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Junot Diaz's "Drown", 2007.
An argument that recent clampdowns in immigration quotas and other immigrant-unfriendly measures threaten the American Dream.
1,415 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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The paper discusses Junot Diaz's "Drown," a collection of stories that tell of the contemporary misery and urban despair that can grow from poverty and distance from one's own cultural setting. The paper looks at the intersections of race and immigration in American history and then looks at the protagonists in Diaz's "Drown." The paper argues that the issues faced by the characters - poverty and racism - were quite similar to the ones faced by the earliest immigrants to this country. The paper concludes that the United States has long benefited from this cycle of immigration, assimilation and change. The paper argues that immigration is therefore an intrinsic part of the American Dream and as such, it should be allowed to continue.
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Race and Immigration: A Historical Perspective
The New Immigrants in Diaz's "Drown"
Conclusion
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"By the 1800s, one-third of the American population was composed of immigrants and their children. These figures show that there was actually much diversity at the dawn of America, and that immigration was an intrinsic part of the American Dream from the very beginning. Even more important, not every immigrant prior to 1900 was considered "white." Variations in European ancestry may seem trivial today, but in the 1790s, there was much tension and dissent among the people of various European descent. Americans who were of English extraction were very critical of how ethnic diversity was threatening the culture of the new colonies. Many even sought to limit immigration and criticized the newcomers for maintaining their own ethnic enclaves and clinging to their own language."
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Junot Diaz's "Aguantado", 2007.
An analysis of the theme of abscence in the novel "Aguantado" by Junot Diaz.
981 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 34.95
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This paper discusses how the family in the story "Aguantado" by Junot Diaz is poor and living on the outskirts of a city and how the main issue for the family is the absence of the father. It examines how the idea of absence is increased by the way the story is told, with the narrator observing the comings and goings of others and always being outside of decision-making, in effect paralleling the role of his country, Santo Domingo, in its relationship with the US.
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"The story takes place with minimal description and little clear shaping of the narrative. It unfolds in a series of incidents that come to be related around the central issue of the missing father. The narrator notes at the beginning that he has not had a father for many years, yet the idea of the father clearly affects him greatly. He mentions his father often and relates the fortunes of the family to the missing father, also suggesting that the fortunes would improve if the father returned. When he wants so badly to know what letter was delivered and what was in the letter, he seems to suspect even before he is told that the letter comes from his father. The family seems to be suspended in time to a degree, waiting for the father to return, and unable to move forward very much until he does."
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The Positive Effects of Loss, 2004.
A critical analysis of Jaime Hernandez's "The Death of Speedy" and Junot Diaz's "Drown".
1,497 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 49.95
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This paper discusses the characters and plot in both Hernandez's "The Death of Speedy" and Diaz's "Drown" and examines how, through experiencing great loss, the main characters are able to grow and transform themselves into better individuals.
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"Perla, from Jaime Hernandez's "Love and Rockets" collection, "The Death of Speedy", is one of the many characters in the work that has some sort of coming of age. Throughout the story, Perla, who also goes by various incarnations of the name Maggie, is occupied with the goal of trying to find a meaningful relationship. She looks for love in the wrong places however, a result of a distorted view of her relationships. The loss of one of her companions to a rock and roll dream, and another to an apparent suicide, finally enable her to cultivate a healthy relationship with the person she was probably best off with from the beginning."
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Searching for the American Dream, 2002.
An analysis of themes and motifs in the 10 connected stories of "Drown" by Junot Diaz.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 39.95
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Analysis of themes and motifs in the 10 connected stories of DROWN by Junot Diaz. Cultural and cross-cultural experiences of Dominican Republic family members searching for the good life in the USA. Experiences of poverty, abandonment, sexual abuse, drug addiction and emotional insecurity of major character Yunior. Relationship with father.
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"In Junot Diaz= collection of short stories, ADrown,@ the main character, Yunior grows up in a poverty stricken environment, surrounded by filth, sickness, physical and emotional abuse and neglect inflicted upon him by his father and mother. His mother works long hours to feed and house the family and doesn=t have the energy to parent her children. She is barely surviving herself. She sends the children to their aunts when she is unable to take care of them, hence abandoning them like their father has done. They live in a barrio with rats and suffer from intestinal worms. They have no choice but to choose between food and medicine. They have to reduce their food intake in order for their mother to be able to afford medicine to eradicate the worms. Yunior lost a safe, secure childhood and suffered for it as an adult. His father went to New..."
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Childhood Drownings, 1991.
This paper discusses childhood drownings: Statistics, causes, effects of near-drowning, prevention and the role of nurses and other rescuers.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, $ 39.95
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"Drowning ranks second only to motor vehicle accidents as the most common cause of accidental deaths among children. Almost 5 children per 100,000 drown each year in the United States alone. Infants and toddlers are most at risk: as many as 45 percent of all cases involve children not yet one year old. This research focuses on reasons behind drownings, how they can be prevented and medical problems resulting from near drownings. For the purposes of this research, near drownings are classified as a life threatening incident in which children are found face down or under the surface of water. Cases in which children are found floating and breathing, or struggling, are not included.
