Ciressa Merhige: A Short Story

Mericans written by Sandra Cisneros is a short story in which the internal struggles of being bilingual and bicultural are discussed and analyzed. Through the use imagery, point of view, symbolism, characterization, and character transformation the reader gleans the theme of the story. Furthermore, Sandra Cisneros addresses border identity, crossing the border, and knowing or not knowing that one’s home lies in two countries. The story uses narrative first person point of view and is told through the eyes of the protagonist Micaela. The successful execution of the entire story allows the reader to see the attitude changes from the main character throughout the story from beginning to end. The mix of Spanish and English words throughout the

Toni Morrison’s A Mercy portrays a young slave, Florens, struggles with her past as well as her life as a slave. Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God shows a woman, Janie, who struggles through various relationships in her life, but in the end, they help her find her freedom and individualism. Both stories have different story lines, but upon a closer look, it is easy to see that Florens and Janie have common factors in their lives; which includes, both characters are isolated by others, both characters want to love someone, both character’s guardians make decisions for them that they do not understand which causes conflict, and finally, both characters commit difficult actions which ends up changing their lives.

We can define the word salvation as deliverance from sin and its consequences, believed by Christians to be brought about by faith in Christ. One can be saved by accepting Jesus Christ into your life, but this wasn’t the case for Langston Hughes when he wrote “Salvation”. Having portrayed himself as a young teenage boy when this piece was written and using the first person perspective, the pressure he felt wanting to actually see and feel Jesus is the main reason why he ruined it for himself, and he was not “saved”. The first two lines even say “I was saved from sin when I was going on thirteen. But not really saved.” (Hughes, 299). Adults gain a spiritual experience as they become older, but with that experience, they also lose a sense of wonder and innocence that a child still has.

To me Reverend Maclean’s final sermon in A River Runs Through It means that everyone will have someone the love go through something terrible, but we don 't know how to help. There are multiple ways that you can think about this. The issue at hand could be mental, physical, short-term, or long-term problem. Reverend Maclean 's sermon means that giving help can be very frustrating and at time hard to figure out.

Jackie Chan once tweeted Family isn’t whose blood you carry It’s who you love and who loves you back. I want to tell you about the time I took a trip to Branson that I will never forget. Some of you probably took an amazing trip you remember. Well I am going to share with you how I met my adopted grandparents, the Christmas days leading up to the trip, and what we did while we were there.

The Bible can mean different things to many different people. It can symbolize hope, forgiveness, and passion. To me, it symbolizes all that and more. To me, the bible symbolizes a new begging, friendship, family, and love. As I have mentioned in earlier post's moving to Columbus has been very hard on me, leaving everything I know, and leaving the most important people in my life, my family. When I arrived in Columbus I felt extremely lost. I had no clue why I went to a school so far away and a school where I hardly fit in. After a few weeks of being in Columbus, a few of my friends invited me to go to church with them. I was weary of going. I had only been to church a few times in my life and always felt so out of place. I never understood what was going on. I felt that everyone would stare at me when I didn't know a song or how to locate Luke in the Bible.

All of nature was still. Even the stars were witnessing that their King was about to die. Many were waiting for Him to do something unexpectedly, but they did not see Him do anything. Only obey what He was told. They were up on Calvary's Mountain, and the King was about to be nailed to a cross. As they beat Him down, He had you in mind. He had your smile in His thoughts. As each nail pierced His body, He was glad to know that this was going to save your soul. This was going to one day lead you to the Heavens. There He could have you by His side for all eternity. What beautiful love. The King of the world now hung on a cross. His blood dripped from the cross onto our sins. As He gave His last breath, He remembered what great things He would do in your life. He remembered the joy He would have when forming you in your mother's womb. He remembered all the times that you would praise Him...the King was now dead. His life was not taken away, for He gave His

For my community meeting assignment, I attended a Green Lake County Board meeting. I have never attended this type of meeting before, and I found it to be quite interesting. I found this meeting posted on the Green Lake County website (see attached link for agenda in References). The meeting was about one and a half hours long.

This summer, my church took a missions trip to Puerto Penasco. It wasn 't the easiest trip to plan, seeing we only had two months to plan for it, and pay for it. Yes, this trip was spontaneous, and we worked very hard to get the money for it.

“Don’t worry,” God said. “I won’t be sending you back home with another message that people can ignore or twist to suit themselves. It’s too

A number of people have played important, deep roles in my life. However, none of them played a more unique role than my great-grandfather Raymond Berkley. He loved me and the rest of the family unconditionally and was willing to do anything for us. However, this is not his most noticeable legacy. Raymond was a unique individual who lived perhaps the most exciting life of any person I have ever known. He was intelligent and incredibly street smart. He also was skilled when it came to getting his way. From an involvement with the Italian mafia to being filled with the Holy Spirit, my grandfather lived a life that came full circle. He proves that, no matter what bad things one does in his or her life, it is impossible to outrun the forgiving grace of God.

For my topic of study I wanted to look into the local population of homeless people in Novato. Ive lived in Novato since I was three years old and their have always been a few homeless that i have always seen. However the past few years it seems as if we have more homeless than before. I wanted to know why this could be happening and who are the homeless in Novato. Novato seems to have a homeless person panhandling on each busy street corner. I wanted to know why these people are homeless and what their living conditions were. If there are any trends that connect them together and what help do they get in town. Also how do they live their lives. What tips do they use when panhandling or how do they get their own money. What

Let 's get right to it. You know that I would never ever hurt you intentionally or I hope you know so. What happened two weeks ago was a bit over exaggerated in my opinion. We were joking and suddenly you got mad over a joke, if I didn 't know that this "" was a joke I wouldn 't have laughed about it or even sent it to you. I knew Mazen was joking about it and I thought that you would 've taken it like any other joke from any other person. You said that "he doesn 't know you and you him" and "he shouldn 't have sent something like this to someone he doesn 't know." But way before that you sent him "يالفاهر يالتسذوب" he didn 't do what you did because he knew it was a joke. Even the message you sent him afterwards was

Many people think that it takes a huge miracle and experience to change your life or at least impact it in some way. This is not all wrong, but I think it is the little details that make a bigger and more powerful difference. The most powerful and profound communal experience that I have had with my faith was during my Confirmation Mass. I had chosen my grandma to be my sponsor and my confirmation name to be Agnes. I chosen the name Agnes because when I was in second grade, I read a story about St. Agnes’s life and martyrdom, and still to this day I have not forgotten that story. So, when it came time to decide on a Confirmation name that was my first choice. I chose this title not only because my initials would be KAAK (Katherine Anne

For my Reading Summary assignment, I chose an article from our Week Six readings, “Buddhism; An Introduction,” featured on PBS Online.