A Perfect Success

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This paper explains that a perfect success is based on appreciating the full meaning of education. The author points out that, although nowadays people define education simply as academic success, that's not all there is about education. The paper suggests that persons being themselves, valuing their own cultures and remaining in their own families are the most significant issues, especially for immigrant families, in being a perfect success. The author stresses that being a success doesn't mean that a person has to leave who he or she is behind. The paper explores the ideas of two writers Richard Rodriguez and Jimmy Santiago Baca, who---like the author of this paper---are children of immigrants, and compares their beliefs to that of the author.

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"Despite the fact that education socially and politically improves people and helps them succeed, it does make us question our cultural values. While education is very important to everybody, the ways people educate themselves have enormous effects on their cultural lives. Once you educate yourself academically, cultural values and your background don't seem that important to you as you consider yourself in high society. Let's take a close look at the immigrant kids who came from other countries. They learn new things from school as well as outside environment."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Rodriguez, Richard. Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez, An Autobiography. Boston: David T. Godine, Publisher, Inc., 1982. 41-73.
• Rodriguez, Richard. "The Achievement of Desire." Ways of Reading. Ed. David Bartholomae and Anthony Petrosky. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1999. 621-639.
• Jimmy Santiago Baca in "Working in The Dark," Reflections of a Poet of the Barrio. Red Crane Literature Series (1992)

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