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Magical Realism Dramatic Monologue
702 wordsAs the centuries pass, people seem to have more courage to express themselves in unique and innovative ways through their own medium of representation. In modern poetry specifically, we see writers who are bending the rules of traditional form, presentation, and subject matter. A new era in our civilization calls for new poets who are not frightened to be different. Gary Soto, a Mexican-American, has the courage to express the struggle his people have had in the southwest through his mystical wr...
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Nice Girl Short Story
1,882 wordsGary Soto's Like Mexicans: Personal Experiences My decision to write in response to Gary Soto's work, ? Like Mexicans? was influenced for the most part because of the similarities between myself and Gary Soto, and our families included. Gary Soto is a Mexican American male, who grew up in the San Joaquin Valley in the industrial part of a town called Fresno. His grandparents came to this Great Valley in search of creating a better life for themselves and their families. I am also a Mexican Ameri...
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Symbolism Of The Jacket Narrarator Insecurity Narrator
690 wordsIn The Jacket Gary Soto uses symbolism to reflect on the characterization and development of the narrator. Soto seems to focus mainly on a jacket, which has several meanings throughout the story. The jacket is used as a symbol to portray poverty, the narrarator's insecurity, and the narrarator's form of self-destruction. Since the story uses a certain object, the Jacket, as the meaning of several issues, it primarily focuses on the narrarator's poverty-stricken family. First of all, an example o...
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Civil Liberties Union American Civil Liberties
1,004 wordsThe topic of racial profiling amongst minority individuals in the state of New Jersey has been a heated issue for the past several years. This department has been charged with numerous allegations of racism and is the main focus for racial based events in police departments nationwide. Although racial profiling amongst police officers in the state of New Jersey has been a major issue for many years, it has not been until recently that action has been taken in order to investigate the alleged pro...
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Native Peoples Smithsonian Institution
3,035 wordsDe Soto Legacy of a Conquistador In 1539 Hernando de Soto and five hundred adventurers began on a journey of exploration that would take 4 years and would travel through 10 states in the southeast United States. His goal was to discover a source of wealth, preferably gold, and around his mines establish a settlement. During his travels through La Florida he encountered numerous groups of native peoples, making friends of some and enemies of others. His expedition was not the first in La Florida;...
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Native American Culture House
3,055 wordsIn Linda Hogan? s 1998 novel Power, much is learned about Native American culture. The main characters, Omishto and Ama help reveal this culture. The novel is divided into nine chapters. In Chapter 1, ? Omishto, ? a girl is in a boat that is floating on a pond. She notices that there is a storm coming in. She describes the pond and the area around it. A snake tries to enter the girl? s boat, but she pushes it out with a pole, and then she moves the boat to land. As she does this, she feels somet...
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Chicken Soup Family Life
575 wordsObjective Summary: The story is about a childs expectancy of a family life filled with love and comforts, which is contrast with his real working class family life. Subjective Evaluation: Soto, back to his age of nine, dreamed to live in a family life that was uncomplicated in its routine. In reality, Soto lived in a working class family; he tried to change his family to imitate the perfect families he absorbed from television. I think many people have done what Soto did to fulfill the dream of ...
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Ponce De Leon Juan Ponce De
1,701 wordsJuan Ponce de Leon was born in 1460, in Tierra de Campos Paleia, in Leon, Spain (Ponce, 1996). He came from a noble family and entered the royal household as a page for Pedro Nunez de Guzman, at the Court of Aragon. Later, young Ponce de Leon would become a solider for Spain and fight in the battles to drive the Moors from Granada (Blassingame, 1991). In 1493, Leon sailed with Christopher Columbus on his second voyage to America (Ponce, 1996). He was a member of the forces that enslaved the Indi...
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P 233 Rez Reverte Arturo P 233 Rez Reverte Coy
977 wordsObserver Review: The Nautical Chart By Arturo Observer Review: The Nautical Chart By Arturo P? rez-Reverte In search of lost treasure The Nautical Chart Arturo P&execute; rez-Reverte Picador? 16. 99, pp 465 Towards the end of The Nautical Chart, the central character, Coy, finds a turtle caught in a net. He dives into the sea to free her, slashing away at a thousand feet of fishing mesh that trap her until, finally, she swims off, exhausted, trailing blood that turns the water pink, and without ...
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