During 1989, swimming pools accounted for between 55 and 80 percent of all childhood drowning deaths in the United States."
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Porfiriato Diaz Regime, 2007.
This paper looks at why the economic boom of the Porfiriato Diaz regime was no boon to Mexico.
1,209 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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This article discusses that despite the substantial economic growth that occurred within Mexico during the reign of the government of Porfiriato Diaz from 1877-1910, the legacy of this period remains a dark one in the Mexican imagination and historical memory. The writer notes that despite Diaz's expressed intentions to modernize the nation he led, his policies instead sewed the seeds for social stratification and the Mexican Revolution, which followed shortly after his government's dissolution. Further, the writer discusses that during the Diaz years, the economic expansion of the Mexican elite was fueled by the systematic and often bloody suppression of the nation's growing ranks of urban laborers, such as textile workers and miners, in a fashion that created an inequitable and unstable base for a modern, capitalist system in Mexico.
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"The mania for modernization also created an intellectual justification within the Diaz regime for the continued oppression of Mexican agricultural workers, whose labor was deemed to be less necessary for the expanding Mexican industries favored by the regime. The period was also marked by the unjust possession by the government of the land of the nation's traditional peasantry, again a casualty of urbanization and modernization. These orchestrated inequities reinforced the Mexican class system within the developing Mexican industrial and agricultural economy in a fashion that swiftly created a land that had evolved into what almost seemed like a parody of the traditional Marxist view of history. In other words, there was an extreme imbalance between the working classes and the classes who owned the nation's means of production and institutions of government."
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?The Most Handsomest Drowned Man in the World?, 2004.
An analysis of the theme of self-discovery in Gabriel Garcia Marquez?s short story, ?The Most Handsomest Drowned Man in the World?.
969 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 34.95
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This paper examines Gabriel Garcia Marquez?s short story, ?The Most Handsomest Drowned Man in the World?, which is about a corpse washing ashore and how it changes those who find it. In particular, it looks how the story is ironic in that it revolves around the fact that a dead man brings the village to life and how things that were once viewed with a dullness and complacency are suddenly seen with an attitude of appreciation and value. It examines how Marquez forces us to consider how we view unexpected events in our lives.
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"?The Most Handsomest Drowned Man in the World? is ironic in that is takes a dead man to bring the village to life. His presence told them a story of loneliness, which they respond to by giving him a home and a place to feel welcome. Esteban also becomes a symbol of change for the villagers because his presence inspires them to alter certain aspects of their lives. For instance, they are inspired to dig for springs and plant flowers on the cliffs ?so that in future years at dawn the passengers on great liners would awaken? (560). It takes a dead man to bring them back to life."
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Porfirio Diaz, 1981.
This paper discusses the career and life of Porfirio Diaz, the political leader of Mexico between the late 1870s and 1911 with emphasis on his role in events leading to Revolution of 1910.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 7 sources, $ 63.95
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"The purpose of this research is to examine the career and life of Porfirio Diaz, the political leader of Mexico between the late 1870s and 1911. Diaz, whose period of rule spanned the time between the Juarez Wars and the Villa-Zapata Revolt, helped to define the future of Mexico in many ways. Some historians view him as an evil, brutal dictator, while others see him as a hard-headed but highly productive founder of a modern nation. One fact is certain: Very few of his contemporaries and compatriots regarded him lightly. It was virtually impossible to be indifferent about a regime as extensive and long-lasting as that of Porfirio Diaz.
One critical account of Diaz divides his life into four parts. The first is from birth to age 24, when he joined the army to fight the ruling dictator, Antonio Lopex de Santa Anna, ... "
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"Not Waving But Drowning" ( Stevie Smith ), "Auto Wreck" ( Karl Shapiro ) and "Poem" ( Frank O'Hara ), 1997.
Compares the poems' perspectives on violent death (drowning, auto accident and suicide).
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 3 sources, $ 47.95
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"Stevie Smith's "Not Waving But Drowning," Karl Shapiro's "Auto Wreck," and Frank O'Hara's "Poem" each focus on violent death, although in very different ways.
Smith writes in part from the viewpoint of the man who "was much further out than you thought" (Smith 989). This is a drowning man's thought, a perspective which sets it apart from the other two poems.
The violence of drowning, and the fact that he is seen as waving rather than signaling desperately for rescue, are metaphors in this poem for his life. Those who hear of the drowning reflect that the water was too cold, that his heart failed. These others see the fact that they mistook the man's signals as waves as evidence that he "always loved larking" (Smith 989)."
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"Drowning Ruth", 2003.
Analysis of Christina Schwarz's novel.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, $ 23.95
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Focuses on a woman's tenuous hold on reality. Discusses ways in which the character of Amanda fluctuates, including her mental instability, Amanda's two secrets, her sister's death, and her relationship with her sister's daughter.
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"The character of Amanda Starkey in Christina Schwarz's Drowning Ruth is a woman driven by rejection, a desire to be loved, and a pair of terrible secrets that shape her entire adult life. This brief essay will examine..."
