...In “The House on Mango Street”, Esperanza reveals personal experiences through which the reader is able to determine what kind of person she is and how she views herself. Esperanza is a young courageous, strong willed, Mexican- American girl that lives on Mango Street. Esperanza describes her sexual identity through her coming of age and how poverty affects her place in the world. She begins to feel the limitations imposed by her environment. She possesses the courage and initiative to reach beyond her neighborhood to achieve better things. Esperanza is similar but different from the other major female characters throughout the novella. The vignettes show different aspects of Esperanza’s life as it evolves and changes throughout “The House on Mango Street.” In the novella, Sally is a young girl who Esperanza befriends when she moved to Mango Street. Esperanza and Sally are the same age but Sally is more sexually bold. Sally opens up a new world to Esperanza who finds newfound sexual awareness in her friendship with the sexually adventurous Sally. From the novella it quotes “She does not like to get her stockings dirty, and she plays a more grown-up game by talking to the boys.” Esperanza’s awareness of her...
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...There are a lot of conflicts in the novels The House On Mango Street and Of Mice And Men. From people stealing a car to killing your own best friend. These conflicts can bring even more struggles, such as not being able to make your dreams come to life. People would do a lot to make their lives happier and easier but to do that you might have to go through a lot of problems that get in your way. Just like Esperanza and George. These two characters go through a lot of problems to make their lives better and achieve their dreams. Getting raped, killing your own best friend and living in poverty are three events that are good examples of struggles hindering them form achieving their dreams. Getting raped is something nobody should have to go through. It’s sad that some people have to go through...
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...The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, is a coming of age novel depicting the story of the a girl as she morphs into a woman, Esperanza Cordero. As one of the 20th centuries most powerful works about self-discovery and growing up in a society ridden with prejudice, the House on Mango Street, consistently provides morales to readers which transform their views on the society both in the U.S. and globally. Moreover, Cisneros constantly utilizes literary elements throughout her writing such as metaphor to enhance the clarity of the central idea in Esperanza’s narrative, that there is a lack of one’s ability to express themselves freely as a result of a multitude of reasons. Esperanza’s lack of ability to express herself freely is a result...
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...As a child, Esperanza wishes to leave her home on Mango Street so desperately; she is determined to vacate and feels no moral obligation to her community. Esperanza begins to get to know the individuals in her community and realizes that they all deal with their own personal problems. Esperanza recognizes that she is part of a community that is plagued by poverty. Esperanza’s reality is harsh, not only does she live in a rundown neighborhood, but she is a young girl coming of age who wants to find herself in a place she does not want to belong to. She is not fond of her name and would like to baptize herself under another name like Zeze the X in her effort to assimilate. Little does she know that she stands for hope in her community, and she...
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...Racism and Women in society in the House on Mango Street and The Help Acceptance, typically the idea of fitting into a certain group of people. Many people want acceptance from others, it’s what drives us to do the things that we do. On multiple occasions we find that some of our actions that we engage in are wrong or against our self-morals, but we do them anyways to fit in with the crowd. Most people become followers and forget their own morals, instead of thinking from their own perspective, they think in a way that will make them accepted by others. But not all people are like that, fortunately, people such as Skeeter in Kathryn Stockett’s The Help, faces peer pressure everyday about getting married or how she should treat certain...
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...There are three main types of texts: literary, factual, and persuasive. A literary text is a piece of written material that has the purpose of telling a story or diverting its audience from daily stresses of life. A couple examples of literary texts include Black Beauty by Anna Sewell and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Literary texts utilizes numerous literary devices to aid in its storytelling or to reinforce its theme while making its content appealing. The usage of hyperbole in storytelling and the irony in reinforcing themes in an appealing manner found in Persepolis and Mango Street had determined that both these books are literary. One of the characteristics of book Persepolis have is that it use hyperbole to help tell a story....
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...The House On Mango Street is a novel about various immigrant stories, in which there are challenges to getting to the American Dream. Have you ever been in a situation where you have not had enough money to do anything you wanted or get what you imagined or needed? Have you ever been discriminated because of your race, religion, or sex? Is there ever a time when you couldn't get something because you didn't know a language, or didn't understand what someone was saying? These are all interferences to reaching the American Dream. A big obstacle to the American Dream is discrimination. In document D it shows discrimination being shown to Geraldo, who was hit by a car in a hit and run. Geraldo was a party person who was wearing a saturday shirt...
