In Pat Mora’s “Sonrisas,” A woman tells the audience that she lives in between two worlds: her vapid office workplace and a kitchen/break-room with family members or colleagues of her same heritage. Mora includes many sensory details to enrich our understanding of the speaker’s experience in both “rooms.” The speaker is content living in the “hallway” between the two rooms because she can put on a metaphorical mask, as mentioned in Jungian psychology, which fits what is acceptable to the different social society that is in each room of her life. Adrienne Rich on the other hand, is not content with peeking her head into the doorframes of the roles she must play in order to be accepted. In her poem, “Diving into The Wreck,” she pursues, in my opinion, a form of individuation by diving into the wreck of her inner consciousness to find who she is among the wreckage of the world and its effects on her. Both Pat Mora and Adrienne Rich explore the dangers of being defined by others and the rewards of exploring different worlds. Pat Mora was born and raised in El Paso, Texas, the city in which her four Spanish-speaking grandparents migrated during the Mexican Revolution. Her firm belief in promoting cross-cultural understanding and the appreciation of Hispanic culture often reveals itself in her works. She often writes about the elements of the Southwest to relate to and empower Hispanics to embrace the cultural traditions that are so significant to their identities (University of Minnesota). The two stanzas in “Sonrisas,” work together as parallels, comparing the two main rooms that have been the most influential in shaping her as a person. In the first stanza, the speaker describes what I assume is her workplace with the words, “budgets... ... middle of paper ... ...ualities and influences we want to accept as truth instead of blindly accepting the book of myths. She encourages women to descend the ladder and find the “thing itself” and the meaning that thing has for each individual woman. Works Cited Boeree, C. George. “Personality Theories: Carl Jung.”Webspace. Shippensburg University, 2006. Web. 7 April 2014. Frager, R., & Fadiman, J. Personality and Personal Growth. New York: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005.Sofia University. Web. 18 Mar. 2014. Mora, Pat. “Sonrisas” The Norton Introduction to Literature. Ed. Kelly J. Mays. 11th ed. New York: Norton, 2013.1050-1051. Print. “Pat Mora: Voices From the Gaps.” University of Minnesota. University of Minnesota, 2012. Web. 7 April 2014. Rich, Adrienne. “Diving into the Wreck” The Norton Introduction to Literature. Ed. Kelly J. Mays. 11th ed. New York: Norton, 2013.1010-1012. Print.
...en’s role in church. Her accomplishments in writing were important because she was a woman who had a career and a family and she was very much succeeding. She was living proof that this was possible and women should not be confined to the home.
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...nspired to make a change that she knew that nothing could stop her, not even her family. In a way, she seemed to want to prove that she could rise above the rest. She refused to let fear eat at her and inflict in her the weakness that poisoned her family. As a child she was a witness to too much violence and pain and much too often she could feel the hopelessness that many African Americans felt. She was set in her beliefs to make choices freely and help others like herself do so as well.
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Some of the most intriguing stories of today are about people’s adventures at sea and the thrill and treachery of living through its perilous storms and disasters. Two very popular selections about the sea and its terrors are The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger and “The Wreck of the Hesperus” by Henry Longfellow. Comparison between the two works determines that “The Wreck of the Hesperus” tells a more powerful sea-disaster story for several different reasons. The poem is more descriptive and suspenseful than The Perfect Storm, and it also plays on a very powerful tool to captivate the reader’s emotion. These key aspects combine to give the reader something tangible that allows them to relate to the story being told and affects them strongly.
... her faith as a sensual experience, Kempe creates a new way--for women in particular--to reach not just enlightenment but empowerment through worshipping God. If Margery Kempe were alive today, she would be considered eccentric but because of her creative book, she would still make it on Oprah's Book Club list.
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This assimilation has caused the erosion of most cultural differences among the Hispanic and the Native Americans (Arreola 13). Therefore, these two cultures only compare in terms of their traditional aspects rather than their modern settings. Works Cited Arreola, Daniel D. Hispanic Spaces, Latino Places: Community and Cultural Diversity in Contemporary America. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2004. Print Campbell, Neil, and Alasdair Kean.
...and that this would improve society. The role of this book was to help women shape the way women are in society for many generations.
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The Latin American History has had numerous amount of heroic people who have changed the Latino community for better or worse however, due to the sexist and patriarchal views of the past there were many Latina women who have been oppressed and restricted for being intellectual and creative. Despite this, they overcame this issue and made many contributions within the Latino community. One of the many women is Luisa Capetillo. Here we explore her life and the contributions she has made with her writings, activism, and so forth and what impact she has made in her society.
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