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"The Conquest Of New Spain" by Bernal Diaz, 1999.
Critical review of work on conquest of Mexico by Cortes, motivations of Spaniards, author's biases.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 47.95
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"Bernal Diaz, in The Conquest of New Spain, tells the story of the conquering of Mexico by the Spaniards under Hernan Cortes. The book is more than merely about Cortes, although he is certainly the center of the book. Diaz accompanied Cortes on his exploits and offers a thoroughly positive view of the Spanish conqueror and of the entire Spanish enterprise in the Mexico. As translator J.M. Cohen writes in his Introduction, Diaz's book is a report on the overthrow of a great empire by a company of adventurers, inspired partly by a sense of mission and partly by a crude greed for gold. Their success, even their survival, could in his belief be accounted for only by the miraculous intervention of God and the Saints, who wished New Spain to be added to the realm of Christ and the Emperor ..."
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Benito Juarez and Porfirio Diaz, 1993.
A comparison of the political leadership of the two Mexican presidents including historical views, successes and failures, ideals, economics and independence.
3,600 words (approx. 14.4 pages), 6 sources, $ 127.95
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"Two of the most influential leaders in the history of post-colonial Mexico have been Benito Juarez and Porfirio Diaz. Both men were Presidents of the Republic of Mexico; both, ostensibly, were "liberals." Juarez - whose terms as president (1858 - 1872) were marred by civil war, foreign invasion and general turmoil - is considered one of the guiding lights of Mexican republicanism. By contrast, Diaz' thirty-year tenure (1876 - 80, 1884 - 1911) were peaceful "boom" years, yet his period of leadership is generally considered a failure of the democratic process in Mexican history. How can two such opposing images - chaos vs. accomplishment, hero vs. hated - be reconciled with the historical record? It will be the aim of this paper to study the record on Benito Juarez and Porfirio Diaz and determine which is the accurate portrayal."
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"Language, Culture & Power" ( Lourdes Diaz Soto ), 1999.
Critical review of work on bilingual (Spanish-English) families & education in small industrial Pennsylvania town.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 47.95
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" Lourdes Diaz Soto's 1997 book, Language, Culture, and Power: Bilingual Families and the Struggle for Quality Education, focuses on the Puerto Rican, Spanish/English bilingual community in Steel Town, a small industrial town in Pennsylvania. In particular, the book explores the language dynamics within and outside of the Spanish-speaking community, and it provides a detailed examination of the dismantling of the town's award-winning, twenty-year-old public school bilingual program and the effect of the program's termination on the Puerto Rican families, particularly the children. Soto's goal in writing the book was "to afford voice to the families regarding their perspectives on bilingual education in their community" (1997, p. xix). This research will review Soto's work, paying particular attention to its contribution to the study of bilingualism and bilingual..."
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Assimilation, 2005.
A discussion on assimilation in America.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 9 sources, $ 71.95
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This paper contends that being considered the other in a white, Anglo American society often leads to the isolation or marginalization of many Latin Americans assimilating into American culture. It explains that despite this, Latino writers such as Richard Rodriguez, Jose Marti, Sandra Cisneros, Richard Johnson, Junot Diaz and others have used their writing abilities to establish their Latino identities to awaken American society to their existence. It expands on their goal to influence American culture to be more open-minded and accepting of Latinos.
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"Being considered "the other" in a dominated white, Anglo American society often leads to the isolation/marginalization of many Latin Americans assimilating into American culture. However, Latino writers such as Richard Rodriguez, Jose Marti, Sandra Cisneros, Richard Johnson, Junot Diaz and others have used their writing abilities to establish their Latino identities to awaken American society to their existence. Their goal has been to influence American culture to be more open-minded and accepting of Latinos, and they have succeeded admirably. But significant challenges remain, for Latin American race and culture still suffers from isolation and marginalization in some regions of the United States, and Latinos are still encountering resistance to their efforts to participate fully in so ..."
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Revenge of the Spaniards, 2001.
Analysis of Bernal Diaz?s "The Conquest of New Spain".
1,596 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 3 sources, $ 52.95
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This paper presents an in-depth analysis of Bernal Diaz?s "The Conquest of New Spain". The paper examines the shroud of mystery surrounding the details of Montezuma?s death and, by utilizing the opinions of David Boruchoff and the actual text of Diaz?s book, this paper briefly highlighting the key points that Diaz makes in his retelling of Montezuma?s unfortunate murder. The paper then brings to light the rational faults and discrepancies within the original text and counters these apparent errors, by applying common sense and general knowledge of the era.
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" The ?readable report,? a concept from Joseph Conrad?s Heart of Darkness, is easily applicable to Bernal D?az?s The Conquest of New Spain. The aforementioned ?readable report,? in a general sense, indicates that the retelling of a situation or event is portrayed in a manner that benefits the teller even if distortion of the truth is required. D?az, in his account of Montezuma?s death, makes the Spanish appear blameless and seemingly innocent of Montezuma?s blood. Throughout the sequence of events leading up to Montezuma?s death, there are constant indictments of the Mexicans causing the death of their own leader. "
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