José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero Essays

The Facade of the American Dream The American Dream is the opportunity for all Americans to live a life of personal happiness and material comfort, but is it actually achievable? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, is a story of characters working hard to achieve the American Dream, but ultimately they are unable to ever realize their perfect life. The novel makes a strong naturalism argument about the rigid class system in society and the disillusionment of the American Dream. Throughout

The Great Gatsby Naturalist Criticism of Society The American Dream is the opportunity for all Americans to live a life of personal happiness and material comfort, but is it actually achievable? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, is a story of characters working hard to achieve the American Dream, but ultimately they are unable to ever realize their perfect life. The novel makes a naturalism argument about about the rigid class system in society and disillusionment of the American Dream

There are more than 30,000 active gangs nationally. The author of Always Running is Luis J. Rodriguez. This book is a really eye opening book.This book talks about luis involvement in gangs and everything he lived through. Later on luis the main character realizes the power of education and writes this book to influence young adults going through this type of situation. Luis wrote this book for his son who started to get involved with gangs and who was later incarcerated. Despiste the school board

The poem “Race Politics” was Luis J. Rodriguez and his brother when they were younger and they went shopping on the side of town they weren’t “allowed” to go because of their race. The poem shows types of connotation, imagery, and syntax to show how he was feeling during all of this and telling us specific details of what had happened to them. This poem has multiple sources of connotation. Connotation is the feeling of the words that Luis J. Rodriguez chose to use. “Decided that we should go where

Always Running is a memoir written by Luis Rodriguez about caution gang life in East Los Angeles.Fiction needs (or needs not to be) included in the curriculum because it has important information on how it could change someone life in a gang trying to change it all around.The message of the book is that gang and violence lead us to nowhere.Gang’s are all over the world with people mostly dying because of gangs and drugs handed out and arrested for being in a gang to many people aren’t doing the time