle through which a point emerges suggestively • Focus of open-form prose is more like a theme in fiction The thesis statement is the main point

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    3:30pm Glimpses Into the Past I always believed that I had the perfect family. My parents (and Santa) gave me everything that I ever wanted‚ my sister and I were best friends‚ and life was all about having fun. Of course‚ I was only five at the time. My life was like a sitcom on TV. Boy‚ how things have changed. The authors Gary Soto and Mike Rose give the reader a glimpse into their childhoods into their stories‚ “Looking For Work” and “I Just Want To Be Average”. They show us how they both

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