...that supports you through thick and thin. When you choose the “nuisance” path for rejection, you are extinguishing a fire that gives you a boost of self-confidence. On the other hand, greeting rejection as an old friend can in turn kindle the fire. One person that uses this technique within her life is the fictional character Squeaky, from the story “Raymond’s Run” by Toni Cade Bambara. In this story, Squeaky has to overcome her brother Raymond’s mental disability, bullies, poverty, and her mother’s girly expectations. All the obstacles life...
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...Ricardo Souto Pd.2 In the movie Bend It Like Beckham Jules loves playing soccer and dreams of one day being as good as Beckham. But there are challenges that are holding her from reaching her dream Jules dreams are more important than her culture. Firstly, Jules's dreams are more important than her culture, as they are who she is as a person. Jules does not want to be the traditional Indian girl that her parents want her to be, as her dreams are so much more open than that. Instead, Jess enters a territory that Indian girls usually never do: the soccer world. Its not everyday that you see a girl in an Indian dress, playing soccer, however, Jules's passion and drive was so strong that she bent all of the rules to play the beautiful game.It might sound surprising but it was her parents that were holding her back. Her parents never liked her playing soccer and the only thing she loved to do was to play soccer. Shes not like her sister were as she likes fashion and gossip.Which created the problem.Jules all her life has loved soccer and wants to play in the Pro league and be as good as Beckham. On the other side her mom doesn't want her playing because it interferes with her culture. The media has a great impact on people’s lives as it can be seen almost anywhere you go, it therefore influences the decisions you make to some degree. The media today can publicize humanly figures into something they are not. It also has the power to create many ideas from a key topic weather it been...
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...In “The Dreamer,” Junot Diaz reflects on his mother’s childhood. Diaz’s mother lived in a Third-World country, Dominican. His mother worked on his grandmother’s farm and would not let her get an education. Although one day the county got a new dictator Trujillo, which he put into effect mandatory education to children under fifteen-years-old. Diaz’s mother tried so hard to acquire an education because her dream was to one day become a nurse. I am inspired by Diaz's essay both because of what his mother did in order to education and also because of what a mother’s abilities can go on their son. To begin with, Diaz’s essay was an inspiration to me because his mother had to go a remarkable length to get an education. Firstly, Diaz writes “Her...
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...parents and children. Advantages and disadvantages for parents To begin with, being a young parent has disadvantages on developing the career or finishing school. The act of having a child at an early age itself decreases the mother’s future chances of finishing school and getting married, and increases the number of children she is likely to have (Hotz, Mcelroy,& Sanders,1997; as cited in Are Children of Young Mothers Disadvantaged Because of Their Mother’s Age or Family Background,2003). According to Stobbe,“if a youth becomes a young mother, she has no time to study because she has to take care of her baby at least a year. Therefore, the young mother can’t graduate, then it is difficult to get a good job for the young mother. Furthermore, becoming young parents are stressful due to the economy burden. Teen motherhood is commonly believed to cause long-term socioeconomic and public health disadvantages, such as lower birth weights, education, work, experience and wages, more persistent poverty and welfare dependency, and higher rates of infant mortality, substance abuse and violent crime(Furstenberg et al；1987；Hofferth，1987；Jenks，1989；Hoffman et al; 1993; Kiernan,1997; as cited in Are Children of Young Mothers Disadvantaged Because of Their Mother’s Age or Family Background,2003). Although it has long been recognized that teenage childbearing is likely to carry substantial costs to...
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...are reading his thoughts. The irony, symbols and choice of words Jerrell uses set the tone of the poem and leaves the reader with mixed emotions. In horrific times of armed conflict everything is turned inside out. What we think of as normal is abnormal. Our values are inverted. Life becomes cheap. Jerrell’s choice of metaphors and words has a traumatic impact on the reader. In a clever twist, Jerrell uses time to shorten time from decades to seconds. First, he advances time as if he knew nothing in life matters but death. The gunner goes immediately from birth to preparation for death. “From my mothers sleep I fell into the state,” line 1. It’s clear the gunner was born of his mother’s womb, “mother’s sleep,” and proceeded straight to the “state” or government. What happened to the life in between? In the poem the Gunner, looking back, knew he is going to die. So everything in...
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...two poems such as “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes or “Hold Fast Your Dreams” by Louis Driscoll will be a welcoming motivation to get back up. A theme, or universal message, for “Mother to Son” is to never give up while the theme for “Hold Fast Your Dreams” is to hold onto your dreams as the title suggests. However, the author of “Mother to Son” does a better job of getting its theme across. On one hand, “Mother to Son” uses a certain tone, a developed extended metaphor, and an inspiring theme. At the beginning, a mother addresses her son and goes on to explain her hardships in life using symbols such as “tacks, [a]nd splinters, [a]nd boards torn up...” (Hughes 1, 3-6). Because she directly speaks...
