In her short story “Seventeen Syllables”, Hisaye Yamamoto depicts an ambitious Japanese woman striving to express herself through writing Haiku, but this ambition ultimately disrupts her family and causes her demise. Tome Hiyashi, a traditional Japanese mother, struggles to express her through writing Haiku due to the stringent Japanese traditional values. Her husband and daughter do not understand her reasoning and enjoyment in writing Haiku. This confusion between her and her family causes the
What is word stress? To understand what word stress is, you need to understand that words are made up of syllables, some of which are stressed when they are pronounced. When we pronounce the syllables of a word, we employ the use of a variety of features. The stressed syllable in a word consists of five features. These features are: The stressed syllable is longer The stressed syllable is louder The pitch of the stressed syllable usually deviates from the pitch of the other syllables. This
The Dutch stress sytem Dutch is described as being a quantity-sensitive trochaic system, operating from left to right with extrametricality. In the following essay I will gice the arguments and data that point towards this system. I will also analyse in which way exceptions are being taken care of within this system. The metrical analysis will be based on work by Trommelen & Zonneveld. These authors adopt an onset-rhyme organisation of syllable structure. We can make three major generalisations
The poem “La Migra” was written by Pat Mora in 1993, it is divided into two stanzas for two different points of view. They both depict a boy and girl playing a game in which they take turns being a border patrol officer and an illegal immigrant crossing the border. Throughout the poem some dangers faced by immigrants are indirectly referenced. The poem does a great job at explaining the scenario of illegal border crossing from the views of children as well as from two different perspectives, someone
I read the poem “La Migra ” by Pat Mora. This poem is about two kids playing a game involving crossing the American border from Mexico. The poem started out playful as it was presented as a game and with childish language, but quickly turned into something more serious with the tone taken. One person played “La Migra” or the Border Patrol and the other played a Mexican maid/woman. The poem was split into two major parts and gave two totally different perspectives. When looking deeper into the
“La Migra” by Pat Mora is a poem about two different situations on the US-Mexico Border. The narrator is takes on the position of a border patrol officer and a Mexican woman. Pat Mora’s poem “La Migra” shows two situations concerning the US-Mexico border in the view of small children. Mora’s choice to address border issues through a simple conversation between children. Mora’s frequent line breaks and use of simple language emphasize the innocence and childish behavior of the two characters despite
Pat Mora was born on January 19, 1942 in El Paso, Texas. She is a Mexican-American poet, and writer of children’s books and non-fiction. Pat graduated with a degree from Texas Western College in the year of 1963. As a popular presenter, she was awarded honorary doctorate degrees from Buffalo State and North Carolina State University, and she is also an honorary member of the American Library Association. Pat Mora is the author of the very interesting and intriguing poem “La Migra.” La Migra displays
Weekly Journal Unit 3: Pat Mora “Legal Alien” Being bicultural can have its disadvantages and its advantages. Pat Mora’s poem “Legal Alien is just one of many poems about being coming from two different cultures. When you say something in English and you try to translate it to Spanish, it gives you a different meaning. The advantages of being bicultural is that you get to experience two different cultures. For example Dia de los Muertos, the day of the dead is somewhat similar to Halloween. You have
run,/ but you can’t get away/ because I have a jeep” (Mora 1216). The Border Patrol agent thinks he has an advantage because he has the resources to stop the woman and she has nothing to fight back. He is implying that she can run and hide, but in the end he will find her because in his perspective he thinks he has an advantage. The second stanza shows the perspective of the Mexican woman. “I know this desert,/ where to rest,/ where to drink” (Mora 1217). The woman thinks she has an advantage and although
extent. While growing up we adapt to American culture without realizing that we are even allowing ourselves to hide our own cultural beliefs and upbringings. The two main characters within “Puertoricanness” by Aurora Levins Morales and “Elena” by Pat Mora both demonstrate an interest of the significance regarding race in contemporary American society. Within both readings, it is implied or many of those who believe that if we assimilate to American culture that it will open more A Mexican woman is
9066”, he dives into this topic with regards to World War II. As Okita takes the perspective of a young Japanese American girl being sent to internment camps, he shines a light on the shift of attitude towards Asian Americans across the country. Pat Mora, a Mexican-American author and poet, conveys her feelings on discrimination and racism in similar ways. In her poem “Legal Alien”, she shares her experiences of being bilingual and bicultural.
Where you from? By Gina Valdez, Legal alien, Elena by Pat Mora, and Here by Sandra Maria Esteves are poems that have a similar meaning. This poems are connected by the same problem, can be cultural or language problems that the majority of the immigrants suffer. Every single poem have a different story and characters, but with the same problem. Those poems talked about the borders that the majority of the immigrants have, some of them do not feel identify with their new culture, however, others poems
whereas the costs are internal and limits how one can behave based on guidelines of masculinity. The phrase “man up” imposes gender expectations, exaggerating perceived differences between men and women such as physical strength and emotional absence. Mora concludes that puberty is a social accomplishment because boys can enact hegemonic masculinity, but Gaunte evokes the alternative where boys do not enact hegemonic masculinity and are penalized for it. Due to society’s expectations of engaging in masculinity
This study will explore selected phonological, typological, orthographical, morphological and syntactical features of the ‘isolate’ language, Japanese, and analyse how far these features differ from English, itself an Indo-European language, with specific emphasis placed on how accessible Japanese speakers would find learning English as a second language, and vice-versa. The Japanese language is spoken by almost the whole of the East Asian nation of Japan, comprising of up to 128 million speakers
influences the stage of pubescence for boys, he examines how the biological changes within the male body influence the socialization of ten sixth-grade Latino boys. First, Mora makes distinctions in how white working and middle class students experience puberty, which in most cases are hardly discusses with peers (189). However, Mora observes the opposite amongst the Latino boys at Romero, all of whom find many reasons to express their pride in their slowly changing bodies. Among these boys, puberty
The publishing of Latino authors’ works has allowed the pride of Latin American people to further develop. The Latino movement was characterized by numerous writers who changed the attitude of their readers on Hispanics and their culture. Latin American countries were colonized by the Spanish; they brought religion and enslaved the indigenous people at the time, thus resulting in the devastation majority of these countries are found in today. After the countries began to gain their independence,
immigration into the United States. Pat Mora uses Image, blank verse, and anaphora to develop her theme of immigration
The poem "La Migra" by Pat Mora carries the main idea of how power can lead to abuse. Mora shows how abuse is represented in the treatment of the Mexican woman by a border patrol agent in her poem and how this picture resembles how mankind treats animals. With the bilingual addition to Mora's poem, when the Mexican woman says, "Agua dulce, brota aqui, aqui, aqui" (lines 33-34), she is presenting the conflict of a language barrier, just like the one between animals and humans, where it is not communicated
“Legal Alien” by Pat Mora and “The Translator at the Reception for Latin American Writers” by Julio Marzán, this theme is explored in great depth. Throughout both poems, the use of diction, irony, and form emphasize the poets’ feelings of isolation as a direct result of conflicting cultural identifies. In both “Legal Alien” and “The Translator at the Reception for Latin American Writers”, diction plays a large part in understanding the meaning of the poem. In “Legal Alien”, Mora uses the prefix ‘bi’
for America’s financial, national security, or international relations interest; therefore, the facility should be shut down. The Guantanamo detention facility is expensive for the United States. It “costs the U.S. taxpayers $44 million a year” (Mora 809). Alternative solutions prove the prison to be uneconomical for U.S. taxpayers. The expense of running Guantanamo is excessive, and the money used for its operation could be used for improving security at U.S. federal prisons in preparation for