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...ROBERT FROST Born on the day of March 26, 1874, in San Francisco, California, Robert Lee Frost was one of America’s most famous poets. Frost received four Pulitzer Prizes before he died in 1963. The first one in 1924 for New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes, then in1931 for Collected Poems, in 1937 for A Further Range, and the last on in 1943 for A Witness Tree. Married to Elinor Miriam White, who was his co-valedictorian at high school, he lived in various locations throughout his life, in San Francisco, California for the first ten years of his life, then moved to New England where he lived most of his years; he also lived in Great Britain for three years where he met Edward, T. E. Hulme and Ezra Pound. Pound would become the first American to write a review of Frost's work; it was also in England that Frost wrote some of his best work. Robert Frost attended Dartmouth College, where he stayed for a little over a semester, and also Harvard University for two years. Robert Frost grew up in a state of turmoil. From his tumultuous childhood right up until his death, Frost was a character who could speak at Harvard and live on a farm in New Hampshire. He could dazzle the brightest students with poetic ingenious, but boil life down to, “It’s hard to get into this world and hard to get out of it. And what’s in between doesn’t make much sense. If that sounds pessimistic, let it stand”. Robert Frost’s poems “Mending Wall” and “The Road Not Taken” both exemplify the struggle...
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...Contents Why this project important Before taking up the main subject 1. Executive Summary 2. Overview of Current Situation (with some background) 3. Situation Analysis ( Country, Industry, 3 C’s: Customers, Competitors, Company) 1) Analysis of overall attractiveness of a country 2) Industry A. Diamond Model (Michael Porter) B. Analysis of failure examples in SPA industry C. The major background of SPA brand’s failure at first entry to the market D. Characteristics of SPA 3) Customers (consumer behavior) A. Broad Fashion market B. SPA Fashion market 4) Competitors– ZARA, H&M A. ZARA B. H&M 5) Company (8 seconds) A. Recent State B. about company 4. Suggestions 1) Make Brand Identity & Collaboration 2) STP for 8 seconds 3) 4P for 8seconds 5. Reference Why this project important There are some SPA brands in Korea which from foreign countries and intensive competition. They are growing up rapidly. The new SPA brand “8 Seconds”, (from Korea, Cheil industries) is in the introduction level, so it needs special strategies to be grown up successfully in Korea. Our team is going to analyze the fashion industry and suggest strategic ideas for “8 seconds”. Before taking up the main subject Before we analysis how to success SPA brand and when SPA industry appeared in a market, also what we should suggest to 8seconds.We visited and asked several questions about SPA industry and 8seconds to experts working in Etrade...
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...Animation 21 3.3 Game Play Elements 24 3.4 Cinematics/ Video 29 4.Sound and Music 32 4.1 Overall Goals 32 4.2 Game Walkthrough 32 5.Story 37 5.1 Background 37 5.2 Synopsis 37 5.3 Story (3 Levels + The Grand Theft) 37 6.Level Requirements 39 6.1 Level Diagram (Simple linear model) 39 6.2 Asset Revelation Schedule 40 6.3 Level Design Seeds Notes About the Diagrams Below 41 1. Game Mechanics 1.1. Core Game Play Permanent running; the player only stops when falling into a gap between the houses, running into obstacles, falling through sky-windows, getting shot or caught by the persecutors/enemies Preset pathway; no “real” own direction choices possible, though within the preset pathway the position can be changed either to the left or to the right side of the screen through swiping Jumping; to proceed in the game, the player needs to jump over the gaps from house to house Sliding; dependent on the obstacle, the player can slide under it (e.g. drying lines, barricades) Throwing; the player can use gathered/bought items; works only for...
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...businessoffashion.com/2010/08/inside-brazils-booming-fashion-industry.html） A Booming Economy Undeniably, the primary force driving the current surge in the Brazilian fashion market is a healthy macroeconomic context. Brazil’s economy has been expanding steadily for years, a result of a stable political and social climate and long-term reforms set in place by the current and previous government administrations. As much of the world slid into severe recession in late 2008, Brazil continued to expand. Indeed, according to Brazil’s national statistics agency, GDP grew a record 9 percent in the first quarter 0f 2010. National Optimism The robust economy has, in turn, fed the country’s self-confidence. Whether at São Paulo Fashion Week, in the streets, or in the nation’s shopping malls, there is a palpable optimism in the air: Brazil believes in itself. This hasn’t always been the case. When queried on the main factor behind her country’s current optimism, Erika Palomino, arguably the best-known fashion journalist in Brazil, pointed out that a new-found “self-esteem” is as important as the positive numbers: “Because we are a former colony, for a long time we didn’t believe in ourselves and always looked abroad, thinking other countries did things better. That has changed.” Indeed, winning bids to host both the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics have had a major impact in boosting the country’s sense of confidence. The Advantages of Insularity: A Strong Domestic Market Brazil’s growing...