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...Breaking the Victimizing Bonds Despite being portrayed as the villain of his mother’s unknown fate, Tom Wingfield in “The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams is a victim held in the life pillaging bonds of his father’s mistakes and the suffocating pressure of his mother Amanda. Thrashing to break free of his bonds, Tom brings about harm and resentment to his family as he abandons his home responsibilities to fulfill the responsibilities he has set for himself. As a victim in his own life Tom’s fate is unavoidable. The reader’s villainizing view of Tom’s leave is onset by his preceding to leave despite his father’s absence, his mother’s inability to fulfill her roles, and her unobtainable goals; however, these tragic couplings of events...
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...Austin Matheney Professor Witschi ENGL 2220 4th December 2014 Contrasting Landscapes in Bless Me, Ultima As the pages flip, and the story unfolds, the audience begins to notice that the landscapes in Bless Me, Ultima play a vital role in many different facets of the novel. Throughout the novel, there is an obvious dichotomy between the llano, the land of the main character’s father, and El Puerto de los Lunas, the land of the main character’s mother. As Antonio, who is the focus of the novel, grows older, he is forced to make a decision between the llano and the Luna. This decision is not based upon which land to dwell upon, but rather on which path Antonio should place his life: the dreams of his father or the dreams of his mother. Rudolfo Anaya, the author of the text, also utilizes other simple landscapes, such as the river and the pond, to aid in the coming of age of Antonio. Ultimately, Antonio must choose a path in life, and Anaya implements these different landscapes in order to exemplify Antonio’s struggle and development. The land of both Antonio’s father and of Antonio’s biggest inspiration, Ultima, is the llano; a beautiful landscape of rolling hills and dark plains. At first glance, this is all that the llano holds, but the llano is much more than just a beautiful piece of land to the vaqueros, to Ultima, and to Antonio’s father. The llano represents freedom and embodies the spirit of the vaqueros, or herdsmen, who are a group of people that Antonio’s father...
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...Yvonne Aguilar Mr. Odegaard English 104 6-10-14 The Dream Vacation Disney has a broad variety of products marketed around the world and is widely known for being one of the biggest sources of entertainment. The ad for Disney Cruise Line featured in Parents magazine, is inviting families internationally to come and book a vacation with them. It targets mothers, who are usually the ones that plan the vacation and want to ensure that everyone will enjoy their time together. Mothers are mainly the ones who read parenting magazines to obtain ideas on how to maintain their family’s happiness and keep things fun. Disney sets themselves apart by appealing to the idea that your family would not just being going on an ordinary cruise but actually on an unbelievable sea adventure. Disney Cruise Line appeals to the parent’s need of belongingness and love and a mother’s need of self-actualization by promising that Disney Cruise Line will be a memorable experience the whole family can enjoy. Parents want to feel belongingness and love from their child and Disney Cruise line helps to gain that loving feeling within a family. The family is the largest image on the ad. It focuses on the body language to highlight their emotions and surroundings. The image shows that the parents can experience an incredible bonding moment with their children. The viewer gets to see a beautiful blue sky as the family of four walks along the ship. Disney Cruise line has created...
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...The story of the American Dream is as old as the Republic itself: come to America for a fresh start, work hard, seize the opportunities here to do better than your parents, and reach financial success for the benefit of your family. Does that American Dream still apply in today’s rapidly changing world, particularly in Silicon Valley? While my life so far looks like the culmination of an American Dream, I have been unaware that there are many people who do not live my lifestyle and who lack my opportunities. Many live hard lives of financial struggle, including my ancestors, as I only recently learned. Although I believe I have personally experienced the American Dream, I have begun to realize that many people around me and from my family’s...
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...Everyone dreams of their fantasy world, a place where each aspect of life is how they want it. Foroung David Sedaris this consists of a life without his six sisters and a rich, prestigious family. In his memoir “Chipped Beef,” Sedaris expresses his distaste of reality by contrasting his dream life to his actual life through the use of juxtaposition, hyperbole and sarcasm. Sedaris emphasizes his unhappiness with his common life by juxtaposing the first half of his memoir with the second half through tone. The shift in tone in the middle of the piece emphasizes the contrast of Sedaris two worlds. While writing about his fantasy, Sedaris describes his family's physical attributes by saying, “... the people at NASA want to design a lunar module based on the shape of our skulls. Our cheekbones are aeronautic…” The reputation of NASA and logical thought paired with the humorous idea of having space crafts designed after a skull creates a...
