Maria Isabel Rosario, Children’s Author and Poet
Maria Isabel Rosario, age 43, a Bronx, NY’s native, currently lives in Spanish Harlem, New York. She attended LaGuardia Community College where she majored in Liberal Arts. As a freelance writer, Rosario work is not limited to one field; she has a number of clients and works for various companies and private individuals. “Growing up, I had a tough life. I found relief and peace when I wrote out my feelings. Writing removed the weight of the burdens I carried. The anger and sadness that I felt slowly seeped into words. My imagination and feelings found a safe place and allow me to express myself without judgment.”
In the past, Rosario’s life and circumstances had her on a different path than
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“The poems express my deepest thoughts. I articulated my view of the world, all that’s happening and our experiences with others. I poetically instituted my views about how some people are dressed in wolves’ clothing.”
The author is hoping that her dedication and never ending imagination will grant her the keys to success and financial security. However, success for Maria has another definition. “If something I wrote changes someone’s life or their way of thinking about a certain subject, then my work has succeeded.” Maria has learned a lot in writing and publishing journey and would love to give back to the indie author community by guiding and helping other independent authors.
Rosario has written several short stories that have never published, but that might change. She’s considering putting all the short tales together in one book. Currently, she’s writing the sequel to her first children’s book. It’s called, Kayla and Isaiah: My Brother Isaiah. She’s also writing her first YA (Young Adult) book titled, When the Dragons Came. Of all the stories she’s written, published and unpublished, Maria says her latest two are her
American born but raised in the Dominican. Julia Alvarez a Dominican-American writer has written many outstanding paper, poems, and books but she is most known for How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies. The main theme throughout Alvarez's pieces is being caught between two cultures. Julia Alvarez had to make many transition when she was younger which tested her culture. But it led her to the most incredible parts of her carrier.
PART 1: CHAPTERS 1-15 Characters introduced: Mariam Mariam is the protagonist in the novel. She grows up outside of the city of Herat in a small shack and is raised by her mother, Nana. She was thought to know that she is a “harami”. She dreams of bigger things for herself and tends to question authority.
To understand the works of Julia Alvarez, the reader most understand where she comes from and how she became so successful. Julia Alvarez wrote about what she knew best and that is her own life. Julia Alvarez was born on March 27, 1950, in New York City (Schaefer). Julia's family lived in New York for just three weeks, before they returned to the Dominican Republic, where Alvarez lived until she was ten years old (Schaefer). In the Dominican Republic she attended an American school where she first learned English; it was her mother’s idea for Julia to go to an American school (Adams).
Rodriguez. She was born in Mexico and immigrated to the U.S. She lived the middle class lifestyle. Mrs. Rodriguez was full of optimism and hoped for their family's prospect. She had superior English skills than her husband Mr. Rodriguez.
Maria’s mother would not buy her any toy she wanted but would buy her any book she wanted.” (Padian) This led to Maria’s big imagination. Her career goal of becoming a writer started at a very young age. “After she graduated high school, she went to a college at Middlebury College in Vermont. Maria loved Middlebury.
Soto again shows Maria’s fault in acting older. She acts in vain and does not take the time to enjoy the process of growing up. To summarize, Gary Soto uses symbolism, conflict, and characterization to display the overall theme that people should enjoy the process of growing up. Imagine a world full of Marias who are prideful and care more about themselves than others. Now, imagine a world where everybody enjoys the process of growing up and takes nothing for granted.
Julia Alvarez, in her poem “’Poetry Makes Nothing Happen’?”, writes that poems do play a role in people’s lives. She supports her idea by using relateable examples of how poems might change someone’s life. Her first example is simple, poetry can entertain someone on long drives. This does not only aply to long dirves however, Alvarez uses this to show that poetry does not have to have a big influence on someone’s life, instead it can affect a person in the smallest of ways, such as entertainment. The second example describes poetry comforting someone after the loss of a loved one.
Brenda Ueland, is known for her book "If You Want to Write," in this book, there 's two chapters I want to write about. One titled, "Everyone Is Talented, Original and Has Something Important to Say." The other titled, "Know that There Is Often Hidden In Us a Dormant Poet, Always Young and Alive" In these two chapters Ueland shares her thoughts as an advocate for freedom, living in the moment and self-expression. The central tenets being that everyone has talent, has something important to say and everyone is original; This is supported by each person being unique, thus, if words come from the source, then the writing will be just fine. Ueland asserts that writing is a natural process and a pleasant experience.
To many people “I am Joaquin” is more than just an epic poem, it is the anthem of the Chicano movement which embodies our peoples struggles and culture. What made the work become the Chicano Movements anthem is the fact that it is a piece that seems to evaluate the Chicanos and their history from the good to the bad. It also seems to emphasize the Chicanos search and struggle for identity starting from the beginning of the Spanish conquest to our modern times. Basically this poem has become such an iconic work because it attempts and succeeds in encompassing as much Chicano history into it and makes no bias choice as it has both positive historical moments and negative, but they all tie back to Chicanos and their history. One of the main aspect that makes “I am Joaquin” an interesting piece of work and an icon for the Chicano movement is how the work seems to
Maturity is the feeling of needing to prove that one is sophisticated and old enough to do certain things. In the short story “Growing Up,” Maria’s family went on a vacation while she stayed at home, but when she heard there was a car crash that happened near where her family was staying, she gets worried and thinks it is all her fault for trying to act mature and angering her father. Society wants to prove how mature they are and they do so by trying to do things that older people do and the symbols, conflict, and metaphors in the text support this theme. First and foremost, in “Growing Up,” Gary Soto’s theme is how society acts older than they are and that they just want to prove they are mature. Maria wants to stay home instead of going
Lisa needs that support as she goes forward in her life. We all need that safety net as we struggle forward; this message of the safety in the middle of the uncertain change is true and descriptive of our early college years today as well. IV. Conclusion: Reflections on Reading Poetry A. Reading poetry is often not as specific as prose, and it leaves more to the imagination; different words hold different meanings for different readers. B. In changing and moving into our own adult lives; our parents and grandparents often already know of the struggle we are going through.
“What is going on in these pictures in my mind?” (Didion 2). Joan Didion’s “Why I Write” provides an explanation to her perspective om writing and why she writes. Later on, she states that she writes as a way to discover the meaning behind what she is seeing. During this past semester as we wrote about dance, a heavy focus was on description and interpretation rather than contextualization and evaluation.
1. Was killing Captain Beatty right or wrong? Are books worth more than human beings? Captain Beatty deserved to be killed in a way that he brought the death upon himself. The reason he was killed was because he enraged Montag to the point where he could not handle himself any longer and just threw the flamethrower at Beatty.
In the poem “Ego-Tripping” by Nikki Giovanni, she normalizes her worth by continuing to royalist herself as a black woman who is essential to mankind. Giovanni creates a vision throughout the poem, which leaves a thought in mind of how woman should look at themselves with much confidence as Giovanni does. “Ego Tripping” was written by Yolande Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni, Jr. who was born in Knoxville, Tennessee on June 7, 1943. G9iovanni is a writer, poet, activist, and educator whose work was influenced during the Black Power Movements and the Civil Rights Movement. The poem was released in 2002.
Prabhsharn Khella Mr. T. Eggenschwiler English 10 Red-B December 4, 2016 Isolated Sorrows Have you ever wondered about what Ella Wheeler Wilcox meant in her poem Solitude? Well if so, then continue reading. This poem is about the powerful, undeniable reality of our human nature. As humans we desire to seek happiness and avoid pain and darkness.