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...circulate or quote without consent of author. ABSTRACT: There is growing interest among scholars and practitioners in African innovation. Some contend that the continent's recent economic boom is largely a homegrown phenomenon, driven primarily by indigenous entrepreneurs developing local content for continental consumers. But is this true? To what extent is Africa's impressive economic performance in recent years the result of internal dynamics and which actors and institutions are most responsible? This chapter examines the state of innovation across the African continent, with a particular focus on sub-Saharan Africa. The authors identify key facilitators of innovation in the private, public, and non-profit sectors, as well as obstacles to the continent’s continuing innovation-led economic expansion. I. Introduction In a widely read 2005 article in the Atlantic Monthly, author Richard Florida argued that with respect to innovation, the world is anything but flat. Given the way that creative talent, technical expertise, and financial capital tend to cluster in a handful of hubs or “peaks” around the world – places such as New York, San Francisco, London, Berlin, and Tokyo – the world’s innovation topography is best described as “spiky” (Florida, 2005). Although Africa, to borrow Florida’s metaphor, has few innovation peaks of global significance and lots of valleys (and indeed, plenty of chasms), the continent does contain a growing number of hills, wherein...
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...Using Facebook to Teach Rhetorical Analysis Jane Mathison Fife The attraction of Facebook is a puzzle to many people over the age of thirtyfive, and that includes most college faculty. Yet students confess to spending significant amounts of time on Facebook, sometimes hours a day. If you teach in a computer classroom, you have probably observed students using Facebook when you walk in the room. Literacy practices that fall outside the realm of traditional academic writing, like Facebook, can easily be seen as a threat to print literacy by teachers, especially when they sneak into the classroom uninvited as students check their Facebook profiles instead of participating in class discussions and activities. This common reaction reflects James King and David O’Brien’s (2002: 42) characterization of the dichotomy teachers often perceive between school and nonschool literacy activities (although they are not referring to Facebook specifically): “From teachers’ perspectives, all of these presumably pleasurable experiences with multimedia detract from students’ engagement with their real work. Within the classroom economy technology work is time off task; it is classified as a sort of leisure recreational activity.” This dichotomy can be broken down, though; students’ enthusiasm for and immersion in these nonacademic literacies can be used to complement their learning of critical inquiry and traditional academic concepts like rhetorical analysis. Although they read these texts daily...
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...CHILDLIKE PEOPLE SANSARA BY THE RIVER THE FERRYMAN THE SON OM GOVINDA 3 5 15 27 39 45 47 65 77 89 103 119 131 141 1 2 This etext was produced by Michael Pullen globaltraveler5565@yahoo.com, with original translations made by: Gunther Olesch, Anke Dreher, Amy Coulter, Stefan Langer, Semyon Chaichenets. Proofreading corrections were done by Chandra Yenco cyenco@dnet.net.id and Isaac Jones ijones@cis.ohiostate.edu. 3 4 FIRST PART To Romain Rolland, my dear friend 5 6 SIDDHARTHA THE SON OF THE BRAHMAN N THE SHADE of the house, in the sunshine of the riverbank near the boats, in the shade of the Salwood forest, in the shade of the fig tree is where Siddhartha grew up, the handsome son of the Brahman, the young falcon, together with his friend Govinda, son of a Brahman. The sun tanned his light shoulders by the banks of the river when bathing, performing the sacred ablutions, the sacred offerings. In the mango grove, shade poured into his black eyes, when playing as a boy, when his mother sang, when the sacred offerings were made, when his father, the scholar, taught him, when the wise men talked. For a long time, Siddhartha had been partaking in the discussions of the wise men, practising debate with Govinda, practising with Govinda the art of reflection, the service of meditation. He already knew how to speak the Om silently, the word of words, to speak it silently into himself while inhaling, to speak it silently out of himself while exhaling, with all...
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...Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction This research project serves as culmination to the problem involving the restoration of the Basilica. It seeks to summarize, explain and synthesize several highlights of the topic in dialogue with the assigned texts and other readings; it will force additional research and reflections as an instrument for clarifying, defining and augmenting the author’s understanding of the major issues addressed by the proposal. The scope of the study embraces a solution that will lead the restoration of the Basilica to realities and treat the problems involving its reestablishment. Being a national heritage and considered to be one of the first Roman Catholic churches in the Philippines, it is our objective to restore a historical edifice and preserve its cultural legacy and customs. On October 15, 2013, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake shook Bohol at approximately 8:00 in the morning. It caused millions of worth of casualties, hundreds of families devastated, destroyed numerous properties and damaged many historical landmarks and churches, including the Basilica de Sto. Nino. The earthquake crushed most of the belfry and façade; walls and frescoes are cracked, leaving the church in verge of total wreckage. To prevent an entire loss, propositions involving the repair and rebuilding of the damaged areas are to be provided as well as redesigning of the structure’s stability will furnish its constancy to be able to withstand future disastrous...
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