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...another country had hopes and dreams and not thinking in what her daughter wanted was determined to make her own hopes come true. As it says in the beginning of the story “My mother believed you could be anything in America” The mother believes that working hard you can be anything you want to be here in America. The mother had very high hopes that her daughter would become successful and had many dreams to make that happen. The narrator uses her mom to portray the “American Dream” theme, because throughout the story her mother wanted her to do many things. For example when her mother put her into beauty training school and at first she liked it but after also trying other things she realized that she just wanted her parents to accept her. “In all of my imaginings, I was filled with a sense that I would soon become perfect. My mother and father would adore me … I would never feel the need to sulk for anything” I think that many people come to america looking for that “American Dream” dreams of becoming rich and successful. Another thing I got from this story is how all those dreams the mother had affected the relationship with her mother. The narrator's mother only wanted her daughter to be successful in life, but by doing that she was starting problems with her daughter, The mom did not realize how her daughter really felt. “ after seeing my mother’s disappointing face once again, something inside me began to die...the raised hopes and dreams and failed expectations.” The...
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...Women and Journeys As John Gartner once said, there are only two plots in all of literature, either the main character goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. Women have however never been the one going on a journey or a stranger that comes to town. Though women have longed to explore the world, they have always been denied participation in public life. “Women and Journeys” by Mary Morris discusses this problem. Mary Morris describes the differences in acceptability and possibility of travelling for the different genders. Historically it has always been the men who went out explore the world, while women stayed at home. This division continued up through time. Women were limited in order to keep them at home. In the western world women were to wear corsets. Significantly the bindings in the corsets were called “stays”. The corsets kept women from going far and from going fast, since corsets are very tightly bound together. In the eastern world women’s feet were broken repeatedly, in order to bend the toes under the bottom of the feet. This made it completely impossible for women to walk, since it was extremely hurtful. Eventually the women’s feet were caught with gangrene, which caused death. So not only were women psychologically restricted from going anywhere, there were literally restricted physically as well As a cause of the conditions women only got to experience the part where a stranger comes to town. As the feminist Elaine Showalter said it: ”Emotions rushed...
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... Abortion is both constitutionally and morally wrong, and should be illegal in the United States in all but two cases: if the mother was raped (and pregnancy was as a result of the rape) or if the mother’s life would be put in endangerment by the pregnancy. Abortion is murder at any stage of pregnancy, and acts against the U.S. Constitution. Not only does abortion harm innocent babies, but abortion also rises the risk of medical complications for the mother. Majority of women who choose to abort regret the decision later in life. There is always a way to prevent pregnancy, and if by some chance pregnancy does occur and the baby is not wanted there are other options besides abortion. “When a murderer kills a woman who is with child; the murderer is charged with two counts of capital murder. Why is this?” (Huffman, 2010). The reason is because a fetus is a person whether he or she is born or unborn. Life begins at conception, since living is defined as the ability to grow; and growth is occurring in the mother’s womb. Did you know that the most growth in a person’s entire life occurs before birth? Abortion is murder at any stage of pregnancy because it is ending the life of a human being. According to Heritage House (2009), at the very moment that the sperm penetrates the mother’s egg, a unique individual with all his/hers...
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...Everybody no matter where they come from has hopes and dreams of becoming extraordinary, but how much are we willing to fight for our dreams? And are we doing it for ourselves or are we just doing it for others’ approval? This is a short story called ‘’Two Kinds’’ (1997) by writer Amy Tan dealing with a mother and daughter who have two different ideas of what succes is. The short story is about a young Chinese immigrant girl called Jing-Mei who lives with her mother and father in the United States of America. The mother set voyage for America in the 1950’s after she had lost her family, her home and her first husband and children in China. She has hopes and dreams for herself and her daughter that the American dream surely will happen to them at some point. She wants her daughter to be a child prodigy while the daughter is trying to live up to her mother’s expectations. As I wrote earlier, the story takes place in the United States of America. Unlike her mother, Jing-Mei has lived her whole life in the U.S.A. Her mother did not have the same opportunities as Jing-Mei back in China, so she is frustrated that her daughter is not even trying to seize any of the many opportunities that she has got in her life, and that she is ignoring the fact that she can become anything, even a genius. She is sacrificing a lot for her daughter by cleaning for Mr. Wong and in return he will teach her daughter to play the piano. The only piano teacher she can afford is Mr. Chong who is deaf and...
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